The Cruelest, Most Messed Up Things Gamers Have Done To Other Gamers

In 2006, a group of players from the Alliance guild Serenity Now decided to raid an in-game funeral taking place in World of Warcraft. Members of a Horde faction planned the ceremony to commemorate the real death of one of their members after a fatal stroke.

But they conducted the ceremony on a PvP server, making it possible for anyone to kill players in the region.

This allowed Serenity Now, who learned about the event on the game's official forum, to crash the funeral and massacre everyone in attendance. Even worse, none of the mourners were prepared for trouble because they didn't expect anyone to be so callous.

After an update to the MMORPG RuneScape in 2009, players learned it was possible to purposely crash another player’s client. This would force them from the game, allowing others to kill their character and steal their gear.

The problem arose because the game’s public chat feature was unable to render the character “µ” and would cause a fatal error. Malicious players would turn off their text box so the issue wouldn't affect them, then go to crowded areas and send a public message to everyone nearby.

World of Warcraft provided the backdrop for a major in-world crisis. The “corrupted blood” incident stemmed from a system bug that allowed a detrimental effect to make its way outside of the proper area.

It essentially acted as a disease that would quickly kill players and leave those at a higher fighting level to stay alive.

Things got worse when some players would purposely contract the disease and then travel to populated areas to intentionally pass it to as many people as possible. This spread of the virtual disease killed thousands of characters and left major WoW cities completely abandoned.

In the open world survival gameDayZ, Redditor u/CoolGasPumper and his brother met two other players who went by the names Igor and Ron. Together, they found a rare car called a GAZ. It was a fixer-upper, so the team spent hours finding parts to rebuild it.

While Ron and the Redditor's brother looted, u/CoolGasPumper and Igor traveled in the car.

All of the sudden, a roadblock materialized in front of them. They crashed into it, and Igor was ejected from the vehicle. When Igor asked u/CoolGasPumper to save him, the Redditor pretended to lose connection and drove away in the car. He left Igor to die, took the vehicle they built together, and hid it in the woods so he could find it the next time he played.

In World of Warcraft, one Redditor found a diabolical way to exploit players begging for gold in the city of Stormwind.

From Redditor /u/Saintblack:

I'd tell them I would give them gold, and invite them to a party. I'd then tell them that we have to go somewhere private, because I didn't want other people to see me doing a trade with a low level player or I might get banned.

I'd jump in the canal and swim to the bottom, and pop a water breathing potion. If/when they swam to the bottom with me, I'd open trade with 1,000g in the window and never hit accept.

I drowned a lot of people.

The Falador Massacre occurred in RuneScape in 2006. When Cursed You, the first player to reach level 99 in construction, held a party to celebrate his new achievement, it created a glitch that allowed certain people to kill anyone even if they were in a safe zone.

The party contained some combat events that caused the glitch, and when players were booted from Cursed You’s home, the servers struggled to handle the load. That released defenseless players into the wild. Once others learned they could kill characters that couldn’t fight back, they slaughtered almost everyone they came across over and over again.