Dearest, beloved, Fandom Wank.

I know you were looking forward to great excitement today. Some of you said words to me that indicated you anticipated fiery 'judgement' upon those who remained fresh and dewey white, those you call n00bs.

Anyway, you got today instead.

Stop anticipating things, we'll just break your hearts.

Sincerely,

Sepia P. Magpie, Esq.



PS: Use this post to reflect on how you could be better people. Or just fuck around in the comments.

Watch out, FFXI players! The haxxorz are at it again!

After breaking into the FFXI wiki forums and then losing all his cred for stealing people's accounts, Taj is attempting to redeem himself by breaking into the site that sells FFXIApp and revealing the purchasers to the world!

Wank breaks out on Allakhazam (No surprise there), and probably elsewhere.

I'm still muddling through threads and stuff on alla, so I'll let this mousey here speak through me:

"FFXI exploded again. This wank makes the Wiki thing last week look TAME.

Taj, the hero of questionable morality in the previously reported Wikia/FFXI wanksplosion, managed to acquire the account information for nine members of a linkshell on Asura. He moved the accounts to Leviathon (presumeably through illegal means) and took their stuff. This was all done, from what we can tell, with the "because it was there" attitude.

More cross forum bitching ensues.

The original thread (36 (!) pages and counting): http://www.bluegartrls.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=24024&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&sid=478c94f188556153e0a6c728d3aad4a8

Panic over windower and summaries from Alla (5 pages and counting): http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=10;mid=1190871065186475180;num=184;page=1

Killing Ifrit is a bit calmer about it:
http://ffxi.killvoid.com/forums.php?m=posts&q=161536"

I will add, going by comments on the Alla post, that I think most of the juicy stuff from the original thread starts around page 18. Also, there's a summary that seems to link it to the previous wank, too.

On August 25, 2004, "Mia Consalvo, an associate professor in the School of Telecommunications at Ohio University," according to her about page, posted to her blog, MemoryCard, about cheating in FFXI.

Wank ensued.

StReEtSoLdIeR made this ever so scintillating post to start it off: i think those bots r dumb :P ppl r just lazy i mean farmin for gil is fun (in the tower) so i heard bout these bots for a while and i was told if ur caught afk they terminate ur playonline account not just ur FFXI one and i didn't pay to getk kicked so im not usin a bot ne time soon :P well g2g l8r dyz

Someone needs to pay more attention to English class than FFXI.

Then Ashley accuses PlayOnline of conspiracy to scam players, using this as a justification to bot, <s>never mind that botting is more of an offense against one's fellow players than PlayOnline</s>

... whines about his friend, who is doing badly in school thanks to MMORPGs. This begins a bit more drama.

Sakono calls both of them "dumb asses," in an ill-fated attempt to get everyone to STFU.

Me, Not You, calls everyone newbies and defends his "right" to bot. Apparently someone rewrote the Constitution.

Someone else asks for bot macros, <s>never mind that that isn't even the point of the post.</s>

That Guy and Nekhekh attempt to bring some sense to the discussion, albeit in netspeak. My eyes, they burn.

Hellion whines loudly and goes emo.If i have a fish bot i would use it but nope i dont and i dont know where to get one can someone plz help me! i got so pissed off at these dumb ass people in the dunes the other day! that i said fuck it and started suiciding in to the gobs for like 3hrs i lost 16lvls! the i almost quit! but then my Ffxi wife cam and calmed me down i was pissed off cuz of these stupied people talking shit to me! Their is no way in hell to do anything u want to do on ffxi! i love to go out and hunt NM's with my wife but we can never the then cuz of stupied botters!! Help me get a fish bot so i can make some gil and get my wife the armor she wants plzzz!!! thanks Hellion (server Asura)

gilMakah and other_guy provide some sensible advice, with other_guy telling him to STFU. "Wow dude. Get a life. If anyone messes up their real life for a fake one, they've got problems. Don't blame the game. Try this thing called taking responisibility for your actions." Truer words were never spoken, and this should have ended the wank, but no. . .

Shinoe also tries to restore sanity to the wank, but it doesn't last for long.

Anonamous invokes teh law and reads everyone the official riot act, and they're off!

Seriously, this thread started in August 2004, and the latest post is December 18, 2005.

Will this wank ever stop?

ETA: Some of the links may be incorrect. I realized mid-post that the name of the poster was at the bottom of the post, not the top.