No Faldor Massacre RuneScape? Sleepers cute, mass casualties unable to be controlled by the moderators as they see person after person lose fortunes is a the thing of legends.
Ah, yes. 666. I was in middle school then. Got a frantic call from a friend telling me to log on and check my account. Had to wait for my sister to get off the landline. Good times.
@@cheeseburgerpaladin same. I was running laws I think on 66. Then the massacre started. Later that night I went and saw the omen in theaters. A great crazy day.
I was honestly surprised this didn't show up in the video because even the devs had a 10 anniversary event in 2016 for this, I remember being in middle school when this happened. And the hypercam 2 nightwish video being like on of the first viral runescape videos.
Eve Online has a lot of crazy stories considering how fundamentally not fun the game is. My favorite is the one where a new player got shot down for no reason in his first ship. So he vows revenge on his soul and joins the group that player was a part of. He slowly makes his way up the ranks to being in charge of maintaining their entire fleet and then detonates absolutely everything they own. He leaves one message: "That was for shooting me down at level 1" and leaves the game forever. Immediately becomes legend.
I mean I know Eve online players are mostly psycopaths but how do you know he didn't make it up? Can't it be that it's a player that was playing normally, eventually got to a position of power in some guild while already intending to leave, thought up a backstory to why he wants to ruin the day for his guild members which he may have had some grudge against already - wrote that note and did the thing then left?
I wish I could find the article again, but there was an article about a slavery ring being busted in Eve Online. There was a company/guild/whatever they're called that was recruiting new or low level players, transporting them to a distant star system, and giving them lots of good equipment, but not engines that were good enough to get them away from those systems, and the "recruited" players were forced to be stuck in that area and work off their "debts" to the company. Another player got wind of this and infiltrated the company, and essentially triggered a slave revolt. I wish I could find the article again, because it was the wildest bloody story.
The biggest thing that ever happened to me on MMO was on WOW. In 2005 I created a new player for the first time and me and two other new players (an older guy and a young girl) formed a guild. I played with just the two of them for a couple of months before school and life dragged me away. At the time it was primarily just the three of us at around level 45. I returned 15 months later to see that the two players I was playing with had actually made that guild into the largest and most popular guild on a large server. I received quite a welcome when I returned, with hundreds of people messaging me that they thought I was a myth, the "guy who established the largest guild then disappeared". Had some of the best times of my life playing in that guild for a while until I moved out of the country and had to quit playing.
I love the concept of a bunch of PVP players getting together, and deciding that an NPC (even if it was all powerful) would not be allowed to run rampant through their world
@@Kittari13 PVE is repetitive, formulaic and safe. Draws those kinds of people. PVP is the opposit,e so the crowd is more fun too. If there's anybody that'll beat an "unkillable" NPC boss its PVPers, they're better at MMOs than PVEers. Its not like PVP servers don't have the same mobs, you just have players to deal with as well.
For me the biggest event was when I had just logged into everquest for the first time. Within the first few weeks, I just happened to be on during a GM event in Kelethin. Orcs would charge into kelethin and fight. It was like lord of the rings come to life and it really made the world feel dynamic. I remember wanting so badly to level up after that so I could be more useful during GM events. It really saddens me no game has brought back GM events.
I loved some of those old GM events. I got to experience one that had werewolves in Commonlands. I still remember it to this day. It was just so amazingly cool.
Over the past few years The City in 2k has become an MMO and when Kobe died everyone did the 8 second back court violation and the other team would do the 24 second shot clock violation in honor of him then the game would start. It was honestly touching that people were doing it.
As a non MMO player I came to this video expecting to hear about the PVP in safe zone RuneScape glitch, the Blood Plague in WoW, the funeral raid in WoW, & maybe the Matrix shutdown. I love MMO stories man. This is so cool.
I had friends in one of the raid guilds on Rallos Zek. I had stopped playing by the time they killed the sleeper but I sat at their apartment and watched them kill it. It was incredibly memorable.
I love these old stories. The story I experienced was the end of beta in Vanguard. I had played the beta for about four months and the end of beta was a bittersweet event. All our progress was going to be wiped and the general riffraff was going to be let into the game. But it was finally launching and that was exciting. About an hour before beta shut down, the GMa were running around spawning mobs that no one had ever seen in the game. It was a chaotic lag fest but wow, it was memorable. RSVP Vanguard. Long live Vanguard EMU. 💪
Oh that's an awesome experience! The closest thing I think I remember to that was in Everquest when GMs were spawning werewolves in a zone that no longer exists, West Commonlands. I played Vanguard I think shortly after launch, a friend of mine from EQ convinced me to come over and play. I'm wondering now if he played during the beta, I'm going to have to ask. Thank you so much for sharing...I still need to figure out why the EMU won't load up for me.
Fansy the Bard on Sullon Zek was a memorable character. When there was no PVP until level 6, he was a level 5 bard that ran around and trained everyone.
The WoW blood plague wasn’t intentionally spread outside the raid, it was accidental as the hunters would dismiss their pets as soon as they got infected to prevent them from dying and after the raid ended that condition wasn’t cleared like it was for players, which meant the next time the pet was summoned it restarted the plague. So the initial release of the plague was accidental, but people found out you could change your pvp flag to avoid getting infected and that’s when people intentionally also changed their pvp flag to purposefully spread the plague.
Final Fantasy XI, Absolute Virtue. 18 hour plus raid boss, with people passing out from exhaustion. I played FFXI at the time. It caused a pretty big scandal. FFXI was insane back in the day.
That reminds me of a 12 hour camp for a raid boss I was part of in everquest. Ooof it was just brutal. I think I lasted 8 hours and called it quits. It was an open world boss, too.
People are always getting Absolute Virtue mixed up with Pandemonium Warden. AV didn't make much of a stir outside of the game's own community, while the _36-hour_ Pandemonium Warden Incident made such an impact in the media it forced Square Enix to put 2hr time limits on both it and AV.
