Griefer stories.

[Pugnate]

OK let's share some here.

I've actually never played an MMO in my life, but back in the day, I used to be a big Diablo addict. I even missed work once to play Diablo.

So sometimes I'd just get bored with leveling up, and would just do something annoying to relieve the repetition. So what I would do is go to the Battlenet chat rooms and just seek out noobs looking for some high level armor. Typically I'd be of a really high level, and I'd try to find people with very little experience with Diablo at all.

Me: Hey so any of you guys want some high level equipment to help you start?

Poor SOB: Yes, sure!

Me: Well tell you what, I'll create a server and you can fight alongside me. Whatever you find you can keep.

Poor SOB: That sounds great!!

So then we'd start a game, except I'd just jump to the end stage and then send him a town portal.

Me: OK, now enter through the portal please.

Poor SOB: Wow, I've never been here before. This looks really tough. How am I going to do any damage?

Me: Tell you what. Wait here and I'll be back with some equipment.

Now in Diablo, whenever you enter a new portion of a map, you find about 20 monsters to fight. If you don't fight them, they will follow you. So what I would do is just run around the map for ten minutes, having every Tom, Dick, and Hairy monster chase me, to the point where I'd have about 500 monsters behind me.

Then I'd just run into Poor SOB.... and watch him get slaughtered as he'd either type profanities, or be stunned into silence.

Then I'd laugh like a sick bastard.

Sometimes:

Poor SOB: What the heck happened? All my equipment is in my corpse. I've been playing for hours just to get what I had. Sad

Me: I have NO idea WTF it was that happened! All these monsters came out of no where. Give me a few minutes while I clear these bastards out.

Poor SOB: OK, but hurry.

Me: Done! Here, I am opening a new portal.

Poor SOB: OK. Hey this game says you turned hostile towards me. What does that mean?

Me: I think it is just a bug....

I am laughing as I recall all of this. I was about 18 at the time. Tongue

I have a few other stories from Counter-Strike, but maybe later. Share some stories!!!

 

[maxster]

LOL

So evil.

 

[novasatori]

many people in UO

the best one was with a guy some of my friends I played with hated, so I became friends with the enemy, and we started a guild war between him and my friends. I quickly became the enemy player's right hand man, and got access to his tower and items. Well, one night we looted his entire tower, and first thing when he got on I let everyone know where he was and we ganked him and his entire guild when they came to try and help him. It was awesome, way more awesome than I can even describe... It took place over a couple months to set it all up, and it was great to see it executed with such precision.

 

[PingSpike]

I never did to much. Me and my friend started a few "3 player FFA" starcraft matches and shanked the poor sap who joined with a combined rush.

I was playing Meridian 59 one time (just a free demo or whatever) and came upon a group of higher level players that had just killed this big troll thing and were talking about how to divide up the loot. I just grabbed everything off the corpse and made a run for it...low level players were immune to other player attacks or something.

I've gotten into annoying griefing wars in FPS games before, generally RtCW. Usually of TKs with no apologies or something. I had an ongoing one with this douchebag that TKed be because I "stole his kill"? I used to routinely gib his corpse instead of reviving, bleed him when he went into combat and block him in cramped hallways when he went to run for cover. Similar moves were pulled on me. It was really annoying and I wasn't having any fun. I think I just changed my name and stopped reviving him instead of continuing with the war.

 

[Robert Munch]

Originally posted by: novasatori
many people in UO

the best one was with a guy some of my friends I played with hated, so I became friends with the enemy, and we started a guild war between him and my friends. I quickly became the enemy player's right hand man, and got access to his tower and items. Well, one night we looted his entire tower, and first thing when he got on I let everyone know where he was and we ganked him and his entire guild when they came to try and help him. It was awesome, way more awesome than I can even describe... It took place over a couple months to set it all up, and it was great to see it executed with such precision.

UO was griefers haven back in the day 97-99ish. Sending over poison elementals through portals to other fully populated dungeons was a riot. Tried one of the free shards (pre-trammel) from uogamers doesn't feel the same as it used to.

 

[shingletingle]

I used to teamkill like mad when Halo for PC first came out. The online multiplayer really didn't have a way of penalizing someone for teamkilling. There was no kicking off the server or anything. Then other players would teamkill me as revenge, and I'd type comments such as "Dude! WTF!!! What was that for???" Other teammates who hadn't caught on to what I was doing would get mad at the guy teamkilling me and go after him.

