Share your own sad stories, and let's have a laugh or rage over it.
I'll start, today, i got scammed with a fake pink dye service.
Result? Lost my Leet Kurzick armor. I hope banhammer strikes that unhappy SOB.
What's the worst thing that happened to you in-game?
VikingHaag
Del
I was drunk, a former guildy asked me to guest for his new guild, I got killed by a footman. Got made fun of for months.
Swingline
The worst thing? hmmmmmmmm. I have made some good friends in this game but one person I wish I never met. He creates drama out of thin air and seem to encircle it around me. This person does this when I am not even on for days at a time. He constantly creates more and more problems and yet the people I am friends with still want him around.
The worst thing that ever happened to me in this game was the first time I met this 40 year old douche.
The worst thing that ever happened to me in this game was the first time I met this 40 year old douche.
SyoM
Hmm...lets see...meeting this guy in game...He was a friend of my best friend in there, and just meeting that guy has been a living hell. Each time I logged on, he came up to me with a scheme to get money.
For example, one of his plans was that a friend was going to give him a mini polar bear for 250 ectos (if he gave them to his friend in a week tops). He said that if I help him farm those 250e, then he would sell it for a lot more and split the profits with me...told him no continuously for about 2-3 days (long time ago, can't/don't want to remember); then I said yes, farmed for a day, got about 10e, kept them and ignored him.
On more than one occasion he has lied to me about having his account hacked. One time, he said it was hacked and he asked for my tormented shield so he could wear it around and show it off (I was around...14-15 at the time, so...I guess kind of stupid..idk) and I lent it to him. He comes to me a few days later and said he accidently sold it to someone (how do you "accidently" sell something? Accidently merching it...understandable...to another player, I'm not buying that).
Anyways, he constantly asked me to ask my girlfriend to give him money, kept bugging for help/money, never really gave me any peace. That guy has been a LIVING NIGHTMARE....put him on my ignore list a few years back and he's still on there...
By the way, one excuse he LOVED to use was that his dad was in the hospital and asked if I could help him with various things (trying to get sympathy for nothing I suppose? I don't know, but he sure did use this A LOT).........
Edit: Sorry about adding his name, I took it down now...was around 4 last night that I wrote this and I didn't think about that... :/
For example, one of his plans was that a friend was going to give him a mini polar bear for 250 ectos (if he gave them to his friend in a week tops). He said that if I help him farm those 250e, then he would sell it for a lot more and split the profits with me...told him no continuously for about 2-3 days (long time ago, can't/don't want to remember); then I said yes, farmed for a day, got about 10e, kept them and ignored him.
On more than one occasion he has lied to me about having his account hacked. One time, he said it was hacked and he asked for my tormented shield so he could wear it around and show it off (I was around...14-15 at the time, so...I guess kind of stupid..idk) and I lent it to him. He comes to me a few days later and said he accidently sold it to someone (how do you "accidently" sell something? Accidently merching it...understandable...to another player, I'm not buying that).
Anyways, he constantly asked me to ask my girlfriend to give him money, kept bugging for help/money, never really gave me any peace. That guy has been a LIVING NIGHTMARE....put him on my ignore list a few years back and he's still on there...
By the way, one excuse he LOVED to use was that his dad was in the hospital and asked if I could help him with various things (trying to get sympathy for nothing I suppose? I don't know, but he sure did use this A LOT).........
Edit: Sorry about adding his name, I took it down now...was around 4 last night that I wrote this and I didn't think about that... :/
RunningInSquares
Man these are pretty good stories. Worst thing that happened to me is kind of boring by comparison. I accidentally merched a near-complete stack of black dye (didn't have the bag they were in unselected at merch). Fortunately, at the time, black dye was on the low end of its value spectrum. It doesn't make it any better of course, but I still tell myself that to maintain my sanity.
Fate Crusher
Being part of an HA guild, getting sent to boarding school, coming back to see everyone with phoenix. sob. This was 07-09, I could only play on holidays when I went home.
All sorted now, but jesus was it funny for them.
Apart from that, I used to enjoy the drama in RA. But that was a daily struggle. Nowadays however, I'd rather be forced to land a stricken plane than press Enter Battle in that hellhole ever again.
EDIT: Two posts above me, you really should remove his IGN from your post...
All sorted now, but jesus was it funny for them.
Apart from that, I used to enjoy the drama in RA. But that was a daily struggle. Nowadays however, I'd rather be forced to land a stricken plane than press Enter Battle in that hellhole ever again.
EDIT: Two posts above me, you really should remove his IGN from your post...
Tripolityx
Merched my very first Bo Staff Q9 20/10 Earth. IT was the most sad day of my game/real life =P.
