The Save the children in helldivers was pretty awesome. Especially their donation on $4,311. I like how clever the donation was because it spells out "Hell" as in Helldivers. Community was just awesome.
Back in old school Everquest there was a boss called The Sleeper. It was originally meant to be unkillable. Well an entire server came together and fought and killed it
I remember that happening when I was a young lad and thought it would at least be a bonus mention. But I know gameranx has mentioned it in at least 1 of their other videos. That was a pretty cool event especially being a long time player of EQ.
Tbf they talk about that specific event way too much I think it’s in like 5 different gameranx videos, it’s cool that this was all never before covered stuff.
Don’t forget the other impossible thing that the helldiver community also did. We were given an order that was said to re-conquer a sector under a fixed amount of time which was supposed to make us lose but the community all banded together and literally completed the major order that we were supposed to lose
the one impossible thing that comes to mind when it comes to helldivers 2 is that the community legit stopped Sony from ruining the game. thought this would be on the list instead of the Save the Children like when does Sony ever listen to its community
@@EonHellsSoldier when there biggest game was going to crash they've lost money on most everythng since ps5, they had the MOST popular game on the market for all major systems, they like money why would they destroy iit. they didn't do it for the player
City of Heroes went farther than just returning from the dead. The fans that are running it are publishing new, high quality, game updates to both storyline and powers. It’s really wonderful seeing a game I love continue to grow. MAJOR kudos to the folks that resurrected this great game.
Having participated in some of these and being a witness to most of them, the one that surprised me the most was the Homecoming servers for City of Heroes... When NCSoft gave the license to the team, it was unprecedented - game publishers often crack down on private servers, even long after they've stopped selling and hosting the game in question. With this move, hopefully other publishers will see how happy it has made the fans of their game and will be open to allowing community hosting when the official servers reach end-of-life. One of my personal favorite "impossible events" in gaming was the resurrection of a small Global Agenda community on an official server. Global Agenda shutdown in 2018 after Hi-Rez stopped giving it any attention and just ignored it until only a dedicated community was left, then the servers went down during a maintenance and the remaining players were informed that the server was likely unrecoverable. Despite fan effort, no private server was ever able to be spun up, even though there were a couple of attempts. One of the members of the community noticed something back in early 2022 though, a new build was pushed to Steam, even though the game store was delisted years prior. Well, that led to a notification on the Discord server and it was found that the server was accessible and all of the account data was there... It turned out that Hi-Rez had patched it together on an old server so they could have internal teams fire it up and revisit it to potentially get inspiration for a sequel - their team logged in to find around 100 players running missions on a server that had never meant to have been public. They saw that this community was happy to play it again, so they agreed to leave it up and publicly accessible for as long as the server holds out.
That might be the most wholesome, the love they had, only to log in and see a bunch of goons running around xD similar to osrs only "I DON'T REMEMBER PATCHING YOU LOT IN" 'WE INVITED OURSELVES' lol
That quest in Helldivers 2, despite us completing that mission, we still failed the major order. Was awesome to see everyone almost unanimously choose the option to save the children.
I remember when Wrath of the Lich King for World of Warcraft dropped. When everyone got to level 80, 20 or 25 of us united and would run the old 40-person dungeons in Burning Crusade; the maps we never got to see because alone we couldn't organize 40 people in a raid before, lol. The loot was obsolete, but the visuals were amazing.
i used to play on a private wow wotlk server a couple years back, dont know if u are familiar with the protests in iran back in those days or not, but there was this player who got shot in the head and died during the protests, about 6-7 thousand players from both alliance and horde got together in orgrimar paying their tributes to that person, after a minute of silence and /kneel, we all started chanting what will be translated into "we will take revenge on who killed my sister" up to the point where the server crashed and was offline for a whole day just for the community to cool off a bit, that was one of most wholesome moments i ever expierenced.
Love these stories. Would love more of these. Your monthly Weird Gaming Stories are fantastic. Maybe you could do quarterly or monthly heartwarming stories.
I've been an Xbox loyalist for two decades now, but the only thing that has ever made me want to buy a PlayStation 5 is Helldivers 2. Not just because it looks like a great game, but the community looks absolutely phenomenal. Communities for the most part in most games have become so toxic and viral that I don't even partake in multiplayer most of the time. I'm glad there are some gamers out there that rally around a good game and overall make the experience pleasant.
I'm kinda sad that there wasn't something on here that I think is worthy on this list: the Hermitcraft Gamer's Outreach charity streams For context, Hermitcraft is a group of people who play Minecraft together and upload videos of their gameplays, whether it be building, messing with friends, or other things. Gamer's Outreach is a nonprofit organization that delivers Go Karts equipped with gaming consoles and controllers for kids in children's hospitals to help them have fun and take their minds off things. Organized by Hermitcraft member GoodTimesWithScar, the first charity stream occurred in October 2022 for a total of four hours, with many members of the group streaming it. The original donation goal was $25,000; it was surpassed before the charity stream even went live, and the gaming community surrounding Hermitcraft donated over $400,000 to the cause. There was another Gamer's Outreach charity stream this year too, back in April. This time, the charity stream lasted for two days, and over $960,000 were raised. That is over a million dollars combined, all generated from the gaming community surrounding a group of people playing Minecraft together. I think it's just incredible.
There’s also a small thing that happened in the Xbox community. The game NBA Live 06 for the Xbox 360 had an achievement where if you were in the online menu when there were 1000+ people online in the game, you would get the achievement. However, the game didn’t receive great reviews so it never reached that threshold at launch (or it did briefly). Because of this, this achievement was not unlocked for many people. It took a group effort through gaming forums and achievement hunting groups to get 1000+ to be coordinated and get online to get the achievement. I was in that push and it was so nice to see gamers coming together just to unlock one achievement lol
SO glad you talked about City Of Heroes. I loved it when it was originally open and I love it now with the new Server. Well worth someones time to get into it and have a good time
This is a problem I'm concerned about- I want to make multiplayer games and I'm worried about sunsetting. There's a point where you'd have to start charging to keep the lights on- what do you do then without ticking people off?