Eventually, they patched the game so you couldn't get away with teamkilling (it was becoming a problem). I remember getting bored with the game after that and not playing anymore.

 

[SunnyD]

Oh god, PlanetSide was an AWESOME game for this. Please stand by for edits as I try to find footage...

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

Back in UO. The most pure form of griefing I've ever seen.

Before they put skill locks in and eventually removed the ability to acquire skill by observing others using it, guys would go to the bank and start campfires and everybody would quickly gain 30 skill in camping which, if that person were at the 700 skill point cap, would bring all their other skills down. It was especially heinous because getting those last 2 skill points of the 100 cap for something like swordsmanship was usually days or weeks worth of grinding high level mobs.

 

[Engraver]

I knew the guy who made the first town-kill hack for Diablo. You had to use SoftICE to do it. I believe his handle was sUbzer0.

 

[imported_Imp]

The worst I can remember was when I was 12 in Figter Ace. It was a premium game on MS Zone if anyone remembers (not worth it, I just used trials). Anyways, I sucked bad at the game and got bored a lot so everytime I died, I'd get on the runway and take off. "Luckily", I was never the only one taking off at the same time. Occasionally, I would directly pull infront of other planes or shoot my guns at other people just getting airborne... Bet their flaps and elevators didn't work so well after that.

In Battlefield 1942, I never really initiated griefing, I followed along once another jackass started it. Namely, they'd start blowing up planes on Coral Sea and other aircraft carriers or get you killed by pulling infront of your plane as you lifted off. Needless to say, I started doing it too.

 

[Jeeebus]

sometimes I nef in threads that I don't really have anything to add to...

 

[Oceandevi]

I had a hunter in WoW . I played on a PvE server because thats where my friends were.

Well hunters have pets as you all know. And you can flag yourself for PvP at any time. Your pet will be flagged also.

I was level 54 and I trained a level 9 pet. A little bird fellow. I made the bird sit in the road using the "stay " command. I then flagged myself and hid in the bushes by the road. The road was near a Horde base. Coincidence I swear it. Well a little orc warrior came up and saw my bird and he got real curious. I watched him being so cautious and careful. After a few seconds he got brave and started killing my little bird. I aimed shotted him and he died before he knew I was there.

I laughed my ass off and then dueled his 60 shammy and lost 3 times in a row.

 

[Oceandevi]

Oh and glasstrap in CS:S is a hoot for griefing. Break the glass under someones feet and they fall to their death.

And the snowballs during Xmas in WOW. I used them to knock down our main tank and healer during a raid and almost got kicked from guild. I bought like 3000 of them

 

[LtPage1]

Originally posted by: Pugnate
Tom, Dick, and Hairy monster

This actually made me LOL.


My friend and I used to get on Teamspeak and play Rainbow6 3: Raven Shield online, in a cooperative game. Sometimes we'd kill everyone on our team right at the start, clear out some of the terrorists, and then run around trying to shoot each other while the rest of the people in the game had to watch.
Our favorite was to equip silenced weapons and shoot everyone in the leg when a terrorist was firing at us, so they'd be limping for the whole time. After a couple of rounds, people would start to catch on, though.

 

[Chronoshock]

Early on in Diablo 2, lower resist had an enormous graphic that would fill the screen. I made a necro specifical for the purpose of exploiting this and maxed out LR, skeletons, and skeleton mages. If you had enough fast cast and a high enough level LR, you could lag out the majority of users on bnet. Combined with full skeletons, I could just run around and drop anyone out of the game. Blizzard later made a patch to change the graphic for LR to only display a small sparkle at the target of the cast instead of over area of its effect.
There was also a bug for about a month when you could type a bunch of periods to drop any players from korea. I didn't use the bug too much, but it wasn't necessary, practically 2/3 of the people on bnet were spamming chat with ................ every few seconds.

 

[sandorski]

The best Griefer stories end with the Griefer getting perma-banned.

 

[Drako]

Originally posted by: sandorski
The best Griefer stories end with the Griefer getting perma-banned.

Indeed! Some people just get off on other peoples pain.

 

[Craig234]

Originally posted by: Drako

Originally posted by: sandorski
The best Griefer stories end with the Griefer getting perma-banned.

Indeed! Some people just get off on other peoples pain.

Agreed. I think the OP here is simply a real jerk. I don't like griefers, period. I also feel s bit of pity for them, but I don't like them.

