What's the worst online events you played in a MMORPG?

[Scarim Coral]

So this topic was inspired from the current evnet in Guild Wars 2. Also no this won't be an angry rant on why the event suck so much.

Anyway I been playing the game since launch so I have taken part in all past and current event but the even they got going on just take the cake and that is saying alot. Granted this could be a spur of the moment but whatever.

Spoiler: Also kudo to anyone who get this game reference as this is my second most hated events

Long story made shot, the main reason why I dislike this event the most is simply it is unrewarding and it is a huge cocked up from the developer side. No seriously, it was bugged on the first day of the event in that the game doesn't give you any reward what so ever.

The event is similar to a past event Clockwork Chaos in that the new enemies spawm on selective maps in a set of time and the event is killing them all within the time limits. The difference is that unlike Clockwork were you get alot of loots from it, the current loots give you NOTHING at all. Yes you still get the new token reward at the end of it but you get so only a handful of them. Also the event starts at every half an hour and after the third events, it take an hour break. So in another word, it's a tedious grind especially when you get good items to used the token on but it require alot of it. (Yes as always I know I don't need to played the new event if I hate it so much.)

That enough out of me, I want to read your tales of an MMORPG or online related event you played but it had left you bitter at the end of it.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

I had a high level rogue in EverQuest. Had a quest in an underwater cave. Went for a swim. Lagged at the entrance to the underwater caverns. Character drowned and the connection died.
Relogged on and went to get my equipment but my corpse was in.the nebulous black zone INSIDE the caves loading zone, so when I approached if just loaded me into the cave.


Lost all my equipment.

 

[ZeroFarks]

Burn Jita.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

I was present for the first awakening of the sleeper in Everquest, not that I was 100% part of the thing, but I did get my ass handed to me by way of happening to be there for the "event" as well as Sony's response of despawning the thing before we killed it (boy did that fucking suck).
I also witnessed the Zul'Gurub plague (not an event as far as planned, but an event nonetheless), and pretty much every major expansion's prologue events in WoW. Most of those were fun, in a sort of getting to experience something that was limited... though the ghoul plague was pure fucking insanity.
Uhm... I wasn't logged in for the killing of Lord British, but I did get an inbox full of screenshots from friends who were there. Hilarious.
I can't say that any of the events were the "worst" though because I managed to have fun with them all. Except perhaps how disappointing the faux-retaking of Gnomeregan was. I wanted my gnomish buddies to finally have their city back, but it didn't work out that way.