@@kenktheGD I'd say the safest bet is planning ahead to allow the community to run their own servers. If that is already part of the game design from the start, it makes it so there's no mandated shut off: if the community wants it to keep going, it'll keep going for as long as the community wants it to.
@@capmss I'm thinking something like that. I'm more interested in coop design anyway, which can be peer to peer as long as the matchmaking (which steam and the like handle anyway). But even that can get sticky because you should really have a relay system to hide people's IPs even if there's no true host. I'm thinking initially have hosted servers and use winding down technology to minimize costs, until there really is a bottom out point and release the server code via github and send matchmaking to client servers.
I Went into a Public Library Back in Like 2003-2004, & Every Computer in TheLibrary Had a Kid Sitting at it, Playing "RuneScape". (& When I Asked One of TheKids About TheGame EveryBody Was Playing in TheLibrary...Cause I Was/Am a HardCore DiablO-1 Player&Fan, He Looked at Me Like I Had Worms Wiggling-Out My Ears.) I Was 24/25 Years Old at TheTime, & That Kid Made Me "Feel Old" That Day.😒
@14:25 shoutout to the Tetris and gaming community who, when a woman from Australia tried to lambast the kid, absolutely came to his defense and destroyed her.
As an avid gamer of Eve Online for 19 years, with about 7 years accumulated time of being AFK for real life reasons, I got excited when you mentioned Eve. I am more than positive that I remember the ping from Imperium, since I am a member of Goonswarm Federation. There is literally no other game like Eve that I have ever played, and that is the core reason I have continued to play all these years. The capital brawl being out of boredom doesn't surprise me one bit, I will literally jump on Eve if I find out caps are being used. I have participated in three of the largest wars in Eve Online history, and my most memorable experiences were in the last war between Pandemic Alliance Please Ignore (PAPI) vs Imperium. Unfortunately, it is a game that takes incredible amounts of dedication and focus to get into, most players don't realize that the sandbox aspect is truly unique. Other uniqueness about Eve involves the player graveyard in Molea, because we as players are incredibly community focused. As we say "it's all pixels and fairy dust," meaning we know that Eve is a game, and all players in Eve are just humans behind a PC. The graveyard contains containers that are protected by CCP from following established mechanics so they never expire. Every container has the name of a player that has passed away in real life.
When I saw Helldivers 2 on the thumbnail, I was sure you were going to talk about the PSN case. When you explained the "save the children" mission, caught me off guard and I got a little emotional. The donation part... Broke me, ngl
It’s funny Eve, Helldivers 2 and foxhole all have the tight knit groups that are like “Were you there..?” I wasn’t there for Eve or Helldivers, but I was there for foxhole. Only played about 6 hours of it, but it was difficult to say the least… Wardens Rule!
Nintendo stoped the servers for Mario Kart Wii ages ago (probably 10 years ago, not sure), so people started to build their own servers to keep playing online, to build over 1000 of new tracks, to make their own new modes to play, to host their own tournaments and all this still in 2024!
Telling any brand you don't want it happening: will make it happen if people stand by that perspective. Brands need customers which hold all the power to make even a company like Apple listen to do as told
Probably wasn’t that because it was all blown out of proportion by entitled PC gamers who didn’t want to do 2 minutes worth of work that was stated to be required from launch
This is clearly coming from someone who clearly doesn't own and has never played on a PC before. As someone who has both a PC and a PS5, I was against this. There's absolutely zero of a reason the make this a requirement to even play the game. Plus because of that it restricted people from playing the game due to PSN not being in their country. Don't sell this short, because you as a person who literally and clearly doesn't have all of the facts.@@FunkyChicken251
The thing about Heldivers new stratagem is: We failed two other major orders to get anti tank mines amd it became meme(and we all know helldiver community loves its memes) about helldivers never reciving anti tank mines. If we get a chance toget cooler stratagem, i think we would get it instead.
These are reason why i love the gaming community. Complete strangers coming together to achieve the impossible or to help out newer players. I remember when i first started playing gta v, i was being killed repeatedly by a high level player. I told a few people in game chat and next thing i know, the entire server i was in was attacking the 2 players that attacked me
Another good one is the Long War mod for X-COM Enemy Unknown/Within. The devs have said they’re not entirely sure how they changed as much as they did and recommend it to players. They even worked with the people who made it to make X-COM 2 more mod friendly.
Oh I love this. Payers are saving gaming from corporate greed. I know many games have been saved because of the modding community like Skyrim, GTA 5 roleplay servers (absolutely MASSIVE), and Cyberpunk 2077 which was completely saved by modders and many of them hired by CDPR. Would like to see more videos like this if possible as I have played almost all of these games you listed.
Love this - especially the Helldivers story. And I love Gameranx in general. The channel feels like a breath of fresh air, and the vibe is very much “all for the love of games.” Sure sometimes it’s fun to take the piss out of bad games, or bad decisions made by publishers, etc. - but it never feels gratuitous here. Thanks, Gameranx.
I won't forget the biggest thing I was a part of. In Destiny 2 a few years back the whole community came together to solve the puzzle of the Corridors of Time. It was something crazy with streamers getting in on it and forums going crazy. In the end it was disappointing with the reward, but it was still a fun time solving it honestly.
