10 Times Gamers Came Together To Do The IMPOSSIBLE

When players with passion, smarts, and dedication come together, crazy things can happen.

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[warfare]

The Save the children in helldivers was pretty awesome. Especially their donation on $4, 311. I like how clever the donation was because it spells out "Hell" as in Helldivers. Community was just awesome.

[angryheathen]

Back in old school Everquest there was a boss called The Sleeper. It was originally meant to be unkillable. Well an entire server came together and fought and killed it

[snekiboi]

Don’t forget the other impossible thing that the helldiver community also did. We were given an order that was said to re-conquer a sector under a fixed amount of time which was supposed to make us lose but the community all banded together and literally completed the major order that we were supposed to lose

[joncrow]

City of Heroes went farther than just returning from the dead. The fans that are running it are publishing new, high quality, game updates to both storyline and powers. It’s really wonderful seeing a game I love continue to grow. MAJOR kudos to the folks that resurrected this great game.

[BrianMcAvoy]

Helldivers community seems like a breath of fresh air with the Save the Children occurrence

[Dreznin]

Having participated in some of these and being a witness to most of them, the one that surprised me the most was the Homecoming servers for City of Heroes... When NCSoft gave the license to the team, it was unprecedented - game publishers often crack down on private servers, even long after they've stopped selling and hosting the game in question. With this move, hopefully other publishers will see how happy it has made the fans of their game and will be open to allowing community hosting when the official servers reach end-of-life.

One of my personal favorite "impossible events" in gaming was the resurrection of a small Global Agenda community on an official server. Global Agenda shutdown in 2018 after Hi-Rez stopped giving it any attention and just ignored it until only a dedicated community was left, then the servers went down during a maintenance and the remaining players were informed that the server was likely unrecoverable. Despite fan effort, no private server was ever able to be spun up, even though there were a couple of attempts. One of the members of the community noticed something back in early 2022 though, a new build was pushed to Steam, even though the game store was delisted years prior. Well, that led to a notification on the Discord server and it was found that the server was accessible and all of the account data was there... It turned out that Hi-Rez had patched it together on an old server so they could have internal teams fire it up and revisit it to potentially get inspiration for a sequel - their team logged in to find around 100 players running missions on a server that had never meant to have been public. They saw that this community was happy to play it again, so they agreed to leave it up and publicly accessible for as long as the server holds out.

[graceyuk]

“Just under 12 months… that’s almost a year”
Thanks Jake 😂👍🏼

[williamyoung]

I remember when Wrath of the Lich King for World of Warcraft dropped. When everyone got to level 80, 20 or 25 of us united and would run the old 40-person dungeons in Burning Crusade; the maps we never got to see because alone we couldn't organize 40 people in a raid before, lol. The loot was obsolete, but the visuals were amazing.

[allercon]

That quest in Helldivers 2, despite us completing that mission, we still failed the major order. Was awesome to see everyone almost unanimously choose the option to save the children.

[antodouv]

I'm super proud of Team 0% I'm glad i was part of the team and clear levels!!! Such a big accomplishment

[batcountry]

Just jumped back into City of Heroes last week. Took me right back to middle school and im hooked all over again.

[masterchief]

i used to play on a private wow wotlk server a couple years back, dont know if u are familiar with the protests in iran back in those days or not, but there was this player who got shot in the head and died during the protests, about 6-7 thousand players from both alliance and horde got together in orgrimar paying their tributes to that person, after a minute of silence and /kneel, we all started chanting what will be translated into "we will take revenge on who killed my sister" up to the point where the server crashed and was offline for a whole day just for the community to cool off a bit, that was one of most wholesome moments i ever expierenced.

[JTReviewsPlus]

I loved City of Heroes and Old School RuneScape back in the day!!! Glad to see Gameranx talking about those games 🥲💯

[dragonlordjonerc]

Love these stories. Would love more of these. Your monthly Weird Gaming Stories are fantastic. Maybe you could do quarterly or monthly heartwarming stories.

[dustinmillar]

Waging a war so hard that it crashed a server is legit haha. Massive respect to those gamers

[thisisjames]

I've been an Xbox loyalist for two decades now, but the only thing that has ever made me want to buy a PlayStation 5 is Helldivers 2. Not just because it looks like a great game, but the community looks absolutely phenomenal. Communities for the most part in most games have become so toxic and viral that I don't even partake in multiplayer most of the time. I'm glad there are some gamers out there that rally around a good game and overall make the experience pleasant.

[KiikoVT]

For the "Foxhole" segment, love how Jake just casually skips over the bit about "BUILDING A RELIGION AROUND A CORPSE PILE" within those 48 hours 🤣

[garylewis]

SO glad you talked about City Of Heroes. I loved it when it was originally open and I love it now with the new Server. Well worth someones time to get into it and have a good time

[skillteridge]

It wasn't the impossible but speaking of gamers coming together paying tribute to lance reddick was a great moment

[aretnap]

I Went into a Public Library Back in Like 2003-2004, & Every Computer in TheLibrary Had a Kid Sitting at it, Playing "RuneScape".
(& When I Asked One of TheKids About TheGame EveryBody Was Playing in TheLibrary...Cause I Was/Am a HardCore DiablO-1 Player&Fan, He Looked at Me Like I Had Worms Wiggling-Out My Ears.)
I Was 24/25 Years Old at TheTime, & That Kid Made Me "Feel Old" That Day.😒