First thing that comes to mind is the ill-thought-out, short-lived but brilliant "Be a Mob" feature. Project M
One little button on character select, I think only on PvP servers, that had you spawn in as a random NPC in a random zone.
You could see what you'd drop if killed, you had whatever abilities that mob normally has and you couldn't chat. However you could kill other NPCs and level up or if you were lucky enough to spawn as a fairly tough mob further into a zone you could run out to the front and smash nub skulls.
Looking back nothing even slightly similar would make it past testing these days let alone actually going live to a real server. People obviously abused the shit out of it but those first few days of pure innocent fun were just incredible.
The concept of being a mob other players could kill for XP in the MMO I loved just completely blew my young gamer mind and I couldn't get enough of it.
Orsenfelt (from reddit)
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