The reason so many people went to go save the children is partly due to the other two landmine stratagems being known as griefing weapons. There's a number of weapons and stratagems in the game that have garnered a reputation for accidental teamkilling and many griefers would load up on things like the Sentry Turrets (particularly Rocket, Autocannon and Mortar) and the landmines and throw them deliberately in the most awkward spots possible to piss people off. There were very few people who actually wanted the AT mines, I'm one of them and at this point we've had 3-4 chances to get them from Major Orders and I legit think Arrowhead may have to just straight up give us the mines because as a community we've failed the Major Orders twice and in the case of the Save the Children order specifically, we chose morality over equipment (which is odd because Super Earth is morally corrupt and we Helldivers are an extension of that moral corruptness). Donating to the charity because we completed the in-game objective was wholesome as fuck though, I'll give them that.
@@Phattyfatfat technically, it was because there were too many people on to see him and the server crashed and they forgot to make him immortal after restarting, so on the technicality that the whole playerbase sort of accidentally caused it, I think it could be a bonus entry. Not a normal one since it wasn't intentionally working together.
falcon covered a weird stories awhile back about 1 thing in Eve online that was remarkable a player that was terminally ill wanted to go out with a bang in Eve online so many players got together to give him one last battle .
The love of video games is awesome. It's an escape into a different world by yourself of with friends/family. Love seeing these stories of gamers doing the "Fusion Ah" on everything!!
Mario Maker 1 & 2 has been one of the most enjoyable communities I have been part of. Clearing each other's levels, watch streamers and races. Even designed a level for a weekly race and a tournament called 'get peach or die tryin'. Fun times and hopefully with the next Nintendo console I can dive back in with MM3.
Thought you’d mention that tribute to a fallen player in an MMO. Many players did a magical memorial for a fellow player who died. And when Lance Reddick died, there were “ceremonies” in his game (Destiny 2, I think), where players arrived spontaneously, gesticulated, knelt, stood beside, etc, his character in solidarity. Also there was the great story about Ghost Of Tsushima fans raising money and appreciation for the real world location.
Nice video! You should do one with the most massive and long lasted battles in games. I remembered back in old school WoW playing Alterac Valley battleground that from what i heard it lasted 1 day... I fought for 4 hours before i quit...Ah i miss those days.
A similar, albeit to a smaller scale, than the City of Heroes story featured in this video, is that of Evolve Stage 2. Evolve Stage 2 was an asymmetrical game (think Dead by Daylight) where 4 hunters fight against 1 monster, who grows in strength if it manages to survive the early pursuit. The game's dedicated servers were shut down, but there is an underground discord server that maintained a sort of private server so that people can continue enjoying the game
What I also like about the Helldivers situation is, that they didn't get a secret in-game award. Like some games give you the choice between a good dead or more stuff and then when you chose the good dead, you afterwards get different stuff they didn't tell you beforehand to reward you being a good person. Here they didn't. They did the good dead and missed out on any rewards. Or rather, any material reward. Because what they instead got was seeing how their actions in-game had a positive influence on the real world. How often can a gamer say that? Seeing a positive result in the real world, something that stays even after you logout and knowing, you were a part of that... That feeling must be way more incredible than any reward in a digital world.
A lesser story that could have gotten an honorable mention: Destiny 2 Season of the Dawn Sundial mystery puzzle. The raid secrets teams spent I think like 1-2 months trying to crack a code for a secret room, eventually finding it as it paved the way for everyone else to reach it.
Speaking of player created servers for a favorite game, you should mention Star Wars Galaxies. It shipped in 2003 and died in 2011. However, the first SWG emulator was created long before 2011. And some other servers too have been around for quite a number of years, such as Restoration and Empire In Flames, some of them have lived longer than the actual game's 8 year life.
City of Heroes was so good! I played on private servers for years. It's still up there as one of my favorite old MMOs like Guild Wars 1 or WoW in the Lich King era
Reminds me to Ragnarok Online (ID server) way back in 2005-2006 (I think?) When the Morroc Demon patch is applied, the city Morroc suddenly got plagued with monsters including some MVP (boss) mobs like Baphomet. All the top guilds banded together to clear out the city and evacuate all the merchants there.
The Legends of Pirates Online was a crazy fan service MMO. The game was shut down and fans rallied together to remake the game. My details are foggy, but I remember playing it and really liking it back in the day. The pirate ship combat and whatnot was fun. Way the hell better than Skull and Bones for things to do.
A game you forgot to mention is School of Dragons, I've been a part of that games Community ever since I was younger than 10 years old, I played the game all the time collected a lot of dragons, but then a company bought the game Studio and took the studios best games and left school of dragons to rot, but the community still loved the game and they booted up their own servers and download link and now it's run by the community, I know every single detail about this situation because I was there when they first announced that they were going to do this. I'm basically the guy in the chair.
I'm sure you've already done a video on the subject of "Heartwarming tributes" or something to that effect. The one I always think of when it comes to that is the FFXIV Miura tribute. Incredibly moving and I don't even play the game.
The void cat puzzle was solved after Blizzard revealed a new clue; it says so in the article. 16:30 "... until a couple of days ago, when a fresh official hint paved the way for a solution"
My mom reached that feat in tetris before. We thought the game was broken because of version of tetris we had, but according to the community, she did it. She has passed away unfortunately, but I bet she would be happy af to know she's done it once.
I’m surprised the World of Warcraft Pandemic wasn’t mentioned in this video. In 2005, a boss battle at the end of a raid infected players with a debuff that was only meant to effect them in the Boss’s region however it got out and end up infecting NPCs and animals. All of the players banded together to create safe zones and heal/iradicate the infection. The incident was studied by the CDC as a model for real world pandemics and the public’s response.
