I re-watched the clip. Looked to me like they all got killed. If the SN folks are getting hunted down, it makes no sense. The place the ‘funeral’ took place at was in a contested area.
Therefore, anyone any everyone that may have wanted to disrupt said event was in the right.
Bang.
Fuck what you all think about how it SHOULD have happened, as it didn’t. Next time, if you want to ‘stage’ a funeral about a REAL LIFE PERSON, OH NOES!!!, place it in an area which is NOT contested.
If anything, they’re fending off the advances of thousands of fanboys and girls who saw the video and now want to join the guild. On the other hand, they’re also dealing with the resentment of the rest of the population of the server who wasn’t involved in this incident.
There’s only one poster who seems passionately angry about what SN did, and he’s been suspended for blowing a gasket. Relax.
Honestly, though. One one side you’ve got a horde of illiterate morons incapable of acting like they’ve left junior high school, and on the other are a bunch of nitwits pretending to hold a funeral service in the middle of a game and then claiming that it’s just like real life.
:rolleyes: And to think my co-worker can’t understand why I’m not into MMORPGs.
It was kind of hard to tell for sure, but if they didn’t kill every single one of them, there couldn’t have been more than one or two escapees.
The attendees were curiously slow in trying to escape the massacre; in WoW, you can, in most but not all cases, usually escape a battle you really don’t want to be a part of. Most classes have some sort of special spell or ability that makes escape easier. Even assuming the attackers hugely outweighed their victims, there weren’t so many that some people should not have been able to get the hell out of these while the first targets were being slaughtered.
So either a lot of people had stepped away from the keyboard, or the shock-and-awe effect was such that they spend a few too many seconds typing “u guys r the suxx0r” and wound up ganked.
Just out of curiosity, since I don’t play this game, what’s the consequences of getting “killed” in this scenario? Does the character die forever or what? Aside from disrespecting the “funeral”, was there any serious unsportsman-like conduct here?
I don’t really care about somebody disrupting a fake funeral but it would bug me a little if they cost somebody 6 months of “work” (for lack of a better term) just because they let their guard down for sentimental reasons.
As was mentioned above, death in World of Warcraft is a pretty insignificant setback. You suffer some wear and tear to your equipment, which costs a little bit of money to make good, plus the inconvenience of reappearing somewhere else and having to run back the the place you died.
Nope, you can’t loot another player’s corpse. You get all your items and gold back, hell you don’t even /have/ to run back to your corpse. You can get the graveyard spirit to rez you if you really want, though that does cost you in item degredation and resurrection sickness for a few minutes. But sometimes it’s easier than the jog back to your corpse.
Yeah, I was wondering the same thing. After the initial shock, it looked like there was plenty of time for those who wanted to get away to do so. Maybe they stupidly tried to fight back?
One character kept going into the water and coming back out again. I remember wondering if he was taking a piss while he was in there. What was that all about?
I have no idea how WoW works, but I have to think the next time some guild announces a funeral for someone in a contested zone that any funeral crashers are going to be walking into an ambush.
No penalty for death beyond minor inconvenience? Piffle. Give me Angband any day. When you die, you stay dead, and if you play again with another character, the ghosts of your old characters try to kill you!
I’ve seen the original forum thread where these guild dingbats were planning this ridiculous travesty of a “memorial” service, and within the first ten posts, someone say “10 bucks on someone fucking with it.” If they claim they really didn’t think anyone would do such a thing, then they are… well, then they are exactly the sort of people who think having a memorial service for actual human being in a freaking video game is an appropriate thing to do.
I have to contest with everyone that says “wtf… they didn’t do anything wrong, killing other people is exactly what you were supposed to do”
If they happened to come across it, and attack it, yes, that would be entirely true.
But look at the motivation of those who organized and participated in this.
Their thinking was on some level something like this:
Wow, there are a bunch of nerds who are having a funeral for their friend.
They’re being emotional about it, and they’re emotionally vulnerable to a degree.
I could be a dick and hurt their feelings behind the safety of my internet anonymity.
YAY NO ONE RESPECTED ME IN MIDDLE SCHOOL SO NOW I GET TO LASH OUT AT NERDS WITHOUT FEAR OF ANYONE BEING ABLE TO HARM ME BEHIND MY KEYBOARD!!!
If those people could go to a real funeral, shit on a corpse, and get away with it, without any real consuquences, just to cause harm to the grieving people, they would.
For what it’s worth, the ceremony was pretty nerdy. But the people who organized this weren’t just playing the game - they specifically saw an opportunity to try to hurt other people with no risk of real consequence to themselves. And as such, they are pieces of shit and deserve a swift kick to t-he balls.
To follow up, it’s sickening, but most (? arguable, I guess) people would harm other people just for shits and giggles if given the chance. It happens often enough in the real world. And there are a lot of situations where people would absolutely harm other people, just for entertainment, but stop because of the risk of consequences. Online, there are practically no consequences, and so you see people acting more closely to their true nature. And their true nature is to be worthless, predatory pieces of shit.