The most awful thing you've ever actually done to someone during online play

[Dethenger]

I don't even kill NPCs in Bethesda games, never mind actually wanting to grief real people.

The worst thing I ever did to anybody is suddenly having to leave, particularly in a team environment. Exiting a Halo match, turning off my console in the middle of Dark Souls co-op, etc., because something came up.

 

[Eve Charm]

eh probably being a dick but I've had way to much fun preventing people from getting easy wins on banjo kazooie nuts and bolts online. Months ago and still probably now the only reason people would go on was to usually grind out the MP achievements and being someone that was Really damn good and I'll still claim to have some of the best made things for the online events tried and tested ;p they'd never have an chance.

 

[The White Hunter]

In Bad Company 2 I developed an obsession with stabbing UAv pilots in Rush. So say I was on the last objective defending on arica harbour, and some guy shoots me with the UAV from about 4 bases ago? Yeah I'd run the 5k just to stab him in the back, then take his sniper kit (they were ALWAYS snipers) and wait for him to hop on the new one before popping a well placed shot in his skull.

So many hateful PM's

 

[Remus]

Does dropping 50000 coppers on a new EQ player count? That was always my favorite deterrent for beggars. First they would beg for money for an hour. The next hour they would be begging people to help them carry it to the bank. Ahhh there were so many ways to grief noobs in those days. Equipping lv 2 skeletons with combine weapons was also endlessly entertaining.

 

[oversoon]

In Fight Night Champion once you have someone a certain level of stunned, any punch but a jab will take them down. Back when I played it a lot, several times I would get opponents to that point and then jab them round after round, never knocking them out but stunning them constantly. This doesn't sound that bad, but the only option for the opponent is deal with it or quit and be penalized. Comeback is not a possibility at the point I'm talking about.

... And I am pretty damn vindictive when people randomly kill me on GTA while I'm clearly trying to accomplish something. I don't go after folks for no reason, but I have been known to chase them down in a jet repeatedly after getting killed at particularly inconvenient times.

 

[Alpha Maeko]

Back when I was playing counter strike, there was a short while during boredom that I decided to take the bomb somewhere impossible to pick up without getting shot, and then get myself killed.

Spectating my team trying to get back to the bomb was... deviously rewarding.

 

[Miyenne]

If making a kid cry in front of like 3 of his friends counts I have that too, A few years ago me and my buddy were playing Halo 3 I think it was. Was a kid with the gamer tag PlaysLikeAChamp was making fun of my tag Issurru and my buddies was Dommius, saying that they were stupid and shit like that, just being a typical 12 year old douche. I made sure to kill him over 20 times in a single match Then berated him in chat afterwards. He left crying, it was great

You're so mean!

... I'm so glad I have you as my tank. <3 Assholes unite in FFXIV! Speaking of, Titan Pugs bring out the worst in people. Whew. Three tries and I was done, I couldn't even out-asshole those people if I tried.

 

[leviticusd]

Star Wars Galaxies. My guild leader and I were bored and were leveling up rebel alts in space (we were an imperial guild) that we had on a second account. We were picked up by some random rebels to be the turret gunners on their Millennium Falcon style ship. We went out into a quiet spot in a PvP/PvE area and were wracking up kills but getting bored. We told the pilots we were going /afk for a sec and would be right back.

We both then dual logged into our main Imperial accounts and went into deep space and found the vessel. We new they couldn't shoot back because we were /afk in the turrets, so we took a long time toying with them. Taking potshots and talking trash. The whole time they were sending frantic tells to our other account to get back here and fight.

Eventually we blew up the ship, they ported back to the planet and we came back from /afk to ask what happened. They were pretty pissed at us and we had a good chuckle.

Not completely evil, but it made for a good afternoon laugh in guild chat.

 

[vashthblackseed]

About a month ago I invited some friends to come join me on a minecraft server were I was OP. Took them to one of the sealed off area under construction to help finish of an overly elaborate dungeon. Go afk to take a leak and grab some food. Get back to find they were killed a dozen times and then banned w/o a chance to explain why they were there.

SOOooo... I made a countdown clock (was suppose to go off a week later but I screwed something up and it only waited 4 days) to cause a command block to infinitely teleport every player to 0,0,0. After 5 days, the server owner finally reset to a previous save file... only for my countdown clock to be on day 3. Needless to say it started all over. Apparently the owner didn't want to lose anything he didn't have to, so he kept jumping back only a couple of saves each time, but never far enough to before the clock was turned on. Since yesterday, the server has been shut down and the owner has posted on his site that he's do with minecraft for now.