Helldivers is really a big community that does comes together all the time. While I think the save the children one is a better example there was also a time where the developers had issued a major order (A big mission for helldivers to complete) for the week which was supposed to be an impossible challenge that they were destined to fail. But the helldivers community managed to pull through and complete it anyways.
Does anyone remember on helldivers 2 when we had the major order that was killing 2 billion+ bugs and they gave us 5 days and when we completed it in 14 hours they actually told us it was a rigged order and that we were supposed to fail it but that night we had nearly 100,000 divers fighting on a single planet wiping out the bugs, brings a tear to my eye 😂🥹
i was One of the hell divers who saved the children. When they donated, i donated as well because it felt good playing a game that supports philanthropy. I even brought Super Credits (game currency) outta respect for them donating as well.
The Corrupted Blood Incident from WoW should definitely be mentioned. Basically a Raid Bosses Viral Debuff called “Corrupted Blood” made its way outside of the dungeon due to a bug with pets not losing it when leaving. Anyways it spread from those pets like a wildfire; even making its way into safe zones. This caused the community to quarantine entire cities and hunt down those purposefully spreading it. It was actually used by the cdc as a study in human behavior during an outbreak!😊
Maybe a little one, the Melee community creating their own online service with rollback netcode and now even ranked. After many people couldn't play the game because of the pandemic, the effort and support from the community is amazing.
When I saw the title, I figured WoW was going to be in it, but I was expecting the older story of the "plague" that was accidently brought into the game by a bug. short story being that the community worked together to quarantine certain zones to minimize casualties of said bug until it was fixed. Surprisingly inspiring.
If you ever do a top 10 for more heartwarming moments gamers came together for something, you should include the Funeral a whole bunch of WoW players (from both factions if I remember correctly) held in game for one of their fellow players that'd tragically passed away irl
great content! i would have thought Mass Effect community to get Dev's to release an ending for ME3 would have made the list...still wasn't perfect but incredible considering what was "Retail"
In my mind the reason a lot of helldivers went to the aid of the children is because after malevolent creek many of them wanted a solid win to wash away such a terrible defeat, true they retook the planet but it doesn’t change the fact that thousands died on that rock
City of Heroes! I play 2 or 3 times a week even now. When the game shut down I cried. In the years that followed, all I wanted to do was play the game again before I died. Now I can. This may sound corny to the cynical and jaded, but this game coming back made my life better.
The Save the children in helldivers was pretty awesome. Especially their donation on $4,311. I like how clever the donation was because it spells out "Hell" as in Helldivers. Community was just awesome.
I didn't catch that at first. As I was listening to the story I was thinking "is that it! Surely they could better?" Now it's just clever
Yeah, we spread managed democracy for the children!
@alexmartin5073
I don't think I like your attitude, ok!
Still think we should have got the mines
He should've pointed out this was like the 3rd time the devs tried to give us AT mines and every damn time the community just says f it to AT mines 😂
Back in old school Everquest there was a boss called The Sleeper. It was originally meant to be unkillable. Well an entire server came together and fought and killed it
My first thought on what should be #1 as well
Kerafyrm, I miss those days of gaming.
I remember that happening when I was a young lad and thought it would at least be a bonus mention. But I know gameranx has mentioned it in at least 1 of their other videos. That was a pretty cool event especially being a long time player of EQ.
Yeees!! Thank you! I was just going to say this.
Tbf they talk about that specific event way too much I think it’s in like 5 different gameranx videos, it’s cool that this was all never before covered stuff.
Don’t forget the other impossible thing that the helldiver community also did. We were given an order that was said to re-conquer a sector under a fixed amount of time which was supposed to make us lose but the community all banded together and literally completed the major order that we were supposed to lose
the one impossible thing that comes to mind when it comes to helldivers 2 is that the community legit stopped Sony from ruining the game. thought this would be on the list instead of the Save the Children
like when does Sony ever listen to its community
@@EonHellsSoldier you would rather have that instead of the community saving children???
@@snekiboi2566I think the general consensus even if braindead is fuck the corps is more impactful than helping others
@@EonHellsSoldier when there biggest game was going to crash they've lost money on most everythng since ps5, they had the MOST popular game on the market for all major systems, they like money why would they destroy iit. they didn't do it for the player
@@helljackalll that took you a month to come back at this. It doesn't matter anymore quiet up.
City of Heroes went farther than just returning from the dead. The fans that are running it are publishing new, high quality, game updates to both storyline and powers. It’s really wonderful seeing a game I love continue to grow. MAJOR kudos to the folks that resurrected this great game.
I didn't know this was brought back to life
Helldivers community seems like a breath of fresh air with the Save the Children occurrence
And we got a cool drawing as well. So we did get something somehow.
We just thought another AT mine delay was funny
I'll take the anti tank mines it's just a game..
@@tmacfan2132 The save the children thing led to a a lot of actual money sent to save actual children
Mines can't make children. Children can make mines.
Having participated in some of these and being a witness to most of them, the one that surprised me the most was the Homecoming servers for City of Heroes... When NCSoft gave the license to the team, it was unprecedented - game publishers often crack down on private servers, even long after they've stopped selling and hosting the game in question. With this move, hopefully other publishers will see how happy it has made the fans of their game and will be open to allowing community hosting when the official servers reach end-of-life.
One of my personal favorite "impossible events" in gaming was the resurrection of a small Global Agenda community on an official server. Global Agenda shutdown in 2018 after Hi-Rez stopped giving it any attention and just ignored it until only a dedicated community was left, then the servers went down during a maintenance and the remaining players were informed that the server was likely unrecoverable. Despite fan effort, no private server was ever able to be spun up, even though there were a couple of attempts. One of the members of the community noticed something back in early 2022 though, a new build was pushed to Steam, even though the game store was delisted years prior. Well, that led to a notification on the Discord server and it was found that the server was accessible and all of the account data was there... It turned out that Hi-Rez had patched it together on an old server so they could have internal teams fire it up and revisit it to potentially get inspiration for a sequel - their team logged in to find around 100 players running missions on a server that had never meant to have been public. They saw that this community was happy to play it again, so they agreed to leave it up and publicly accessible for as long as the server holds out.
