"Brief summary of the story behind this video: a well loved World of Warcraft PVPer suffered a stroke, died and her guild decided to hold a memorial service for her in game. Note the orderly line to view the “corpse.” A rival guild then decided to slaughter them all."
http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/video/
I have to say I found it pretty funny really, what on earth did these guys expect, I mean they did know that MMO's are populated by 12 year old gibbons.
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Haha, that is a very funny video - feel sorry for the guys at the funeral at the same time though.
Show's how geeky the world is getting
Edit: Thanks Xaneden, I go back and read what the forum text was now
Edit2: Nope, I can't - too blury.
LOL, i don't know why they were so upset about it.. fair enough, i feel sorry for them, but if you didn't know what was going on and found a massive group of members of an opposing guild..what would you do?
Was clearly planned tbh, they thought ahead and made a video.
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Was funny though, I bet they weren't expecting it. A lot of people turned up too.
I love the way they are trying to equate some characters getting killed on a server in a game to someone tearing up a funeral for real and gunning people down.
Although I suppose some people really do get that into the game.
Is it just me, or were they wrong to expect anything other than this in a game?
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3rd time ive seen that vid and it only gets funnier and funnier rofl tbh was brilliant...
At the end of the day, this was still a way to remember someone that had passed away.I know it’s a game, but its bit harsh IMO.
Originally Posted by Saracen
Exactly
Paying respects to a dead friend is not something that should be done in a computer game, lining up to see a corpse of an in game character.
That is just ASKING for it
Come on people!
They were just asking for it - I'm sorry. Bloody stupid if you ask me to do something like that in a game
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I don't know anything about WOW, but how is it that a huge group of people couldn't defend themselves? And, how is it that the main guy is so ridiculously strong? He was killing everyone instantly.
lol i found that vid brilliant,
it was a shame that the guy died in real life obviously
but its the wat they had clearly planned it, it was a proper bad guy thing to do i loved it
It's got to be said, if you want a real 'authenticity' to these online universes, then you've got to have some real evil going on. Something like this is what reputations are built on. Yeah, it's shocking, and in bad taste, but as has been pointed out, having a funeral in a game where everywhere is a killing zone is just plain nuts. I can see why they did it, but I can't see why they didn't take precautions against getting ambushed. In any other situation people would say that if you got wiped out that easily you shouldn't be playing the game....just because the social and ethical 'off line' ramifications are a bit twisted shouldn't come into it. It's a game afterall.
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