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

[Adultism]

Too much to name, I troll a lot in game but very passively. I never get angry or loud I just focus on something they dislike (for instance when people say stop talking to me I'll keep talking to them like they are my friend and they get pissed) One time I got this girl to give me her nudes and I posted them on a forum, but I was younger, stupid, and a horrible person back then)

 

[Fifty-One]

Not really horrible, but back in they day when I played World of Warcraft my guild finally had Onyxia on farm status. After I few weeks of farming I had all my gear and was extremely bored with the whole thing. We killed Onyxia and two members of the guild started fighting over one of the drops. Annoyed, I sprinted through the whelp caverns, vanished and snuck out of the instance as all hell broke loose.

 

[michael87cn]

I'm the same way in RL that I am in game. A normal person.

I am who I am - I don't pretend to be 'normal' or 'nice' IRL. So I don't go crazy and 'let loose' online, because I have no reason to.

 

[The Enquirer]

I occasionally camp people in WoW be they high lvl or low lvl until they log off or call for help. If you get so mad you feel the need to create a new character as my faction just to flame me I get even more pleasure from it lol. I'm a troll in WoW :/

I do something similar in Dc Universe Online. In open world pvp a lot of time high level players will camp the areas where low level quests are and grief players there. A lot of time I see myself as a bit of a guardian of those areas. My friend and I made characters to work in tandem with one another. Certain powers interact with one another (ie if someone is electrocuted and you use another power on them it will light them on fire) so we set up our characters to work really well together. Our main thing is turning invisible and the gadgets power set tree has powers that retain stealth. So we will just walk along planting mines right in people's paths or stunning them. When we were lower leveled and would encounter a higher level trying to protect someone of our own level (we don't pick on people much lower than us unless it is a large group) we would quickly kill the player our own level and then stealth, when the higher level came over and kept trying to revive the player we would keep using our attacks that retain stealth to stop him from reviving the downed player. It is incredibly irritating as we would sometimes let them hit us a couple times making it very obvious they would beat the crap out of both of us but then used a damage immunity power and would simply turn invisible again, so they knew they could beat us up and save his teammate but could not.

As per something that is evil, playing Rainbow Six Vegas a while ago I made a kid cry. The thing I like about that game is that there is a fairly difficult learning curve, but more so you actually need to be patient and think things out and know the other team and their play style so it pushes the Call of Duty crowd away, mainly the little kids. But I digress. The little prick kept being very annoying over the mic (to the point where his own team was asking me to kick him. I changed the game to free for all as you can hear everyone's mic in that game mode. This kid, who by no means was close to good (using assault rifles for close range, trying to quick scope, spraying and praying. Things that work only by luck in that game most of the time) continued to trash talk going on and on about how good he was at call of duty. Back when I used to play I was either killing you with a submachine gun or a sniper rifle (and good snipers in that game were the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow (hard to find and nearly non-existent) so I had been sniping in that case. He places a breaching charge on a door, and it blows and killing the two people who were shooting it out behind the door. The thing is, he didn't blow up the breaching charge. From across the map, I shot the very small charge with a sniper rifle and took the kills that a split second later would have been his. Then shot him and the match was over. He started crying about how I was a noob and he was better though the score begged to differ. At that point almost everyone in unison told him to gtfo. T'was my proudest moment in that game.

 

[Someone Depressing]

I'm very respectful to people online... usually. I even have trouble talking online, just like real-life. If somebody sends me a friend request, I'll accept it out of guilt or not to dissapoint them, ect.

But really, the worst thing I've ever done is in Minecraft, after he robbed my house, I filled some guy's house with obsidian, stole all of his pickaxes, rounded up all of his animals and books, and burned them all. I then just kept throwing splash potions of slowness at him as he was trying to come at me with a sword. It was amazing. Stupid griefer.

It was hilarious.

For an MMORPG, Runescape. I'd generally either annoy or confuse people why my sheer strangeness. This actually stems from my real personality, which is very different from the personality I try to show whenever I'm online. In reality, I'm a very naive and sheltered person, and I try to keep the two personalities apart.

The fact that I got an entire guild of about ~90 people pissed probably tells you a lot about me, simply shows you a lot about me. I didn't even do it on purpose, it just happened. Somehow.
The only time I did it on purpose was following people; y'see, Runescape has a "follow" button, it means that you can basically join the loosely termed "party" of that player. In other words, conga line. I'd follow new players, and when they were in fights and dying, I'd just sit back and watch. The things that I were called were hilarious.

 

[Echopunk]

First off, I have to qualify. I don't usually play games online. That said, one of my friends got me started on Black Ops 2 multiplayer hardcore team deathmatch. We usually end up playing a few (thirty) rounds whenever we hang out at his house. I've been the victim of lag switching and hosting tricks, and also the victim of just plain not being as good at video games as I used to be when I played them all the time.

