I still recall how, as a fresh-faced, young gamer just getting into the newfangled realm of online multiplayer, I got absolutely got in Everquest when somebody told me you could get a numeric representation of your current experience points by typing “/ex”.
It was actually short for “/exit”. And in those days, it took a loooooooooooooooooong time to relaunch the game and get logged back in. Learned a valuable lesson about human nature that day. It has served me well.
I got people with ‘/qui gon jinn’ in Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy.
It runs ln the Quake 3 engine, so it would just ignore everything after the space and auto complete the closest command, which was ‘/quit’ which instantly quit the game.
I got so many people because it seems like a plausible cheat code in a Star Wars game.
I still recall how, as a fresh-faced, young gamer just getting into the newfangled realm of online multiplayer, I got absolutely got in Everquest when somebody told me you could get a numeric representation of your current experience points by typing “/ex”.
It was actually short for “/exit”. And in those days, it took a loooooooooooooooooong time to relaunch the game and get logged back in. Learned a valuable lesson about human nature that day. It has served me well.
It is an initiation we all must pass through. Nothing delights me more than delivering that initiation to others.
Unfortunately, this was before xkcd. If I’d known about the “lucky 10,000”, I might have been more philosophical about it at the time.
First week playing WoW and some goober told me to try the camp emote. /camp quits the game and I quickly learned my lesson. Wasn’t even mad.
I got people with ‘/qui gon jinn’ in Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy.
It runs ln the Quake 3 engine, so it would just ignore everything after the space and auto complete the closest command, which was ‘/quit’ which instantly quit the game.
I got so many people because it seems like a plausible cheat code in a Star Wars game.
‘/disco’ to dance got a lot of people too.
That’s a top tier prank
Entering disco in Warcraft 2 lit up this bad boy:
https://youtu.be/8jQ36ixLeq8
Good times.
check past messages with “/log”
Man, I really miss EverQuest. Wish I could go back to my teens and relive those days.
I still regularly play the same character I started with nearly 26 years later. I still love that game.
‘Type disco into console for lights’ for CS