The Raid At A 'World Of Warcraft' Funeral
[ranking: 1]
In 2006, a group of players from the Alliance guild Serenity Now decided to raid an in-game funeral taking place in World of Warcraft. Members of a Horde faction planned the ceremony to commemorate the real death of one of their members after a fatal stroke.
But they conducted the ceremony on a PvP server, making it possible for anyone to kill players in the region.
This allowed Serenity Now, who learned about the event on the game's official forum, to crash the funeral and massacre everyone in attendance. Even worse, none of the mourners were prepared for trouble because they didn't expect anyone to be so callous.
They Built A Car Together In 'DayZ' And He Left His Partner To Die
[ranking: 2]
In the open world survival gameDayZ, Redditor u/CoolGasPumper and his brother met two other players who went by the names Igor and Ron. Together, they found a rare car called a GAZ. It was a fixer-upper, so the team spent hours finding parts to rebuild it.
While Ron and the Redditor's brother looted, u/CoolGasPumper and Igor traveled in the car.
All of the sudden, a roadblock materialized in front of them. They crashed into it, and Igor was ejected from the vehicle. When Igor asked u/CoolGasPumper to save him, the Redditor pretended to lose connection and drove away in the car. He left Igor to die, took the vehicle they built together, and hid it in the woods so he could find it the next time he played.
Players Deliberately Crashed 'RuneScape' For Others
[ranking: 3]
After an update to the MMORPG RuneScape in 2009, players learned it was possible to purposely crash another player??s client. This would force them from the game, allowing others to kill their character and steal their gear.
The problem arose because the game??s public chat feature was unable to render the character ???̡? and would cause a fatal error. Malicious players would turn off their text box so the issue wouldn't affect them, then go to crowded areas and send a public message to everyone nearby.
'World Of Warcraft' Players Intentionally Spread An Unstoppable Disease
[ranking: 4]
World of Warcraft provided the backdrop for a major in-world crisis. The ??corrupted blood?? incident stemmed from a system bug that allowed a detrimental effect to make its way outside of the proper area.
It essentially acted as a disease that would quickly kill players and leave those at a higher fighting level to stay alive.
Things got worse when some players would purposely contract the disease and then travel to populated areas to intentionally pass it to as many people as possible. This spread of the virtual disease killed thousands of characters and left major WoW cities completely abandoned.
This Redditor Drowned People In 'World Of Warcraft'
[ranking: 5]
In World of Warcraft, one Redditor found a diabolical way to exploit players begging for gold in the city of Stormwind.
From Redditor /u/Saintblack:
I'd tell them I would give them gold, and invite them to a party. I'd then tell them that we have to go somewhere private, because I didn't want other people to see me doing a trade with a low level player or I might get banned.
I'd jump in the canal and swim to the bottom, and pop a water breathing potion. If/when they swam to the bottom with me, I'd open trade with 1,000g in the window and never hit accept.
I drowned a lot of people.
The Falador Massacre Killed Hundreds Of People In 'RuneScape'
[ranking: 6]
The Falador Massacre occurred in RuneScape in 2006. When Cursed You, the first player to reach level 99 in construction, held a party to celebrate his new achievement, it created a glitch that allowed certain people to kill anyone even if they were in a safe zone.
The party contained some combat events that caused the glitch, and when players were booted from Cursed You??s home, the servers struggled to handle the load. That released defenseless players into the wild. Once others learned they could kill characters that couldn??t fight back, they slaughtered almost everyone they came across over and over again.
An 'EVE Online' Player Betrayed His Corporation And Stole A Space Station
[ranking: 7]
In the MMO EVE Online, a high-ranking player known as The Judge grew unhappy with his group, the Circle of Two corporation, so he decided to leave and exact revenge. The rival Imperium corporation paid him 300 billion ISK (the in-game currency), and he promptly handed over control of Circle of Two's vast space station to them.
Not only did Circle of Two lose a structure that costs around 250 billion ISK, but the members also lost thousands of ships and items transferred along with the station.
A Father Hired Virtual Assassins To Kill His Son In Online Games
[ranking: 8]
Fearing his son was spending too much time playing online video games, a father in China decided to take matters into his own hands. He hired experienced players to track down his son??s characters in several different games and mercilessly kill them over and over again.
The boy eventually learned what his dad had done when he confronted some of his attackers and demanded to know why they were constantly harassing him.
A 10-Month Infiltration To Assassinate An 'EVE Online' Guild Leader
[ranking: 9]
EVE Online is practically designed for players to carry out long-term plans and feats of espionage. Players run huge in-game corporations and the rules allow for all sorts of foul play.
In 2005, a group known as the Guiding Hand Social Club spent 10 months infiltrating the Ubiqua Seraph corporation at the behest of a client. Spies managed to implant themselves in almost every area of the target, and one member was able to gain the trust of the CEO they had been hired to kill. They killed her, destroyed her prized ship, and stole billions of ISK with a real-world value of around $16,500.
Pets Become Bombs In 'World Of Warcraft'
[ranking: 10]
A World of Warcraft boss became notorious for a particular spell he could cast on characters. Baron Geddon had a buff known as Living Bomb that would turn players and their pets into ticking time bombs.
Some people soon noticed that dismissing a pet would pause the bomb timer but not cancel it. This allowed them to travel to supposedly safe places and then recall their pet. It would then explode in a fiery death, killing dozens or even hundreds of unsuspecting players. The problem became so severe that developers had to change the spell.
An 'Ultima Online' Player Manipulated Players To Death
[ranking: 11]
An Ultima Online human character named Belan described herself as a noble looter. She claimed to never directly kill anyone, but she would loot every dead body she came across.
Turns out she discovered a lot of dead bodies because she had mastery of skills that allowed her to control any wild creature, allowing her to manipulate the deaths of characters in practically any situation. She would then resurrect them and offer to sell them back their own gear for half its worth.
'Second Life' Mogul Bombarded With Floating Penises
[ranking: 12]
Anshe Chung was one of the most well-known avatars in the virtual world of Second Life. She was so successful that her user, Ailin Graef, earned more than $1 million in real money from her virtual persona. This prompted CNET to organize an in-game interview.
But a group of players did their best to disrupt the event.
They were able to access the supposedly secure virtual studio and send dozens of giant floating penises at her and the interviewer for about 10 minutes before the issue was resolved.
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