I've never played an MMO, but I did once come home early to find my flat mate, my boss and a colleague in my kitchen with their D&D stuff all over the kitchen table. If I had walked in on them and they were all wanking then they may have possibly looked less ashamed of themselves. It turns out that they had been holding secret D&D meetings in our house for months. This alone made me make sure I never got involved with any of that shit.

I guess the horror story of MMOs I have other than it taken over my life throughout Uni. It was while working at Microsoft, I was level grinding during the day on Final Fantasy XI with a random group of people and forgotten that I had a meeting scheduled. I quickly sent an email to the team to delay the meeting for 20mins making up some elaborate excuse so that we can finish helping this random Japanese get his level.

The funnier one, not for me was that I was staying over at Rob for a party and I was killing a boss type monster the morning after the party and Perrin decided that it was a really good idea to come up to me and repeatedly slapping me on the top of my head, since I couldn't take my hands off the keyboard to retaliate at the time which makes the matter worse.

Why was Rob Seemingly banished to an echoy cave for this podcast? Listening on my generic MP3 player it sounded like Rob was involved in some horrific accident leaving him trapped under the washing machine in Perrin's Kitchen and decided to soldier on regaurdless very far away from the mic.

As for MMO, I havnt really played them but I used to share a house with someone who did. He was playing Phantasy Star Universe a lot and got into some guilds, often I'd come bug him about stuff while he played and eventually would end up watching him do things in the game. It was with increasing alarm that we kept seeing a player named 'Cherry' or some such. Cherry was a character that looked like a little girl, but this was some weird loli type girl made really short and petitie so as to look as young as possible.
This was played by a man, which in itself is fine, but this is a man who would run around the lobby areas with an increasing entourage and then shout out long weird rape fantasy things around players who were AFK. The others would surround said AFKer in a circle and all of them would add in to the weird fantasy.

Needless to say dispite my friends reassurance that Creepy McBastard wasnt the average person playing the game he couldnt really convince me to play it with him.

It's only recently I can think of playing an MMO without remebering;

"we slide our meat against his unspespecting skin"

:(

MMO horror stories - i actually used to play WOW a LOT.

Joined a roleplaying guild, was friendly and helpful, over about a month i rose to second in command, was fun...until....it started

people EXPECTING you to stay on for 6+ hours in a row so you could help them. Having to go on at weird times with stupid random shit, like having someone tell you to line up and march for an hour ( im not kidding ). Having to explain the warcraft lore about a billion times.

Eventually i literally got to max level and got EVERYTHING I wanted itemwise. I did raids, but it still came to the fact that it felt more like work than fun, hell i even left the guild, but then i got so damn bored just flying about that i left, leaving my character on the top of a mountain somewhere.

it just got to me when i was doing a raid with the guild...and my mum brought me a sandwich for lucnh...and i decided "yea, im out" noone should hafta resort to their parents bringing them provisions because they can't go downstairs

Don't forget that in the old Sonic games, a second player could pick up a controller and take control of Tails! It wasn't necessary, but he could help you out a lot!