This week’s Community Spotlight focuses on the thread “The MMO Memories that make you cringe” by Azen77. In the thread, Azen77 polls the community on their worst MMO memories, though he put it in a far more interesting manner than I just did:

“Ever been thinking of going back to some beloved game? Reveling with a buddy over the nostalgia of how awesome it was, and how games aren't like they used to be, when suddenly you remember one of the ACTUAL tasks and are like, "OMG NOOOO!",throw up a little in your mouth, and say screw it because you remember some gameplay mechanic/experience that just turned you off forever?

Thought it would be interesting to see what people absolutely hated/despised about their MMO games to the point it makes your brain scramble to GTFO of your skull before being made to do that again. Here's some of mine off the top of my head.

·      EQ2: Heritage Quests...

·      EQ1: Camping specific species of animal to extinction, or at least what should have been extinction.

·      AC1: The death animation and sound effect followed by the portal...permanaently scarred with both the humour of it and the pain of knowing I had no idea where I died...oh and finding my last taper...

·      WoW: Quest hubs...I swear to god I'm never playing another game where I have to run around mindlessly clicking ! people to then just follow waypoints.

·      Allods: Bag raid...! hubs...

·      LoTR: Killing wolves...in every...freaking...zone...

·      DaoC: c...r...a...f...t...i...n...g.......b...a...r...........”

Read this week's Community Spotlight and share your own cringe worthy MMO memories here.

Froced grouping and corpse retrieval in EQ 1 = ruined me forever,....

I died once in a party wipe way at the bottom of the Froglock? city/caverns This was a bout 12 years ago, then the whole party just ups and quits and leaves me there. I'm naked standing out front asking and asking in global if someone could please help me.

My "hero" will never beg again.

Buying Star Trek Online.

Originally posted by Aramanu2

Buying Star Trek Online.

ROFL, great one....

My first pvp action in Wow only to find that the troll we finally killed just res'd at the local graveyard a short distance away.

When a one group of hibs in DAoC took over our Albion frontier and even with 5 groups we could do nothing about it, because of their expansion skills.

6+ hour AV's in vanilla WoW (oddly enough, I also count those as good memories at times).

The entire AoC launch.  The whole damn thing.

Becoming a "Dread Lord" about 30 minutes into UO with my first character at launch because of laggy combat at a camped spawn point.

Corpse runs in EQ1.

The hacking/afk-macroing/generally crappy Darkfall community.

Hm, when my first MMO guild, folks I really liked, suddenly began to use Teamspeak and chat went all dead, since I am not able to use TS and suddenly I lost contact entirely. It was horrible. I liked those guys and got along very well, but the force of habit was too strong... it was an experience which really scarred me. I got a vivid anti TS feeling ever since.

Also, camping various named boss mobs in EQ2, only to see them snatched away by some assholes. Anyone recalls that named fish in Enchanted Lands?

And the infamous NGE, of course. A mass-trauma!

loved the Lotro wolves quote...so true.

As for me...

I'd say WoW from 40-60.  So utterly crap and grindy that it took me months to do it.

The NGE.

Camp grindng with guildies in EQOA and realizing I had been there for 26 hours!!!

WoW - opposing faction guilds guarding the entrances to specific end-game dungeons on PvP servers in Vanilla WoW. It got so bad at one point, I rage quit the game. That's the only time I've ever rage quit an MMO.

AoC - I had high expectations for this game and launch was one of the worst I've ever seen. Also, I was stupid enough to splurge on the collector's edition before it was released. Never again.

sto.... being told i "just dont get it"

Lol there is only one game exualy and that is defently

Runescape

Everybody played it once. 

It was my worced mistake ever to play that game

im a shamed

2 weeks after launch Vamguard had a double xp weekend, i played 36 hours straight went from lvl 32 to nearly 35.  Game crashed i relogged and had lost all the xp and was back 32 and devs couldnt do anything to help i quit next day.  We are sorry for this inconvenience it is a known issue and there is nothing we can do to give u back that xp and items u had found.

Spending an entire Sunday afternoon standing outside Molten Core in Warcraft trying to get 40 people gathered. We gave up after 4 hours.

Originally posted by doombones

Lol there is only one game exualy and that is defently

Runescape

Everybody played it once. 

It was my worced mistake ever to play that game

im a shamed

 

Lol agreed, same for me.

Falling asleep at my desk grinding light blue mobs in Lineage 2.

Still some of my best experiences in MMO's have come from L2.

I do this constantly. I get all nostalgic and misty eyed over some MMO (at least a dozen and counting), go back to it and realise that I actually hate it.

The lotro comment made me laugh. You could add bears, boars and spiders to the list too.

• Having to level anything in World of Warcraft without the Recruit-A-Friend buffs after doing it WITH them.
• Having 2 World of Warcraft Account hacked in the same day and having to go through the process of getting them back.  It drove me to buy one of those Authenticaters for my accounts.
• Having my first level-capped character on World of Warcraft stolen from me and unrecoverable.
• Laggy Shadowbane sieges.

hehe, anyone remebers  Darkandlight   , the pioneer and the launchdays, and no Ati- graphiccard support ?

:)