MMO Memories

[Tonberry]

Let's join each other by the digital campfire and swap silly stories from our time in the world of MMOs. The living world and constant stream of players are usually perfect grounds for all sorts of silly events occurring, and most players tend to have at least one particular memory they cherish in one way or another!

Back when WoW Classic launched in 2019, I played Horde on a PVP Realm. At around level 40-ish, me and some friends decided to head to the Alliance zone Redridge Mountains (that for some reason is a contested territory, which means that Horde players are free to attack Alliance players unprovoked) for a fun harmless little outing, and went to the castle which is usually full of elite mobs Alliance players grouped up to defeat. We started wreaking havoc, killing and ganking the poor Alliance indiscriminately (the zone is usually for players around level 16-22 so we were way stronger than them). A good old gank.
After a good long while, level 60 Alliance players started appearing, and a hit squad had been formed to try to take us down. We tried our best evading them in order to keep up our massacre, and soon enough the entire zone transformed into a battlefield. Lowbies, ourselves, and max-level players from both factions appeared and waged war on each other for hours, just because we felt like messing a bit with the enemy faction.

We didn't gain anything out of this experience, except wasting our own, and our victims' time.
But boy was it fun.

 

[bigstinkie]

in the game of mabinogi, you are paid well to fill your backpack up with rare goods and trek across countries far and wide to sell those goods in other cities where those goods are more rare and sought after
these goods are very valuable and delicate, so horse riding and the like is not an option, you must be on foot
myself and two friends walked far, took a few wrong turns, boarded a wrong ship entirely, ended up on the wrong continent, but eventually came close to our destination
in the desert near the town we were traveling to, all was well until we received a notification a powerful dragon was three minutes from spawning. spawning exactly in the center of the desert we were currently trekking across with our rare valuable goods we spent all our ducats on
naturally we panic, pick a direction, and try to make a straight line running right out of the desert. amusingly, players camping that spot for the dragon spawn saw the big backpacks on our backs and began to say 'oh no' and encouraged us to run faster saying that they would hold the dragons attention as best they could while we ran
in the end we made it out just fine and received quite the payday but that memory is very amusing to me

 

[OfManNotMachine]

I know Phantasy Star Online on the Dreamcast isn't a full fledged MMO, but it was my first experience in any type of multiplayer game that wasn't a sports game. I was so excited for it, and I still play PSO on private servers to this day. It's a game that even 25 years later, it's just as much fun to me, as it was the very first day I played it!

Anyways, I remember I had finally found my first special weapon, a Kalabolg sword I believe it was.
In the first version of PSO on Dreamcast, when you died, you dropped your weapon, and all the money currently on your character. Well I wasn't thinking much of this at the time, and I was doing a forest run with 2 friends of mine, and a random person joined. I remember I got hit from behind and killed, this dude swoops in like a freaking hawk, snags my weapon, and my 225,000 meseta, and types "OH NO...MY INTERNET...." and exits the game, clearly stealing my stuff.

I might as well share my favorite online experience ever here as well.

A buddy of mine and I were playing Bloodborne together, he brought his PS4 over and we're drinking beers and eating pizza, and some dude invades our game. He attacks my friend, and he's all like "I got this let me take em out" Well, they go at it for a few minutes and my buddy loses, so it's me and this invader, and literally at the exact same time, we both do a bow towards each other lol The timing was wild. He lunges at me, I side step it, and take em out for the win! I'll never forget how epic that was, and how the invader realized it too, and gave a little bow of respect at the same time I did.

 

[Antilocal123]

What’s an MMO

 

[DrunkGecko]

What’s an MMO

My Moist Orifice

 

[bigstinkie]

What’s an MMO

meptilian mlub ooyz

 

[Antilocal123]

meptilian mlub ooyz

Meaven or Mell, Let’s Mock!

 

[jiyuuboyetsvi]

I have a story, I'll save it for tomorrow

 

[DrunkGecko]

I have a story, I'll save it for tomorrow

But the day just started it's like 2am where I am lol

 

[Tonberry]

I have a story, I'll save it for tomorrow

B-But it's tomorrow right MEOW!

 

[jiyuuboyetsvi]

But the day just started it's like 2am where I am lol

@DrunkGecko @Tonberry
I went to sleep cuz I was sleepy and then forgot about this. i was really busy today x3

So this was in Final Fantasy XIV. I started raiding back in early January of 2016, right when patch 3.2 of Heavensward (HW) came out. This was the patch that introduced Sephirot EX and the second series of Alexander raids, Midas.

I was REALLY bad, and I played Dragoon. Back in HW, every class needed a whole ass PhD to play. I ended up coming into contact with the best Dragoon on my server at the time (Coeurl server) and he sat down and watched me do my rotation on the brand new striking dummies. He corrected my form and told me what I was doing wrong. I really appreciate him taking the time to help me, because it made me strive to be better.

Alexander Midas was REALLY fucking hard, I think maybe only 2 or 3 groups on my server ever beat the entire tier before Creator, the next tier, came out. My group disbanded for a bit because we were too burnt out to even attempt the final fight of Midas. During that newfound downtime, I spent literally THOUSANDS of hours hitting the striking dummy, practicing my Dragoon. I wanted to be ready for the next and final raid tier of Heavensward.

Which I was. When I mean ready, I mean ya girl basically spent 3000 hours worth of time in the hyperbolic time chamber TRAINING. I went through that entire tier and wiped the floor with everyone. Creator was definitely easier than Midas, but our team went from not even having a shot of being near the top, to on course to be server 3rd. We ended up getting a stick stuck in our wheels though when our Astrologian (buff Healer) left our group cuz he was bein a baby. I think we ended up at server 5th or 7th due to him leaving and sticking us with shit pug tier heals as a back up. We were legit on the FINAL mechanic of the FINAL FIGHT. It was infuriating.

My parse logs for that tier are probably some of my best ever for raiding in Final Fantasy XIV. The only reason I didn't get more pinks and oranges was because my team was sandbagging WAY too hard. I remember after patch 3.55b came out, one of my friends (who was also a Dragoon main) asked me to play on his account for him so he could get his weekly raids done while he went on vacation. I agreed. His team was cracked as hell and I ended up getting him the number 1 Dragoon spots for every single fight that week LMAO

I took a break during Stormblood. I tried raiding the first tier, but they changed Dragoon so much. I was NOT a fan of the dragon eye stacks and dragon sight or whatever. It was such garbage. Dragoon was not the same anymore, and never would be. I didn't do Kefka's tier, but I did do Omega. I didn't raid all of Shadowbringers due to physical and mental health reasons, but made my comeback during Endwalker. Coincidentally Endwalker was the only expansion where I completed every single raid tier on content.

My last raid tier was the first one of Dawntrail. I found it to be REALLY fun even though it was pretty easy, ESPECIALLY because they had FINALLY made Dragoon more fun to play again.... Until they ruined it again in patch 7.15.... TwT After that I decided fuck this, I'm going to be going to school soon anyway, and I want to focus on my music so I decided to quit, which was honestly the best choice that I could have made.


Thank you FFXIV for being there for me when I needed you, because I really did need something to hang onto and keep me going every day. Now it's my turn to turn Heavensward and reach beyond the stars and my limits with my music.

Thank you all for reading uwu