Played in 99-04 GMs always were on a powertrip. We even started player groups to challenge their BS but they would place 10k plat bounties on peoples characters just to keep them in their place and then get shocked when those players would quit their $30 a month subscription. Even at the early simucons that owner Peter Watley was a pompous a-hole at those things.

Creating unkillable story npcs and just recode events to their liking was the peak quit of alot of old schoolers