Gamers: Everybody’s got one or two in their lives. They might be the stereotypical unsocialized dork who turns to a world of fantasy because the reality is just too hard to face, or they might even be grown-ass men hell-bent on escape from the world of grown-up problems, and any port in a storm, World of Warcraft will have to do. (Hi, Bader. Hey, Mike.) In any case, behold this cautionary tale of things getting a little too real, and also a little too, for want of a better word, Comcastic:

A Convergsys support technician outsourced by Comcast may have gone a little overboard in a quest for righteous videogame vengeance. After getting packet flooded (a networking trick that essentially DDoS’s a user’s Xbox) by some fellow gamers on Microsoft’s Xbox Live! service, the rep decided to use Comcast support systems to wage war on the perpetrator, a Comcast customer.
“I work for Comcast as a tier 2.5 support agent, which essentially means im one of the top 1% elitest agents,” brags the tech in a post to the Halo3 forums. According to “Sir Lagzalot,” [pictured] he used Comcast systems while at work to track down the cheater using said elite skills[...]

Translation: He went into Comcast’s back end and totally fucked with the accounts of young boys he was trying to slay on Halo3. Let’s not even think, for the moment, about how seriously fucked this is that it can basically be done to any Comcast customer with no oversight. The result? Well, the kid he was in a tiff with totally got his ass beat by his dad, but Lagzalot also lost his job, which now renders him the vaunted tier 0.0 support agent status.
DSLReports: Back To The Five-Sided Die For You, Sir Lagzalot

This entry was posted on Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 at 11:26 am.