@Redbeardflynn Back in the day, I camped Drelzna in Najena for the Journeyman's Boots. I was a Level 17 DE Shadowknight, I'd been up for 3 days straight non-stop grinding my way up the rotation list, and made it to the #1 spot for next loot...and the person in the #2 spot looted them instead. Then he and the rest of the group basically told me to screw myself, because I was too low to contribute any "real" DPS and so I wasn't going to be allowed to loot them no matter what. Keep in mind, these were the last 3 days before they became Quest-only and were removed from Drelzna's loot table forever. And it was mere hours from server reset, when the patch would go through. Well, I went running out and found a nice Level 45 Magician who KS'd her for me while the rest of the group were still there, trying to get their drops. One kill; and she had the Jboots. In his memory, until I quit the game in 2008, no matter which of my toons I played, I always went out of my way to help Magicians. 🥲
The best part about EverQuest being ran originally on dial up is that it was designed that way. Nowadays, you can play eq fairly well off a cell phone hotspot. I travel for work and did this through the DoN expansion on progression servers with no issues.
I was in falador during the falador massacre in runescape(also got to play some minigames with the Gower brothers and mod paul, i distinctly remember the pirate rum making minigame and seeing them on launch day.) I love hearing these old mmo lore stories.
Morroc's Resurection was pretty dope in Ragnarok. Laggy as shit but still fun. That's how you really know. Funner though is when either the Devs OR hackers summoned what was the second strongest boss at the time, Ifrit in the small town of Izlude. Almost every player- lvl 1 to 99 stopped what they were doing to go fight
I remember reading Massively (now MassivelyOP) since being in college in 2010 and quitting WoW Cataclysm, so was always on the lookout for the new great MMO contender. I'm so glad the website is still around with all it's old articles, they've documented a heck of a lot of MMO history.
In addition to everything you've mentioned in the video, the World of Warcraft AQ gate opening event is the only other memorable event I can recall. The build-up was intense and then... who knows, because the servers effectively died.
I was bored one day in Everquest on the Stormhammer server and went to Kaladim ( Dwarven home city ) and killed King Kazon Stormhammer the King . A dev showed up and asked "What have you done that was our King ! " I said " I am the king now I command you to give everyone one item they desire! They actually did it a few days after, we were told to send a tell to Deodan with what we wanted and all lined up on a chosen date to collect our items. My characters got Guktan pastwatch eye, Tharkis's Platinum Stud( pretty sure only Tharkis and I have one ) one per server type drops. The server shut down shortly after. I am sure it was a mere coincidence. I hope!
You could write a book with all the stories Tibia had accumulated during its heyday. I came from the Ultima video where the dev was PK'd during his speech, and wanted to inform you of Ferumbras in Tibia, an evil high level sorcerer who was once a controlled player character by the developer Durin before becoming an NPC raid boss. He would roleplay a wandering boss named Ferumbras, spawning all kinds of crazy stuff and killing people on sight. He continued to do this every once and a while until the entire server came to defeat him in a glorious unified show of force. It wasn't until years later that they brought the character back in NPC form for rare raids, but it was a truly magical role playing moment from the developers that became a tale of legend.
So... back when (the now defunct) TERA introduced the ninja class, people didn't know about the illusion ability. This ability allowed you to look like other players, which was super useful in PvP. The first time I used it, I used it to follow a group around to see how long it would be until somebody noticed there was a duplicate. But the other player I was imitating logged off about halfway through without any prompting. It took their friend an hour to realize that I wasn't using any abilities or talking. I can only imagine this wasn't the only instance of this. Though for overall stories, the ending for the original Final Fantasy 14 was pretty amazing, as they made a story event for server shut down where the universe was destroyed and reborn into the new version.
Scammed out of 2m worth of items and gold in RuneScape. A low level player tricked me into entering level 1 wildy to buy an abby whip from him (he was much lower level I felt I had little to worry about). His friend who was my same level but a pure mage popped out of no where and merc’d me in seconds. I’d spent months after school farming to raise enough gold. I fully quit playing after that
I was popping molly pills back during classic Phase 1 and I got really high one night and stole all the Sulfuran Ingots from my guild. I gave them back eventually tho but I ended up ruining my relationships with the peoples in the guild.
More sad and sweet than anything really 'crazy' per se but- back when the creator of Berserk died, a WHOLE BUNCH of people in FFXIV in EVERY SINGLE DAMN WORLD AND SERVER had a line of people in Dark Knight jobs and a campfire (iykyk) minion in front of every person. All. Lined up. In Ul'Dah. And I think a few other areas. In more populated servers, it was lined up PAST THE LOADING ZONE. All in vigil and respect to Miura's unfortunate passing. God, it made me cry so much when it happened.
I played Ultima Online from day 1……Me and my sister named Deadlydesire on Napa valley found the first and only exploit 1 hitter heavy Xbow …..you had to get a bow that was magic “Indestructible” or however you spell it….anyways when u got a indestructible bow u had to use it tell it was close to braking and it would turn into a 1-hitter……we tested it at transic she shot me and the arrow was so slow you can out run it but it NEVER stoped chasing you.. then we used it to hunt n get rich but one day we was bored and went to decite that’s when GM’s discovered it lol we killed EVERYONE 7-9 minutes of killing we was teleported to a gm jail =/
the first time in Anarchy online meeting marvin the deppressed robot from hitch hikers guide to the galaxy he lives in one of the zones in anarchy online, the conversations with him are something else
I dunno if Xenoverse counts as a MMO but I remember during like first year of it players found a super soul that if you transform during a fight you’ll gain a health regen but someone forgot to add a time limit or something so essentially you could go Super Sayian and as long as you stayed transformed you’d regain health I’ll be honest I used this a couple fights but was nice and took all my moves and armor away…. It didn’t help
The one incredible MMO story I always awe at is the fountain war of Eve online. In essence it was a was over a resource rich territory called the fountain, hold by the biggest corporation in Eve at the time, Test Alliance Please Ignore, and the Goonswarm Federation, the second largest corp at that time. There is a very good summary of the fountain war by Scott Manley here on yt. Worth a look. And a second one. And a third. I’m starting my sixth now.
@@Redbeardflynn I actually play the game now and then. At the moment I’m in a break again lasting for over 10 months by now, but I will continue at some point. And thanks for answering. You’ve made this video over a year ago!
