Most pathetic/desperate/obsessed/regrettable thing you have done gaming related?
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Guileless
Temp Banned for Remedial Purposes
Most of my less-than-shining moments come from sports fandom, but that intersected with gaming once. When I was in college, I was at a buddy's house one day in the summer when it was extremely hot outside, and we got a case of beer, invited his neighbors over, and watched and bet on two CPU teams play each other in Madden.
The team I bet on lost and so I had to pay for the case of beer. My friend later mentioned this to my special lady, and she got really mad at me.
The team I bet on lost and so I had to pay for the case of beer. My friend later mentioned this to my special lady, and she got really mad at me.
> Buying the Barman: Arkham City Collector's Edition (with shitty fucking Batman figurine)
Never buying a CE again.
> Deciding that my first digital release-day purchase would be... Destiny
Never buying blind digitally at full-price/release digitally again.
that is...
Never buying a CE again.
> Deciding that my first digital release-day purchase would be... Destiny
Never buying blind digitally at full-price/release digitally again.
that is...
surprisingly awesome
Yeah, I was actually inspired to get the Wii after seeing someone play it in our dorm. Wii Sports was a blast. If I hadn't played that beforehand, I probably would've waited for the Wii to restock like a normal person.
Indeed! I bought Twilight Princess with it; that was the game I really wanted to play the most. I was pretty hype and when I got home, I played it for 8 hours straight.
I did have a small moment of panic because the box for the Wii was larger than expected, and just BARELY fit in my empty backpack that I had brought to carry it. I had to shove it in there and leave one of the corners exposed, but luckily it wasn't noticeable to an observer that it was a Wii, so no chance of me being jumped outside as I biked my way back.
Zabant
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I left my Xbox 360 on for 48 hours running a Timeshift Server to get this achievement
It caused my first 360 to RROD.
It caused my first 360 to RROD.
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Akiyama_AE
Member
Broke as fuck till my salary drops pre ordered games instead of keeping money for food lol....
woopWOOP
Member
I used a bot for a week in Ragnarok Online after playing for about a year
Got banned (mods sure are swift!)
Made a new account with 4 dummy accounts, had them all botting to get me shit to so it was easy to back to my previous level
All 5 accounts got banned again (proxy? what's that?)
Made another new account where instead of botting I just bought gold with real money (ugh) from some foreign gold farmer and spent a lot of free time grinding to get back again
Days later it finally hit me that what I was doing wasn't in any way fun. Also that I was a cheating piece of shit.
It's been 10 to 8 years ago that I did it, but it still feels bad typing it out, especially since my second account had a good weapon I borrowed from some player to help me get back to my original level. Man, he was too kind for such a scumbag like me.
Got banned (mods sure are swift!)
Made a new account with 4 dummy accounts, had them all botting to get me shit to so it was easy to back to my previous level
All 5 accounts got banned again (proxy? what's that?)
Made another new account where instead of botting I just bought gold with real money (ugh) from some foreign gold farmer and spent a lot of free time grinding to get back again
Days later it finally hit me that what I was doing wasn't in any way fun. Also that I was a cheating piece of shit.
It's been 10 to 8 years ago that I did it, but it still feels bad typing it out, especially since my second account had a good weapon I borrowed from some player to help me get back to my original level. Man, he was too kind for such a scumbag like me.
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
Using a fishbot in World of Warcraft during cataclysm I destroyed the entire consumable market for the server. It was a small server and I'd leave my bot fishing while I went to class, I'd come back, sell the fish to my regulars, go back to botting, go to my next class, come back use these fish to make buff food and other consumables and sell those to other guilds that were trying to do progression content.
No one could compete with my prices and my supply.
Because I was essentially supplying every horde progression guild on the server with my fish and food when I finally decided I had enough gold I stopped botting, and no one else took up my mantle so I watched 2 guilds fall to pieces because they had no source for consumables and presumably no one who could do / would do what I did.
Last I checked before xrealm stuff happened there was only one horde guild on the server that was functional, and they basically ran the servers horde side economy.
No one could compete with my prices and my supply.
Because I was essentially supplying every horde progression guild on the server with my fish and food when I finally decided I had enough gold I stopped botting, and no one else took up my mantle so I watched 2 guilds fall to pieces because they had no source for consumables and presumably no one who could do / would do what I did.
Last I checked before xrealm stuff happened there was only one horde guild on the server that was functional, and they basically ran the servers horde side economy.
