In the MMORPG Oldschool RuneScape (Steam), a player’s question about how to retrieve a valuable item has shown the darker side of the MMORPG community. Players on reddit are giving sinister advice for a simple problem.
What wand is it about?
- The item is called ‘The Kodai Wand’ and is worth about 96 million gold in OldSchool RuneScape.
- The item has some advantages and is considered the strongest one-handed wand in OldSchool RuneScape. The wand gives 15% damage boost and has a 15% chance that offensive spells will not incur rune costs.
- A player made the mistake of lending this item.
Player becomes a dad, stops playing the MMORPG, and lends an item
This was the player’s problem: A player asked the community on reddit for advice:
He had lent the wand to a cousin in April 2021. His first child had just been born and he wanted to play less RuneScape.
Now, he proudly tells, he tricked his wife, is allowed to stay home as a father, and take care of the child: Therefore, he logically logged back into RuneScape after 2 years and wanted his wand back.
But his cousin also became a father and had stopped playing RuneScape.
His question to the community: He would see his cousin again in November for Thanksgiving. How could he make it clear to him that after 2 years he needed to log back into his ‘Point-and-Click’ childhood game, use two-factor authentication, buy a membership, and get the wand back?
“Ruin his life and cause chaos”
These were the brilliant pieces of advice from the community:
- The top advice from the MMORPG community is ‘Beat him up, screw the little punk. Get your stuff back. Do not be an adult here. Cause chaos. Ruin his life. That’s RuneScape: Way more important than the stupid child!’
- Another said: ‘Do all that and then kiss his sister!’
- A third recommended: ‘Hit his child too. Show his wife your gold status and make her your new RuneScape girlfriend.’
The most nefarious suggestion was probably: He should befriend his new niece or nephew. When the child is old enough, he should show the child how to play OldSchool RuneScape and let him farm ‘The Kodai Wand’. Then he just needs to ask the child to lend him the wand for a moment. Profit.
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Did the advice help? Surprisingly yes, but not in the way the advisors thought.
The player says he only had to show the cousin the thread with the crazy suggestions and the cousin returned the wand without protest.
Particularly the first comment about causing chaos made the difference. When the message from his cousin came, the player was lying in bed, thinking about how to ruin his cousin’s life for Thanksgiving.
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