Hmm for me its got to be AoC launch, when the catacombs underneath Tortage was a pvp zone. Dark, narrow corridors, perfect for ganking. I was lurking down behind the ladder, out of sight as my Cimmerian Barbarian. I saw a Demonologist climb down and begin running down the corridor, I made quick work of him and that was that. However, he came back a few more times and I can't honestly remember how many times I killed him but by a fluke I fatalitied him, took his head off. That did it. He raged. But I felt guilty, because he was obviously a noob like me.

Besides that there was a time in WoW and I was in Stranglethorn Vale and I saw this couple of allies just questing, so I killed them, and I camped them, and I played a rogue which was even worse. Anyway eventually I get a whisper from a level 1 horde asking me politely please not to kill them anymore, as he just wants to quest with his girlfriend, I died a little inside and agreed that I would cause them no more troubles.

I feel like a Catholic at confession.

Originally posted by Aralith

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.

All that is awesome.

Where did all that fun stuff go? I don't care if it's mean.. rpg's should give you options like. It's more eventful for everyone.

Originally posted by dave6660
I shot a man in Jita, just to watch him die.

Nicely done :p

Originally posted by Zekiah

In UO you could stand next to a bank, have your bank box open, and then steal something from someone next to you, drop it in the bank box before guards kill you, and you'd have said item(s).

I did this once and grabbed a guild hall key from some guy, he was VERY upset lol. I didn't keep it though, I was just having fun. Stealing isn't fun for me but messing around with a sandbox system like that is. 

 THIS^^ man i miss UO :)

Deleted a character in swg that was the owner of a guildhall Mall whit over two dozen vendors insite after deleting the guildhall (and thus deleting about 20+ vendors and the thousends of items on them)

I was in a bad mood that day..

I am not a very mean guy, I can only think of Random Arenas PvP in GW1... yeah I know its technically not an mmo.

I used to make extremely effective healers or extremely effective tanks or extremely evasive characters that could also teleport away, or extremely effective interrupts (to make the opponents feel completely useless) that prolongated the encounters sometimes a whole team vs me alone, sometimes until the timer reached its limit (that means that nobody wins / gets the points, after a long and difficult fight) by then the players probably hated me and they would rather /resign or logout everytime than endure another match with me in it. Also you could only make significative points for the RA title if you had 25 or 15 (I am not sure) consecutive wins, so it would be a total drag to get to fight one of my characters. XP

Why? because many players were offensive to me and others that were only learning and trying to have some fun and I wanted to make them suffer slow and painful / frustrating battles (the only ones enjoying those long battles were the same noobs that only wanted to have fun and didn't cared so much about the points).

I was considered a griefer in the early days of WoW.  I would infiltrate the Orc capital, and destroy all the bankers, or the auction house guys.  This was before the guards were so uber and they buffed them up and added stealth detecting npcs.  In fact, some of these measures were at least in part due to my exploits on Argent Dawn.

Banker ganker was a nickname I was fond of.  I believe for the most part I was hated to an unjustified extreme, though there were a couple instances where I would consider my activities 'mean'. 

1.  Ganking noobs on a PvP server, Dark Iron.

2.  With the banker ganker, keeping auction house npcs dead for almost an hour.

3.  Attacking a wyvern keeper (this was back when it was hard to get anywhere at low level without using them) before another player could use it.  He was lower level, but sensing a chance to get me while I was fighting the keeper, he attacked and flagged himself.  I vanished and then killed him.  I then went back and killed the keeper before he could respawn.

4.  Taking the guild to a Horde town and just occupying it, killing all npc's for a couple hours straight.  I can see how that's mean. 

Not all that mean, but in Warhammer I reveled in knocking people into lava to kill them in a PvP arena.  It kind of became the only thing I cared about doing lol.

Originally posted by denshing

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.

Haha! That was you?!?

I remember seeing that screenshot so many years ago on the forums.

Yeah, I've got one.

