Most pathetic/desperate/obsessed/regrettable thing you have done gaming related?

I bought that limited edition CoD game(MW2?) that came with the night vision goggles for £130.

Used the goggles about 3 times for a laugh, played the SP but only a few hours of MP as I was a Battlefield convert by then. Big waste of money.
 
Mine are all pretty tame I suppose but:

Aged 13 I spent £95.00 on the US copy of Streefighter 2 Turbo and an adapter to play it on.

I threw my 360 controller at a wall (several times one after the other) during a veteran difficulty run of No Fighting in the War Room on COD4.

I have completed several games (just for the achievements) that I detested. I will never get this time back and all it was all for was a stupid number.
 
Chasing achievements....easily the stupidest thing I've ever done. In just about 3 years I amassed over 155K, mistly playing the shittiest games ever made for easy points.
Luckily, I cured myself of that addiction, today I have a PS4, notifications turned off, and I don't even know how many trophies I have.

Yeah, this one also. I achievement hunted for like a year, currently at 115k GS. I don't care about achievements anymore, but 60k GS of that was shitty rentals or loans from friends that I wouldn't have played otherwise.
 
bouhgt an x1 only to play trials fusion on it allthough i allready have it on ps4. Havent played anything else on x1 other then 1 hour of forza horizon 2

once let the ps3 run 10 days straight with a rubberband arround the controller and a toothpick in a connected keyboard to farm money in GT5 and let the AI win the 24h races.
 
I've done a lot of things for hobby. I guess the most egregious would be the amount of money spent over the years. Don't even want to count that shit. I've also driven to questionable areas to get games early.

Good times and no regrets.
 
I played through the entirety of FF8 by just spamming elemental attacks, and not really utilizing or even understanding the junction system. I couldn't beat the final boss because of this.

I used to lose my temper during mario kart as a kid, and busted several controllers, and even punched a hole in the wall.

One time I conned my brother into scoring a safety for me in NES Play Action Football.
 
The worst thing I think I've ever done...hm, I have a few. They're all pretty bad and make me feel really fucking ashamed, and some of them I'm pretty sure I still do to this day.

One time, I traded a buddy of mine (no takebacks) his copy of C&C: Tiberian Sun (with the little infantry figurine!) for my copy of Diablo 2. LOD hadn't come out yet, and I had gotten bored of it. Fast forward a good 6 months later, LOD is out and some friends of mine are playing and it looks awesome. new classes, runewords, the works. I want back in. I went to dude's house with his old copy of C&C2 and browbeat him into trading back with me so I could pick up LOD and start playing again.

My freshman year of college, I did pretty well my first semester, all things considered, and got a pretty good GPA. A couple things happened to wreck my second semester. 1) I met my first girlfriend and wanted to spend time with her constantly. 2) my parents got me a PS2 for christmas and I brought it on campus, and 3) I got Dynasty Warriors 3 along with that. There were numerous days where I would wake up, eat and play DW3, and that was it. I'd miss classes, go "oh well", then shower and see my girl, then come back and play more DW3 instead of going to class. I failed a couple classes that semester and that was the start of an academic downward spiral that took a long time to get out of.

I am a sore loser in competitive games. I don't want to throw a temper tantrum, but when I start losing hard, I get angry, I get quiet, I make things really fucking awkward for my friends, to the point where someone will tell me to calm down, it's only a game, etc. but when I'm winning I'll shit talk with the best of them. I'm basically a really fucking bad sport.

A friend of mine and I went through a cycle for a little while where we would game EB's return policy, back when it was "return it in 7 days if you don't like it" or something, so we'd buy a game, marathon through it, and return it a couple days later. I don't remember doing this to a lot of games, but I remember doing it with Max Payne.


And I know it isn't anything too outside the pale, but back in my heavy wow days, I would cancel social invites to go home because it was raid night. I raided 2-3 nights a week, and spent a fair amount of time outside that prepping for the next raid night. This was back in late TBC and the WOTLK days.
 
Buying the FFIX strategy guide as a kid (though that's more on the guidemakers being assholes, I suppose). Also, at one point, I printed out an entire, giant gamefaqs guide for Castlevania Circle of the Moon. Even 3-hole punched it and put it in a binder.