If their activities are really more harmless, more teasing, then that's different. The OP who ruined hours of people's effort and betrayed their trust, is a jerk. Not a 'ha ha' one.

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: Pugnate
OK let's share some here.

I've actually never played an MMO in my life, but back in the day, I used to be a big Diablo addict. I even missed work once to play Diablo.

So sometimes I'd just get bored with leveling up, and would just do something annoying to relieve the repetition. So what I would do is go to the Battlenet chat rooms and just seek out noobs looking for some high level armor. Typically I'd be of a really high level, and I'd try to find people with very little experience with Diablo at all.

Me: Hey so any of you guys want some high level equipment to help you start?

Poor SOB: Yes, sure!

Me: Well tell you what, I'll create a server and you can fight alongside me. Whatever you find you can keep.

Poor SOB: That sounds great!!

So then we'd start a game, except I'd just jump to the end stage and then send him a town portal.

Me: OK, now enter through the portal please.

Poor SOB: Wow, I've never been here before. This looks really tough. How am I going to do any damage?

Me: Tell you what. Wait here and I'll be back with some equipment.

Now in Diablo, whenever you enter a new portion of a map, you find about 20 monsters to fight. If you don't fight them, they will follow you. So what I would do is just run around the map for ten minutes, having every Tom, Dick, and Hairy monster chase me, to the point where I'd have about 500 monsters behind me.

Then I'd just run into Poor SOB.... and watch him get slaughtered as he'd either type profanities, or be stunned into silence.

Then I'd laugh like a sick bastard.

Sometimes:

Poor SOB: What the heck happened? All my equipment is in my corpse. I've been playing for hours just to get what I had. Sad

Me: I have NO idea WTF it was that happened! All these monsters came out of no where. Give me a few minutes while I clear these bastards out.

Poor SOB: OK, but hurry.

Me: Done! Here, I am opening a new portal.

Poor SOB: OK. Hey this game says you turned hostile towards me. What does that mean?

Me: I think it is just a bug....

I am laughing as I recall all of this. I was about 18 at the time. Tongue

I have a few other stories from Counter-Strike, but maybe later. Share some stories!!!

and you are somehow proud of this?


you were 18 ?
:Q

 

[Chosonman]

Diablo was fun, I used to hunt lvl 80+ levelers in Act 4 before the expansion and before they nerfed the death penalty for being killed by another player (Loss of XP). I would hop around looking for rooms looking for a high level character to kill and get his gold. I used to make 100,000 gold per kill in some cases and gamble them for Soj's at the NPC in Act II. I once killed a lvl 96 Zon (when lvl 90+ was almost impossible to get before then expansion he was ranked top 10 in the world). The guy PM's me for weeks asking me "Why... why... "

 

[Chosonman]

And in SWG (Star Wars Galaxies) I used to camp the Imperial Base on Kauri server on Naboo and kill Rebels who where hunting for Holo Cubes before they nerfed the game. I would sell my services to other rebels who would pay me 100,000 credits to kill other rebels hunting for cubes there so they could hunt by themselves. Occasionally they would give me a cube they found and I could sell it for 3mil credits in town. That was fun too... hehe

 

[Ramma2]

Best I can remember is PvP in EQ, had a mid level rogue and would sneak/hide in the newbie areas and 1 shot backstab kill noobs while they were resting. This was before they had a PvP level range implemented. Terribly mean and yet, so much fun.

 

[KMFJD]

http://i269.photobucket.com/al...ar19/trash_collage.jpg
Not mine but a guildy's from DAOC on Mordred (FFA PvP)

 

[KeithTalent]

Originally posted by: shingletingle
I used to teamkill like mad when Halo for PC first came out. The online multiplayer really didn't have a way of penalizing someone for teamkilling. There was no kicking off the server or anything. Then other players would teamkill me as revenge, and I'd type comments such as "Dude! WTF!!! What was that for???" Other teammates who hadn't caught on to what I was doing would get mad at the guy teamkilling me and go after him.

Eventually, they patched the game so you couldn't get away with teamkilling (it was becoming a problem). I remember getting bored with the game after that and not playing anymore.

I remember you, jerk. :|

Seriously though, that game was ludicrous for TKing in the beginning. There was one guy that would just go around from server to server TKing people like crazy. It typically ended with everyone just lquitting the server. Everyone knew him, but I can't recall his name now unfortunately.

KT

 

[Anubis]

people who go out of their way to ruin someone elses gameplay expirence should be removed from the planet, the OP included