Everquest. Guild: Cestus Dei. World first kill of Meta Muram. I was a cleric for it. Amazing how an in game memory sticks with you for life. Will never forget it
I was a part of a server first once on Lotro. We were the first to successfully do the acid wing of Orthanc. It's something I will never forget(I hope). The banding together in trying new skill combinations, class combinations...it was frustrating because we knew we were so close, but so fun and worth it once it was over. Collectively on ventrilo we all shouted once we had the boss down(I forget his name now, it was probably 2012 when this happened). I have some great memories of EQ 1 & 2, Lotro. People shit on games like that because of the massive time sink they are, but there are also a tremendous amount of benefits. I have met and had real friendships in the past from these games. You are in a world of like minded people, and it can be really a great experience. Reading your comment reminded me again of that time and how fun it was.
No mention of the SWtOR when the newest (at the time) raid had come out, the game devs took something like a 3 week break and there was a bug that let people loot the last boss over and over, so that whole guilds could have top gear, or the WoW bug that let people re-use exp pots? Those were the 2 I was a part of or witnessed, and both led to a lot of people getting their subs cancelled/multi day bans.
Asteroidea Iskar necro i played on Mithaniel Marr , was online when Afterlife wokethe sleeper. Years later same character i was in the new Bazaar on my character setting up shit on my merchant when we got the cross channel raid chat spam from RZ guys fighting Kerferym. They had despawned it like a week before when they were close to winning. Anyhow it was the most epic and insane thing in my life watching those chats we knew what was happening and couldn't belive someone was finally going to do it and that it would be the PVP guys that got it done.
I'll be that person. MUD (Multi User Dungeon) was actually the first MMO. Neverwinter Nights on AoL was the first graphical MMO. Meridian 59 was the first 3D MMO.
The reason New World worked that was is because it processed the game on the client side. It directly injected code from the player client instead of doing all processing on the server side. All the old games with insane glitches that let you access admin stuff did this, and New World should have been well aware of the possibilities of it happening to them. No logical reason that a recent game, especially by one of the richest companies in the world, should have functioned this way. The invulnerability, html code injection, and all the duplication glitches were caused by this. There will always be ways to mess up the game as long as it processes the game on the client side.
The biggest clear factor to everyone employed at Amazon Games, is that they are entirely just working their for the paycheque. Nobody cares about the games they are making. That's why every game they have released so far has been a disaster.
Nothing huge but when I first started playing wow I was grinding for days to get enough gold to get my first flying mount. Long story short I misremembered the price, I was a mil short. I became a bigger. Either some kind soul gives me a mil or I'm gonna put wow down and walk away. I went to the capital and began begging. People would either make fun of me or just insult me. Then this nice lady found me and told me she had no problem giving me a mil. She handed it over and didn't even ask for it back. Now I know a mil is nothing but back then I felt like I owed her a life debt. Bought the mount then sold EVERYTHING else at auction till I earned a mil. Tracked down the lady and paid her off naked and on my new mount. We became good friends after that.
I know this is video is a year old but I was playing RuneScape and I was part of the massacre that happened in the one of the cities not really part but a victim
@@Redbeardflynn it was an event randomly getting killed in a city while exploring as it was my first time there and I only got a membership the eather a day before or a week I don’t remember I learned what happened few years later and remember it recently well looking at interesting games bugs that change the games there In forever if memory serves on the anniversary of the event the city is filled with flowers
The blood plague incident was studied by actual pathologists on how a pandemic could spread and what some the players did to stop it was similar to how you would try to stop a pandemic in real life.
Redbeardflynn Please read this you should look up the CO2 heist in Eve Online I was playing in an allied group at the time and we lost everything too when I counted up my self by how much they lost in in-game cash it was close to $50k USD a PLEX at the time was $20 USD the Goons were the Corp the guy sold all the stuff to it was trillions of in-game cash
There's always another one, as long as you play with the term massively, or player bases. Just reference what you want as the start. UO had a base, but it never ramped up and decimated things like EQ did. EQ spread like a fire no one expected...until WoW came along....which set fire to everything and everyone. And, FUCK Sony for the Kerafyrm bullshit in OG. It caused chaos in every level and they had NFC how to handle it. They created a game where everything was a target...then wouldn't let something be the target. I remember this from both sides, having acted as one those Guides they had at the time. Reading on that side, they were all paranoid about the what ifs. Reading on the players, the amount of sheer violence and threats (not discounting the rational people's rage), was quite mindboggling. Their reaction, in combination with a few other tech problems at the time, led me to take my first ever break from the game. I was in the blood plague chaos...and I'll admit it...I used it to kill a few people I couldn't stand while standing around in Ironforge, with...more unintended side effects. I kept that pet for months just saved for the chaos. LOL. Also /pizza.
In a game this kind of events are hella cool 😂 But when assholes in the real life tires to infect other on purpose... Well then, the cure is called lead, a 38 milliliter dosis applied in an special R-volver syringe 😅
Lord British, Lets make a story and pretend it was all luck and the noobs will cheer it as truth, give it a break, he would not forget to set anything, it would have been already set
Secondlife is not a game, it s a virtual world which allow to simulate real life :) still really strong with 50 000 onlin 24/7 - good video anyway - Secondlife is metaverse pioneer
The Sleeper event reminds me of a somewhat similar event in Asheron's Call. Where on all servers there was the last crystal guarding the awakening of Asheron's Nemesis, Bael'zharon. It happened to be BZ's power that turned players PVP-on, so lore-wise it made sense that the dungeon of the final crystal be PVP-only, even on PVE servers. On all servers, the crystal fell relatively quickly, including the PVP-only server, Darktide. But on one server, Thistledown, players rallied around the crystal 24/7 to protect it, killing entire player-raids to save the crystal. They even took turns letting the crystal kill them to feed it XP (mobs could level up in that game). The patch month was about to end, and the devs couldnt have the lore split between that server and the others, so a final event was created specifically for that server, when insanely high level shadow-monsters started spawning, taking out the defenders over time. One special shadow buffed a designed player, in the lore, to be the assassin of the shard. The whole story was amazing, I highly recommend watching "The Significance of Asheron's Call's Shard of the Herald Event (Part 1-2)" on UA-cam, or even the 3 minutes official clip of the event made by the devs "Asheron's Call Turbine Shard of the Herald".
I played UO on the Atlantic server. My character was named Tradesman, One of the first grandmaster blacksmiths on the server (I also had a gm Alchemist). I had the closest house outside Minoc heading towards the Penninsula where I sold all of my armor and potions. I was so rich in that game, and I absolutely loved it.