During this one match, I kept killing this poor guy over and over. I'm anti-camp and generally anti-bullshit when I play, so I was doing this hit and move routine. It seemed like I was *right there* every time he respawned. I think I earned my whole score streak off him. I went to stalk a different area of the map and let my hunter killer fly. It killed the same guy, and it was the last kill of the match. That guy must have thought I was a complete dick.

 

[MaxwellMurder]

I'm one of those people that find the asshole with a short fuse and a mic and poke at him the entire game as he swears at me and I laugh at it. I jump in front of his scope, give away his position, intentionally feed....... whatever. Also sometimes if I'm feeling especially brutal i join ever lobby he is in just to piss them off further.

 

[Guitarmasterx7]

I've got two that come across as memorable to me.

1: I played a league of legends game a few days ago with a couple friends. We were in a game with a really toxic Zed who was just miserable to deal with. (every time anyone including himself would die it was "WOWOWOW WTF REPORT FEED OMFG UNINSTALL CANT CARRY THESE NOBS ILL AFK IF I DONT GET A GANK") So we turn the game around, ace their team, and EVERYBODY dies but Zed. As he was breaking the enemy nexus to win the game, we surrendered. He didnt say anything in the postgame chat, he just left. I'd like to think he threw his laptop across the room or something.

2: In halo 3, me and a friend of mine made a map called MLG Guardian 7.7 (or whatever the guardian map variant was called at that time.) We would go into a game, suck horribly, talk shit to our teammates all game, and then challenge our newfound pissed off friends to a 2v2. They would almost always agree, since at this point we were relatively high ranked and everyone was a tryhard.

MLG Guardian was just not a map anyone could win on without knowing about it. The gametype was such that if you killed yourself, it put you 25 points down, and everybody spawned literally on the very edge where you would slide off if you didnt jump backwards immediately. Without fail, the other team would end up at least 50 points behind from the start. Everybody spawned with plasma pistols, and all the resources were hidden. Guardian has a lot of vines and walls you can clip weapons through that make them pretty much invisible. So they would be running around trying to find anything they could use, meanwhile we were coming at them with rocket launchers and fuel rod canons. Some of the reactions were priceless.

 

[Moktor]

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.

How about a high level druid dropping damage shields on low level mobs? Mod rods? The list is endless. EQ was so much fun...

 

[Auron225]

This'll sounds cute to lots of other things here;

My brother used to play Halo 2 online quite a lot, along with a friend of his that lived on our street. My bro wasn't bad but his friend was just better - I had only played it a couple of times so I was pretty awful. Anyways - they were playing 1-1 and my brother was winning for once. So we decided to troll him by turning on the headset and having me talking to him to him as if I was the one playing him and kicking his ass.

It was wondrously hilarious listening to his ego shatter as this kid who's almost never played this game before was destroying him

 

[Lightknight]

In WoW, there was a higher level character competing with me for mining resources. They were of an opposing faction and this was saronite ore in a pvp zone (saronite was the best at that time). But he thought him being a higher level meant that he could easily defeat me since we were the same class. But he attacked me twice and lost. He managed to grab an ore or two from me through trickery (attacking me to draw me away from the ore and then running from me to arrive at the ore with just enough time to get one) and so I proceeded to hunt him over and over again any time he was there. This was over several weeks or even months and I only got higher in level and stronger so it just became simpler. I was great at harvesting ore due to the way I'd augmented my character and so I was getting very wealthy and that money buys good gear in addition to my fruitful raids. I think by about the time I was the same level as him he finally gave up. I always knew he was there by how quickly ore was respawning so he didn't have a chance to do it secretly. When I was lower level I'd usually have just enough time to use a special skill of mine to kill him (something that usually had a long respawn time but I'd leveled down) and so he just couldn't compete and wasn't smart enough to do the same himself.

I don't feel bad for it necessarily, he usually attacked me first as if he'd forgotten me and sometimes got me but quite rarely as his first sneak attack always met me with all of my special attacks ready to go. But from then on he was my unrelenting target until he gave up and left for the day, mostly empty handed because my path harvest all the ore in that region, getting me back to the start just as they respawn. I guess you can say it was somewhat provoked but it's easily the worst thing I've done because I'm not generally a jerk.

 

[Edl01]

If anyones played the Starcraft II custom game mafia then you will understand me here. You have to be a horrible person in that game as the mafia, it involves lying to everyone around you and convincing the 12 other players you are on there side and trying to help them, while by night you kill them all. I have told some terrible lies in that game, but that's the point of it I guess

 

[tangoprime]

I play Eve Online. My Inbox is filled to the brim with delicious, delicious hate mail. That is all.

 

[Adept Mechanicus]

Playing on the same side as my brother in Battlefield 1942. Somehow, I managed to stumble into a position of overwhelming tactical superiority. Rather than capturing the final point and letting him lose with dignity, I kept stealing aircraft and flying them straight into him. The funny thing was, I was the US and he was Japan. The irony was not lost on me.

