Games with /r/HobbyDrama posts
/r/HobbyDrama is my favorite subreddit for reading about high-quality, well-researched writeups on various hobby controversies. Naturally, there's a lot of video game writeups too because gamers are like that. This list is by no means exhaustive and is still a work in progress, and you can suggest any posts you like that aren't included in the comments. Heed the content warnings on the posts, some of these are pretty NSFW and dark.
If you want a recommendation, I recommend the Creatures or the Skyrim mod writeup.
If you want a recommendation, I recommend the Creatures or the Skyrim mod writeup.
238 Games
"How to, and how NOT to, develop a game and deal with popularity"
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/iggho2/yandere_simulator_how_to_and_how_not_to_develop_a/
"The backstab that went too far"
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/ji04nm/yandere_simulator_the_backstab_that_went_too_far/
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/iggho2/yandere_simulator_how_to_and_how_not_to_develop_a/
"The backstab that went too far"
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/ji04nm/yandere_simulator_the_backstab_that_went_too_far/
"Internet trolls rig an official popularity polls for years, get away with more than they expected because the company kept rolling with it (Inazuma Eleven and Level-5, bonus minor Pokemon drama)"
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/moz36b/video_gamesanime_internet_trolls_rig_an_official/
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/moz36b/video_gamesanime_internet_trolls_rig_an_official/
"Chinese Criminal Gangs, 60,000 Cancelled Memberships, and Mass Riots: Jagex tackles Real World Trade"
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/mqhmig/runescape_chinese_criminal_gangs_60000_cancelled/
"Contract disputes between teenagers and a founder allegedly absconding with $80,000: the story of one of RuneScape’s most well known private servers"
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/oxi06c/mmorpgs_contract_disputes_between_teenagers_and_a/
"Durial321 becomes the Devil on 06/06/06"
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/mfbikx/runescape_durial321_becomes_the_devil_on_060606/
"Micro transactions are introduced to Runescape, leading to accusations of hypocrisy and one player taking their complaints to a private equity firm's headquarters."
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/mvpicg/runescape_micro_transactions_are_introduced_to/
"Party Hat Duplication Day: How RuneScape’s Rare Items Survived a 2003 Bug Abuse Scandal and Went on to Have a Five-Figure USD Price Tag."
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/pabjgo/mmorpgs_party_hat_duplication_day_how_runescapes/
"RuneScape: The Evolution of Combat and the Rise of Old School"
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/oi0ymc/mmorpgs_runescape_the_evolution_of_combat_and_the/
"The Runescape Classic Knife Bug: Total chaos on the day when players went wild in a free-for-all killing spree by equipping multiple knives"
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/slpx87/mmorpgs_the_runescape_classic_knife_bug_total/
"Timmy and the Hacker: How an 11 Year-Old and His Grandmother Became Pariahs on RuneScape Fan Forums After A News Story About Him Getting Phished was Televised in Arizona"
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/slhser/mmorpgs_timmy_and_the_hacker_how_an_11_yearold/
"Upon the Return of Free Trade to RuneScape, Players Start In-Game Casinos and Sell the Winnings for Thousands of Dollars."
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/pp32g6/mmorpgs_upon_the_return_of_free_trade_to/
"Wealthy players take control of RuneScape’s Economy, earn billions by running pump and dump schemes, and send bagholders broke in the process"
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/p54bez/mmorpgs_wealthy_players_take_control_of/
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/mqhmig/runescape_chinese_criminal_gangs_60000_cancelled/
"Contract disputes between teenagers and a founder allegedly absconding with $80,000: the story of one of RuneScape’s most well known private servers"
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/oxi06c/mmorpgs_contract_disputes_between_teenagers_and_a/
"Durial321 becomes the Devil on 06/06/06"
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/mfbikx/runescape_durial321_becomes_the_devil_on_060606/
"Micro transactions are introduced to Runescape, leading to accusations of hypocrisy and one player taking their complaints to a private equity firm's headquarters."
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/mvpicg/runescape_micro_transactions_are_introduced_to/
"Party Hat Duplication Day: How RuneScape’s Rare Items Survived a 2003 Bug Abuse Scandal and Went on to Have a Five-Figure USD Price Tag."
