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THE IRONY OF THE TRUE GAMER
VisualHawk
Member Posts: 3
When you go into a new game you’re all excited about making a new character and which one to choose. Your heart is pumping with adrenaline at the thought of making it the best that it can be for pve or pvp. Thoughts of dungeons pop into your mind of large bosses with fire shooting out their mouths and slashes of blood dripping off of it as your sword pushes deep within its leather tough skin. You plunge it deeper and deeper into it and the sound and feel of soft tissue and cracking and crushing of bone splinters out of its wound. And then with one last breathe that you feel that you have it crumbles ever slowly to your feet as you feel the victory of its defeat. This is the feeling of the true gamer.
Then it comes to mind that you have leveled and your skills go up and you upgrade your armor after saving for that new shining sword that has new magic. After saving for months and getting it right from spending lots of gold on upgrades and slotting its ready to use. You meet this new player who’s lvl is 10 times your own and promises to help make yours higher then your dreams could ever imagine.
Dungeon after dungeon you trudge on fighting and this friendship starts to get closer and you think there is no other in the world but him or her that is making your world a better place to live. This friend never telling you about his or her personal life but always asking you about yours. And after helping him or her make a new email account which by now you are oblivious to think that this person is beyond mistakes and is the best friend you could and would ever have he or she ask you to log out cause of his and a friend’s lagging and without question your fingers hit those insane keys with no thoughts of losing all your hopes and dreams you log off.
As you ponder in your mind about why and how you would be making your friends lag you slowly double click the icon that will bring you back into the game and put in your ID and password which you have done for months and there is a message that repeats ID and password do not match, ID and password do not match. And you’re thinking what the heck you continue to try with desperation to get back into the game which has been you home for months and there is no way of entering. That my friends is the irony of the true gamer.
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I'm not sure I follow this. You set up an email account for somebody and they somehow stole your login and password for your game account?
Irony of the true gamer? More like naivete of the truly ignorant. If that happened to you, then ... wow. Just... wow.
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I say...."kek" and reccomend you do what I do, use a 16 letter and random number combo for passwords, and never tell anyone either account name and password
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Some people don't know how to be safe on the internet. Live and learn.
I learned this lesson when I lost my first Diablo 1 sorcerer back in like '96.
uhmm i'm assuming you dont' actually know this person in RL.....
So yeah. dont' trust anyone on the internet....EVER.
And if it was a real friend........well get better ones.
at least 5 of my RL friends know my passwords into like 10 games...but i've never had a problem..
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Well Guys I guess Im just some dumb idiot that didnt know when to stop helping others and I truely thought that's what I was doing. And In answer to the question about did I give this person my email address? No I did not. I made this person a email account but Im also hearing that hackers can put a bogus sign in page that looks real and when you sign in they get your password. If this is the case then how do you prevent this from happening? And when I had my account taken from me the other times I did give my pw and id name not knowing back then that this would happen. Im not giving up the game I just wish that the people who put the games on would somehow find a safer way for us Hardcore gamers that are honest and want to play the game the way it was meant to play.
That isn't irony, it's you being naive.
Red letters in a black (or grey in my case) background makes it hard to see. And caps on title won't give you more attention than the title instead. Now I'm going to try to read what you wrote, but you're giving me a headache.
I've been playing MMO's for over 10 years now and not once have I given any kind of information pertaining to any of my accounts to anybody in any way shape or form, nor have I ever been asked by anybody to make them an account in anything. This alone would send up a red flag making me wonder why the hell they're so lazy as to not do it themselves. Nobody knows my accounts and passwords to anything, not my family, not my friends, nobody. I see no reason for it. It's mine and mine alone. I play for it and I use it and I never ask for anybody elses. So many times have I seen it happen amongst my friends who share their information and things go missing and they start looking for someone to blame and when the come to me I just remind them that they don't know my info and I don't know theirs and that shuts them up right there and then. If they want to bicker about who took what and when then they can go ahead and do it without me. If they need something that one of the characters I have can do then they can wait for me to come along or just get a hold of me and let me know. It's not that hard.
No required quests! And if I decide I want to be an assassin-cartographer-dancer-pastry chef who lives only to stalk and kill interior decorators, then that's who I want to be, even if it takes me four years to max all the skills and everyone else thinks I'm freaking nuts. -Madimorga-
I've been playing MMOs for 10 years, maybe longer I can't even remember and I've never had any security issues, never had an account stolen or gotten any viruses or anything like that.
1. Keep your information safe.
2. Keep your anti-virus and anti-spyware tools + firewall up to date
3. Never click on links in e-mails or on webpages unless you trust the source as credible.
Internet security 101 applies to MMORPGs too.