That might be the most wholesome, the love they had, only to log in and see a bunch of goons running around xD similar to osrs only "I DON'T REMEMBER PATCHING YOU LOT IN" 'WE INVITED OURSELVES' lol
That quest in Helldivers 2, despite us completing that mission, we still failed the major order. Was awesome to see everyone almost unanimously choose the option to save the children.
I remember when Wrath of the Lich King for World of Warcraft dropped. When everyone got to level 80, 20 or 25 of us united and would run the old 40-person dungeons in Burning Crusade; the maps we never got to see because alone we couldn't organize 40 people in a raid before, lol. The loot was obsolete, but the visuals were amazing.
I think you mean Vanilla. BC, as far as I can remember, did not have 40 man raids.
“Just under 12 months… that’s almost a year”
Thanks Jake 😂👍🏼
I'm super proud of Team 0% I'm glad i was part of the team and clear levels!!! Such a big accomplishment
Truly incredible that they pulled it off! Nice work :)
i used to play on a private wow wotlk server a couple years back, dont know if u are familiar with the protests in iran back in those days or not, but there was this player who got shot in the head and died during the protests, about 6-7 thousand players from both alliance and horde got together in orgrimar paying their tributes to that person, after a minute of silence and /kneel, we all started chanting what will be translated into "we will take revenge on who killed my sister" up to the point where the server crashed and was offline for a whole day just for the community to cool off a bit, that was one of most wholesome moments i ever expierenced.
Rest in peace to your kin
Waging a war so hard that it crashed a server is legit haha. Massive respect to those gamers
I’ve seen ark wars rage on for a week. 48 hours ain’t shit
@@iideadlyogwhat was it like, how many players were there?
@@iideadlyog its a persistent war. for months on end, 24/7 and never a break. if you decide to play, go wardens.
It wasn't the impossible but speaking of gamers coming together paying tribute to lance reddick was a great moment
I remember that. I even hoped onto destiny 2 after not playing it for a long time just so I could honor him.
YESSSS
Love these stories. Would love more of these. Your monthly Weird Gaming Stories are fantastic. Maybe you could do quarterly or monthly heartwarming stories.
I think we could all use more of this and support this idea!
Just jumped back into City of Heroes last week. Took me right back to middle school and im hooked all over again.
I've been an Xbox loyalist for two decades now, but the only thing that has ever made me want to buy a PlayStation 5 is Helldivers 2. Not just because it looks like a great game, but the community looks absolutely phenomenal. Communities for the most part in most games have become so toxic and viral that I don't even partake in multiplayer most of the time. I'm glad there are some gamers out there that rally around a good game and overall make the experience pleasant.
Hey don't forget the Nuclear disarmament ending in Metal Gear Solid V, done by the ps3 people
For the "Foxhole" segment, love how Jake just casually skips over the bit about "BUILDING A RELIGION AROUND A CORPSE PILE" within those 48 hours 🤣
Classic ww1 ish game players I’m not joking
I'm kinda sad that there wasn't something on here that I think is worthy on this list: the Hermitcraft Gamer's Outreach charity streams
For context, Hermitcraft is a group of people who play Minecraft together and upload videos of their gameplays, whether it be building, messing with friends, or other things. Gamer's Outreach is a nonprofit organization that delivers Go Karts equipped with gaming consoles and controllers for kids in children's hospitals to help them have fun and take their minds off things.
Organized by Hermitcraft member GoodTimesWithScar, the first charity stream occurred in October 2022 for a total of four hours, with many members of the group streaming it. The original donation goal was $25,000; it was surpassed before the charity stream even went live, and the gaming community surrounding Hermitcraft donated over $400,000 to the cause.
There was another Gamer's Outreach charity stream this year too, back in April. This time, the charity stream lasted for two days, and over $960,000 were raised. That is over a million dollars combined, all generated from the gaming community surrounding a group of people playing Minecraft together. I think it's just incredible.
I loved City of Heroes and Old School RuneScape back in the day!!! Glad to see Gameranx talking about those games 🥲💯
There’s also a small thing that happened in the Xbox community. The game NBA Live 06 for the Xbox 360 had an achievement where if you were in the online menu when there were 1000+ people online in the game, you would get the achievement. However, the game didn’t receive great reviews so it never reached that threshold at launch (or it did briefly). Because of this, this achievement was not unlocked for many people. It took a group effort through gaming forums and achievement hunting groups to get 1000+ to be coordinated and get online to get the achievement. I was in that push and it was so nice to see gamers coming together just to unlock one achievement lol
SO glad you talked about City Of Heroes. I loved it when it was originally open and I love it now with the new Server. Well worth someones time to get into it and have a good time
i like how 3 entries involved gamers running fan servers after the publishers turned off the official servers
This is a problem I'm concerned about- I want to make multiplayer games and I'm worried about sunsetting. There's a point where you'd have to start charging to keep the lights on- what do you do then without ticking people off?
@@kenktheGD I'd say the safest bet is planning ahead to allow the community to run their own servers. If that is already part of the game design from the start, it makes it so there's no mandated shut off: if the community wants it to keep going, it'll keep going for as long as the community wants it to.
@@capmss I'm thinking something like that. I'm more interested in coop design anyway, which can be peer to peer as long as the matchmaking (which steam and the like handle anyway). But even that can get sticky because you should really have a relay system to hide people's IPs even if there's no true host. I'm thinking initially have hosted servers and use winding down technology to minimize costs, until there really is a bottom out point and release the server code via github and send matchmaking to client servers.