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/pabjgo/mmorpgs_party_hat_duplication_day_how_runescapes/
"RuneScape: The Evolution of Combat and the Rise of Old School"
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/oi0ymc/mmorpgs_runescape_the_evolution_of_combat_and_the/
"The Runescape Classic Knife Bug: Total chaos on the day when players went wild in a free-for-all killing spree by equipping multiple knives"
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/slpx87/mmorpgs_the_runescape_classic_knife_bug_total/
"Timmy and the Hacker: How an 11 Year-Old and His Grandmother Became Pariahs on RuneScape Fan Forums After A News Story About Him Getting Phished was Televised in Arizona"
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/slhser/mmorpgs_timmy_and_the_hacker_how_an_11_yearold/
"Upon the Return of Free Trade to RuneScape, Players Start In-Game Casinos and Sell the Winnings for Thousands of Dollars."
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/pp32g6/mmorpgs_upon_the_return_of_free_trade_to/
"Wealthy players take control of RuneScape’s Economy, earn billions by running pump and dump schemes, and send bagholders broke in the process"
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/p54bez/mmorpgs_wealthy_players_take_control_of/
Don't mess with my husbando: how one underwhelming character made Chinese Arknights players riot
Don't mess with my waifu: how putting a popular anime character into a swimsuit actually UPSET a bunch of Arknights players
The long gap betwixt 5 teased characters and the 6th. OR "What took Goldenglow so long?"
Don't mess with my waifu: how putting a popular anime character into a swimsuit actually UPSET a bunch of Arknights players
The long gap betwixt 5 teased characters and the 6th. OR "What took Goldenglow so long?"
"World of Warcraft (Part 4: Cataclysm) - How Blizzard tried to revitalise the world's biggest MMO but instead sent it into a shocking downward spiral
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https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/rxmu68/games_world_of_warcraft_part_4_cataclysm_how/
"Between Beasts", or the short film that tried to pass off a World of Warcraft asset as original
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https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/rxmu68/games_world_of_warcraft_part_4_cataclysm_how/
"Between Beasts", or the short film that tried to pass off a World of Warcraft asset as original
"Delays, Kickstarters, and the Worst Trailer Ever: The Failure of Mighty No. 9"
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/nyfp8s/video_gamesdelays_kickstarters_and_the_worst/
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/nyfp8s/video_gamesdelays_kickstarters_and_the_worst/
The Captain Sim Livery Scandal: How a B-Tier Flight Sim Add-On Developer Took Advantage of the Ignorance of Newcomers to Push Unfinished Products, Stole Their Community’s Work, and Took Formal Legal Action Against a Popular Add-On Site.
The Rise and Fall of Walker Air Transport: How a recruiting campaign for one of flight sim's most popular virtual airlines spiraled into its members coming forward with accusations of harassment, intimidation, and doxing by the group’s founder.
The Rise and Fall of Walker Air Transport: How a recruiting campaign for one of flight sim's most popular virtual airlines spiraled into its members coming forward with accusations of harassment, intimidation, and doxing by the group’s founder.
“big dick is back in town”, or, the saga of the broken filters
The curious case of Charity Corner 2020 and the sticky snowball
Staff member is revealed to have a pet that shouldn't exist
UCgate, or, that time someone gave away thousands of dollars of Neopets, then trolled the entire community
A dying petsite further alienates its player base by removing long-standing market arbitrage opportunities
The Legacy of Wifemas 2020, or, how a transphobic grinch accidentally caused a Christmas miracle for LGBT+ Neopets players
The ongoing drama behind unconverted neopets
Neopet's introduces NFTs, burns itself (and it's goodwill) to the ground
A Burn Book Spreads Cheating Witch Hunt Fear & Fervour
This year’s Altador Cup has ended…and everyone lost! How the devs dismissed hundreds of hours of individual work from thousands of players to hand-pick the worst possible winner.
The rise and fall of a retro Neopets recreation
YOU ARE NOT PREPARED... for clothes.
