7 Biggest Dick Moves in MMORPGs (Cracked.com)

Enjoy.

EVE Online and World Of Warcraft each got two entries.

Jonah Falcon

The last one cracked me up. Good show.

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Oh, a Micheal Jackson pedophile joke. Truly you are the epitome of comedy, Cracked writer.

4 seemed like the biggest dick move to me. Perhaps they should have hired bodyguards, but it was still a dick move to crash a funeral for the lulz.

The literal dick moving was the second life one though. Hilarious.

edited 27th Jun '11 9:55:50 AM by VicariousShaner

Hello everyone.

I loved the #1 dick move.

Guy poses as a bank for months, MONTHS, then just walks out with 790B ISK ($150K real life money), builds a massive ship, puts a bounty on HIMSELF, and dares people to attack him.

Jonah Falcon

I knew the World Of Warcraft funeral one was going to be in there before I clicked the link. That one stands out as the most genuine example of dickery, imho; the rest is mostly trolling. High stakes and sophisticated trolling, but still, just trolling.

Furthermore, I think Guantanamo must be destroyed.

That one was damn evil, but I admit that it was also cool!

The sin of silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

That last one was well deserved in my opinion.

Fantastic Supreme Überkaiser Emperor Folt of The Infinity and Beyond" ... "The First"!

Is it bad that I actually feel like shaking the hand of the guy from #1? Seriously to be that patient and intelligent...truly a Magnificent Bastard.

The others are just dick moves mostly. Sometimes literally in the case of 2.

6 is probably my favorite though. Question what effect does dying have in WOW?

edited 27th Jun '11 10:25:21 AM by Kostya

Dying just wastes your time if you can travel to your corpse to resurrect, otherwise it just hits you with a short term debuff. It's really no big deal, so the blood plague thing wasn't that malicious except in the sheer scale involved.

Furthermore, I think Guantanamo must be destroyed.

I remember seeing number 7 reported in P Cgamer, God there is no better advert for EVE than that

edited 27th Jun '11 10:33:08 AM by JosefBugman

That's all? It would really suck if dying made you lose all your items or money or something.

Still the scale of that...I love it

So what happened to #1? He still going at it?

To be seen, stand up To be heard, speak up To be appreciated, shut up

I'm kind of irritated that the article said that the Blood Plague thing was intentional on part of Blizzard. When it was really an unforeseen glitch that went way out of hand.

Sorry, I can't hear you from my FLYING METAL BOX!

That last one is amazing. Is this admiration I feel welling up inside my heart?

i. hear. a. sound.

I agree. That guy is just so awesome yet at the same time diabolical!

He turned the Corrupt Corporate Executive into a Magnificent Bastard with a Crowning Moment Of Awesome to boot.

I remember the assassination of Lord British. Although they showed the beta in a rather negative light.

Apocalypse: Dirge Of Swans.

I think #4 was the worst personally.

Although this little bit, especially the end, had me in stitches.

It was also revealing: In a game where people can be heroic knights or masterful mages, many leaped at the chance to become Terrorist Tyhpoid Mary. A small Taliban like force of plague-carriers actively fought Blizzard while hiding in the mountains, breaking quarantines and even incubating the plague through server-purges by infecting their own virtual pets then re-infecting themselves. They forced Blizzard into hard server resets, nuking and reinstalling their entire world. It was douchebaggery on measurable scientific and national security scales: Real-life scientists and bioterrorism experts now study it as a case example. Presumably before drinking themselves into unconsciousness when they realize they're protecting a species that commits bio-terror in order to destroy worlds they hang out in for fun.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

x3 Since one of my life goals is to be a corrupt corporate executive*

I think you've summed up why this makes me grin hard enough to make my face hurt.

edited 27th Jun '11 11:18:00 AM by Bur

i. hear. a. sound.

This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone familiar with games.

Everyone knows that being evil is more fun 99% of the time, if only because being good usually means being every npc's bitch. <.<

Furthermore, I think Guantanamo must be destroyed.

I have trouble being evil. I feel bad. I just have trouble playing outside my own alignment.

I have a message from another time...

Ok, the blood plague and the the one that came first were awesome... the others... yeah, they pretty much epitomise GIFT.

EDIT: I meant the guy who opened the online bank and rose to supervillainy! That was awesome!

edited 27th Jun '11 11:36:58 AM by GameChainsaw

The term "Great Man" is disturbingly interchangeable with "mass murderer" in history books.

I have a tendency to be a Magnificent Bastard kind of GIFT when I need a vent. There's nothing better than scheming to get the poor bastards punished for rule-breaking, while profiting off them!

The sin of silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

Same. However this only applies if I'm being evil to real people. If they're NPCS then I get nasty

edited 27th Jun '11 11:33:27 AM by Kostya

Dude, all the others disgusts me but #1, man. That's almost poetic how brilliant and audacious it is.

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