Did you go to Drexel or UPenn?
Deadpool_X
Banned
I am not proud of the following story:
Years ago, I was working at a fairly large, regional electronics store. We had gone through a remodel about 18 months prior and had added computers and media (games and movies) to our stores. Well, 18 months later, after 2 incredibly successful holiday seasons, and to the surprise of everyone, the owner announced that the company was filing for bankruptcy and would be closing all 200+ stores.
Back then, we had this super loose policy that allowed any employee to check out games that we used as demos. Pretty much any game that wasn't M rated could be played by a customer on our demo stations in the media section before they purchased it.
Well, once the bankruptcy was announced and morale was completely destroyed, the media manager told a few of us that the liquidation company would be coming around, doing an inventory, and that, if those demo games weren't in the store when inventory was done, they would be assumed shrink and taken out of inventory.
So, 2 nights before the inventory happened, 4 of us walked out of the store at the end of our shifts with over 20 brand new games each, most of which weren't demos. I'm talking $60, new release titles. I don't know what I was thinking. I was really mad at the company and the liquidation group as well. They were cutting our hours like crazy. All of this was just an excuse and justification for theft. I have always considered myself an upstanding person of high moral character, but that is a moment I've regretted for a long time. I made an unforgivable mistake that night in a dark part of my life.
Years ago, I was working at a fairly large, regional electronics store. We had gone through a remodel about 18 months prior and had added computers and media (games and movies) to our stores. Well, 18 months later, after 2 incredibly successful holiday seasons, and to the surprise of everyone, the owner announced that the company was filing for bankruptcy and would be closing all 200+ stores.
Back then, we had this super loose policy that allowed any employee to check out games that we used as demos. Pretty much any game that wasn't M rated could be played by a customer on our demo stations in the media section before they purchased it.
Well, once the bankruptcy was announced and morale was completely destroyed, the media manager told a few of us that the liquidation company would be coming around, doing an inventory, and that, if those demo games weren't in the store when inventory was done, they would be assumed shrink and taken out of inventory.
So, 2 nights before the inventory happened, 4 of us walked out of the store at the end of our shifts with over 20 brand new games each, most of which weren't demos. I'm talking $60, new release titles. I don't know what I was thinking. I was really mad at the company and the liquidation group as well. They were cutting our hours like crazy. All of this was just an excuse and justification for theft. I have always considered myself an upstanding person of high moral character, but that is a moment I've regretted for a long time. I made an unforgivable mistake that night in a dark part of my life.
I drove 2 hours to the Chicago area to go to the ilovebees event, I regret nothing. The only thing gaming related that I sometimes regret is that I buy systems/games and then resale them when I'm bored or played the exclusive I wanted to play sooo badly. 3 wii u's and 2 PS4's later....
mcz117chief
Member
I bought WarZ
Tough story. Thanks for sharing.
However, there are definitely times when companies do not communicate well enough with their staff (even just not apologising/explaining changes to come) and that is just bad business. Bad management. A bad thing to do to people. What you did sounds pretty extreme, but honestly, it doesn't sound like they were very good to you either. It's a two-way street. Always remember that.
We all make mistakes; you're no Ted Bundy. Sleep easy.
Man Called Aerodynamics
Member
Lol a bit at the people whose "wild and crazy" story involves getting the 1000 in some game. As achievement hunters go, even a pretty tame one would have dozens of completed games.
Ah this one is a bit messed up. I would say if those games were going to be destroyed I would have urged you and your buddies to take all you could for preservation. But considering this was all to pay off debt/bankruptcy it is a rather dark moment.
Alex Stroud
Banned
Probably telling my girlfriend to keep a tab open at her job to see if the Majora's Mask 3DS from earlier this year would be replenished anywhere. I was in school so I couldn't check as easily as she could. She did find a system for me so it worked out in the end, but looking back at how mysteriously obsessed I was with this system, I felt really self conscious afterward, like "What in the hell is she thinking about me right now?"
Your story reminded me of this:
Not a regret at all - a couple of years ago I had to have eye surgery, and afterwards I wasn't allowed to read anything (including internet) for a couple of days. Unfortunately, my surgery was scheduled like the day before E3 started. My wife graciously volunteered to read all the gaming headlines to me those couple of days.
Met my ex on WoW. Regret it all, horrible experience, I should have known better.
Plating FFXIII
Bought Destiny twice, despite how much shit I give it.
