Posted on 04/04/2006 4:11:17 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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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. [Related articles below]
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.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7667194685876573666&q=serenity+now
Deadly WoW Plague
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4272418.stm
http://crystaltips.typepad.com/wonderland/2005/09/plaguelands.html
Are your kids to bed yet? Check this out. Use it as a lesson when Junior asks for $10/mo. to play.
PvP=Player vs. Player. This means you can attack, and kill, the opposite faction, at any given time in what are called contested territories. Notice the Green(friendly) and Red(enemy) names in the video.
It was a noble gesture to have a memorial service for one of their own people. You make a lot of friends and meet a lot of people from around the world in these type of games. BUT, you don't do things like this and expect others to have any respect for what you are doing.
LOL!
Oh the humanity!!!
sounds very RoP-ish...lol.
I can't stop looking--it's mean but so funny.
Wish I could read the dialogue. (I think.)
As to why nobody fought back... Besides the shock and awe factor, it looks like most of the Horde were AFK waiting for the event to begin when they were attacked. Many just stood there and died.
Also, according to http://www.wc3sear.ch/
"(keep in mind most of the attendees were wearing tuxedos, dresses and other non-protective formal attire and did not have any weapons equipped)."
If that's accurate, not only did they hold the event in a contested area, they weren't even geared to protect themselves when the attack began!
Question: other than satisfaction, what were the benefits to the attackers? Do they get loot, or experience, or what?
If the opposing player is around your level, you get 1 'honorable kill' and a small amount of honor points. At the end of every week they tally kills and honor points and calculate ranks across your faction. Once you get to the higher ranks you have various items made available for your character to purchase.
Is it possible to advance in the game while being essentially a pacifist? Just curious . . . I'm trying to get a handle on why these people thought they could go unarmed in what (as explained to me) is a hostile sector.
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It's possible to avoid PvP combat on some servers. You still pretty much have to fight monsters and other non-player entities to get anywhere in the game though, so I'm not sure you'd call that "pacifism".
I pulled your name from the ping list index. Please ping some gamers, or please inform me that you're not keeping that sort of list.
I saw your comments on another thread, and thought you might find this one interesting.
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