Cough, cough .. Nosgoth...
The super citizen hospital for very sick Children reads like Zoolanders school for kids who can’t read good
Hahaha. You're right!
@@keaganthedude Must have.
Been a small planet is built for ants
@@UrbanGeek206 I don't wanna hear your excuses! The stratagem has to be at least… three times bigger than this
@@keaganthedude We were just having a harmless gasoline fight
That makes it even better
Dam there is a guy there that really wanted to be first comment. He even commented 3 times to make sure
Yeah, what a nerd.
Lmao 😂
For some people, being 1st isn't enough. They want the whole podium.
Damn, I missed it....
r/Autism
Not only has City Of Heroes been supported but new content was still created for free all these years.
I Went into a Public Library Back in Like 2003-2004, & Every Computer in TheLibrary Had a Kid Sitting at it, Playing "RuneScape".
(& When I Asked One of TheKids About TheGame EveryBody Was Playing in TheLibrary...Cause I Was/Am a HardCore DiablO-1 Player&Fan, He Looked at Me Like I Had Worms Wiggling-Out My Ears.)
I Was 24/25 Years Old at TheTime, & That Kid Made Me "Feel Old" That Day.😒
One that comes to mind is during the r/place a few years ago when the Touhou community got together to animate Bad Apple onto the canvas
@14:25 shoutout to the Tetris and gaming community who, when a woman from Australia tried to lambast the kid, absolutely came to his defense and destroyed her.
Ive been watching Gameranx for years, even now when i don't have the free time to do so. Keep it up.
As an avid gamer of Eve Online for 19 years, with about 7 years accumulated time of being AFK for real life reasons, I got excited when you mentioned Eve. I am more than positive that I remember the ping from Imperium, since I am a member of Goonswarm Federation. There is literally no other game like Eve that I have ever played, and that is the core reason I have continued to play all these years. The capital brawl being out of boredom doesn't surprise me one bit, I will literally jump on Eve if I find out caps are being used. I have participated in three of the largest wars in Eve Online history, and my most memorable experiences were in the last war between Pandemic Alliance Please Ignore (PAPI) vs Imperium. Unfortunately, it is a game that takes incredible amounts of dedication and focus to get into, most players don't realize that the sandbox aspect is truly unique.
Other uniqueness about Eve involves the player graveyard in Molea, because we as players are incredibly community focused. As we say "it's all pixels and fairy dust," meaning we know that Eve is a game, and all players in Eve are just humans behind a PC. The graveyard contains containers that are protected by CCP from following established mechanics so they never expire. Every container has the name of a player that has passed away in real life.
When I saw Helldivers 2 on the thumbnail, I was sure you were going to talk about the PSN case. When you explained the "save the children" mission, caught me off guard and I got a little emotional. The donation part... Broke me, ngl
This is a very good list. Please make more of these!!!
It’s funny Eve, Helldivers 2 and foxhole all have the tight knit groups that are like “Were you there..?” I wasn’t there for Eve or Helldivers, but I was there for foxhole. Only played about 6 hours of it, but it was difficult to say the least…
Wardens Rule!
Nintendo stoped the servers for Mario Kart Wii ages ago (probably 10 years ago, not sure), so people started to build their own servers to keep playing online, to build over 1000 of new tracks, to make their own new modes to play, to host their own tournaments and all this still in 2024!
2:00 *"Won't someone think of the children!"*
When I saw Helldivers 2 in the list, I thought it was gonna be about the community coming together to fight the PSN requirement.
Telling any brand you don't want it happening: will make it happen if people stand by that perspective. Brands need customers which hold all the power to make even a company like Apple listen to do as told
yea same, the PSN riot was epic af and deserves mention
Probably wasn’t that because it was all blown out of proportion by entitled PC gamers who didn’t want to do 2 minutes worth of work that was stated to be required from launch
This is clearly coming from someone who clearly doesn't own and has never played on a PC before. As someone who has both a PC and a PS5, I was against this. There's absolutely zero of a reason the make this a requirement to even play the game. Plus because of that it restricted people from playing the game due to PSN not being in their country. Don't sell this short, because you as a person who literally and clearly doesn't have all of the facts.@@FunkyChicken251
Aw...no
The thing about Heldivers new stratagem is:
We failed two other major orders to get anti tank mines amd it became meme(and we all know helldiver community loves its memes) about helldivers never reciving anti tank mines.
If we get a chance toget cooler stratagem, i think we would get it instead.
For the helldivers one, it was actually a single dev that donated and not arrowhead as a whole, if I remember correctly
it was the former CEO (ceo at the time) and owner of the studio, so it was basically the company that made the donation.
These are reason why i love the gaming community. Complete strangers coming together to achieve the impossible or to help out newer players. I remember when i first started playing gta v, i was being killed repeatedly by a high level player. I told a few people in game chat and next thing i know, the entire server i was in was attacking the 2 players that attacked me
Helldivers has the coolest community ever, developers and players hand in hand is beautiful to see.
I don't think it was the whole arrowhead studio.
(because they could have donated more than $4311.00)
but the johan himself donated all the money.
Another good one is the Long War mod for X-COM Enemy Unknown/Within. The devs have said they’re not entirely sure how they changed as much as they did and recommend it to players. They even worked with the people who made it to make X-COM 2 more mod friendly.
Oh I love this. Payers are saving gaming from corporate greed. I know many games have been saved because of the modding community like Skyrim, GTA 5 roleplay servers (absolutely MASSIVE), and Cyberpunk 2077 which was completely saved by modders and many of them hired by CDPR. Would like to see more videos like this if possible as I have played almost all of these games you listed.
