I remember a long time ago when I played City of Heroes, there was an incident where (iirc) people could be confused in a high level zone, then make their way back to Atlas and essentially nuke every beginner in the center of town. It was a slaughter.

I think people were banned because of it. I wish I could find some of the videos of it, it was pretty funny.

vossiewulf: How did they forget that guy killing Lord British in the early days of UO?

They didn't. That was in another similar Cracked list by the same author.

kinda surprised the plague in WoW wasn't brought up... back when Zul Gurub was first released you could get a disease/debuff on you or a pet, zone out to a major city, and literally infect the whole server and kill off tons of low level characters. Servers crashed because of it.

I remember the Shard of the Herald defense in Asheron's Call. I wasn't on that server but I was cheering for them. Best MMO ever imo. And it's still going. I wish they would make it F2P. Even thought the graphics are dated as Hell the game is fun,fast and unique.

Talon: kinda surprised the plague in WoW wasn't brought up... back when Zul Gurub was first released you could get a disease/debuff on you or a pet, zone out to a major city, and literally infect the whole server and kill off tons of low level characters. Servers crashed because of it.

It was also in the other Cracked list on the subject.

Not sure is this was in a previous Cracked list, but the funeral raid in WoW has always been my favorite.

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MBK: Weaver95: the WoW plague was even more interesting that most people realize. A hunter could get his pet infected, dismiss the pet (and suspending the plague), then travel to whatever city he wanted and bring the pet back to spread the plague.

The best part is that several organizations looked at this event as a pretty decent model of what would happen if a plague actually hit a major city.

Is there a better read about this somewhere on the interwebs?

Where on the list is banning some d-bag's company from your expo after he acted like a d-bag?

The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves: Where on the list is banning some d-bag's company from your expo after he acted like a d-bag?

That's the first thing I thought of when I read the headline.

The WoW plague was great because it DIDN'T crash servers.

What happened was that the major cities became ghost towns. The servers still functioned, the players could log in, try to navigate the area, but the zones became uninhabitable.

They had to reset the servers to clear the plague, but it was only a matter of time before it was tracked back there.

In a way, I wish Blizzard would have allowed actual diseases to spread around the population from time to time. The plague 'event' was just so much fun.

MBK:
The best part is that several organizations looked at this event as a pretty decent model of what would happen if a plague actually hit a major city.

A couple of years ago, when they were leading up to an expansion, they had a zombie plague. It was a toned-down and playable version of the Corrupted Blood plague, so the standard set of jerks did the "get infected somewhere and bring it to the cities" thing (in addition to the "contaminated boxes of grain" vector that caused most of the initial infections).

You could cure it, though - it was possible to shut things down with enough healers, but it took a LOT of healers. So the griefers started being organized about it - several zombies would come in at one time, from different places, and other players would be waiting to be infected so they could spread it quickly.

The solution? Players started doing what the CDC and others did when they eradicated smallpox. Cover the entrances to the cities, encircle the infected, and contract the circles, while curing the "patients." Worked just like it did in real life.

I remember that Asheron's call incident. A similar dick move was to sacrifice one's high level character to local livestock, bumping them to ever higher levels. Cattle became the bane of the newbie's existence.

I don't get the Warcraft one... why couldn't someone just go kill the guy?

kim jong-un: In a way, I wish Blizzard would have allowed actual diseases to spread around the population from time to time. The plague 'event' was just so much fun.

They sorta did with the zombie event before WotLK came out. I remember all the whining because you could infect NPCs and turn them into zombies too. It was great.

smellmybutt: Not sure is this was in a previous Cracked list, but the funeral raid in WoW has always been my favorite.

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Same here.

I guess there is some difference between "The 7 Biggest Dick Moves in the History of Online Gaming" and "The 7 Most Elaborate Dick Moves in Online Gaming History."

smellmybutt: Not sure is this was in a previous Cracked list, but the funeral raid in WoW has always been my favorite.

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CRACKED LIST DID IT! CRACKED LIST DID IT!

gopher321: I was expecting Leroy Jenkins.

The thing about that is it was all completely staged.

Talon: kinda surprised the plague in WoW wasn't brought up... back when Zul Gurub was first released you could get a disease/debuff on you or a pet, zone out to a major city, and literally infect the whole server and kill off tons of low level characters. Servers crashed because of it.

cirby: MBK:
The best part is that several organizations looked at this event as a pretty decent model of what would happen if a plague actually hit a major city.