The curious case of Charity Corner 2020 and the sticky snowball
Staff member is revealed to have a pet that shouldn't exist
UCgate, or, that time someone gave away thousands of dollars of Neopets, then trolled the entire community
A dying petsite further alienates its player base by removing long-standing market arbitrage opportunities
The Legacy of Wifemas 2020, or, how a transphobic grinch accidentally caused a Christmas miracle for LGBT+ Neopets players
The ongoing drama behind unconverted neopets
Neopet's introduces NFTs, burns itself (and it's goodwill) to the ground
A Burn Book Spreads Cheating Witch Hunt Fear & Fervour
This year’s Altador Cup has ended…and everyone lost! How the devs dismissed hundreds of hours of individual work from thousands of players to hand-pick the worst possible winner.
The rise and fall of a retro Neopets recreation
YOU ARE NOT PREPARED... for clothes.
"Famed guild throws sponsored "Race to World First" competition, random unknown person beats all of them to become the first max-leveled player"
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/cxresz/wow_classic_famed_guild_throws_sponsored_race_to/
"World of Warcraft (Part 7: Classic and Legion) - How an illegal game server birthed a protest movement that forced Blizzard to remake WoW from the ground up, sparking a new golden age of nostalgia, grinding, toxicity, and spit"
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/sika5v/games_world_of_warcraft_part_7_classic_and_legion/
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/cxresz/wow_classic_famed_guild_throws_sponsored_race_to/
"World of Warcraft (Part 7: Classic and Legion) - How an illegal game server birthed a protest movement that forced Blizzard to remake WoW from the ground up, sparking a new golden age of nostalgia, grinding, toxicity, and spit"
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/sika5v/games_world_of_warcraft_part_7_classic_and_legion/
World of Warcraft (Part 11: Shadowlands) – Buttery trans boys, angel cults, and 3D printed nipples from super-hell. Let’s dive into the expansion that finally toppled Blizzard from its MMO throne, and the game that rose up to take its place.
The race so long that nerds who do nothing but play World of Warcraft got sick of playing World of Warcraft: the Race for Sepulcher
The race so long that nerds who do nothing but play World of Warcraft got sick of playing World of Warcraft: the Race for Sepulcher
"The story of a man desperate for fame at the risk of tanking an entire community"
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/cx37pp/toontown_the_story_of_a_man_desperate_for_fame_at/
The Fall of Toontown Online and Toontown Infinite: How a group of teenagers’ desire for revenge drove them to bring down Toontown Online, and start up their own server, before driving it to death by installing spyware on one another and hacking other private servers.
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/cx37pp/toontown_the_story_of_a_man_desperate_for_fame_at/
The Fall of Toontown Online and Toontown Infinite: How a group of teenagers’ desire for revenge drove them to bring down Toontown Online, and start up their own server, before driving it to death by installing spyware on one another and hacking other private servers.
World of Warcraft: When The Playerbase has Nothing to Complain About So They Look To the Future for Inspiration
How Blizzard's new lizard broke a 10 year old loot system, started an in-game genocide, and sparked a player war in their first 48 hours of release.
World of Warcraft - How the Birth of Christ Threatened the Integrity of the World's Weirdest E-Sport
World of Warcraft: Is a Head Start an Advantage in a Race? The Answer May Surprise You!
How Blizzard's new lizard broke a 10 year old loot system, started an in-game genocide, and sparked a player war in their first 48 hours of release.
World of Warcraft - How the Birth of Christ Threatened the Integrity of the World's Weirdest E-Sport
World of Warcraft: Is a Head Start an Advantage in a Race? The Answer May Surprise You!
"History is OP: Wargaming's long feud with historical accuracy, game balance, and the playerbase at large."