Love this - especially the Helldivers story. And I love Gameranx in general. The channel feels like a breath of fresh air, and the vibe is very much “all for the love of games.” Sure sometimes it’s fun to take the piss out of bad games, or bad decisions made by publishers, etc. - but it never feels gratuitous here. Thanks, Gameranx.
I won't forget the biggest thing I was a part of. In Destiny 2 a few years back the whole community came together to solve the puzzle of the Corridors of Time. It was something crazy with streamers getting in on it and forums going crazy. In the end it was disappointing with the reward, but it was still a fun time solving it honestly.
The reason so many people went to go save the children is partly due to the other two landmine stratagems being known as griefing weapons. There's a number of weapons and stratagems in the game that have garnered a reputation for accidental teamkilling and many griefers would load up on things like the Sentry Turrets (particularly Rocket, Autocannon and Mortar) and the landmines and throw them deliberately in the most awkward spots possible to piss people off.
There were very few people who actually wanted the AT mines, I'm one of them and at this point we've had 3-4 chances to get them from Major Orders and I legit think Arrowhead may have to just straight up give us the mines because as a community we've failed the Major Orders twice and in the case of the Save the Children order specifically, we chose morality over equipment (which is odd because Super Earth is morally corrupt and we Helldivers are an extension of that moral corruptness).
Donating to the charity because we completed the in-game objective was wholesome as fuck though, I'll give them that.
I would love to believe that was the plan all along, but players donating on their own...
My faith in humanity lives on.
I still think the assassination of Lord British (the creator of Ultima Online) in game is the best. As he was supposed to be unkillable
But that didn’t require the gaming community to come together for that. It was 1 player during an event that did the assassination
@@Phattyfatfat technically, it was because there were too many people on to see him and the server crashed and they forgot to make him immortal after restarting, so on the technicality that the whole playerbase sort of accidentally caused it, I think it could be a bonus entry. Not a normal one since it wasn't intentionally working together.
The Fuel Rats guild in Elite Dangerous has also done some pretty epic saves.
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Came on to mention this
falcon covered a weird stories awhile back about 1 thing in Eve online that was remarkable a player that was terminally ill wanted to go out with a bang in Eve online so many players got together to give him one last battle .
The love of video games is awesome. It's an escape into a different world by yourself of with friends/family. Love seeing these stories of gamers doing the "Fusion Ah" on everything!!
We completely agree! :)
Mario Maker 1 & 2 has been one of the most enjoyable communities I have been part of. Clearing each other's levels, watch streamers and races. Even designed a level for a weekly race and a tournament called 'get peach or die tryin'. Fun times and hopefully with the next Nintendo console I can dive back in with MM3.
I love foxhole. You feel a real sense of pride when you fighting with your army. Everyone is putting their all into it.
That Tetris stuff is incredible. The thought to even move to hyper tapping then to rolling is something so few people would even comprehend.
Thought you’d mention that tribute to a fallen player in an MMO. Many players did a magical memorial for a fellow player who died. And when Lance Reddick died, there were “ceremonies” in his game (Destiny 2, I think), where players arrived spontaneously, gesticulated, knelt, stood beside, etc, his character in solidarity. Also there was the great story about Ghost Of Tsushima fans raising money and appreciation for the real world location.
Nice video! You should do one with the most massive and long lasted battles in games. I remembered back in old school WoW playing Alterac Valley battleground that from what i heard it lasted 1 day... I fought for 4 hours before i quit...Ah i miss those days.
A similar, albeit to a smaller scale, than the City of Heroes story featured in this video, is that of Evolve Stage 2. Evolve Stage 2 was an asymmetrical game (think Dead by Daylight) where 4 hunters fight against 1 monster, who grows in strength if it manages to survive the early pursuit.
The game's dedicated servers were shut down, but there is an underground discord server that maintained a sort of private server so that people can continue enjoying the game
Stuff like this makes me confident the contest in 'Ready Player One' would be solved SO much faster in real life than in the story.
Especially with the motive to stick it to the corporations.
What I also like about the Helldivers situation is, that they didn't get a secret in-game award. Like some games give you the choice between a good dead or more stuff and then when you chose the good dead, you afterwards get different stuff they didn't tell you beforehand to reward you being a good person. Here they didn't. They did the good dead and missed out on any rewards. Or rather, any material reward. Because what they instead got was seeing how their actions in-game had a positive influence on the real world. How often can a gamer say that? Seeing a positive result in the real world, something that stays even after you logout and knowing, you were a part of that... That feeling must be way more incredible than any reward in a digital world.
A lesser story that could have gotten an honorable mention: Destiny 2 Season of the Dawn Sundial mystery puzzle. The raid secrets teams spent I think like 1-2 months trying to crack a code for a secret room, eventually finding it as it paved the way for everyone else to reach it.
Speaking of player created servers for a favorite game, you should mention Star Wars Galaxies. It shipped in 2003 and died in 2011. However, the first SWG emulator was created long before 2011. And some other servers too have been around for quite a number of years, such as Restoration and Empire In Flames, some of them have lived longer than the actual game's 8 year life.
I cant believe you didnt add Twitch plays pokemon, the first one, literally the greatest moment in gaming history ive ever experienced. Should be #1.
Oh good point. Hmm I guess we should consider a part 2! :)
City of Heroes was so good! I played on private servers for years. It's still up there as one of my favorite old MMOs like Guild Wars 1 or WoW in the Lich King era
Are you going to give it another go after watching the video?
Reminds me to Ragnarok Online (ID server) way back in 2005-2006 (I think?) When the Morroc Demon patch is applied, the city Morroc suddenly got plagued with monsters including some MVP (boss) mobs like Baphomet. All the top guilds banded together to clear out the city and evacuate all the merchants there.