I did this for Harvest Moon: A Wonderufl Life on the Gamecube. Spent several IT lessons mixing in the printing with my proper school work printing. Didn't like the idea of missing so many social interactions.
 
My friend and I would modify WC3 maps (dota and rpg) to stick power ups in some corner only we knew about. Most people didn't notice they were redownloading the same map they supposedly had already.

Lol, I use to rig custom maps in Starcraft. Seeing people rage when I was killing them with invincible units always made my day.
 
25 days of total play time on Destiny. Gross.

I don't know how I managed to do that while balancing a career, socializing, exercising, and exploring this amazing city I live in (NYC).
 
Actually OT, a lot of thing you actually did.

I bought back the same console after getting rid of it, sometime more than once. The NDS, 360, PS3.

Sold a 360 for a NDS.
 
Wrote a JavaScript based key logger and installed it on every computer in my public library to farm runescape passwords from jerks I knew who went there to play. Sold the credentials on eBay for around $40-80 apiece.
 
Wrote a JavaScript based key logger and installed it on every computer in my public library to farm runescape passwords from jerks I knew who went there to play. Sold the credentials on eBay for around $40-80 apiece.

never post self incriminating evidence on the web or anywhere else.
 
Guys, guys, guys...I win. I got this:

Seeing as it's Back to the Future Day, I'd like to go back in time and kick the shit out of my 14 year old self.

I traded my Virtual Boy with Galactic Pinball, Red Alarm, Mario Tennis, Mario Clash, Wario Land, and Teleroboxer...

For a shitty Atari Jaguar that came with Dragon The Bruce Lee Story (a god awful shitty game "based" on that shitty movie).

I was so sure I'd snag a copy of Alien vs. Predator for it. I was convinced the Jaguar was worth it after seeing screenshots of AVP in a Gamepro magazine or some such shit.
 
Not that I bought many of them, but anytime I payed for an early access game I felt dumb soon after launching the game. Early access is a bad idea.
 
Used a 3rd party program to "hack" the Neopets games. You could basically set values within the games to whatever you want, turn off AI, etc. We had a good run, until one of my pals generously obtained an unobtainable score on one of the games (similar to the game snake). IP ban, all of our accounts were frozen. What a waste of time, about a year of farming/trading, down the drain.

Also, Vanilla World of Warcraft days. So many late nights, missed gatherings, all for raiding with the guild to be number 1 on the server. It was fun at the time, but I'm sure I missed out on a lot of real life fun as well.
 
Spending close to $1000AUS on upgrading PC to make BF4 playable despite not really enjoying it anyway, ignoring my girlfriend in favor of multiple PC games inc. BF4, spending many regrettable hours grinding trophies for Sonic & SEGA All Stars Racing platinum (I know), 'accidentally' buying a second WipEout Pulse press kit to open one and reap rewards, spending hundreds of dollars on Formula Fusion Kickstarter (no ragrets), never returning a couple of PS3 games to a friend (who I'm sure genuinely doesn't miss them), spending hours I should be using to study watching various gaming press conferences when I could "Just watch them in their entirety when they're done and you've time!" I've no rebuttal to that other than "Yeah but... vidya..."

I dunno guys, I put a lot down to procrastination and I don't think I've fully explored how shitty I can get when it comes to video game obsession. That said, need to make up time with the gf though, as I acknowledge that's a problem to be worked on. So glad I never got into WoW, this thread is a WoW Anonymous gathering.
 
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Got the lifetime subscription too. >.<
 
I used to write like fan-fiction (I guess that's what you'd call it?) on the old Codemasters board about my LMA Manager career saves when I was maybe 13/14. Trying to create a story about what happened during the season and all that.

I also remember giving an imaginary press conference in the mirror to the fans of my Hibernian team after our 3-1 UEFA Cup Final loss to Deportivo de La Coruna . I will never forgive you, Diego Tristan!
 
