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You guys here of the Funeral Fiasco on a WoW a while back?
SgtKarma
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I thought it was interesting so i'd bring it up.
A while back on WoW a guild was having a funeral for this girl in there guild that died in real life. They were having it at a contested area because it was her favorite place to play. You all know about Horde and Ally probably. Well i guess a guild raided the funeral and killed everyone there. I just thought it was interesting. The guild that did the raid said that they did it to raise PvP.
If you don't believe it thats cool. I heard about it from one of my good friends. And ive also heard somewhat about it when i played WoW.
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Originally posted by sham4480
i play mmos for the PvP but I never call myself a PvPer just because so many other PvPers are total wankers. This is a new low.
There was an article in a PC gamer magazine about this topic. In the interview that was posted, the guild/PVP'ers professed that they weren't attempting to dishonor or desecrates the ceremony posted by the attendees, rather they hoped to spark a dwindling PvP, attacking a ceremony that was common knowledge.
Personally, I believe that they went a little bit far, but the people who set the event up really shouldve tried to set it in a safer place, where attack would be less likely, i.e. starter zone.
Oh, and in before forum change.
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The guild could have made arrangements with wow to handle this event differently.
They choose to have a roleplay/real life event in a pvp area of a game.
I personally think what happened is pretty true to life. History is full of masacres at funerals. It is a great way to slaughter an enemy.
Calling pvpers who show up at a pvp area and actually do pvp seems to me the childish immature gamer attitude. They did nothing wrong in my opinion. This sounds like a publicity stunt for a guild to hold such an event. I bet no one actually died and the entire thing was planned, this happens more then you know with pvp roleplayers.
What's a better recruitment tool then such an outrageous video. Who wouldn't be in arms and dedicated to destroy that enemy guild!
If I was the guild who took part I probably like being the "bad" guys in video games.
Just a thought before you jump off the bridge and assign guilt and blame to folks you dont even know irl or what the intentions of these internet figures actually is.
1 name to playing the game. Johnny Fairplay.
Remember scams on the internet are constant. Dont be so readily fooled.
If the player who died RL was a PvPer, she might have enjoyed one last battle in her memory. Lighten up.
I was at a wedding in SWG when the Groom was shot a little before saying I do. Of course it was a setup. He was not Overt so he had to duel. Of course, I was the only noob there who was not running around going "OMG!". It was a setup in this case by the groom to make the wedding "different", but his noobish wife was not amused. It took me many hours to convince her he was not evil for setting this up.
My guess is the attack was a setup as well and what we have is a bunch of pre-pubescent noobs over-reacting as usual.
While I want one or two tears at my funeral, I do want people to remember my sense of humor and laugh. I won't mind. And the player was a warrior --- IMO there is no better way to remember a warrior, especially since there was no real harm done.
I realize I said I quit. I never said it was forever
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Hmm.. alliance crashing the funeral hmmm..
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http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-7667194685876573666&q=wow+funeral
I think that's it anyhow.
Ok here is where i kick myself for not keeping links...
I followed this for a while after it happened. Im not a WoW player, but it was an interesting story. The event wasnt a funeral, it was more a memorial for in-game friends to say goodbye to their friend. Im not gonna argue about the right or wrong of the attack. The player who died was a PvP player, and many of her guildmates did admit she would have probably seen the funny side of it.
Now... where the guld who attacked went overboard was on the forums. I read the thread. Following the understandable complaints of the memorial attendees, the attackers started making very questionable comments about attacking the girls real funeral. I seem to remember a comment centering around 'tipping her out of the casket' and some descriptions of defiling the body.
Like i said, this is from memory and i wish i still had the link to the thread. Maybe someone has it and can set me right if im off tack. Most of the 'out of order' behaviour centered not around the attack itself, but the ridicule and complete lack of respect out-of-game after the event.
Personally, in my opinion, the attack was a pretty low blow, but ultimately excuseable due to the PvP environment. The comments made on public forums afterwards were just wrong, and cemented for me the bad things i had heard about the WoW community.
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Tam
Ya i remember this.
The people who complained are all,imo, dumbasses.
I love the part in the video where it's showing the forum replies and one of the guys says, "Why don't you be real PvPers and do BG's."-I lol'd.
I remember when I played on the Alliance some guy told us his friend's daughter died and I replied over the chat, "Don't tell us about your business. Call me a @$$, but I don't know know your friend's daughter and I have no reason to grief for this person. No one else should be griefing your friend's daughter either. I'm sorry your friend's daughter died, but s#%t happens!"
The guy called me insensitive, but everyone else agreed that isn't a good idea to grief on a game because you will get mixed reactions.
No one was being an a-hole not the people who thought they could own a pvp area for their own use or the people who pvp'd in a pvp area. If you decide to hold your funeral on a highway and get run over dont cry.
Yes people can be idiots on the forums wow big suprise happens in all games people mouth off and say inapropriate things as many do ingame when they are bored or looking for attention Why dont you take all your in game experience and writ a book on the inner psyche of a RPG'er I have been know to get totally bored and beg for attention by saying something inaproriate even got a warning from a WOW e-mail.
The argument that it was her favorite zone boo hoo then get a huge group and own the zone with force that is what PVP is no one has to cry for their enemy. If I really cared for the night elf would i go to stranglethorne vale and kill him 42 times that poor lvl 22 guy probably canceled his account but i got my jollies.
We had a nice funeral service in Earth and Beyond and their were people saying some things but mostly it was easy to ignore.
I'm not thrilled with how the event went, but I'm not going to blame the WoW community. No game is immune to smacktards. Even the vaunted SWG community had its share.
Ico
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crap tactic, period. old news but still crap