taultunleashed

There was WoW funeral that happened a little while ago. WoW online players wanted a proper funeral ingame, probably she was rich and popular:P Anyways I guess the clan or watever did the funeral and the wow Gm logged in her account, so people could bow to it. There was a group who invaded and killed everyone there even the person they did the funeral. It was all videoed click here. Reallly Funnny!
http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/222 ... Video.html

lol, that was pretty funny...thanks for posting that

Even though I don't play WoW much, I had a feeling I just had to post that on here.. Too bad the video little blurry, but quite funny how he gets two characters, one showing the funeral and other getting there. I liked the song too and how funn what he says at the end


This is the article which came with it

The WoW Funeral

[004] Snowly of The World of Warcraft (Xinhua) A young girl nicknamed "Snowly" died last month after playing the online game "World of Warcraft" for several continuous days during the national day holiday. Several days before Snowly's death, the girl was said to be preparing for a relatively difficult part of the game (namely, to kill the Black Dragon Prince) and had very little rest. She told her friends that she felt very tired. A big online funeral was held for Snowly one week after her death (see photo from The Mirror).With 4.5M users there are bound to be deaths in the World of Warcraft and gauging by the relationships I'm building with fellow gamers I can definitely see how an online funeral would be a very big deal. I often see players playing until they pass out, especially when they are questing in a group where their participation is required for the group to hold together as a team. (I've passed out a few times as well.) There is also a lot of pressure to catch up if you drop behind a group of friends in order to play your role in the quests.
However, I don't see this as a reason to bash these games. Clearly the addictive nature of these games are a risk from a productivity and health perspective, but I think that the sense of responsibility and teamwork that is built by the games exceeds this cost. I've seen a lot of coaching of young players by older players about behavior, responsibility, sharing and kindness that is crisp and makes a lot of sense in the game context, but might be lost in a conversation in the real world. Players typically stay up all night helping other players, not out of peer pressure, but out of a sense of teamwork and comradarie. The structure of the game and the rules make it very easy to measure the value of this teamwork and when a team isn't working. Most of the difficult quests require a very large group of people training and working together. It's hard to describe the sense of responsibility players gain to people who don't play, but I urge people not to discount it with playing.

I feel sorry for Snowly and everyone else whose lives are taken or ruined by games, but I think there is a social benefit. Like all new things, I think we will have to work on ways to support people who play to mitigate risks and manage addiction, but there is so much there that I hope news like this doesn't cause parents to prevent their kids from playing online games.

So she died from playing wow? Because that seems what is being implied.

yeah

No, she had a stroke(?) Or somthing like that. They killed her toon ingame is what was so funny about it.

Hmm I watched part of the movie and then stopped due to ADD. The funny thing is that, I don't have ADD.

lol basicly, on the US server one of the members of a top guild had died irl due to a stroke (nothing to do with WoW) so her guild held a ceramony to honour her and they were going to send the video to her family to show how liked she was. They made the mistake of posting this publicly and an alliance guild (Serenity now? - or something) saw this and decided to 40 man raid the ceremony and killed every1. Funny but harsh

made me laugh

O i thought she died becasue she was playing wow nonstop, like getting ready for a big event or something and had like 2hours of sleep. I guess I maybe wrong.

The video still makes me laugh

lol that is nice

w00t ??
Died because of playing ?
Are you serious?
I mean you fall asleep when you are to tired, but you dont die!

No she died of a stroke or something like that, it was posted on the Illidan forums awhile back. Those guys took so much crap for doing that, theres STILL topics on the forum about it. I loved the post best saying something like "I hope (guild leaders name here)'s dad dies and during the funeral some guy runs in naked slapping people and pushes over the coffin yelling "LOL OWNED"" The hate posts were great.

lol, they still talk about it today.. Can you show some S.S of what they say? I really would like to laugh at some things they say still...

picadude wrote:lol, they still talk about it today.. Can you show some S.S of what they say? I really would like to laugh at some things they say still...

Heres the latest topic:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/threa ... post159283