A couple of years ago, when they were leading up to an expansion, they had a zombie plague. It was a toned-down and playable version of the Corrupted Blood plague, so the standard set of jerks did the "get infected somewhere and bring it to the cities" thing (in addition to the "contaminated boxes of grain" vector that caused most of the initial infections).

You could cure it, though - it was possible to shut things down with enough healers, but it took a LOT of healers. So the griefers started being organized about it - several zombies would come in at one time, from different places, and other players would be waiting to be infected so they could spread it quickly.

The solution? Players started doing what the CDC and others did when they eradicated smallpox. Cover the entrances to the cities, encircle the infected, and contract the circles, while curing the "patients." Worked just like it did in real life.

The zombie plague was the greatest thing in WoW ever. It turned the game from a stale and boring amusement park ride to a dynamic player driven world. It was glorious, the most fun I've ever had playing that game.

As having witnessed the joy and suffering of Angwe first hand, I am glad to see it be number one.

For those not quite getting it, he basically stealthed and camped out at the docks in menethil harbor ( A bottlenecked area that players had to travel through regularly) with his level 60 orc rogue killing any unfortunate alliance unlucky enough to be waiting for a boat. He did this for hours a day, every day. What made it even more frustrating for players is that whenever he was outgunned, outplayed, or outnumbered, he would run away and simply wait until they left to continue the harassment. Of course it also helped that all alliance players on Dethecus were shiat.

Surprised that there was only one Eve Online mention in that article. Being a dick is what Eve is all about. There are many celebrated stories of epic cons and back-stabbings. Especially with what happened to BoB and then Goonsquad.

I remember a few years back on WoW, the dwarves or maybe the gnomes got upset at something and damn near everybody with a character of that race flooded into one of the major cities (Ironforge, I think) and swarmed the auction house area. It crashed the servers, and they couldn't bring the back up again- because the characters were STILL THERE. Somewhere on the 'nets, there's a cool web page devoted to it. Screen shots and everything.

And it might not make an "of all time" list, but "training" in EQ2 was an art form. You would get a whole bunch of monsters to chase you and then run as fast as your character could go towards a zone-in/out point. When you reached the zone point, you'd zone out. The angry monsters, unable to get YOU, would do the next best thing and kill any player who happened to be nearby. There were a couple other ways to do it (some classes could feign death, and there were a couple places where monsters just lost interest in you for no particular reason).

It was called "training" because the long line of monsters chasing you looked sort of like a choo-choo train. It could have just as easily been called "conga lining," but nobody thought of that I guess. The developers changed the code so that monsters would reset themselves and become disinterested in mayhem in that situation and a few others, and now "training" is only a memory in EQ2.

TFA: November 28, 2011

Great a month ago... and in the other best-of article that linked it... and today.

OK, well, at least the first of three times (twice directly) it made it here in a month.

Talon: kinda surprised the plague in WoW wasn't brought up... back when Zul Gurub was first released you could get a disease/debuff on you or a pet, zone out to a major city, and literally infect the whole server and kill off tons of low level characters. Servers crashed because of it.

It was the closest I've ever seen to a real zombie apocalypse - in the sense of flying in and seeing the zombie horde for the first time.And love me those things. If I get taken down? Meh. To me it was playing a PvP server where my own faction could kill me. I knew I'd get to play soon enough. So, fun enough for me.

I remember Fansy. Oh boy and the butt hurt was epic.

tillerman35: I remember a few years back on WoW, the dwarves or maybe the gnomes got upset at something and damn near everybody with a character of that race flooded into one of the major cities (Ironforge, I think) and swarmed the auction house area. It crashed the servers, and they couldn't bring the back up again- because the characters were STILL THERE. Somewhere on the 'nets, there's a cool web page devoted to it. Screen shots and everything.

And it might not make an "of all time" list, but "training" in EQ2 was an art form. You would get a whole bunch of monsters to chase you and then run as fast as your character could go towards a zone-in/out point. When you reached the zone point, you'd zone out. The angry monsters, unable to get YOU, would do the next best thing and kill any player who happened to be nearby. There were a couple other ways to do it (some classes could feign death, and there were a couple places where monsters just lost interest in you for no particular reason).

It was called "training" because the long line of monsters chasing you looked sort of like a choo-choo train. It could have just as easily been called "conga lining," but nobody thought of that I guess. The developers changed the code so that monsters would reset themselves and become disinterested in mayhem in that situation and a few others, and now "training" is only a memory in EQ2.

Ahem, that only happened in EQI. So much good times in Black Burrow, KC, Unrest, Crushbone and that other zone's name that escaped me. Good times. And now in EQII if you run away and far enough, the mob that started chasing you will become disinterested in you.