April 29, 2007
Anyway, some well-known W.o.W. player died (in real life), and a bunch of game administrators thought it would be a nice idea to let his playing buddies come to a "memorial service" within the game to pay their respects. They took the player's character to a lake and set up a memorial service.
A 'guild' of W.o.W. players (a group that plays the game together regularly) came up with the brilliant idea of ambushing and slaughtering everyone's characters as they stood unsuspecting at this memorial service.
It may be a little confusing (or boring) if you don't know the game, but I just couldn't stop from giggling in a few places. I know its terrible, but the whole idea of some group of individuals deciding to film and upload a virtual ambush on a funeral procession in a virtual fantasy world involving real people who spend inordinate amounts of time there just kept repeatedly striking me a hilarious.
The W.o.W. equivalent of the Westboro Baptist Church. With sorcery and a slew of acquired skills. The video of the ambush doesn't' start until after the shots of player hatemail at about 2:10.
Inspired by: Ace, whose love of nerdom I share enthusiastically.
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Just how serious and silly the Internet is.
ANYTHING is possible.
Loved it.
G
Posted by: gerald at April 29, 2007 10:31 PM (foV9j)
Posted by: mrclark at April 29, 2007 11:38 PM (2G5Vr)
Posted by: Randman at April 30, 2007 12:08 AM (Sal3J)
At risk of revealing my total lack of a life, I wasn't surprised to see that it was an Alliance guild attacking Horde characters.....wow, I'm pathetic huh?
Posted by: TBinSTL at April 30, 2007 01:17 AM (MSiPb)
Posted by: Good Lt at April 30, 2007 01:28 AM (yMbfY)
Just stick to Battlefield 2...
Posted by: Infidelsalwayswin at April 30, 2007 06:03 AM (8OiB3)
Stuff like that vid goes both ways, tho.
The Horde are no saints by any stretch.
Posted by: JeepThang at April 30, 2007 07:48 AM (yZQoS)
One of the well known players was killed in a car crash. (not due to any fault of his own) So several of his online associates decided to have a remembrance get-together at a specific area in the Planetside world. They specifically chose a neutral area that was protected by a large shield, so that it would be hard for griefers to attack them. Unfortunately, they didn't count on how determined some griefers can be. The get-together was attacked by a well-known griefing group and utterly ruined.
It is rather sad that some people will go so far out of their way just to ruin an event for other people. But it does show you just how depraved some people are when they take specific glee from the ruination of other's fun.
This should serve as a warning to game GM's. If you want to have a special event such as this, you MUST set-aside a special area of the world where it is impossible to attack anyone, or to create macro spam or chat box spam. It is also critical to have several GM's online and watching to remove obvious greifers from the area before they can cause trouble.
Posted by: Wearyman at April 30, 2007 09:05 AM (puky3)
Posted by: Scott at April 30, 2007 03:36 PM (FAHM2)
I found the pilot episode of Aquaman.. a recent tv venture that I'd not heard of.
Its really cool, imo. Alot of potential here.. and it would be nice to see this catch on.
Aquaman!
Posted by: JeepThang at April 30, 2007 03:51 PM (yZQoS)
Posted by: tbone at May 03, 2007 01:09 PM (HGqHt)
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