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Originally posted by Czzarre

I think anyones whos ever been guilded in WoW has experienced some sort of MMORPG drama. Collectivly, however, I would say the SWG CU/NGE changes would be the greatest,

Torrential

I completely agree with Czzarre SWG/CU has been by far the biggest drama fest since EQ developers left Sony and formed Mythic Ent(Dark Age of Camelot). That runs a close second.

in Eve day without goons/ra/bob drama is lost day indeed

My first share of MMO drama was in Everquest for the ps2...I was the leader of one of the biggest guilds on the server, and after our rise to prominence on the server, two guys decided that I was "power hungry" (as if being a guild leader confers any power) and took about half of the guild with them to start their own, they didn't tell me that they had any issues, they just up and left one day while I was gone.  When I logged on, all i had was a few messages from confused guild members who didn't know what was going on or why some of our guild leaders had left.  See, I was the "guild master" along with these two other guys, and while I was the founder of the guild and the visionary behind all of the guild activities, these guys took care of a lot of the recruiting, so they had guild master privelages.

My second was in the lovely world of SWG, not the CU or NGE though, it was mostly just drama from a guild leader who had decided to do "drills" in case of rebel attacks...he expected us to drop whatever we were doing and come to our bases located on Tatooine...We were the biggest imperial guild on the server and held more bases than any other guild, so we had a lot to protect, but to expect people on Dathomir to drop whatever they were doing for a DRILL was just a little bit ridiculous.  I was happy to send hundreds of thousands of credits to him for new bases and what not, but to waste an hour getting to where I was going, and then going back after finding a good place to farm or whatever I was doing, was complete crap.

My third was in WoW, where my lifelong quest to find a good raiding guild was just...well...completely futile...every guild I joined seemed to have leadership issues...I wasn't a part of the leadership in any of these guilds mind you, I just had a bad habbit of getting into guilds right when they were on the verge of collapse...well eventually I transfered servers and it only got worse from there...Meh, I don't even want to get into how bad that got...but eventually we had a guild master steal half the mats for a sulfuras and a bunch of elementium from us, that was fun.

Not on a MMO but a MUD.

A whole city was being hijacked by ONE thief on her mount before the city gate. No two-bit mouthy prissy city dweller who was equal or higher in combat skill would've went out to kill her (and mount her head on a pike -- a nice perk in the game!). So I asked if anyone was going to get her fat butt from blocking the only entrance/exit, as us lowly characters didn't have flying mounts to bypass the thief. Those who were chitty chatty on the city chat stopped and told me to "shutup". Then proceeded to tell me every excuse known that they were too good to knock out someone who was lower in combat skills than them. This continued for a whole RL day, until a city guard finally got around to killing her off.

Ever since I've been turned off of PvP. When players who could knock out a baddie that was hurting the city itself (these same types with city noble titles they supposely got for city loyalty even), and wouldn't be bothered but chit chat for hours, it was the final straw.

For weeks later the city earned the nickname of COWARD. They'd careless.

Great thread guys

Has been a pretty entertaining read so far.  I haven't been involved in much MMO drama (unfortunately?) so I'll just have to live vicariously through these stories

Originally posted by Nadia

this old everquest essay made its circles

 

Try Being A Guide, You Nutless Assmuncher

web.archive.org/web/20010414021753/tweety.bowlofmice.com/tweety/try_being_a_guide.html

 

Post #12 has the winner by far in terms of ingame story driven drama. I dont even play EVE and i heard about that as well as loved reading about it

Ha, that tweety rant sort of jogged my memory about something.  It's not a big deal but it was kind of funny.  On a blue server in EQ 1 there was a guild, not the top guild on the server but one of the biggest.  They had developed something of a reputation as assholes.  You know, ninja looters, incompetent in groups, rude, frequently using the play nice policy to mess with people and horn in on camps that other people were using, often starting trouble and then calling guides/GMs to settle the whiney disputes that THEY instigated, stuff like that.  I'm sure there were some nice people in that guild but there were enough rotten apples that they got that sort of reputation. 

So then one day someone told me to try something.  He told me to type /who all asshole.  Huh? Ok.  So I did and it brought up a list of everyone in that particular guild who was online.  He he he.  I guess one of the GMs got fed up with all their bullsh-t and set that up to vent a little.  It seemed pretty funny to me at the time because from my personal experience with people from that guild I felt that their crappy reputation was well deserved.  And it couldn't have been an accident of the search funtion looking for the closest match for "asshole" because the guilds name didn't even start with an "A".