Girls Dies, ingame memorial service bombed!?

youcancallmeal · 13-03-2006 12:51PM #1

First of all I dont play this game but I found this whole situation very interesting. Some of you have probably heard about it. Short story is(excuse my ignorance of the ingame lingo etc)

Some girl died(In real life) and her guild were holding a memorial in a contested area when some other guild decided to crash in!?

So reading about it on the wow forums and I think its one of the most funny/sad/wierd things I've ever heard on the internet. I'm sure all you wow players will have more to say about it?

Links:
Thread over on wow explaining more
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Ag marbh · 13-03-2006 01:01PM

Hilarious

joe_chicken · 13-03-2006 01:51PM

That may be in bad taste... but goddamn its funny

the cutting from alliance to horde at the start is very well done

Dcully · 13-03-2006 02:06PM

These ingame ceremonies are fooking stupid.
If i was the girls family id be furious tbh.
Idiots need to get a fooking life tbh,let the girl rest in peace without some silly childish ingame ceremony.
Maybe im wrong here but hey its my opinion,i think its just ridiculous.

koneko · 13-03-2006 02:19PM

Yeah saw it earlier. I'll go to hell for it, but I laughed. There's a big angry discussion about it on HardForum too (some people are comparing it to a real funeral, they don't see the difference?!).

hairball · 13-03-2006 02:20PM

I think there's a couple of issues here, one is, the reason they did it, if it was to generally prove a point about it being a PVP server, well, i 'd have to say fair enough, if however it was done to get attention and have people slap them on their little virtual backs and tell them all what funny people they are ( and i do do kinda suspect the latter), then i 'm afraid they're at roughly the level of sadness that some people claim the people holding the service are.
The fact is however people chose to mourn other peoples passing is up to them,
and that includes mass kickings in a PVP zone, but blatant disrespect of a sincere show of mourning 'for the laugh'...well, thats just being a dickhead.

shinzon · 13-03-2006 03:21PM

Maybe its just me but sometimes Warcraft really creeps me out TBH, take this for instance, blurring reality with a game is just plain worng

Ive seen other things as well like real life partners carrying over the sexual fantasies into warcraft

V creepy and sad

shin

hairball · 13-03-2006 03:37PM

it doesn't matter what you or i think, tbh , i find it creepy as well, but while people have got the right to judge something as a load o ****e or whatever, it doesn't follow that its ok to act like an idiot about it.

Ivan · 13-03-2006 04:17PM

Oh wow. That is so controversial right there. I started watching this, purely with the intent of despising and hating the scum for crashing an online funeral, but tbh it was kinda funny. Plus, if you can say with a straight face that there was nothing wrong with the mourners having a virtual funeral in-game to pay respect to their fallen comrade then how can it be wrong to crash said funeral, in-game. Hmm, that sounded alot more reasonable in my head... Ok, I can see both sides but the field of dead guys is funnier so...

'sides, they could at least of had it in a non-contested zone (non-PvP) zone.

[Edit]
Found this on the WoW forum listed and I think it sums up my feelings exactly:

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?FN=wow-realm-illidan&T=150106&P=3 wrote:

I am an e-celeb, who wants nude pics to sell?

On a serious note, a life without introspection or philosophy is pointless. The game as a conduit simply fails for making real connections. If WoW is your base for friends or real emotional solice. Then you sir are amazingly damaged person. Get out live real life. Funerals are meant for people who really knew them. Its like all the retards who show up at celeb funerals. You dindt know this person to an extent that gives you a right to mourn them. If you did then its another cookie cutter non person we are talking about. I would have supported my guilds actions out of idealism not just I (we) like be amazingly huge e-wangs.

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Zulu · 13-03-2006 04:28PM

that's halarious!

Silverfish · 13-03-2006 04:30PM

Dcully wrote:

These ingame ceremonies are fooking stupid.
If i was the girls family id be furious tbh.
Idiots need to get a fooking life tbh,let the girl rest in peace without some silly childish ingame ceremony.
Maybe im wrong here but hey its my opinion,i think its just ridiculous.

