I don't know if it would qualify as being mean, but I founded this guild in SWG and...its been awhile but for some reason we had to have one of our officers put the guild hall in his name instead of me doing it.  It probably had something to do with land slots:  all mine were used up between having a crafting alt and being a packrat.

  Anyway, when we built the guild hall and registered the clan name, everyone was like, what the fuck?  He spelled the name of our clan wrong, hahaha.  Turns out the guy had dyslexia.  And apparently there was a timer on changing the name of your clan.  So for awhile, maybe a week can't remember, people kept coming up to us to let us know our clan name was spelled wrong.  Ah man, I was pissed, haha.  Funny as hell now that I think about it though. 

Is it mean to leave the game and not say goodbye to people on your friends list because you don't want the emotional burden of them crying? That's what they did in wow, it was horrible. Then people were saying - you'll be back lol  Oh how wrong they were. That's about the meanest I can think of because I do it now when I leave games - just vanish to avoid the dee-raa-ma. I'm no gangster it seems but I'll still sing the songs, sometimes.

Thread was a letdown read so far - where are all the ppl that cheat/dupe/sell their friends account to a goldseller... oh yeah... they are busy scamming ppl not posting on forums :P

Originally posted by Kenze

I cybered a few times with this guy in Everquest years ago and he went all stalkerish on me in game. I ended up deleting that character and starting over however he started pestering my guild mates about where i was, what happened to me etc.. i got tired of it so I ended up getting a friend in game to send him a tell and tell the guy that I had died IRL... yeah I know.. :(

Holy shit.

1: My guild in SWG made a ticket requesting help to fix a stuck statue at our city. The CSR (Customer service rep) Came a couple hours later, and the leader city warned him which flagged him for PVP if he didn't leave the city within a short period of time.

He ended up being attackable and we griefed him and danced on his corpse. Needless to say we all got banned, but it was fun.

2: In Planetside, my friends outfit was doing mock gen drops/holds. I was on the opposite faction and CR5. I told my friend that I was on the way to the base they were practicing at. They were about to leave so I had my friend ask them to do another run because he felt they needed more training.

They did this and I showed up in my cloaker, set my Orbital strike right above their galaxy. When they all loaded in I had already pressed the button and it was counting down. As it was going off I ran up to my friends computer and listened to all the members in TS screaming and yelling BAIL BAIL OH GOD BAIL as all but one of them blew up in a glorious fireball.

This,

Hi my name is, um..... Bob... yeah, Bob.

Hi, my name is Bob, and I'm a bank ninja.  I've made nearly a hobby out of it.  Find a guild that's a little loose in the first place, big enough to have some assets but thin enough on top to be looking for constructive help, work your way up over a month or two, gain some trust, and then cash in at 5 AM on a Tuesday.  No telling how much money I've made.  Got a bunch of mules, and even mules on my accomplices' accounts, for the sole purpose of pocket space for guild vault proceeds.

To be fair, though, I don't just rob guilds for the sake of robbing.  I choose targets that have fundamental problems, and it started out over very legitimate grievances with leadership of the first couple guilds (first one decided a couple months after I merged a guild of about 60-80 people into it to move all its leadership into a major raiding guild, leaving the low-levels and new members adrift on empty promises--couldn't stop them from looting the guild of members, but I stopped them from looting it of stuff; second one had its leadership change servers).  The later ones though--really, there's a sucker born every minute.  If you're going to let some stranger have full access to your vault, you deserve to be robbed blind.  And if you don't know my home phone number, I'm a stranger.

The absolutely most evil thing, though, would have to be deliberately robbing a corp leader of his entire membership body through a little misdirection and propaganda.  After all, it was their choice to mutiny, not mine.  Anyway, he quit playing... pity.

Mind controlling enemy players and making them swan dive into the lava. OR....

Playing a female woodelf Ranger in EQ named Piritien Pynk that wore hot pink armor...and having a Bard dude hang on me constantly. He thought I was a girl simply because I was playing a female character and flirted with me. The guy gave me stuff constantly...so I went with it. Was kind of sad...yet funny when I told him I was a guy. OR....

Not necessarily mean...maybe messed up and morbidly funny....running a lvl 1 Human Priest named Peteophile around Stormwind in WoW in his undies  chasing after  the little NPC children. I was bored after a month...gimme a break.

It was kinda fun in GW2 to watch someone die, and then take their monster kill.

Then I'd bend down and start rez'ing them.  Just when the rez was almost complete, I'd stop it, and wander off leaving them still lying there.

Originally posted by Vannor
Probably train pulling in EQ on purpose. Face the facts.. without people like me it would have been a less dynamic experience!

Agree! It was more fun to me to avoid such trains successfully than when I died to them. Especially avoiding them in restricted space places.

Back in EQ there were so many ways to do mean things.

Money had weight. You could convert platinum into a ton of copper pieces. Hop on your mount so that it didn't weigh you down, then go give it to a begger. The begger could not move and if they did move, it was very slowly. And if they hit even a slight drop in terrain, they died from falling damage.

You would go get higher level weapons and give them to low level orcs in the noobie area. The orcs would actually equip the weapons. Then watch low level characters get one shotted.

There was a chest piece you could get in later levels that you could use to give to low level players. It really was a decent piece of twink gear but it had something like -50 or someting hitpoints. You give that to an orc. A new character kills and loots the chest piece. If they equipped it, they would die because new characters didnt have that many hit points. The best part was that  when you looted your body, it would automatically equip the chest piece back.

I told a guy straight what I thought of him and his player skills which caused him to quit and uninstall the game. But to be honest, my contribution was merely the proverbial "final nail in the coffin".

With no remorse.