Iuris
The worst? Looking at the guild roster and seeing just one green line... the one listing my name...
urania
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Originally Posted by Del
I was drunk, a former guildy asked me to guest for his new guild, I got killed by a footman. Got made fun of for months.
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as for me...the worst thing that prolly happened was having my account wiped by a friend 'hacker' because of some past grievances.
other than that, a sad thing might also be my past pc was too shitty to get into gvg when vD started off which was the only chance i'd probably be willing to grab in order to get into gvging.
rhade_adama
Mine's rather boring. I tried to vanquish the Morostav Trail. Nearly completed it TWICE (~5 kills remaining) when I was kicked from the server. That was ~2 hours I'll never get back >.>
Ailina
In the days before Courier Falkan was nerfed, I, along with many people, ran it often. I had full heroes/henchies, so drops weren't exactly my concern.
Then, near the end of a run, something unbelievable happened.
A mini Confessor Isaiah dropped for me.
I was so excited. I'm not sure how much they're worth not, but at the time, they were worth ~600e. I have never seen that much money in GW. The most I've ever had was ~20e. This was the single greatest thing to happen to me in GW. I couldn't believe my luck.
Two days later, I was hacked and cleaned out.
Talk about timing...
The worst part was, I didn't just lose my valuables. I lost EVERYTHING, regardless of value. Everything that was tradeable was traded away, and everything that wasn't (like zcoins and medals of honor etc) was DELETED. When I got my account back, every single slot was empty, and every single character was naked and weaponless, and all of the heroes across all of the characters had been stripped of both their runes and weapons, even the ones who still had the crappy customized weapons that are automatically on them when you first acquire them!
I mean, they took shit they couldn't use, like my books and my customized, yet unmodded, tormented staff (can't be sold to merchants or players, can't be salvaged, and no mods to salvage) and whatnot. Of course, a lot of stuff was irreplaceable, like the incubator kit (you can only get one per character), my monk's 5al starter armor, and my huge collection of worthless shinies.
But even with all of that crap lost, the worst thing was getting a once-in-a-lifetime drop, then instantly being robbed of it.
And that, my friends, is my tale of woe.
(for the record, I haven't gotten a single WiK drop of any kind, minus confessor's orders, before or since the Isaiah).
Then, near the end of a run, something unbelievable happened.
A mini Confessor Isaiah dropped for me.
I was so excited. I'm not sure how much they're worth not, but at the time, they were worth ~600e. I have never seen that much money in GW. The most I've ever had was ~20e. This was the single greatest thing to happen to me in GW. I couldn't believe my luck.
Two days later, I was hacked and cleaned out.
Talk about timing...
The worst part was, I didn't just lose my valuables. I lost EVERYTHING, regardless of value. Everything that was tradeable was traded away, and everything that wasn't (like zcoins and medals of honor etc) was DELETED. When I got my account back, every single slot was empty, and every single character was naked and weaponless, and all of the heroes across all of the characters had been stripped of both their runes and weapons, even the ones who still had the crappy customized weapons that are automatically on them when you first acquire them!
I mean, they took shit they couldn't use, like my books and my customized, yet unmodded, tormented staff (can't be sold to merchants or players, can't be salvaged, and no mods to salvage) and whatnot. Of course, a lot of stuff was irreplaceable, like the incubator kit (you can only get one per character), my monk's 5al starter armor, and my huge collection of worthless shinies.
But even with all of that crap lost, the worst thing was getting a once-in-a-lifetime drop, then instantly being robbed of it.
And that, my friends, is my tale of woe.
(for the record, I haven't gotten a single WiK drop of any kind, minus confessor's orders, before or since the Isaiah).
Kook~NBK~
I was selling something in Kamadan and some little turd-ball didn't like the price I was asking so he decided to start spamming in all-chat trying to get people to report me for hacking. I reported him for harrassment and put him on ignore. Oh! Sorry! That's probably one of the worst things that ever happened to him, since he's the one that got put in "time-out" by A-Net. 
Self-inflicted: I merched an Elemental Sword. It was about a week after NF was released when they were worth 600 - 700 p (or more) and everyone wanted one.
Self-inflicted: I merched an Elemental Sword. It was about a week after NF was released when they were worth 600 - 700 p (or more) and everyone wanted one.
I Rahavan I
Oh God don't get me started I was doing Rea's crater or whatever it's called mind you this is a labrinth and 400+ foes i was at the last group and about to kill the last foe by myself(my heros died) i dc and couldn't reconnect. 3 hours of my life went away. anouther one is learning you could fight with your fists any more(why they take that away anyway?).
Quaker
Edit - on re-reading the OP, it is referring to in-game (now?), although it doesn't specify what game. 