I remember a friend and I played uo for about 4 yrs straight in 99 to 02, we found an uninhabited island that had just enough squares for 2 houses, it was amazing, both our long term girlfriends left us cause all we did was work and play uo.....we did not care! Good times!
@@CaelDormanI don't remember your name, but I think I remember the guild name. Some of the people I ran with back then were Peachy, Simon, Odin, Magic 8-Ball and there were many more. Those were the people I hung around with the most.
One of my crazier fun moments was actually on EVE Online. I was part of a corp who operated in Null sec sovereign space. There were us and 3 other guilds at the time... Now, we had a partial alliance with one corp, while the other two were kill on-sight. The one we were partial with, skirmishes against them if caught out solo/small groups in neutral space wasn't uncommon, but when something went down, we would group up to fight the other two off etc. At one point, we had a combined fleet of around 90-100 and were hunting an enemy fleet of approx. the same strength. Both fleets consisted of mostly tier 2 frigates and cruisers, with a couple of battlecruisers as well. We were hunting them down for around 2.5-3 hours when we finally had them cornered in a pincer attack jumping in from 2 different systems and so we pushed to engage. The second we engaged, a new corp we hadn't even 'known' were around (sov space, the chat/region contacts shows as empty unless you speak publicly, so you never know if others are around) dropped in on the fight with a warp, using tier 3 cruisers. Around 50 of them in total and completely wiped out both fleets. No one had any idea what the hell was going on and it was absolutely crazy, but at the same time, pretty much all 4 corps were just like "Damn... That was impressive..." lol
People way underestimate how anti social or anxious videogamers are. Even making a phone call for a pizza can be intimidating or terrifying. Ironically, much of society has become similarly anti social now app delivery and communication have been normalised, no talking to an actual human required.
In eq i managed to completely crash a server by using staff of the observers in North Freeport and casting it on many other players. Lets just saying many of transactions were ruined and GMs got involved. Winning the argument by following in game rules i managed to not get sent to the cat room. And then the staff got nerfed 😂
I remember Hunters did the same thing during the Baron Geddon fight where the pets would get Living Bomb and they would dismiss them and bring them back out in cites and blow everyone up. Also hunters used to be able to Kite world bosses into cities.
You missed one: The Lurikeen Uprising on Dark Age of Camelot. It happened in May 2002. Players were invited to create a Lurikeen on the Guinevere server. You were supposed to make a character with "KEEN" in the name. I was there, and we were LEGION. It was GLORIOUS. The Lurikeen Uprising altered the population balance on the server, including RvR, which was suddenly flooded with Lurikeen from Hibernia. The patch notes for November 25, 2002 included this: "THE LURIKEEN UPRISING HAS PREVAILED - As of this patch, Lurikeen can become Heroes. Thanks for the great roleplaying moments to everyone involved in the Uprising. Enjoy! " Here is a video: ua-cam.com/video/HSO1gJvCQYo/v-deo.html
I quit New World over all the bugs. For every patch they would create more bugs than they fixed. They had no quality control. I lost 15 hours worth of effort due to their bugs and their customer service is non-existent.
From Falador's Massacre to New World's Sausages, Part 2 is here!: ua-cam.com/video/Vx3FhLpJf0E/v-deo.html
No Faldor Massacre RuneScape? Sleepers cute, mass casualties unable to be controlled by the moderators as they see person after person lose fortunes is a the thing of legends.
I'm definitely going to have to do a part 2 with comments on events like this.
Ah, yes. 666. I was in middle school then. Got a frantic call from a friend telling me to log on and check my account. Had to wait for my sister to get off the landline. Good times.
@@cheeseburgerpaladin same. I was running laws I think on 66. Then the massacre started. Later that night I went and saw the omen in theaters. A great crazy day.
I was honestly surprised this didn't show up in the video because even the devs had a 10 anniversary event in 2016 for this, I remember being in middle school when this happened. And the hypercam 2 nightwish video being like on of the first viral runescape videos.
I immediately thought of that and how this was a bunk list if it wasn't gonna be on it.
Eve Online has a lot of crazy stories considering how fundamentally not fun the game is.
My favorite is the one where a new player got shot down for no reason in his first ship. So he vows revenge on his soul and joins the group that player was a part of. He slowly makes his way up the ranks to being in charge of maintaining their entire fleet and then detonates absolutely everything they own. He leaves one message: "That was for shooting me down at level 1" and leaves the game forever. Immediately becomes legend.
bro HELD that grudge. what a sick story
I mean I know Eve online players are mostly psycopaths but how do you know he didn't make it up?
Can't it be that it's a player that was playing normally, eventually got to a position of power in some guild while already intending to leave, thought up a backstory to why he wants to ruin the day for his guild members which he may have had some grudge against already - wrote that note and did the thing then left?
@@blueplayer6197Are you confessing something here, son? :)
@@blueplayer6197 Plot = twisted
I wish I could find the article again, but there was an article about a slavery ring being busted in Eve Online. There was a company/guild/whatever they're called that was recruiting new or low level players, transporting them to a distant star system, and giving them lots of good equipment, but not engines that were good enough to get them away from those systems, and the "recruited" players were forced to be stuck in that area and work off their "debts" to the company. Another player got wind of this and infiltrated the company, and essentially triggered a slave revolt. I wish I could find the article again, because it was the wildest bloody story.
thats from elite dangerus and not from eve , in eve you dont need fuel to travel - in elite yes you do with out fuel you wont get home
The biggest thing that ever happened to me on MMO was on WOW. In 2005 I created a new player for the first time and me and two other new players (an older guy and a young girl) formed a guild. I played with just the two of them for a couple of months before school and life dragged me away. At the time it was primarily just the three of us at around level 45. I returned 15 months later to see that the two players I was playing with had actually made that guild into the largest and most popular guild on a large server.
I received quite a welcome when I returned, with hundreds of people messaging me that they thought I was a myth, the "guy who established the largest guild then disappeared".
Had some of the best times of my life playing in that guild for a while until I moved out of the country and had to quit playing.
Oh wow that's awesome. Thank you so much for sharing that story with us.
Aw, thats so nice.
what was rhe guilds name?
What was the guild?
I love the concept of a bunch of PVP players getting together, and deciding that an NPC (even if it was all powerful) would not be allowed to run rampant through their world
Kind of amazing honestly.