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/t27px6/world_of_warships_history_is_op_wargamings_long/
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/t27px6/world_of_warships_history_is_op_wargamings_long/
"The Great Asset Leak: A tale of mystery, questionable legality, and community-wide deception"
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/hbgg5e/toontown_the_great_asset_leak_a_tale_of_mystery/
"What's in a name? Or: the @ that crossed the line"
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/ecvwps/toontown_whats_in_a_name_or_the_that_crossed_the/
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/hbgg5e/toontown_the_great_asset_leak_a_tale_of_mystery/
"What's in a name? Or: the @ that crossed the line"
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/ecvwps/toontown_whats_in_a_name_or_the_that_crossed_the/
"Fan team spends years recreating a beloved MMO from their childhoods that the company abandoned, doesn't add content one fan wanted said fan then tells company pedophiles are running the development team, gets it shut down in a matter of days"
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/g2wxj5/gaming_fan_team_spends_years_recreating_a_beloved/
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/g2wxj5/gaming_fan_team_spends_years_recreating_a_beloved/
"Squeaky Wheel gets Grease on Live Twitch Stream"
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/f1uvbp/raid_shadow_legends_squeaky_wheel_gets_grease_on/
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/f1uvbp/raid_shadow_legends_squeaky_wheel_gets_grease_on/
"A bold experiment in a teenage utopia ends in failure"
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/fah9wh/second_life_a_bold_experiment_in_a_teenage_utopia/
"Second Life's very own late 2000s banking crisis"
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/pw126s/video_games_second_lifes_very_own_late_2000s/
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/fah9wh/second_life_a_bold_experiment_in_a_teenage_utopia/
"Second Life's very own late 2000s banking crisis"
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/pw126s/video_games_second_lifes_very_own_late_2000s/
"Night Trap Revamped: How Not To Ask For Over $300,000 To Kickstart A Port Of Your Decades Old Video Game That A Single Developer Could Accomplish Anyway"
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/sixqlw/video_games_night_trap_revamped_how_not_to_ask/
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/sixqlw/video_games_night_trap_revamped_how_not_to_ask/
"How an unlikely group of Heroes banded together to kill EverQuest's "unkillable" boss."
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/htfsgz/mmorpg_how_an_unlikely_group_of_heroes_banded/
How an Everquest pvp guild caused a server rollback and emergency patch
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/htfsgz/mmorpg_how_an_unlikely_group_of_heroes_banded/
How an Everquest pvp guild caused a server rollback and emergency patch
(The Story of “Summer of 58”: that time an indie game developer went on hiatus after multiple people bought their game, played it, beat it in less than 2 hours and then refunded it)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/prmb5g/video_games_the_story_of_summer_of_58_that_time/]
[https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/prmb5g/video_games_the_story_of_summer_of_58_that_time/]
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Hey, I ended up neglecting this list for over half a year because I realized I would need to reformat this list quite a bit to keep updating it without it becoming a huge pain and I just procrastinated on that... anyways I'm updating the posts slowly by adding proper hyperlinks, fixing broken links, reorganizing the way posts are listed, and moving around games in the internal listing order so it'll be easier for me to locate them while editing. Might be a bit so there may be some inconsistency between notes for different games for the time being.
Anyway, added some posts for the following games, will be trying to add more later in the week:
-Arknights
-Fortnite
-Microsoft Flight Simulator
-Microsoft Flight Simulator X
-Persona 5
-Platform Racing 2
-Sound Voltex
-Splatoon
-Splatoon 2
-Super Smash Bros Melee
-Toontown Online
-Trackmania
-Witch's Heart
-World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
-X-Plane 11
If any links are broken or you want me to add a post that isn't listed, feel free to comment.
Anyway, added some posts for the following games, will be trying to add more later in the week:
-Arknights
-Fortnite
-Microsoft Flight Simulator
-Microsoft Flight Simulator X
-Persona 5
-Platform Racing 2
-Sound Voltex
-Splatoon
-Splatoon 2
-Super Smash Bros Melee
-Toontown Online
-Trackmania
-Witch's Heart
-World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
-X-Plane 11
If any links are broken or you want me to add a post that isn't listed, feel free to comment.
Looks like unddit doesn't work properly. Checked Skyrim's vore one and it shows an empty page. The original reddit page seems to still be there tho. Don't know to what extent the other links are affected, you might want to look into it.
https://www.unddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/ora3gm/vore_fetish_cease_and_digest_one_mans_quest_to/
https://old.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/ora3gm/vore_fetish_cease_and_digest_one_mans_quest_to/
https://www.unddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/ora3gm/vore_fetish_cease_and_digest_one_mans_quest_to/
https://old.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/ora3gm/vore_fetish_cease_and_digest_one_mans_quest_to/
Just spent 3 days reading through these I am delighted thank you
i checked the skyrim entry immediately hoping it'd include the devourment mod and i'm so glad it's on here
Jackier
1 year ago