The first really story-heavy MMO I played was arguably Guild Wars, and while it’s been many years I still remember talking with other people about how Prince Rurik was a toolbox and deserved to die. Rurik was dumb, that’s the point. But he was hardly the last NPC I hated in an MMO; Thancred in Final Fantasy XIV and Corso Riggs in Star Wars: The Old Republic immediately spring to mind as characters I would love to shove down a well.
But these are characters whom I don’t just dislike, but ones who I enjoy disliking. I don’t like, say, Kan-E-Senna in FFXIV, but I don’t actively cheer when bad things happen to her. Corso, by contrast, gave me great joy every time he disapproved of my actions. So what about you, readers? Who are your favorite MMO NPCs to hate? And as an added benefit, did you feel that they got their just desserts? (I was one of the ones cheering when Statesman bit it in City of Heroes, for the record.)
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