PvP players are much more fun to be around in general than PvE players across most of the MMOs I've played, not sure why it's so consistent though
@@Kittari13 PVE is repetitive, formulaic and safe. Draws those kinds of people. PVP is the opposit,e so the crowd is more fun too. If there's anybody that'll beat an "unkillable" NPC boss its PVPers, they're better at MMOs than PVEers. Its not like PVP servers don't have the same mobs, you just have players to deal with as well.
For me the biggest event was when I had just logged into everquest for the first time. Within the first few weeks, I just happened to be on during a GM event in Kelethin. Orcs would charge into kelethin and fight. It was like lord of the rings come to life and it really made the world feel dynamic. I remember wanting so badly to level up after that so I could be more useful during GM events. It really saddens me no game has brought back GM events.
I loved some of those old GM events. I got to experience one that had werewolves in Commonlands. I still remember it to this day. It was just so amazingly cool.
I remember Halloween evens in eq. Giant skeletons with pumpkin heads attacking the elf home town. Good times.
Over the past few years The City in 2k has become an MMO and when Kobe died everyone did the 8 second back court violation and the other team would do the 24 second shot clock violation in honor of him then the game would start. It was honestly touching that people were doing it.
As a non MMO player I came to this video expecting to hear about the PVP in safe zone RuneScape glitch, the Blood Plague in WoW, the funeral raid in WoW, & maybe the Matrix shutdown. I love MMO stories man. This is so cool.
I tried to find some more obscure ones but the Runescape Falador Massacre headlines part 2 that I'm working on.
Honestly EVE heists, skullduggery & wars alone could be a whole series of books. It's incredible at encouraging player generated events.
I had friends in one of the raid guilds on Rallos Zek. I had stopped playing by the time they killed the sleeper but I sat at their apartment and watched them kill it. It was incredibly memorable.
Thats awesome! I'll never forget how chats lit up when sleeper was awoken on Brell Serilis. It was a legendary event. Let alone killed.
I love these old stories. The story I experienced was the end of beta in Vanguard. I had played the beta for about four months and the end of beta was a bittersweet event. All our progress was going to be wiped and the general riffraff was going to be let into the game. But it was finally launching and that was exciting. About an hour before beta shut down, the GMa were running around spawning mobs that no one had ever seen in the game. It was a chaotic lag fest but wow, it was memorable. RSVP Vanguard. Long live Vanguard EMU. 💪
Oh that's an awesome experience! The closest thing I think I remember to that was in Everquest when GMs were spawning werewolves in a zone that no longer exists, West Commonlands.
I played Vanguard I think shortly after launch, a friend of mine from EQ convinced me to come over and play. I'm wondering now if he played during the beta, I'm going to have to ask.
Thank you so much for sharing...I still need to figure out why the EMU won't load up for me.
In 2014, Dark Horse Comics published a series of comic books titled EVE: True Stories.
It was about the dismantling of the Band of Brothers.
Fansy the Bard on Sullon Zek was a memorable character. When there was no PVP until level 6, he was a level 5 bard that ran around and trained everyone.
One of my favorite trolls.
The WoW blood plague wasn’t intentionally spread outside the raid, it was accidental as the hunters would dismiss their pets as soon as they got infected to prevent them from dying and after the raid ended that condition wasn’t cleared like it was for players, which meant the next time the pet was summoned it restarted the plague. So the initial release of the plague was accidental, but people found out you could change your pvp flag to avoid getting infected and that’s when people intentionally also changed their pvp flag to purposefully spread the plague.
Final Fantasy XI, Absolute Virtue. 18 hour plus raid boss, with people passing out from exhaustion. I played FFXI at the time. It caused a pretty big scandal. FFXI was insane back in the day.
That reminds me of a 12 hour camp for a raid boss I was part of in everquest. Ooof it was just brutal. I think I lasted 8 hours and called it quits. It was an open world boss, too.
People are always getting Absolute Virtue mixed up with Pandemonium Warden. AV didn't make much of a stir outside of the game's own community, while the _36-hour_ Pandemonium Warden Incident made such an impact in the media it forced Square Enix to put 2hr time limits on both it and AV.
@Redbeardflynn Back in the day, I camped Drelzna in Najena for the Journeyman's Boots. I was a Level 17 DE Shadowknight, I'd been up for 3 days straight non-stop grinding my way up the rotation list, and made it to the #1 spot for next loot...and the person in the #2 spot looted them instead. Then he and the rest of the group basically told me to screw myself, because I was too low to contribute any "real" DPS and so I wasn't going to be allowed to loot them no matter what.
Keep in mind, these were the last 3 days before they became Quest-only and were removed from Drelzna's loot table forever. And it was mere hours from server reset, when the patch would go through.
Well, I went running out and found a nice Level 45 Magician who KS'd her for me while the rest of the group were still there, trying to get their drops. One kill; and she had the Jboots. In his memory, until I quit the game in 2008, no matter which of my toons I played, I always went out of my way to help Magicians. 🥲
The best part about EverQuest being ran originally on dial up is that it was designed that way. Nowadays, you can play eq fairly well off a cell phone hotspot. I travel for work and did this through the DoN expansion on progression servers with no issues.
I was in falador during the falador massacre in runescape(also got to play some minigames with the Gower brothers and mod paul, i distinctly remember the pirate rum making minigame and seeing them on launch day.) I love hearing these old mmo lore stories.
Morroc's Resurection was pretty dope in Ragnarok. Laggy as shit but still fun. That's how you really know. Funner though is when either the Devs OR hackers summoned what was the second strongest boss at the time, Ifrit in the small town of Izlude. Almost every player- lvl 1 to 99 stopped what they were doing to go fight
I remember reading Massively (now MassivelyOP) since being in college in 2010 and quitting WoW Cataclysm, so was always on the lookout for the new great MMO contender. I'm so glad the website is still around with all it's old articles, they've documented a heck of a lot of MMO history.
Sleeper is still my fav event. Next would be the AQ 40 war effort
In addition to everything you've mentioned in the video, the World of Warcraft AQ gate opening event is the only other memorable event I can recall. The build-up was intense and then... who knows, because the servers effectively died.
