Resident Wumbologist

Made an account for your birthday video. I have played only one MMO in-depth. It was S-Zone online. Basically a bootleg S.T.A.L.K.E.R. knockoff made into a third-person FTP MMO by some greedy 3-rd rate Russian devs. The game was vastly incomplete, most of the quests were broken, the landscape empty and past the first couple levels the NPCs were absolutely broken making 90% of the content that did exist completely unplayable. To my knowledge in the years this MMO has been online none of these issues were ever fixed. That said, combat was competent, there were anomalies, artifacts and of course player made and run factions with bases they could capture. I mostly played as a loner picking up artifacts and gradually upgrading my equipment until I joined the 4chan /VG/ group which was very /K/ inspired called the Cheeki Breeki aka 7th Rhodesian Rangers. We were in a constant war with Last Light which were a bunch of pay2win scrubs abusing the built in Golden Ruble system that allowed you to buy endgame-level equipment virtually at the beginning of the game with real money. Things got really dramatic because we were fighting the people who were effectively supporting the game devs. At one point, they started cheating. At first it was aimbotting. They'd be able to snipe us with pistols the second they could establish line of sight up to 8km away (the levels are that large and yes you have to run across them all the way on foot to recover your loot when you go down). Then they became magically invincible. Shots fired towards them wouldn't register. LL did some housekeeping because although they did like crushing people with somewhat unfairly acquired equipment actually hacking the game was a bit unsporting. The people they kicked out retaliated by forming their own clan and basically wrecking the game. Not only would they aimbot and run around in effective god mode, they managed to hack the safe zones where you couldn't fire weapons or register incoming hits around trading posts/NPC quest hubs. They started killing everyone the second they spawned and running through the spawns collecting all their stuff. We told the devs. Devs sneered and said that nothing of the sort was happening. Apparently one of the devs was in this clan actively providing hacks/exploits for the bandits. They did however start banning LL, CB and 7RR accounts left and right. Basically, if you could somehow evade the gods running around raining death with sniper rifles 16 hours out of every day and actually make some game progress they would assume you're hacking/exploiting and ban you outright. Eventually I along with just about every other player gave all my items away, logged off and uninstalled the game having never paid a single dollar. It was fun having big 100+ pitched battles/firefights between clans but once cheating because virtually ubiquotous (and unavoidable, since there were really only 2 big levels to play in, the 2nd being about 70% uninhabitable due to broken 1 hit kill NPCs) what little fun gameplay existed was ruined.