 

[Grottnikk]

I was playing a game of Quake 2 "tag" mod and hid in an almost inaccessible place for almost 20 minutes while people nearly shit themselves in anger trying to find me. When they finally did find me, they still couldn't kill me for about another 5 minutes because getting to the place was so difficult that I could kill them before they did much damage to me.

 

[Klumpfot]

This wasn't me, but my friend who I played WoW with for years tells me he was in a pug for Underbog back when Burning Crusade was relevant, and they had a paladin tank, I believe, who he says was just absolutely dismal. Could not hold aggro, keyboard turning, slower than molasses, just abysmal playing.

So, fed up with having this guy make his run take hours, at the end of the run my friend decides to go to town on him because his mood had soured, barraging him with an onslaught of insults, ranging from, "You are the worst fucking paladin I have ever seen in my entire life," to "You should literally delete the character, because it is so worthless." Having vented, he decided to friend the guy's character later to apologize that he lost his cool.

"THIS CHARACTER DOES NOT EXIST."

Poor bastard deleted his character because of my friend.

Reading this made me really sad. It reminded me of something though.

OT: I played Tibia quite a bit back in the day. This is a game that has considerably fewer meta-game restrictions than many MMOs (or at least it did). You could, for instance, kill someone and take their equipment. I never PK'ed, but being a character of respectable level in a respectable guild, I found it fun to chase low-levels and make outrageous demands. Never with actual malicious intent, though.

Anyway, I once ran up to someone and yelled something like "WHAT IS THE AIR-SPEED VELOCITY OF AN UNLADEN SWALLOW? ANSWER!" He froze in place, stammered apologies in broken English and logged out immediately after the combat-induced logout block lifted. I added him to my friend list to apologize later and give him a gift of some sort.

After a few days, I returned to my in-game house and found a present box containing cookies, a flower, some money and a letter of apology. The guy had made a new character, leveled him up and put the present in my house so I wouldn't be angry at him anymore. I felt like an utter asshole, but I did give him some stuff that was fairly neat for his level to make up for the trouble (after explaining that I had been joking).

Sorry for the rambling!

 

[DementedSheep]

I?m fairly laid back about multiplayer and generally don?t find it that fun to piss off random strangers so don't do much greifing to people I don't know.

However I was bored trying out APB once and so blew up a few peoples cars while they were robbing stores so they lost some loot and drove into people in attempt to flip them though everyone dose that and if they looked like they were on a mission I left them alone.

I have repeatedly stalked and killed the same person because they were whiny and always spawned in the same area.

In Guild Wars 2 me and some others lead mobs to my guild leader while he was afk to get him killed repeatedly until all his armor broke.

I also intentionally created a portal that was angled so anyone who used it would fall of a cliff. I don't know why people see a mez portal and automatically use it without knowing where it goes.

In Guild Wars 1 when I was healer I left and assassin sitting there unrezed for most of the mission because they were repeatedly running and teleporting headfirst into shit, agroing everything and dying in 2 seconds while screaming at me for not healing him when he was teleporting out of range of my heals and made of paper. He was wanker though and no one else in the team wanted him rezed.

 

[Frankster]

Heh I have to think hard to come up of a time I deliberately intended to cause mischief/rage in others, heck even when people grief me I don't usually respond in any way, just am confused or that someone is randomly mean to me. I don't see the point in getting mad at someone who isn't physically there so just try to be philosophical about the whole thing.

I guess I can be bitchy during moba games but that's usually self defence and experience taught me if you don't quieten down the person raging at you, they will do it the whole game and get the team to start believing it too.

Oh wait! Yes I have trolled! Kinda. In league of legends when I play Taric I spam "gems are simply outrageous" over and over and over again non stop till end of match with pauses only for /laugh and /dance. Some peeps like it, others have apparently reported me for it. They just don't understand my inner beauty.

"Hey guys. My friend says that WoW wasn't the first MMO. But clearly it was. What can I say to him to prove him wrong?"

I stole this accordeon from a blind monkey, but you sir, disgust even me!

Btw sooo glad i'm not an mmo player, a lot of these stories are to me as I have a feeling I'd probably be a regular victim with my online naivete.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

I almost never do cheapshots or use OP combos in online play, i just prefer to have fun and the other team to have fun too;


HOWEVER

if you're a little cocknugget who tries to lord over everyone and constantly flames/talks shit during the match when you use some cheap/OP combo, then I tend to make it my sole mission to annoy you the rest of the match.