MMOs are starting to use Secure IDs now, I have one for my WoW account and it was like 4.99 with free shipping, got it in about a week.
Gauranteed security for your account right there.
Your opinion is immaterial.
"You meet this new player who’s lvl is 10 times your own and promises to help make yours higher then your dreams could ever imagine."
This is the start of where things went wrong.
How can another player playing the same game as you make your dreams higher than you can ever imagine.
Never ever mix out of game things (email etc) with in game friends. If you need help join a guild.
And when I had my account taken from me the other times I did give my pw and id name not knowing back then that this would happen.
So this is not the first time something like this has happened to you ."Times" means it is more than once, so 3 times at least?
Maybe you are being targeted now................
I could put my account name and password on this website, in this post right now, and no one could hack it becuase of my Secure ID.
It's like that lifelock dude and his SS#
Your opinion is immaterial.
Shouldn't this story be classified as a Tragedy? I really do not see anything ironic in it.
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I just can't do it.
Haha.
Why does it hurt when I pee?
Like many have pointed out- that is not irony but you can of course turn it into such.
I, like yourself am a very trusting person and had something similar happen to me. My "friend" at the time was watching me play my 49 UD warrior just tearing up some BG's (my first toon in WoW and I was proud [don't hate me]). I wanted him to play with me and told him to start up an account- he did, but after about 20 levels he began to hate having to level to play with me... around the same time I was looking to get back into CS:S with my old team for some Cal-M, and I knew I wouldn't have much time for WoW. I told him he could use my warrior to farm himself some money/use my professions while I was away- I trusted him, I told him he could use it freely, rush himself through some instances/quests w/e, but try not to level me to 50 (I loved my BG's). A few days later he had changed the pass and info... I knew what he was up to and I was pissed... but then I thought... he could be my own Korean pl'r/farmer... for free.
I let two months go by and I decided it was time to come back as my CS:S team wanted to try WoW out... When I came back I submitted the forms needed to recover my account and sure enough I was 60 (very poorly specd) but with a crap ton of money and a mount.
I have found this to be true in life as well as in games...when someone screws you, if you think before reacting, there is often a way to use it to your advantage.
Learning the lesson that your trust can be betrayed by friends is hard- even for hardcore gamers ^ ^... but to be a hardcore gamer it is a lesson that must be learned.
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No irony there, just someone that learned a lesson the hard way.
It could be worse if it happened in RL. But no, you just lost some months of progress in some virtual game with a virtual world and virtual items.
I guess I'll never understand something like this. Not what happened to this dude, because people do stupid things all of the time and let themselves get taken advantage of on a daily basis.
What blows my mind, is that people turn around and post things like this where 99% of the readers are going to say, "Wow, if you are that naive, you deserve it."
I feel compassion most of the time. Just not all of the time.
If people are this stupid, they deserve it. Live and learn, the hard way.
Umm, I don't think the game is meant to be played by someone powerleveling, and getting you sweet gear. I know your not seeking adice. I guess your intent was to seek compassion. I'm sorry someone in your life isn't supervising you correctly, as I'm sure you need it.
Its creepy how you explain your feelings for this friend you met in a video game.
Isn't it fun when people expose things they should be embarrased about?
Ok maybe irony is not a good choice of words, maybe those of you who are so perfect and uncaring dont see it through my eyes, maybe some of you just dont care about others, maybe and I hope it never happens you will be lucky enough to get your stuff stolen that is of value to YOU and it would have hit home. The thing is we can all criticise and tell others what they do wrong but we cant and want help others because they are stupid enough to let this happen to them.
i did every single thing you posted up there other than the account stealing part. That version of your true gamer is actually just a regular gamer who put up a pretense to be nice. However, with no real principle and ideology about dealing with other people, their facade remains a facade when it comes down to it.
I am currently managing several accounts for my friends (most are online friends), I don't even touch them. When people entrust something to me, I either give people their respect, or decline to take the responsibility all together.
The reason why I mention these things are the fact that I see more and more gamers these days believe that betraying people in a MMORPG is somehow acceptable. At the same time more and more people believe that being betrayed is a given when you trust someone. This is a very sad trend, and it is a good refleciton on both real and virtual society on just how rotten people's hearts have become.
We gained freedom, but lost our pinrciples. Whoop dee doo.
The only answer is to never trust any website that will ask for an ingame username and password also never disclose to anyone your personal info.. I always use 2 sets of username and password.. One for game registration on an official website and another used for joining forums and other..
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