Game Masters are human too

It's often hard to imagine the people behind the GM screennames who patiently (or not so patiently) deal with your problems, day in, day out. However, this story from MMO Vendetta Online helps add a touch of humanity to those chained to the helpdesk.

While restoring a character who had accidentally been deleted by a user — it happens to the best of us — an unfortunate mishap with mysqldump led to every single character in the game being deleted instead. It's far more amusing than it should be. Fortunately, there was a backup handy, and all paying users are being given a free week in compensation for the error.

[via mmorpgdot]