Playing BH in old time SWG during the Jedi vs BH wars.... one of the wrinkles to the system was, if a Jedi was killed, he either had a recorded death against the total number for permadeath in the early days (but these deaths degraded over time)  or in later times, Jedi took a XP penalty hit on deaths, where XP deaths could go into the negative.

Either of those two circumstances, however, could be avoided if the Jedi was able to contact/pay/beg a master doctor to come and rez him/her before the 30 min clone timer expired and the Jedi auto-cloned to the nearest clone faciliy.

Well, I have always been one for treating people how they deserve. So, If I hunted down a Jedi back then, and was fortunate enough to win the fight (original Jedi were VERY powerful in pre-NGE swg) what I did next would depend on how the player behaved.

If the player fought a good fight, showed some skill, and didn't do all the trash talking leet speak, hate tell stuff that is so popular these days, I'd either let them go, or let them get rez'd with no interference or take the equivalent of the bounty fee to do either.

But if they were a hate kiddie, it was something else entirely.

Enter: The Wizard of OZ treatment.

If the Jedi was down, and had been a jerk/sore loser one of the things I did was drop a structure on the corpse of the Jedi waiting for the rez from of doctor. The structure of choice was an old "structures factory" because they had large geometry compared to other factory structures, could be set up on any planet, and only took up one lot.

If the doc could not see the Jedi, and stuck under a factory, the doc couldn't, it was an automatic trip to the cloner and "no Rez for you".

If I got hate tells before that, I got twice as many after.

In closing I won't say I did that many times, and certainly not a majority of times I achived a Jedi kill, but of those times that people did get "the building", each and every one deserved it for being a jerk.

In EQ, I took my Druid (this is during the Velious expansion) to Crushbone and /ooc'd for people to come to zone in for buffs.  I invited 5 melee's to my group, and ported them all to Iceclad and logged off.

I felt horrible about that for a long time.

http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/post/5446128#5446128

Now the staff's churning out dupe threads?

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Originally posted by Boognishe
In EQ, I took my Druid (this is during the Velious expansion) to Crushbone and /ooc'd for people to come to zone in for buffs.  I invited 5 melee's to my group, and ported them all to Iceclad and logged off.

 

I felt horrible about that for a long time.

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Ah yes, guilt. To those with a conscious, the long term guilt will often cause more grief to the offender than was felt by the victim.

Dunno if anyone has played it/heard of it, but...

Went pirate in a space mmo called star sonata (a game where pvp is taboo, political bullshit really.) Slaughtered everything and everyone i ever came across, griefed people, shit talked, until the point where the entire playerbase was complaining so much, an admin set me up and banned me under the term (griefing), which said admin claimed no longer existed in the mmo.

yea ima dick.

loot stealing on a loot stealer :-)

In EVE I found a Serpentis 4/10 DED complex. This has 2 rooms with a key in the first room that is in a sealed can that can only be opened after almost everything in the room is dead. So I wiped almost everything with last 4 rats remaining when a cruiser warped in and proceeded to the can with the key. When I noticed what's going on, I stopped killing the rats and waited. Being in an assault ship, I was taking no damage since I killed all the frigates already and the remaining cruisers could not hit me. He stared at me for a while, then I told him he'd need to kill the remaining rats to get the key. So we switched places :-)

I took the key and warped to the 2nd room in the end with him cursing in local :-) Unfortunately the main boss dropped crap.

Originally posted by Seronys

Dunno if anyone has played it/heard of it, but...

 

Went pirate in a space mmo called star sonata (a game where pvp is taboo, political bullshit really.) Slaughtered everything and everyone i ever came across, griefed people, shit talked, until the point where the entire playerbase was complaining so much, an admin set me up and banned me under the term (griefing), which said admin claimed no longer existed in the mmo.

 

yea ima dick.

Nice.  Atleast it mixes up the repetitiveness.

I told someone in WoW, that it is faster to run to Thunder Bluff than it is to wait for the zeppelin outside Orgrimmar. This was before Cataclysm when it got moved into Orgrimmar.

I can only imagine he ran all the way to Thunder Bluff from that day on from Orgrimmar...or at least for a very long time.