I remember WarCraft 3 official forums being torn apart by this, with probably thousands of comments in the thread. Blizzard even had to post their official stance on the issue, but that didn't calm those who insisted 0.999... was 1 minus epsilon and not exactly 1.
I'm glad someone else remembers this. To this day, whenever I see 0.999... = 1, I think of the Battle.net forums inexplicably flooded with threads about it for what felt like ages.