Case in point:

I'll figure out what combo you're using, find an equally annoying combo, then just camp corners that you love to troll around and continue to kill you and only you and talk shit the entire time while doing it. This tends to happen until the person rage quits or something, then I stop and leave.

That usually happens once a year, on average, and i honestly can't think of a better feeling then completely ruining a fuckhead like thats day. It's awful, but oh so satisfying to cuntpunt all fuckers who are like that.

 

[Kungfu_Teddybear]

Back when I played Halo: Reach some annoying kid messaged me calling me a noob because I was wearing the default helmet (I liked it, so I used it) so throughout the rest of the game I deliberately targeted him, and only him, right up until the end. Must have killed him like 11 times in a row (also may have teabagged his corpse a couple of times). Judging by the threats on me and my family after the game, he was less than pleased.

 

[FPLOON]

Well, during an online team match in GOW:A, I purposefully had my mic off while my entire team had mics on... and then I did better at them at Capture The Flag because all I did was go back and forth picking up flags left and right without even attacking the other team, which is what they had planned to do during the match...

In other words... I am a dick to other dicks online, which is why I don't play online anymore...

 

[CaptainMidlands]

Many moons ago when i played a lot of Eve online, i joined up with a small combat corp part of a larger overall miner alliance. We would run protection for there mining ops (even the high sec ones) and overall it was boring, so we made our fun flipping others cans and making a pain of ourselves.

This all changed when a new player joined one of the miner corps, they were a 4 year vet and had an alt in one of the big Alliances (Triple A). They would be a dick and push there weight around and if you disagreed they would use there main account to threaten you (even warping in a small battleship group via there main to destroy 5 miners who had dared to not meet the order to make them a new battleship), still she showed us combat guys some respect especially me and another guy because we knew our stuff despite being "young bloods" compared to her account

So me and the other guy spent 6 months working on them, befriending them, being nice to them until the point they brought out one of there alt's biggest ships (a Navy Megathron) and told us how they had just used there main to buy some of the most expensive implants in the game, overall they were now flying around in about a 1bil isk of ship (Named mods) plus about 500mil of implants. They thought they were safe in high sec with us, they trusted us and were happy to fly with us.

Then i locked her down and my friend proceeded to blow her up, it was during her shield she thought we were joking then when it hit Armour she knew it was serious. She begged me on mumble to help her and for him to stop, yet i could do nothing in my interceptor but watch and keep her scrammed down while taking out drones. She had a chance don't get me wrong but she was still a mining alt in a combat ship, at hull we kept it up and i got ready then pop, she was in her pod

She thought she had escaped till i locked and scrammed her using my interceptor and she sat there in space helpless crying on mumble calling us every name under the sun. We made her log on her main and pay us each 400mil, then we made her sit there as my friend brought in his hauler alt and took all her stuff from the wreck. All the time she was on mumble begging us to let her leave with her pod, she even offered to meet us and do the business. Meanwhile the Alliance mumble was silent, no one dared say anything because our corp backed us all the way and were ready to jump if needed (our CEO thought it was the greatest thing ever).

Then we got bored and boom, she was a corpse. We took her frozen corpse and left, sold her stuff and split the cost. She left mumble and sent us both a message swearing revenge, her main would have AAA wardec us and we would be sorry.

3 Months later we were both in a small alliance tied to Triple AAA helping to defend there space and taking part in a war against Goon and she never logged on again and even now i still don't feel sorry for doing it

 

[RedDeadFred]

One of my more jerkish moments came while playing Prop Hunt in TF2. I was a prop TV and it was clear that the enemies were noobs in that they could barely aim and could easily be fooled. I basically spent the match just stalking one of the pyros while occasionally jumping all around him in erratic ways. I like to think that for him, it was like being followed by a fly that you just couldn't shoe away.

 

[Nosirrah]

once in gta online me and a friend were at the helicopter place near the airport where we saw the most pimped out car we had ever seen, with chrome plates and everything. after attempting to steal it we decided to steal a nearby truck and use it to ram the car into the river. just as we were about to finish it the guy came plummeting out of a helicopter to stop us and my friend kept him busy while i finished off his car. seeing the angry messages from him after destroying his "1.5 million" car kept us laughing for a while.