Comments on: Five Classic Gaming Pranks

By: Eon Blue

Eon Blue — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 17:34:19 +0000

My favorite prank of all time was back in the first few months of EQ release. I was playing a necromancer and when you got up to a certain level you could cast a spell on your pet to be able to talk through him. Kind of useless until I found out that it could also be used on NPCs!

I spent many hours in Freeport using my new found skill. I’d cast on the npc then invis myself and wait for a noob to come along. I’d then give him a mighty quest to travel across the continent and talk to soandso. The best was when they’d start shouting to form a group for a ‘GM Quest’ and go on their merry way to fame and fortune. It was cruel, but oh so fun. The bug was fixed in the next patch and the game went downhill from there.

By: Anon

Anon — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 20:35:13 +0000

My favorite in wow is to occasionally ask “How do quit my guild?” – people that reply with /gquit drop from their guild. I’ve been yelled at many times for asking that.

By: romp

romp — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 18:45:00 +0000

I combined the Fake Mistell and the Guild Chat Chicanery ones the other night, it went something like this (my main is a Dwarf Paladin):

/g Hey Baby, I may be short, but I am long where it counts! 😉
/g ooops sry mistell 🙂

pause ….

replies:
Guildie 1: ?
Guildie 2: ?confused? M, what r u doing?
Guildie 3: M, are you giving the Guild a bad name?

lolmao, Thanks Foton!

By: Jaundice

Jaundice — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 12:33:59 +0000

A personal favourite is to put up a portal to Darnassus and as you’re casting call ‘Summoning , please click portal!’

By: Foton

Foton — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 13:40:50 +0000

Damn. I forgot one of my favorite pranks of all time: the unintentional /quit.

Then there’s the intentional /q to fake an LD because you’re ducking a group or a raid, but that’s not a prank, rather self preservation.

By: Metahari

Metahari — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 02:46:19 +0000

The “press alt-f4” style of joke is as old as online communication. I remember one multi line chat BBS back in the ’80s where the joke went like this:

Newb: “How do I access the online games section?”

Bastard: “/z online games”

/z was of course the command that disconnected you from the BBS.

Mages aren’t the only ones who can have fun. The old priest mind control and run your buddy off the cliff is good fun.

By: Factory

Factory — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 23:49:48 +0000

Surely there must be the equivilant of (in IRC):
Bob> Hey, how do I make multicoloured text in MiRC???
Evil> Press Alt-F4.

By: Foton

Foton — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 21:53:20 +0000

Mages have all the fun.

By: Chef

Chef — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 21:51:34 +0000

I do the portal to Darn thing all the time. Another fun thing to do is to put the portal in the middle of Domos fire pit or in the area next to Onyxia