Or are you only talking about Guild Wars - in which case nothing was that bad. I did (while drunk and/or stoned) try to remove the string off of my Tormented Shortbow with an Expert Salvage kit. I still have the string, but not the bow.
Or are you only talking about Guild Wars - in which case nothing was that bad. I did (while drunk and/or stoned) try to remove the string off of my Tormented Shortbow with an Expert Salvage kit. I still have the string, but not the bow.
Ailina
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Originally Posted by I Rahavan I
anouther one is learning you could fight with your fists any more(why they take that away anyway?).
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VikingHaag
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Originally Posted by Ailina
You used to be able to fight with your fists? When was this?
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BTW, sorry to hear that Quaker.
Gabriel of Ravn
Worst thing is really scammed back in the day when I was trying to get a droks run back when wars were the only runners. Also making a trade with someone through a private message on guru that is really just more because it was annoying because they were talking high req taking a bit off from the pc I got and stuff never gonna try to be nice like that just because of annoyance on that trade.
killmeshiniing
My husband and I used to only share one laptop for our two guild wars accounts, so we would give our information to guildies during things like festivals or some dungeons, etc. Logged on to my elementalist one day after not being on for a few months, and found that 250e and a q11 caster VS were gone (that I had deliberately not kept in my chest). No armor was salvaged, no other weapons/items/materials were taken, so the person had a LITTLE sympathy. Obviously this is our fault, but it was still a sad day.
Dot Rotten
- Selling my EL phantasmal days after the release of the zaishen-title for 100k, when it was infact worth 250e+ (still have people rip it out of me, even though it was 3 years ago -.-.. )
jiggles
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Originally Posted by VikingHaag
A while ago... 2-3 years or more it was still here. Observing HoH fight u could see warriors having a punch-out while ppl where doing stuff completely ignoring them, was rather amusing and funny to watch, little fact, no one ever died doing this i think, at least not when i was observing.
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edit, unles you're tlaking about knuckles...
VikingHaag
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Originally Posted by jiggles
You're lying.
edit, unles you're tlaking about knuckles... |
Enchanted Krystal
When I 1st started to collect rare items, I paid 40e for a q8 gold Stormbow, only to realize it's inherent didn't say +15/50...it said +15%/when hexed...
Moral of the story, when your tired...GO TO BED! Man I felt like a noob.
Moral of the story, when your tired...GO TO BED! Man I felt like a noob.
Ayuhmii Shanbwa
i didnt really have bad ingame things happened, a few, but not that bad
however, 1 bad thing happened to me, which made me play perfect world right now (free MMO), that was that most nice people i know left the game, while i needed their help, as things got harder to me (like HM and dungeons and such), and the few who still play are either always busy, or dont feel for going for the same stuff they did back then
even though i hate elitism, thats not what made the game bad for me, its that people who helped me back then, left the game... too bad
oh yea, 1 more thing i almost forgot was:
i was in vizunah for my very first time, so had no clue
then i saw another team, a german team (just saying that cuz i remember it), and i asked: what do i have to do? they said: oh its a noob... and all left
it was a full human team, so i was alone with my henchies, and for my doing back then, i got pretty far, which was the 2nd fight i think, but died there
from that day on, i hated pugs, i did get pugs after that for some, but after i saw so many pugs fail, i quit using pugs
however, 1 bad thing happened to me, which made me play perfect world right now (free MMO), that was that most nice people i know left the game, while i needed their help, as things got harder to me (like HM and dungeons and such), and the few who still play are either always busy, or dont feel for going for the same stuff they did back then
even though i hate elitism, thats not what made the game bad for me, its that people who helped me back then, left the game... too bad
oh yea, 1 more thing i almost forgot was:
i was in vizunah for my very first time, so had no clue
then i saw another team, a german team (just saying that cuz i remember it), and i asked: what do i have to do? they said: oh its a noob... and all left
it was a full human team, so i was alone with my henchies, and for my doing back then, i got pretty far, which was the 2nd fight i think, but died there
from that day on, i hated pugs, i did get pugs after that for some, but after i saw so many pugs fail, i quit using pugs
AndrewSX
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Originally Posted by Enchanted Krystal
Moral of the story, when your tired...GO TO BED! Man I felt like a noob.
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Tom Swift
Finding out you can not duplicate the wonderful bone white color for necros from the old mixed dye days under the new dye system
Ellix Cantero
Forming up a new guild with a group of buddies in 2006 for some GvG action, going 29-0 over the course of the weekend, making it into the top 200, only to get facerolled in < 5 minutes by that top five guild that was running IWAY at the time (can't remember the name now).
That had to be the low in my GW playing career.