I was bored one day in Everquest on the Stormhammer server and went to Kaladim ( Dwarven home city ) and killed King Kazon Stormhammer the King . A dev showed up and asked "What have you done that was our King ! " I said " I am the king now I command you to give everyone one item they desire! They actually did it a few days after, we were told to send a tell to Deodan with what we wanted and all lined up on a chosen date to collect our items. My characters got Guktan pastwatch eye, Tharkis's Platinum Stud( pretty sure only Tharkis and I have one ) one per server type drops. The server shut down shortly after. I am sure it was a mere coincidence. I hope!
From my understanding, while the Sleeper didn't drop loot, the devs did award the players involved with various items for it
Oh I hope that's the case, I hadn't seen that in any of the sources but that'd make the story even better.
You could write a book with all the stories Tibia had accumulated during its heyday. I came from the Ultima video where the dev was PK'd during his speech, and wanted to inform you of Ferumbras in Tibia, an evil high level sorcerer who was once a controlled player character by the developer Durin before becoming an NPC raid boss. He would roleplay a wandering boss named Ferumbras, spawning all kinds of crazy stuff and killing people on sight. He continued to do this every once and a while until the entire server came to defeat him in a glorious unified show of force. It wasn't until years later that they brought the character back in NPC form for rare raids, but it was a truly magical role playing moment from the developers that became a tale of legend.
So... back when (the now defunct) TERA introduced the ninja class, people didn't know about the illusion ability. This ability allowed you to look like other players, which was super useful in PvP.
The first time I used it, I used it to follow a group around to see how long it would be until somebody noticed there was a duplicate. But the other player I was imitating logged off about halfway through without any prompting. It took their friend an hour to realize that I wasn't using any abilities or talking. I can only imagine this wasn't the only instance of this.
Though for overall stories, the ending for the original Final Fantasy 14 was pretty amazing, as they made a story event for server shut down where the universe was destroyed and reborn into the new version.
Lol, I love the fact that you showed BOTN battle near end of The Sleeper part.
Scammed out of 2m worth of items and gold in RuneScape. A low level player tricked me into entering level 1 wildy to buy an abby whip from him (he was much lower level I felt I had little to worry about). His friend who was my same level but a pure mage popped out of no where and merc’d me in seconds. I’d spent months after school farming to raise enough gold. I fully quit playing after that
Oof, stuff like that happened to me in UO and Everquest, too. I've heard of some pretty bad player to player scams in Diablo II as well.
I was popping molly pills back during classic Phase 1 and I got really high one night and stole all the Sulfuran Ingots from my guild. I gave them back eventually tho but I ended up ruining my relationships with the peoples in the guild.
I thought you were going to mention the war in Eve Online where people lost the equivalent of hundreds of thousands of dollars in that ISK currency.
I want to do a part 2 of this. I'll have to look that up.
I survived the blood plague on my 60 Tauren Warrior 😊 one of my deepest memories as a kid seeing hundreds of skeletons and the lag lol
More sad and sweet than anything really 'crazy' per se but- back when the creator of Berserk died, a WHOLE BUNCH of people in FFXIV in EVERY SINGLE DAMN WORLD AND SERVER had a line of people in Dark Knight jobs and a campfire (iykyk) minion in front of every person. All. Lined up. In Ul'Dah. And I think a few other areas.
In more populated servers, it was lined up PAST THE LOADING ZONE. All in vigil and respect to Miura's unfortunate passing. God, it made me cry so much when it happened.
what a great video! love learning about people coming together to accomplish big things in video games.
In Linage 2, Epic Raid boss Antharas got somehow teleported to the town Giran. Oh, the chaos that followed )).
8:30 Players were handed out unique and rare items personally from GM's shortly after the killing of the Sleeper.
I played Ultima Online from day 1……Me and my sister named Deadlydesire on Napa valley found the first and only exploit 1 hitter heavy Xbow …..you had to get a bow that was magic “Indestructible” or however you spell it….anyways when u got a indestructible bow u had to use it tell it was close to braking and it would turn into a 1-hitter……we tested it at transic she shot me and the arrow was so slow you can out run it but it NEVER stoped chasing you.. then we used it to hunt n get rich but one day we was bored and went to decite that’s when GM’s discovered it lol we killed EVERYONE 7-9 minutes of killing we was teleported to a gm jail =/
the first time in Anarchy online meeting marvin the deppressed robot from hitch hikers guide to the galaxy he lives in one of the zones in anarchy online, the conversations with him are something else
No way!! I love Marvin so much!
I dunno if Xenoverse counts as a MMO but I remember during like first year of it players found a super soul that if you transform during a fight you’ll gain a health regen but someone forgot to add a time limit or something so essentially you could go Super Sayian and as long as you stayed transformed you’d regain health I’ll be honest I used this a couple fights but was nice and took all my moves and armor away…. It didn’t help
The one incredible MMO story I always awe at is the fountain war of Eve online. In essence it was a was over a resource rich territory called the fountain, hold by the biggest corporation in Eve at the time, Test Alliance Please Ignore, and the Goonswarm Federation, the second largest corp at that time. There is a very good summary of the fountain war by Scott Manley here on yt. Worth a look. And a second one. And a third. I’m starting my sixth now.
Eve Online is so interesting to me. It's a game I have no interest in playing but always produces these incredible stories that I love hearing about.
@@Redbeardflynn I actually play the game now and then. At the moment I’m in a break again lasting for over 10 months by now, but I will continue at some point.
And thanks for answering. You’ve made this video over a year ago!
I'm surprised too that you didn't mention The Serenity Now Funeral Raid
Everquest. Guild: Cestus Dei. World first kill of Meta Muram. I was a cleric for it. Amazing how an in game memory sticks with you for life. Will never forget it
I was a part of a server first once on Lotro. We were the first to successfully do the acid wing of Orthanc. It's something I will never forget(I hope). The banding together in trying new skill combinations, class combinations...it was frustrating because we knew we were so close, but so fun and worth it once it was over. Collectively on ventrilo we all shouted once we had the boss down(I forget his name now, it was probably 2012 when this happened). I have some great memories of EQ 1 & 2, Lotro. People shit on games like that because of the massive time sink they are, but there are also a tremendous amount of benefits. I have met and had real friendships in the past from these games. You are in a world of like minded people, and it can be really a great experience. Reading your comment reminded me again of that time and how fun it was.
No mention of the SWtOR when the newest (at the time) raid had come out, the game devs took something like a 3 week break and there was a bug that let people loot the last boss over and over, so that whole guilds could have top gear, or the WoW bug that let people re-use exp pots? Those were the 2 I was a part of or witnessed, and both led to a lot of people getting their subs cancelled/multi day bans.