I could fill this whole page with shit I did in WoW since late vanilla until the beginning of WoD, but I don't regret it since I met cool people.
Plating FFXIII
Bought Destiny twice, despite how much shit I give it.
I could fill this whole page with shit I did in WoW since late vanilla until the beginning of WoD, but I don't regret it since I met cool people.
Glendemonium
Member
My obsession with gaming would end up being the ONLY thing I could ever talk about in incredible detail. Didn't have an interest in sports, politics, education, current events, comic books or TV/movies outside of what I watched.
It made me a very boring person for a long ass time. Plus I lived in a time where gaming was considered very taboo subject to be interested in in teen-adulthood unless you were with a very niche group of geeks. Plus, it was the valley so people were notoriously shallow there which didn't help things.
It made me a very boring person for a long ass time. Plus I lived in a time where gaming was considered very taboo subject to be interested in in teen-adulthood unless you were with a very niche group of geeks. Plus, it was the valley so people were notoriously shallow there which didn't help things.
Deadpool_X
Banned
I agree with you. As I said, it was an incredibly dark moment in my life that I deeply regret.
At the same time, and no justification here, but the owner was a billionaire who was filing Chapter 11 bankruptcy, not because of our poor financials, but because he didn't want to deal with us anymore and couldn't find another buyer for the company. He chose to put thousands out of jobs because he was bored with us and wanted to focus on one of his other companies. He also owned us under a shell corporation, so that he could easily file bankruptcy and not take any personal hit for it.
As I said, this isn't a justification, as what I did was 100% wrong and I still feel guilty about it to this day; but the owner wasn't some mom and pop who wouldn't be able to pay his bills due to the completely immoral actions the 4 of us took that night.
I'm actually impressed lol
Auron_Kale
Member
Not regrettable but I do remember doing the following things:
- Would wake up 2 hours early every day for about a month in high school so that I could play Xenogears before school. I remember writing down each of Fei's combos and once I realized the pattern for combos I hadn't unlocked yet, I just wrote them down anyways and kept inputting the combos until they unlocked.
- While working at GameStop, we had received word that we had brand new boxed PSOne systems (with the screen) and were being sold for $30. I called one of our neighboring stores after checking our system to put the system on hold for me. Once I got off my shift, I drove over to the other store and bought it. Only bought it for the novelty, though I do have another working PSOne (no screen) and usually use that.
- Another GameStop story: Family brought in a PS1 and several games to trade (SSF2 collection, Brave Fencer Musashi & a few other random games but all were in great condition) in but we couldn't take them. I then escorted them outside of the store and paid $15 in cash to buy all the games off of them, which they didn't mind at all.
- Before I bought my tv for my room, I set up my PS3 around midnight to the main tv in the living room to download the MGO (MGS4 version) client; I woke up around 3 in the morning to make sure everything was downloading before going back to sleep and then checking the system again at 5 AM before snoozing for 1 more hour before getting ready for work.
- Would wake up 2 hours early every day for about a month in high school so that I could play Xenogears before school. I remember writing down each of Fei's combos and once I realized the pattern for combos I hadn't unlocked yet, I just wrote them down anyways and kept inputting the combos until they unlocked.
- While working at GameStop, we had received word that we had brand new boxed PSOne systems (with the screen) and were being sold for $30. I called one of our neighboring stores after checking our system to put the system on hold for me. Once I got off my shift, I drove over to the other store and bought it. Only bought it for the novelty, though I do have another working PSOne (no screen) and usually use that.
- Another GameStop story: Family brought in a PS1 and several games to trade (SSF2 collection, Brave Fencer Musashi & a few other random games but all were in great condition) in but we couldn't take them. I then escorted them outside of the store and paid $15 in cash to buy all the games off of them, which they didn't mind at all.
- Before I bought my tv for my room, I set up my PS3 around midnight to the main tv in the living room to download the MGO (MGS4 version) client; I woke up around 3 in the morning to make sure everything was downloading before going back to sleep and then checking the system again at 5 AM before snoozing for 1 more hour before getting ready for work.
RipperGrim
Member
This is an oddly mesmerizing thread, I notice quite a bit of the stories seem to be connected with addiction which I feel is a big driving force to make people do things that sound crazy out of context.
I would say I've spent money on games when I really should have been spending it on other things or saving it as well as put a fuck ton of days into Guild Wars 2, the day I figured out that /age shows how long you have played the game is the day I actually dropped the game and basically all MMO's. Too much time wasted lol.