The Legends of Pirates Online was a crazy fan service MMO. The game was shut down and fans rallied together to remake the game. My details are foggy, but I remember playing it and really liking it back in the day. The pirate ship combat and whatnot was fun. Way the hell better than Skull and Bones for things to do.
I still think the Metal Gear Solid feat of removing all nuclear weapons was the greatest community feat
A game you forgot to mention is School of Dragons, I've been a part of that games Community ever since I was younger than 10 years old, I played the game all the time collected a lot of dragons, but then a company bought the game Studio and took the studios best games and left school of dragons to rot, but the community still loved the game and they booted up their own servers and download link and now it's run by the community, I know every single detail about this situation because I was there when they first announced that they were going to do this. I'm basically the guy in the chair.
Such an awesome video, it warms my heart to see that people can come together and do good things.
i wish i had 0.0001% of that effort toward fixing my life ...not even fixing my life, but just being a friend
I'm sure you've already done a video on the subject of "Heartwarming tributes" or something to that effect. The one I always think of when it comes to that is the FFXIV Miura tribute. Incredibly moving and I don't even play the game.
the reckful one broke my heart and glued it back together at the same time
The void cat puzzle was solved after Blizzard revealed a new clue; it says so in the article.
16:30 "... until a couple of days ago, when a fresh official hint paved the way for a solution"
My mom reached that feat in tetris before. We thought the game was broken because of version of tetris we had, but according to the community, she did it. She has passed away unfortunately, but I bet she would be happy af to know she's done it once.
More of this, please. With all of the toxicity associated with certain gaming communities, we need to be reminded that we're good people, mostly.
devided we are strong, but together we are stronger
Only OGs will remember this video having Helldivers as the thumbnail first 🗿
I’m surprised the World of Warcraft Pandemic wasn’t mentioned in this video. In 2005, a boss battle at the end of a raid infected players with a debuff that was only meant to effect them in the Boss’s region however it got out and end up infecting NPCs and animals. All of the players banded together to create safe zones and heal/iradicate the infection. The incident was studied by the CDC as a model for real world pandemics and the public’s response.
Hopefully it won't be too long until you can do a part 2 and heading that video will be gamers restoring The Crew. :)
Helldivers is really a big community that does comes together all the time. While I think the save the children one is a better example there was also a time where the developers had issued a major order (A big mission for helldivers to complete) for the week which was supposed to be an impossible challenge that they were destined to fail. But the helldivers community managed to pull through and complete it anyways.
Does anyone remember on helldivers 2 when we had the major order that was killing 2 billion+ bugs and they gave us 5 days and when we completed it in 14 hours they actually told us it was a rigged order and that we were supposed to fail it but that night we had nearly 100,000 divers fighting on a single planet wiping out the bugs, brings a tear to my eye 😂🥹
This is one of the best list you guys have made 🙌 made my day ❤️
i was One of the hell divers who saved the children.
When they donated, i donated as well because it felt good playing a game that supports philanthropy.
I even brought Super Credits (game currency) outta respect for them donating as well.
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I’m surprised the MGS V Nuclear Disarmament on whichever console it was didn’t make an appearance
Should we bring out a part 2?
@@gameranxTVhell yeah!
Commenting three times to be seen is wild
Players getting together for Carrie Fisher memorial was great too.
The Corrupted Blood Incident from WoW should definitely be mentioned.
Basically a Raid Bosses Viral Debuff called “Corrupted Blood” made its way outside of the dungeon due to a bug with pets not losing it when leaving.
Anyways it spread from those pets like a wildfire; even making its way into safe zones. This caused the community to quarantine entire cities and hunt down those purposefully spreading it.
It was actually used by the cdc as a study in human behavior during an outbreak!😊
I've only known of 3 communities as pure as Helldivers. What a 💎
Maybe a little one, the Melee community creating their own online service with rollback netcode and now even ranked. After many people couldn't play the game because of the pandemic, the effort and support from the community is amazing.
When I saw the title, I figured WoW was going to be in it, but I was expecting the older story of the "plague" that was accidently brought into the game by a bug. short story being that the community worked together to quarantine certain zones to minimize casualties of said bug until it was fixed. Surprisingly inspiring.
If you ever do a top 10 for more heartwarming moments gamers came together for something, you should include the Funeral a whole bunch of WoW players (from both factions if I remember correctly) held in game for one of their fellow players that'd tragically passed away irl
I was part of the ARK raid on server 1. That was one of the highlights of my life. It doesnt even feel real.
I played soooooooo many hours of COH! One day I'll jump back in to see what the fan devs have done to keep it running. Glad it's still around!
great content! i would have thought Mass Effect community to get Dev's to release an ending for ME3 would have made the list...still wasn't perfect but incredible considering what was "Retail"
Corridors of time in destiny 2 also is a phenomenal example of coming together
In my mind the reason a lot of helldivers went to the aid of the children is because after malevolent creek many of them wanted a solid win to wash away such a terrible defeat, true they retook the planet but it doesn’t change the fact that thousands died on that rock
The helldivers one showcases it’s not only the fan base but the devs are awesome too.
I'm going to look into City of Heroes. Never cared much for MMOs, but out of all of them, that and Matrix Online are my favorites.
Nice not often we hear Matrix Online brought up! :)
Old school runescape mentioned! Woot
I used to play City of Heroes. I never knew there were servers out there for it. That was a fun game!
City of Heroes! I play 2 or 3 times a week even now. When the game shut down I cried. In the years that followed, all I wanted to do was play the game again before I died. Now I can. This may sound corny to the cynical and jaded, but this game coming back made my life better.