I laughed really hard with the dwarven hunter clip xD
Such a cool video dude, would watch this until you run out of things that have happened in MMOs. Wishing you huge success
Appreciate the digging to get this right.
Asteroidea Iskar necro i played on Mithaniel Marr , was online when Afterlife wokethe sleeper.
Years later same character i was in the new Bazaar on my character setting up shit on my merchant when we got the cross channel raid chat spam from RZ guys fighting Kerferym. They had despawned it like a week before when they were close to winning. Anyhow it was the most epic and insane thing in my life watching those chats we knew what was happening and couldn't belive someone was finally going to do it and that it would be the PVP guys that got it done.
My crazy MMO experience was being part of the second Sleeper fight on Rallos Zek.
Great unique idea for a video!
Thank you so much! I'm glad you liked it!
when my server awakened the Sleeper ... I was in the Great Divide ... zone wipe.
Ah the memories! It was so cool.
I'll be that person. MUD (Multi User Dungeon) was actually the first MMO. Neverwinter Nights on AoL was the first graphical MMO. Meridian 59 was the first 3D MMO.
I was in Varrok for the Valentines Day murder in Rune Scape and I was also privy for many a Stormwind wipe from ppl kiting Lord Kazzak
Good work on your short, it brought me here.
Thank you so much! Using shorts to eork on better storytelling.
great content keep up the awesome work
Thank you so much!
Awesome trip thru time friend. Keep after it
Thank you! I loved making this video and plan to do more like it.
The reason New World worked that was is because it processed the game on the client side. It directly injected code from the player client instead of doing all processing on the server side. All the old games with insane glitches that let you access admin stuff did this, and New World should have been well aware of the possibilities of it happening to them. No logical reason that a recent game, especially by one of the richest companies in the world, should have functioned this way. The invulnerability, html code injection, and all the duplication glitches were caused by this. There will always be ways to mess up the game as long as it processes the game on the client side.
The biggest clear factor to everyone employed at Amazon Games, is that they are entirely just working their for the paycheque. Nobody cares about the games they are making. That's why every game they have released so far has been a disaster.
everyone forgets about Neverwinter Knights 91 to 97 it was quite the Experience
These are all awesome examples. Thanks!
I'm so glad you enjoyed them!
Nothing huge but when I first started playing wow I was grinding for days to get enough gold to get my first flying mount. Long story short I misremembered the price, I was a mil short. I became a bigger. Either some kind soul gives me a mil or I'm gonna put wow down and walk away. I went to the capital and began begging. People would either make fun of me or just insult me. Then this nice lady found me and told me she had no problem giving me a mil. She handed it over and didn't even ask for it back. Now I know a mil is nothing but back then I felt like I owed her a life debt. Bought the mount then sold EVERYTHING else at auction till I earned a mil. Tracked down the lady and paid her off naked and on my new mount. We became good friends after that.
I was a cleric and a part of both Rallos Zek Sleeper raids...it was stupid and adrenaline overdrive at the same time
Jump town in star citizen before it was monetized as an event and players took to a criminal planet and tried to hold it against the whole server
I would consider Eve's "“Judgement Day”" to be the top 1
Keep it up. I love your videos. I am glad I am not the only one who needs out on EQ.
Thank you so much! Glad you're enjoying them.
I know this is video is a year old but I was playing RuneScape and I was part of the massacre that happened in the one of the cities not really part but a victim
I want to do a part 2 of this and that's going to top the list. Just need to find some other really interesting stories.
@@Redbeardflynn it was an event randomly getting killed in a city while exploring as it was my first time there and I only got a membership the eather a day before or a week I don’t remember I learned what happened few years later and remember it recently well looking at interesting games bugs that change the games there In forever if memory serves on the anniversary of the event the city is filled with flowers
I was there both for the wow blood plague and the wow zombie plague.
I actually did /pizza. So awesome!
Hahaha! Of course! Would you want it brought back?
@@Redbeardflynn only if the pizza box has Pantheon art on it.
The blood plague wasn't that bad, course I spent weeks at a time in the furthest reaches of Azeroth. Favorite place was Un'Goro Crater.
The blood plague incident was studied by actual pathologists on how a pandemic could spread and what some the players did to stop it was similar to how you would try to stop a pandemic in real life.
@@sykune i'm aware
Firiona Vie first kill loot? 2 necro robes.
Redbeardflynn Please read this you should look up the CO2 heist in Eve Online I was playing in an allied group at the time and we lost everything too when I counted up my self by how much they lost in in-game cash it was close to $50k USD a PLEX at the time was $20 USD the Goons were the Corp the guy sold all the stuff to it was trillions of in-game cash
I'll check it out! I want to do a part 2.
@@Redbeardflynn if you need some details i got you also got a pretty crazy story of a guy that spent 10k on a titan and lost it within an hour or 2
/pizza is honestly awesome lol
I knew EVE had to be on this list. Awful game but has the best stories!
The stories sound like sci fi movies
There's always another one, as long as you play with the term massively, or player bases. Just reference what you want as the start. UO had a base, but it never ramped up and decimated things like EQ did. EQ spread like a fire no one expected...until WoW came along....which set fire to everything and everyone.
And, FUCK Sony for the Kerafyrm bullshit in OG. It caused chaos in every level and they had NFC how to handle it. They created a game where everything was a target...then wouldn't let something be the target. I remember this from both sides, having acted as one those Guides they had at the time. Reading on that side, they were all paranoid about the what ifs. Reading on the players, the amount of sheer violence and threats (not discounting the rational people's rage), was quite mindboggling. Their reaction, in combination with a few other tech problems at the time, led me to take my first ever break from the game.
I was in the blood plague chaos...and I'll admit it...I used it to kill a few people I couldn't stand while standing around in Ironforge, with...more unintended side effects. I kept that pet for months just saved for the chaos. LOL.
Also /pizza.
two words - pools closed
In a game this kind of events are hella cool 😂
But when assholes in the real life tires to infect other on purpose... Well then, the cure is called lead, a 38 milliliter dosis applied in an special R-volver syringe 😅
Ganking a funeral in wow.
Falador massacre for me.
Honestly, you missed the most iconic event of all time..... LEEEEEERRRRROOOOOY JENKINS!