I would say I've spent money on games when I really should have been spending it on other things or saving it as well as put a fuck ton of days into Guild Wars 2, the day I figured out that /age shows how long you have played the game is the day I actually dropped the game and basically all MMO's. Too much time wasted lol.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
Oh man, PLENTY of these. Regrets? Tons of them. One of them being that I literally ate 1/4th the cover (including some of the plastic) of Borderlands back in the days. Felt shit after that (not about the game but my stomach... man, my stomach).
RipperGrim
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mobilesworking
Member
Laughed so hard I had to close my office door. Those levels were fucking brutal!
Beatofficer
Member
In 2000 I was at a friends house and was playing either Goldeneye or Perfect Dark against a guy who we were kind of friends with. He was older than us but seemed like a cool guy. I kept beating him in the game and he had a total meltdown and punched me and yelled at me. I told him I was done playing but he kept apologizing. Went to play again and he hit me again and I was finished at that point. My best friend and I didn't tell his sister about this (she was older and was raising my best friend since their mother had passed away) but we should have so she could have ended that friendship...
You may ask how is this regrettable? Several months later he tried to kill my friend and his sister and wanted to eat them "just to try it." It was all over Northern California news around February or March of 2001. Luckily he failed his attempt and wasn't able to knock them out with a weapon and 911 was called. I felt awful and still feel awful that we didn't tell his sister about what happened because that would have never of happened.
For a less serious one, I stayed up for 3 days straight during the launch of Wrath of the Lich King and my room got flooded due to a broken fire sprinkler because I ignored it leaking and when I got maintenance to finally come over and fix it, it broke when he "tried to check it out" causing my room to be flooded with water and fire retardant(it was red). I was sitting at the computer when it happened and the first thing I did was rip the surge protector out of the wall and run out of the room with my computer tower.
You may ask how is this regrettable? Several months later he tried to kill my friend and his sister and wanted to eat them "just to try it." It was all over Northern California news around February or March of 2001. Luckily he failed his attempt and wasn't able to knock them out with a weapon and 911 was called. I felt awful and still feel awful that we didn't tell his sister about what happened because that would have never of happened.
For a less serious one, I stayed up for 3 days straight during the launch of Wrath of the Lich King and my room got flooded due to a broken fire sprinkler because I ignored it leaking and when I got maintenance to finally come over and fix it, it broke when he "tried to check it out" causing my room to be flooded with water and fire retardant(it was red). I was sitting at the computer when it happened and the first thing I did was rip the surge protector out of the wall and run out of the room with my computer tower.
When I was like in 3rd grade or so my my friend were in the grocery store in the game section while our mothers were grocery shopping.
We see the beyblade GBA game, but we begged our mothers to buy us the game but they said no, so what my friend did was he went to an aisle no one was in, put the games deep in to the shelf and unboxed them there so the cameras wouldn't see, but instead of putting them in the pockets like a sane person he puts it in his underwear.
So then when we get back to the apartment complex he hands me this smelly as fuck game and I took it and I don't think I ever washed it.
That's probably it.
Edit: Forgot to mention when my mother asked where the game came from I said it was one of the prizes found in the cereal box.
We see the beyblade GBA game, but we begged our mothers to buy us the game but they said no, so what my friend did was he went to an aisle no one was in, put the games deep in to the shelf and unboxed them there so the cameras wouldn't see, but instead of putting them in the pockets like a sane person he puts it in his underwear.
So then when we get back to the apartment complex he hands me this smelly as fuck game and I took it and I don't think I ever washed it.
That's probably it.
Edit: Forgot to mention when my mother asked where the game came from I said it was one of the prizes found in the cereal box.
speedomodel
Member
Used the Red Dead glitch for MP to level up.
Bought ID@Xbox games knowing they'd be less than a hour of gameplay for 1000 GS.
Bought ID@Xbox games knowing they'd be less than a hour of gameplay for 1000 GS.
anberlin44
Banned
When I was 12-13ish? I would go to this local video rental store and would steal SNES games they had for rent. Well... they did not have SNES games under lock and key like a Blockbuster, the cases they were in were not hard to open. The only means of security they had for the games was a magnetic security strip stuck to the back of the game. It was not hard to take off with a simple razor blade. My brother and I would go back and eventually led to us taking maybe 30 games in total over a course of a week. Looking back, I'm surprised we didn't get caught.