I'm using a vacation day for Halo 5
But I'm also using one for a Star Wars film marathon
So I guess it's equally balanced

I'm taking a couple days off for the Star Wars marathon. For games I take the day after they come out since I order from Amazon and they don't come until noon anyway. That way I have all night and all the next day to play instead of half the day spent waiting.
 
Study for an important test that's in the morning? Oh, I'll just get in some rounds of Smash. Ooo boy it's 2 A.M. I'll just wake up at 6 and shove it in my brain before class at 9. *Wakes up at 8:10*. Oh, well I'll just throw the powerpoints on my phone and study on the commute to school.

The thing is I haven't gotten bit hard yet for doing this but one day man I'm gonna really regret it.

Oh wait, actually I failed Statistics because why study for a midterm when you could be solving puzzles in FEZ?

Whoops.
 
Obtained all of the LOTRO zone content by grinding thousands of points, rather than purchasing or subscribing.

Got the 3-player jumping trophy on Pixeljunk Eden by using one hand on a DS3, the other on a Sixaxis, and my big toe on a Guitar Hero 3 Les Paul.

Fairly major in my mind, but I feel better having read this thread.
 
Traded, bought, and sold Fallout 3 a good 4 times each. I've spent a good $200 since 2010, just on that one game. I don't even have all the dlc for the game right now.
 
Just recalled, this wasn't me, but I had a friend who would go into retailers and open the packages for PC games just to take a look at the CD Key. He would then use/distribute those keys.


I never got any of his illicit keys, but thinking back that was some hyper shitty activity right there.

No its shameful and I'm deleting my post...

Oh it wasn't that bad.
 
I grew up in an environment where piracy was okay. My dad got me several copyboxes for my SNES. I ended up with a collection of 300ish games on 3.5" disks.
There was a scene where 'crews' would dump roms and sometimes add 'trainers' (built-in cheat system) or custom intro screens to the rom. Roms were distributed through 3.5" disks and I think the internet. This was in the early 90's, so I'm not sure through which channels since I didn't have internet access myself.
A friend of my dad would get a batch of the latest roms on floppy disks every few weeks and he would copy them for me.
My SNES was modded, so I had the oppertunity to play most games released outside of the PAL region.
Sometimes roms were badly dumped. This would result in graphic or sound glitches. Somehow roms of prototypes/beta's and unreleased games were also dumped. I've seen these appear on Unseen64.

PC games in the 90's were ripped, sometimes with big audio/movie sound files left out, compressed and released as a monthly warez CD. There were different groups who would release them under names as Stealth and Twillight. One of my primary school teachers distributed them.
Cover & back:

In hindsight it was pretty crazy.
 
I actually hit someone when playing local matches of FIFA and threw my controller into the monitor (mine, duh ...) because he would constantly foul our goalkeeper and I was serious about winning -.- I mean we laughed the next day because we were 12 and best friends.

I was a dumb polish boy back then. I don't play FIFA anymore. It only leads to violence.
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No its shameful and I'm deleting my post...

Nooooooo, now I need to know...
 
Nothing too ridiculous for me. I called in sick for an old job so I could play Gears 3 on launch day. I also glitched a few very obnoxious and time consuming achievements back when I was really into them.

Might skip my one class next Tuesday to play Halo 5. Probably would be better to just let the game install when I'm at class though.
 
Commuting to a store (40 minute trip) just to see the clerk play Super Mario World (before the SNES was released in Spain).
Paying 700 euros for an import PS2 + The Bouncer, again before Spanish release.
Leaving my computer on and on a dial-up connection all night to download the trailer for MGS2... before the advent of flat phone rates.
 
Sold my OG Vita to pre-order Payday 2 because I didn't have any cash at the time.

Rebought Vita, Never play PD2 anymore. Was a bad move.
 
Unemployed. Living with in-laws in tiny bedroom. Lots of debt... Camped out 14 hours overnight in 20 degree temp at Best Buy for a launch 360 that I placed on credit card. Not a shining example of priorities.. (Aside from my Vita, I haven't bought a console within a year of launch since, and pay in cash).

Also I would plan family gatherings and stuff around my Dark Age of Camelot guild meetings. Not the other way around. Serious business.
 
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