That had to be the low in my GW playing career.
jiggles
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Originally Posted by VikingHaag
I'm pretty sure i saw warrior fighting with their bare hands before EotN was released. But it was a long time ago, so maybe knuckles were already there
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Sweets to the Sweet
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Originally Posted by Ellix Cantero
Forming up a new guild with a group of buddies in 2006 for some GvG action, going 29-0 over the course of the weekend, making it into the top 200, only to get facerolled in < 5 minutes by that top five guild that was running IWAY at the time (can't remember the name now).
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You're probably talking about [Cute]. A lot of people at the time felt the same way.
payne
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Originally Posted by urania
other than that, a sad thing might also be my past pc was too shitty to get into gvg when vD started off which was the only chance i'd probably be willing to grab in order to get into gvging.
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had a trial run set up for vD in about 08 or 09, then my vent crashed and despite installing / uninstalling it again / asking current guildies for help etc. could not get it working again, so I missed out on the chance to play with / hopefully join vD
Ellix Cantero
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Originally Posted by Sweets to the Sweet
http://guildwars.com/competitive/lad...sion022806.php
You're probably talking about [Cute]. A lot of people at the time felt the same way. |
cataphract
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Originally Posted by Ellix Cantero
Forming up a new guild with a group of buddies in 2006 for some GvG action, going 29-0 over the course of the weekend, making it into the top 200, only to get facerolled in < 5 minutes by that top five guild that was running IWAY at the time (can't remember the name now).
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urania
I remember playing iway in TA twice ever - one of the funniest and most fun times ever. my first time as a warrior!
chuckles79
Right as my ranger got far into prophecies (still kinda a noob) I got into a Barrage/pet team for Nightfallen Tombs.
First time we had 3 people leave right at the end.
Second time I had to leave because my in-laws were visiting.
It was over 3 years before I bothered (plus I learned the rewards for it weren't much after time)
First time we had 3 people leave right at the end.
Second time I had to leave because my in-laws were visiting.
It was over 3 years before I bothered (plus I learned the rewards for it weren't much after time)
pedrobds
Getting scammed out of 300k when that was a lot of money to me (that i had worked hard for over 2 years). Coming back and working for 8 months to gather 1000e and having it stolen by a "friend"... who hasn't been scammed though...
Voodoo Rage
One time in RA I called called a noob and it really hurt my feelings.
StormDragonZ
Worst thing that happened to me in game? That's easy.
Trying to cap Panic in Hell's Precipice and forgetting to change my secondary to Mesmer.
Now apply that at a time before Nightfall came out.
Now apply that as happening not once, but three times.
Trying to cap Panic in Hell's Precipice and forgetting to change my secondary to Mesmer.
Now apply that at a time before Nightfall came out.
Now apply that as happening not once, but three times.
Rushin Roulette
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Worst thing that happened to me in game? That's easy.
Trying to cap Panic in Hell's Precipice and forgetting to change my secondary to Mesmer. Now apply that at a time before Nightfall came out. Now apply that as happening not once, but three times. |
Attempt 1: Run out look for that remote boss clear the whole area and notice you have an active quests that causes the boss not to spawn.
Attempt 2: Run out again after completing/abandoning the quest, look for that remote Prophs boss again, kill it and notice you forgot to take a cap signet.
Attempt 3: Run out once again, this time with a cap sig, search for that randomly spawning boss once again, click on cap sig and notice you have the wrong secondary profession.
Attempt 4: Randomly spawning boss is being even more annoying than usual because he has spawned in the last searched location out of 6 possibilities....
Youve just got to love Prophs bosses and their random spawning possibilities
AngeliqueSynner
I got hacked last week.
I got taken for 150K, my Obby armor and my Vabbian armor.
It's all replacable, just disappointing that it happened to me.
From the look of it, they used my necro as a bot farmer, because I had a bunch of golds I didn't before.
Also part of the anti-seconday capping club. xD
More time than I care to admit.
I got taken for 150K, my Obby armor and my Vabbian armor.
It's all replacable, just disappointing that it happened to me.
From the look of it, they used my necro as a bot farmer, because I had a bunch of golds I didn't before.
Also part of the anti-seconday capping club. xD
More time than I care to admit.
TinyTheEle
Accidentally sold an unded mini kuunvang for 100g+2e to a scammer, thought I was smarter than that :'(
Rushin Roulette
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my wife stabbed me in the arm with a cheeseknife to break my attention from GW..that was a sad time.
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My worst moment in GW was, as many have already said, being scammed. But as its all just pixels you should be able to get over it and learn from your mistakes (being hacked is something different though... reading all the hack reports made me split up my collections over multiple accounts so that the chance of being robbed of absolutely everything is lowered)