I did this. Game was sort of fun? Not really something I'd do again though; not being able to understand what I was ever doing really hurts how much I enjoy a game.
like others have said; I played WoW for waaaaay too long. I have also been scammed in this game by someone just like the confession on the first page. Got really cool with someone, we would raid n pvp together, and eventually he asked if I wanted to play his rogue, since I had a warlock. I don't just trust people, but I don't think he knew that, and simply didn't believe me when I told him that he was the only person to have my account info. So eventually I came home from work one night, and logged in, as this dude was at a mailbox transferring all my gold and items to himself. only took about 1k gold, but I got it back, because I simply told Blizzard, and also told them that I had never shared my account info with ANYONE. That's when I also realized how much GM's in that game bullshit, because they didn't know as much as they claim to.
I've almost got in 2 fist fights from gaming. Both times I was at a good friends house, and the person I almost fought was some random dude I had just met that night. Once was because were all about to play Mario Cart/Goldeneye on N64 (PS3/360 were in stores lol) and we all go to pick up the controllers, and this dude picks up the black controller, and hands it to me and says "yea u can play with this one, cuz you know. blacks gotta stick together". He was white, and had just moved into the house beside my best friend, who is also white.
The other was when I was playing madden (like 09 or somethin) with some other dudes, and this one guy just kept nagging, and talking shit the whole time. It eventually got to the point when I told the guy I didn't know him like that, and to stop talking shit to me, and then it escalated from there and we were in the parking lot... my boys calmed me down, and he left.
selling my Dreamcast to playntrade for like $20 or somethin years back.
pawning my ps4 off twice for money to pay people back for shit, and having to pay interest to get it back.
I've traded in Batman Arkham Knight 3 times now, for the same reason. I always buy it back too, because I want to finish the game...
Buying FFXI at launch when it came out years ago, thinking my rents would let me use their cc, and I would pay them $15 a month. Nope. Couldn't trade it in, and had no clue of what ebay was at the time.
I used to do some really trollish stuff on Socom, because everyone who played that game was so arrogant haha. When the round/match ends, or you switch sides, there's a brief moment when you could talk on the mic, and no one would know which side was speaking. I would change my voice, and if my team lost, I would act like I was on the other team, and say how everyone on my team sucks in really puny nasal voice. If we won, I'd use the same voice, but just degrade my team, saying that everyone was cheating, and that's the only reason we won. The results were amusing.
I've almost got in 2 fist fights from gaming. Both times I was at a good friends house, and the person I almost fought was some random dude I had just met that night. Once was because were all about to play Mario Cart/Goldeneye on N64 (PS3/360 were in stores lol) and we all go to pick up the controllers, and this dude picks up the black controller, and hands it to me and says "yea u can play with this one, cuz you know. blacks gotta stick together". He was white, and had just moved into the house beside my best friend, who is also white.
The other was when I was playing madden (like 09 or somethin) with some other dudes, and this one guy just kept nagging, and talking shit the whole time. It eventually got to the point when I told the guy I didn't know him like that, and to stop talking shit to me, and then it escalated from there and we were in the parking lot... my boys calmed me down, and he left.
selling my Dreamcast to playntrade for like $20 or somethin years back.
pawning my ps4 off twice for money to pay people back for shit, and having to pay interest to get it back.
I've traded in Batman Arkham Knight 3 times now, for the same reason. I always buy it back too, because I want to finish the game...
Buying FFXI at launch when it came out years ago, thinking my rents would let me use their cc, and I would pay them $15 a month. Nope. Couldn't trade it in, and had no clue of what ebay was at the time.
I used to do some really trollish stuff on Socom, because everyone who played that game was so arrogant haha. When the round/match ends, or you switch sides, there's a brief moment when you could talk on the mic, and no one would know which side was speaking. I would change my voice, and if my team lost, I would act like I was on the other team, and say how everyone on my team sucks in really puny nasal voice. If we won, I'd use the same voice, but just degrade my team, saying that everyone was cheating, and that's the only reason we won. The results were amusing.
:lol
D1renegade
Member
Probably that time I decided to link my facebook account with my PSN profile, My trophy achievements were the only status updates my facebook profile saw back in those days.
TetraGenesis
Member
The time you spend on gaming related gifs is insane. Please never stop.
demosthenes
Member
I'm glad you came around.
Couldn't beat the water temple when I was 12 for an entire day or something in OoT, was getting really angry, my mom took the game from me and I cried.
Had a great party in the early days of FFXI. It went for 27 hours with bathroom/food breaks.