WoW... An Online RPG Funeral Gets Ambushed

[Morg]

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World of Warcraft or otherwise known as simply, WoW is one of the most popular and successful computer games in history. It is a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game that 6 million people pay $10 -15 per month to play. This type of popularity creates a sample size that is large enough to reflect the forces that control it. In Layman's terms, with this many people playing this online game at any given time human nature tends to get a stronger representation.

The first "reality" check was a bug that caused a plague to outbreak and affect people's characters in certain cases instantly killing any player below a certain level.

The second "reality" check was when this group of Warcraft players otherwise known as a guild interrupted a memorial service. Apparently, some dude dies in real life who is a popular WoW player. The people in the game think it would be nice to have a memorial for the player so they log into his account, take the character to a lake, and set it up for everyone to come pay their respects.

A bunch of dudes decide this would be a great time to ambush everyone so they run over a hill, kill the dead guy's character, and then wipe out everyone who was there to show their respects. They filmed the whole thing and put it on the net for everyone to see.

 

[deathshead2]

haha thats funny yet sad at the same time.

 

[TheCardPlayer]

People these days....

 

[hippie_hunter]

Lmao

 

[Mentok]

I love teh internets.

 

[GothicPowerMix1]

wow

 

[Mentok]

I wonder if that Leroy dude was in charge

 

[WhatsHisFace]

Kill them... KILL THEM ALL!!!!

 

[Juturna]

That's... I don't know. I mean, on one hand, the guy did die, and I guess, if he was popular on WoW it would be pretty cool for all his online friends to give him a 'funeral'. And it was pretty creative and kind of cool that these guys ambushed it and owned all these unsuspecting people.

I'm torn. : l

 

[Danalys]

soon a vendetta from WoW will spill over into the real world. wwIII begins online. or perhaps not.

 

[Addendum]

As one of the posters from Serenity Now's forum said...

1) The horde posted the event on the WoW forums
2) They posted the date and where the event was going to take place
3) They were talking a lot of **** (horde)
4) The funeral took place at a PvP zone
5) WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF WARCRAFT WHINY ASS BABIES

I don't play WoW since MMORPG's don't interest me. However, if you advertise an event taking place in an area on an online game that allows for player kills- You're just asking for it.

 

[Electro UK]

Oh man that's damn funny. I was rolling around the floor laughing at the video.

 

[XwolverineX]

That is simply the greatest thing ever of all time.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

My favorite comment:

I think it was disrespectful for those people to go to a faux funeral with their monsters and wizards and whatnot.

 

[Wolfwood]

I was watching this last night, damn hilarious, I loved that Horde stood around for a few minutes not knowing what to do before some finally started fighting back.

 

[XwolverineX]

Sadly I cannot view the movie... It just sends me back and forth from link to link then freezes...

EDIT - Cool, I got it to work. Funniest thing ever... Those guy's are heroes...

 

[XwolverineX]

Can someone hook me up with a link to their forum?

 

[JackBauer]

oh, where's that OWNED! picture when I need it...

 

[TheProfessional]

I wonder if that Leroy dude was in charge

LEEEEEEROY JEEEEENKINS!!!!!

 

[XwolverineX]

 

[Addendum]

Can someone hook me up with a link to their forum?

Type in www.serenity-now.org, and then click on the picture... It's not so damn hard.

 

[Capt Throbberson]

Old

 

[Addendum]

The first link provided was posted 1 day and 9 hours ago.

****ing Hell. That's really old.

 

[Hellrider]

What kind of nerds would have a funeral in a video game. ... Its great that their showing their respects and all, but its a damn video game!!!

 

[GothicPowerMix1]

What kind of nerds would have a funeral in a video game. ... Its great that their showing their respects and all, but its a damn video game!!!

Nah I think the fact is that they did it in an Open Server where this type of stuff is possible instead of a place in the Game where this type of stuff. This was badly planned & they were basically just asking for it