Hundreds of thousands of people who have played this game have most likely passed away by now. Their characters still exist in this system, played at one time with hope (for success), desire (to attain), and love (of friends).
Somewhere in the collective of the WoW data systems, there is a community of characters that will never see another adventure.
Every one of us will pass away at some point, and there will be characters we leave behind. These data entities will be left in limbo beyond our existence. They will never be played again.
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Oh, this should be a creepypasta. Like, a father discovers his dead son’s WoW password and logs into his account, only to discover that though his son has been dead for months, the character was last played mere minutes ago.
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They can’t outlive me if i delete them on my death bed. ![:smiling_imp:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/smiling_imp.png?v=6" ":smiling_imp:")
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Thanks for reminding us all of our mortality lol.
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Many more expansions like BfA and we won’t have to worry about our characters outliving anything.
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I doubt it. She got killed like nine times in a warfronts today.
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I am 50
wow won’t be around when I finally die. enjoy these times while you can… one day these servers will shut down.
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As a very old friend of mine once said when we finished a AOL RP session:
“Alright.” -points to his characters- “You. And you. Into carbonite freezing, or whatever it is you do while I sleep.”
Lance: Ă´_Ă´ !?
well said and very depressing…
Blizzard should make the toons of the deceased into npc’s or plant a grave in game.
I think for that reason, I will create a new character, mog him in something nice, take him somewhere I like, ghost him and log out with him dead and sitting there overlooking the world.
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That’s a romantic and tragic way of thinking about unused characters. I love it, thanks for giving me something to mull over.
So many things outlive us beyond these data bits.
The kindness we show that makes an impression on someone may well outlive us as well as the hurt we cause. For example, a post that makes someone think about something for the first time or rethink something. Those moments of composing the post and the impression it makes may well outlive us by generations.
Likewise the way we treat other can last a very long time as kindness tends to promulgate as one who experience kindness will, in turn, be kind. And this is true in our jobs, our interactions at gatherings, shopping and family time.
Our words and actions have an impact however great or small, be it good or harmful. For most of us, our names will be forgotten within a few generations but what we impart in our deeds and words can last centuries. Be kind, be charitable, be patient.
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That… unironically sounds kind of interesting?
Not necessarily WoW, but any game in general.
A cool thing to think about is that if we ever actually have a full-on proper nuclear apocalypse + environment collapse the last remains of humanity’s existence will be a bunch of random server farms connected to in-tact renewable energy systems and satellites all shooting meaningless data at eachother.
Like, spambots sending eachother markov bot junk will be the last human-designed messages sent after our species expires.
I knew someone that passed in BC. I know death is a part of life but it was deeply disturbing because they were on my friends list and I remember seeing them online a few days before they died. Then I heard the news and never saw their name light up again. It may seem dumb but I kept their name on my friends list for a long time, hoping it wasn’t true and I’d see them again…but that never happened.
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I’ve pretty much quit. The other day I was randomly thinking about how the stuff in my bags will never move
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That would be a lot of dead people, and you’d probably need an entire division of Blizzard dedicated to cross-referencing recent deaths with WoW characters.