Congratulations to Rodzaju for winning the giveaway draw. Thank you everyone for sharing your stories.

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So I've heard that giveaways are a thing here.

Gentlemen, it is my opinion that there are not enough Zelda-style action adventures on the PC. To that end, I now have a gift code for The Real Texas waiting in my inbox for a lucky recipient.

Entering will not be trivial for the average GOG. I am making you work for the chance to win. To enter you do what few GOGers can: post about your most memorable and cherished experience in an online multiplayer game.

What, you thought I was going to just let you in? ;)

Post about your best story about something that happened in an online multiplayer game. It doesn't matter what game it is as long as it's something that required the avatars of living breathing people and an Internet connection (sorry, no LAN). It can be anything from Unreal Tournament, to Team Fortress 2, to World of Warcraft, to Starcraft, to Minecraft, to Second Life, to one o' dem browser-based thingies.

Entries will be plugged into Random.org tomorrow evening and the gift code PM'd to the winner. Open to anyone who has registered before or during the month of June 2012.

Edit

To break the ice, here's my story.

There was this Source mod (Half-Life 2 et al.) I used to play where people played co-op maps together. There was one map that was a space station and we all had to fight these waves of zombies. However, the spawn location of the zombies wasn't hard to find or reach and we were able to spawn camp them with our crowbars. As zombie bodies comically piled up over the spawn point one player over voice chat declared us to be a clan.

I bought it when it launched on the game's site, and it's great. +1 to you and good luck to the participants. It's quite the game.

Not entering, but my most memorable moments are those times in Killing Floor when everyone else is dead and you, as a Medic, have to take out the remaining Zed with just a pistol. Good times.

Not entering, just wanted to say thank you :) +1

Haven't really played many multiplayer games but I see the appeal. Mass effect 3 has pretty great multiplayer thing, had some trouble with Origin first when playing that but it turned out that my virus scanner was at fault.
Anyway, when it worked it worked great with couple of Goggers.
Cherished moment was that after many tries we got through that last wave of enemies in that level. It was pretty sweet.
I also know the reality.. That one player carried us to victory, we others just did our best. =P
Still, it was fun.

Thanks for the giveaway!

I've never been a big online gamer, but I did spend some time online with Warcraft 2 way back in the day. At first I wasn't enjoying it much - most of the players I encountered were hypercompetitive jerks. So I jumped around on servers for a while until I ended up on the Australian servers.

What a difference.

Everyone there was super-chill, didn't really care if they were winning or losing, just wanted to make friends. My favourite moment, though, was in the middle of a match when a voice-chat came over my headphones (and this was a pretty rare thing at the time), with a thick Aussie accent saying "Oi! Mates! I've got to go, there's women's volley on the telly!" followed by 3/4 of the players immediately signing off.

Well, I used to play UT2004 with people from a local gaming community. We had our own server which was customized quite a bit. Twice a year, we played Christmas-themed maps using various Christmas-themed mods. This gave rise to screenshots such as this one.

Oh, and it's me in the screenshot. I used an Agent Smith player model.

Not entering (I don't play multiplayer games), but thanks for this giveaway. +1

I feel this should win. It made me want to move to Australia. xD

I'm not much of a fan of multiplayer, generally if I feel that itch I use bots, but back when TF2 didn't have bots, I had one good game. I'd been away for a bit, and came on expecting to be rusty as shit. I picked Sniper, joined a random server... and was amazing. I don't know how I did it, but I was just racking up kills, protecting team-mates, and ended with the highest score of the round (about 50-something, admittedly, but as bad as I am at the game...). I have never been able to replicate that feat, even against bots.

I've not played much online multi.
I do remember one of my first Dawn of War 2 games.
It was painfully obvious that I was a newbie.
One of the players spent most of the match giving me pointers over steam chat.
It was only after the match that the penny dropped.
It was one of the opposing players.......

I don't play online multiplayer often, usually it's with my brother's online account or playing on that of a friend on Xbox. My most memorable moments though were playing Super Smash Bros Brawl with my brother, and online against my girlfriend at the time and his brother. I prided myself at being really good at the game, while her brother was a mean trash talker. I basically whupped his ass single handedly for most of the matches, until one caught us off guard. I ended up 2 lives short and him ready to win against me, but I basically buckled down and won the match by being sneaky, evasive and using as much ability as I could to get myself back to the platform before I was knocked off stage. It was a crazy night, one that had him swearing like a sailor pissed with me.

I guess I am a romantic. What I remember the most is the first time.

I just had Internet installed at home, after a few days using my first PC. A friend of mine and I tried to play online just because we could, but I didn't expect much from my Internet connection, which probably was the cheapest at the time. The game was NHL, I don't remember which one, one of those sport games that EA keeps pumping every year. Maybe NHL 99. It was the only game we both owned. My friend lived across the street, so he would sometimes come by to play in my bedroom. But when we played online... Oh my, we felt so adventurous, as if we were exploring a new world. The hockey players some time would freeze and then appear at some random location, but most of the times it worked, and I don't I remember ever celebrating a goal like in those times.

Thanks a lot for the giveaway. That game is in my wishlist, so I am in.

I will enter!

My story is like this.

Myself and a few friends were playing Halo 3 over Xbox Live, and we were in this Team Deathmatch map. So it's all going good and everything, but suddenly a strange prepubescent voice begins to crackle over my headset. Some kid on our team started talking, and he just wouldn't shut up. So naturally, my friends and I started killing him, even though he was on our own team. His response? Yelling "TEAM KILLER, TEAM KILLER!" in a shrill shriek only achievable by an eight year old. We must've have killed him like 3 or 4 times, and he just kept screaming more and more--until he booted us shortly after. Worth it? I think yes.

Hm, multiplayer stories? Alright here we go!

I was playing Team Fortress 2 and there was this player who had a fairly high-pitched voice that could be mistaken with a child's. So, one guy on the server got really mad at this player and here's how it played out.

Angry man: UGH, YOU SUCK. YOU ARE JUST USING ALL THE CHEAP WEAPONS! WHAT ARE YOU LIKE A 12 YEAR OLD LITTLE BOY?!
Other player: No... I'm a girl...
(a minutes of silence)
Angry man: (really quietly) are you hot?
The girl shortly disconnected.

Thanks for the giveaway!