Came across this video today xD
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Illidan used to have Alliance? Crazy.
Yeah probably my favorite WoW vid.
In-game funeral services and weddings are some of the dumbest things I’ve ever seen in these games.
There are real life implications to people getting married or passing away, it can change people. And, WoW is a distraction to dealing with both of those in the right way, and should not be a focal point.
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no one remembers arguably one of the top 3 most seen WoW videos.
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I’m going to disagree. People from all over form communities in online contexts, and it’s not feasible for them to get together in person to celebrate such events. To me it seems quite obvious that online communities would want to gather, online, for these purposes.
Their practical mistake was holding the event, on a pvp server, in a contested zone. They should have done it in a capital city or other relatively safe place.
It’s just a good thing we don’t have people bursting into real-life churches and…oh, wait.
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The grammar and spelling in those posts at the beginning of the video almost made my heart stop.
The internet is for…
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p*rn, great video! lol
I don’t remember this one, but I enjoy these event crashing videos, what ever the occasion. I’m always amused by how extremely naive a big group of people can be. Public event, PvP server, contested zone, and you expect literally 100% of the people who know about to just…play along? lol
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Yep, exactly. Seems silly to crap on people building communities in classic while at the same time praising how strong communities were formed in classic…
Their issue was where they held it. PVP server in a contested zone is a magnet for “Look at ME!” trolls. They basically begged for it.
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They forgot one of the most important rules of being on the internet: Always assume a troll will try to ruin your day.
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If the PvP event didn’t occur, most people wouldn’t have known about the memorial at all. The person liked wow, and this is just a part of it. I bet if her family who don’t play saw it, they would recognize the PvP aspect more than standing around in a circle, and be like “her friends got together and played to commemorate her, that’s nice”
Does that edgemaster attitude extend to the in-game memorials like the employee that died and has a place on top of the barrens mountain, or the dog in the Tauren starting village which symbolizes a kid that died?
You do not get to decide what the “right way” is for people to honor the death of people they knew.
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There’s a difference that exists between a data packet that symbolizes a memorial npc or item, and that of people who knowingly let their marriages and relationships be crappy because they allow themselves to be consumed by a video game.
Instead of, say, maintaining their real life responsibilities to their loved ones, there are people who find easier ways of avoiding their obligations to others by using things like WoW to consume their time.
Imagine meeting people standing by at a WoW “wedding”, who are so devoted to their fellow player, but won’t even talk to their actual spouse or their kids unless they have to.
It’s pretty eye opening to how deceived people can be by the things they enjoy.
Well that escalated quickly
It’s a rather large leap of logic to equate people having in game weddings/funerals/etc. with players neglecting their real world relationships with friends/family. What would lead you to suggest that this is the case for any of the events being crashed by trolls?
Do you have evidence that happened with players attending the events mentioned in this thread or are you just making a broad sweeping accusal in the hopes that in a couple outlier cases that happened?
Waddling your butt in here and spouting off that players who are in a global game who actually care enough about one of their fellow players they have spent countless hours alongside online, who due to the size of the earth and distances apart, find solace in joining together in game to have a virtual wake… what is wrong with you?
Yeah, there are probably instances of people, real life people, who are more comfortable in a virtual environment than they are face to face. Those other players in game are real life people and not just AI NPCs.
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You basically have to exaggerate and say that I’m “waddling” in here and “spouting off” to have a reason to keep typing. What exactly are you doing any differently?
Anyway, spending hours by a virtual lakeside typing out virtual /cry emotes is a complete waste of time even by gaming standards.
But, nobody wants to think about that because it causes self reflection, it doesn’t paint a pretty picture, there are millions and literal millions of players who have sank many millions of hours into WoW.
Yet, you say you believe that most of those were reasonably spent hours and that the real life cost of many of those hours were merely outlying cases that weren’t most people.
However, if people were honest with themselves, they could probably think of at least one or two times that their gaming interfered with things that required more priority, possibly many times.
In any case, it will be pretty interesting when Classic gets here.
A lot of old faces will be coming back, who may or may not actually have any time to play Vanilla style content anymore, some people are going to be faced with choices regarding their grown up schedules.
Re video: People are wrong for playing a game within that game, the same way that everybody plays the game and that’s wrong?
Doesn’t compute.
As I understand it, a number of people involved in the funeral actually knew her well enough to exchange phone calls, emails etc and were truly upset by her death. In lieu of buying plane tickets to her actual funeral, this was their way of closure.
Two or three years go, a frequent poster to General Discussion died, and he was well-liked enough that memorials were held for him on both Alliance and Horde sides.
I guess you don’t have a lot of empathy. I know others like that; it’s not something that can be taught. You can teach people to fake that they care, though.
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