 

[Gormech]

There was this old game called Holy beast online with a really hard grind. I'd play a theif character and go around aggroing mobs before leading them to people who were trying to level up. When I got enough chasing me, I'd use a vanish skill and the mobs would aggro to the other player and usually land a kill. This was evil in that at just about anything past level 40, you had to grind for over 2 hours for 10% to the next level and if you died, you lost 10% of whatever the exp needed to get to the next level was.

There was also this OP illusionist class that could stack sleep spells in pvp areas. Keep higher leveled character frozen in one spot for hours.

 

[Blitsie]

One of my favorite past times in command and conquer, especially against turtle players who don't focus on building units at first, is to build a few engineers as quickly as possible and send them to the opposing team's base, where I take over only the main base building and sell it. That initial confusion, realization and slow build up to seething anger that results from it gets me every time.

 

[Leemaster777]

I don't actively grief anyone... but recently in Pokemon, I've been using a strategy that I'm sure has been pissing people off.

Basically, it involves Klefki. On the first turn, I use Thunder Wave. Second turn, I use Swagger. With Parahax, I usually make it to the third turn, where I set up a Substitute. From behind the sub, I can safely keep the confusion up. And whenever I get a free turn, I use Foul Play, which is boosted by Swagger.

Unless you're carrying a ground/Electric Pokemon, or get lucky, it's actually really hard to bring this bastard down when he gets going. I've swept teams of Pokemon with Klefki alone.

 

[Ninjat_126]

Everquest, Dark Souls, Demon's Souls.

Dark Souls Humanity Drain and Curse on an AFKer

Dark Souls, where being awful is a part of the game.

I spent a whole 3 hours invading Anor Londo as a low level siver knight.
You all know that infamous part in Anor EVERYONE on the Escapist talks about right?
Yes, I'm talking about the legendary Anor Londo rafters with the 2 silver knight archers.
I became the 3rd. For 3 hours.
Awful yes, but the hate mail was glorious. Definitely going to Undead hell though... :3

I never did those ones, but I have invaded Duke's Archives as a Dickmoon Blade. Activate the siren in the prison, wake up the Moonlight Butterflies in the Crystal Caves. The guilty pay the price.

-A lot of interesting yet somewhat technical League of Legends stuff.-

I love playing Morgana in mid, or Vladimir or Mundo in top. Specifically, Vladmir isn't a particularly strong top-laner, but he's (in my opinion) the best farmer in the game. I let my enemy laner push me to tower, then simply last-hit minions while being completely safe, with a little Q harass to keep them away from experience. Once they give up and let me push out, I'm a high enough level that if their jungler comes to gank, I can use my W ability to reposition, heal myself via my Q ability, and continue farming without giving a single fuck. In theory.

Aggroing Fleshpounds in Killing Floor

Killing Floor needs a surprising amount of teamwork. I've been killed by idiots before unintentionally doing the same thing you did.

 

[Raddra]

Hmm.. back in Everquest I mained a cleric and eventually I had an alt Necro.

back at that time groups were the way the game was played to level (RIP good MMO's) and for my necro's level range paludal caverns was THE place to be from about 18-28. I was a Necro around early to mid 20's and we had a camp (some here may not recognize the term) and everything was going smoothly. Then another group came and just stole half our camp, competitively pulling our mobs (big nono from the games etiquette) and no matter how we reasoned or tried they wouldn't stop and wait their turn for a camp spot as we had done. So I got tired of this and said to my group 'wait here, i'll deal with this' and relogged as my cleric.

Ran my cleric over and my cleric was at the end game level so the zone was trivial to me. I went over to the group and started healing and buffing the mobs they were pulling as my group started laughing (they later patched out the ability to heal/buff mobs). Obviously they couldn't beat a mob that was being healed by an end game cleric so they all got wiped. Came back, took their corpses and I offered them raises if they left and waited their turn for a camp, to which they agreed.

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While typing that I remembered another story. I was a DM on an NWN server and there were these two new players breaing the rules and killing low level NPC's and animals, which was against the rules (since we wanted that kinda thing to have consequences and you needed a DM to do so) so I got this tell from a player letting me know and relogged as DM. They were in a field killing a farmers cows. I could have done this properly and brought in some guards, but something about their group chat was annoying me.. maybe the poor spelling or txtspeak. So I instead went to the end of the field and set a cows stats to like, 80 str, dex and con and waited. They carried on killing cows and got to COWZILLA. They hit it with a sword and this cow just turned round and jumped on them, killing them both in one attack apiece. They just lie there then one goes 'WTF?'. That made my day.

 

[Cruickshank]

back when i used to play wow, a friend of mine who is obsessed with cats played the song 'druid kitty meow' enough times the lyrics got stuck in my head and gave me the most godawful evil idea; i was playing as a worgen druid and while in cat form i stealthed into the horde main city and started using the chat to spam players around me with those damn lyrics. i did this for a few minutes before watching the confused and annoyed horde players run around got boring. if it wasnt for one high level player being in the area at the time i wouldve racked up a nice little kill streak of noob players. probably the most dickish thing ive done online, but watching the rage from players in the area chat made the effort of getting into that damn city so worth it.