I couldn't put two WoW events on the list! And the screen shots from the cities were just cool to pass up.
I read your comment in the tone though 😂
The fuck's happaned with second life? If you can't tell it, don't talk about it. I can't find info about it anywhere
Do text games count?
agreed about EVE online... sounds interesting.. then you play it and its awful torture sim for degenerates.
Leeroy Jenkins
LEEEEEROOOOY JEEEENKIIIINS!!!!!
Lord British, Lets make a story and pretend it was all luck and the noobs will cheer it as truth, give it a break, he would not forget to set anything, it would have been already set
Makes video to explain crazy mmorpg stories, proceeds to babble and not tell the story. Cool 👍
I do tend to talk a lot! But no worries there are chapters for you!
MUDS
Wow ever quest sucks that’s stupid
This long form video explanation sucks compared to the short.
Haha thanks...I guess?
You aren't going to put runescape the best mmo in the world ? ... fally massacre, did you even do any research thats like surface level stuff
No he did not, he also waffled on a lot.
the first mmorpgs were MUDs;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD
Secondlife is not a game, it s a virtual world which allow to simulate real life :) still really strong with 50 000 onlin 24/7 - good video anyway - Secondlife is metaverse pioneer
The Sleeper event reminds me of a somewhat similar event in Asheron's Call. Where on all servers there was the last crystal guarding the awakening of Asheron's Nemesis, Bael'zharon. It happened to be BZ's power that turned players PVP-on, so lore-wise it made sense that the dungeon of the final crystal be PVP-only, even on PVE servers. On all servers, the crystal fell relatively quickly, including the PVP-only server, Darktide. But on one server, Thistledown, players rallied around the crystal 24/7 to protect it, killing entire player-raids to save the crystal. They even took turns letting the crystal kill them to feed it XP (mobs could level up in that game). The patch month was about to end, and the devs couldnt have the lore split between that server and the others, so a final event was created specifically for that server, when insanely high level shadow-monsters started spawning, taking out the defenders over time. One special shadow buffed a designed player, in the lore, to be the assassin of the shard. The whole story was amazing, I highly recommend watching "The Significance of Asheron's Call's Shard of the Herald Event (Part 1-2)" on UA-cam, or even the 3 minutes official clip of the event made by the devs "Asheron's Call Turbine Shard of the Herald".
I played UO on the Atlantic server. My character was named Tradesman, One of the first grandmaster blacksmiths on the server (I also had a gm Alchemist). I had the closest house outside Minoc heading towards the Penninsula where I sold all of my armor and potions. I was so rich in that game, and I absolutely loved it.
I remember a friend and I played uo for about 4 yrs straight in 99 to 02, we found an uninhabited island that had just enough squares for 2 houses, it was amazing, both our long term girlfriends left us cause all we did was work and play uo.....we did not care! Good times!
😁 I think I bought stuff from you. I was Melcore, Legendary Mage. Ran the guild Storm Haven in Fel.
@@CaelDormanI don't remember your name, but I think I remember the guild name. Some of the people I ran with back then were Peachy, Simon, Odin, Magic 8-Ball and there were many more. Those were the people I hung around with the most.
One of my crazier fun moments was actually on EVE Online.
I was part of a corp who operated in Null sec sovereign space. There were us and 3 other guilds at the time... Now, we had a partial alliance with one corp, while the other two were kill on-sight. The one we were partial with, skirmishes against them if caught out solo/small groups in neutral space wasn't uncommon, but when something went down, we would group up to fight the other two off etc.
At one point, we had a combined fleet of around 90-100 and were hunting an enemy fleet of approx. the same strength. Both fleets consisted of mostly tier 2 frigates and cruisers, with a couple of battlecruisers as well. We were hunting them down for around 2.5-3 hours when we finally had them cornered in a pincer attack jumping in from 2 different systems and so we pushed to engage.
The second we engaged, a new corp we hadn't even 'known' were around (sov space, the chat/region contacts shows as empty unless you speak publicly, so you never know if others are around) dropped in on the fight with a warp, using tier 3 cruisers. Around 50 of them in total and completely wiped out both fleets.
No one had any idea what the hell was going on and it was absolutely crazy, but at the same time, pretty much all 4 corps were just like "Damn... That was impressive..." lol
At the end of the Asherons Call beta the devs spawned an army of epic level mobs that marched across the world killing pcs and npcs.
Everquest Project M and playing as a rat in freeport is one of my coolest memories.
Also, /pizza worked in EverQuest 1 as well.
People way underestimate how anti social or anxious videogamers are. Even making a phone call for a pizza can be intimidating or terrifying. Ironically, much of society has become similarly anti social now app delivery and communication have been normalised, no talking to an actual human required.
Fansy the bard, EverQuest Sullon Zek server. My necro kept avoiding him but man was it annoying, and funny lol.
In eq i managed to completely crash a server by using staff of the observers in North Freeport and casting it on many other players. Lets just saying many of transactions were ruined and GMs got involved. Winning the argument by following in game rules i managed to not get sent to the cat room. And then the staff got nerfed 😂
I remember Hunters did the same thing during the Baron Geddon fight where the pets would get Living Bomb and they would dismiss them and bring them back out in cites and blow everyone up.
Also hunters used to be able to Kite world bosses into cities.
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You missed one: The Lurikeen Uprising on Dark Age of Camelot. It happened in May 2002. Players were invited to create a Lurikeen on the Guinevere server. You were supposed to make a character with "KEEN" in the name.
I was there, and we were LEGION. It was GLORIOUS. The Lurikeen Uprising altered the population balance on the server, including RvR, which was suddenly flooded with Lurikeen from Hibernia.
The patch notes for November 25, 2002 included this:
"THE LURIKEEN UPRISING HAS PREVAILED
- As of this patch, Lurikeen can become Heroes. Thanks for the great roleplaying moments to everyone involved in the Uprising. Enjoy! "
Here is a video:
ua-cam.com/video/HSO1gJvCQYo/v-deo.html
I should add I have no idea who started it. Just a spontaneous player event/protest
@@crowsinger23 DAoC in its primetime, back in the early 2000's ... Was such a good time!
I quit New World over all the bugs. For every patch they would create more bugs than they fixed. They had no quality control.
I lost 15 hours worth of effort due to their bugs and their customer service is non-existent.