So, you won't be having a memorial for me on Karkand when I die ? Think of the knife kills!!!

hairball · 13-03-2006 04:41PM

lol...magnanimous even in death

hairball · 13-03-2006 04:44PM

Ivan wrote:

'sides, they could at least of had it in a non-contested zone (non-PvP) zone.

[edit]

true, was a little silly to advertise it, i guess they were hoping to avoid exactly what happened.

Hobbes · 13-03-2006 06:45PM

Did something similar years ago in Ultima Online. Heard of a player run wedding. So myself and some others hired a professional cook to make the top of the range food then hired a professional assassin to pepper the food with secret sauce. Was funny to watch people keeling over at the wedding.

DEmeant0r · 13-03-2006 06:51PM

hairball wrote:

I think there's a couple of issues here, one is, the reason they did it, if it was to generally prove a point about it being a PVP server, well, i 'd have to say fair enough, if however it was done to get attention and have people slap them on their little virtual backs and tell them all what funny people they are ( and i do do kinda suspect the latter), then i 'm afraid they're at roughly the level of sadness that some people claim the people holding the service are.
The fact is however people chose to mourn other peoples passing is up to them,
and that includes mass kickings in a PVP zone, but blatant disrespect of a sincere show of mourning 'for the laugh'...well, thats just being a dickhead.

/agreed

Dcully · 13-03-2006 07:01PM

So, you won't be having a memorial for me on Karkand when I die ? Think of the knife kills!!!

LOL,lo there Silverfish,havent seen Viriconia *spelling*on our server in a while,your over due a visit and a knife kill

kwalsh000 · 14-03-2006 10:01AM

Normally i would not reply to something like this, and am not too sure whether this is about the chinese girl that died a while ago or someone else but either way, the people who "ruined the mourning" can be akin to scumbags simple as that. I thot for a second i seen a name Homeland security in the video, take a guess as to where most of them wudprob be from, not to be offensive just pointing out the obvious. As for the fact some people who get involved in the game, and probably talked to this girl many times and even were friends found it a fitting way to show a little respect. And i dont care who thinks its *sad* to do that, because if it is, why the hell are you reading this forum?? I play Wow as do a few people i know, some way more addcited then me, but we all work, all go out and have a laugh but find it nice to sit down and loose urself in the imaginary world for a while, no harm in that. And how do any of you know that the people mourning there in Wow didnt know her for a long time? and maybe just logged on just for that? They might not have been able to pay their respects in real life due to any number of reasons. Needless to say i was sickened by the people that ruined it and they are the type of people who would always pick on someone smaller and weaker. ( damn that psychology course came in handy:P). Needless to say i think the "raiders" are scum

Drakar · 14-03-2006 10:55AM

Although WoW is just a game, if you play in organised guilds with voice chat, and interact with these people teaming together for 4+hours a day, over the nearly 2+ years that WoW US has been around, I think it's quite reasonable to suggest that those people may know each other better as friends than some people whom they would have met in real life. Lets face it, they can talk together, they work together to defeat common challenges, and they spend so much time together, the only thing that's unusual is the medium.

I can understand what people are saying with the "its on a pvp server, what do they expect". I'd imagine what they felt was that if they had held this in a "safe" location (eg one of the major cities), firstly it would be too busy with random people selling cwap etc, and by putting it in an uncommon location, only people who were genuinely interested would appear, secondly I'd imagine they may have (foolishly) thought that some of the opposing side may have wanted to also pay their respects. What happened wouldn't have surprised me, but I'd imagine it would have really annoyed the people who really cared.

Binomate · 14-03-2006 12:12PM

I don't know what to think. They're both sad, but one side of it is funnier. I know if I died and there was a memorial service for me on a server then I would most certainly laugh my ass off if the other faction pwned all the noobs attenting the service.

Dubhthamlacht · 14-03-2006 12:37PM

there's no doubt that the whole idea was certainly weird. Holding such an event seems crass and tacky in my opinion even if they participants who held the "memorial" were sincere about it. It still made me laugh though. I have no qualms about going around ganking but if in that situation I wouldn't go near such an event as I simply would not want to be associated with such freakiness in any way or form. It is a game after all but it's also a game where the bounderies are becoming blurred.

JimmySmith · 14-03-2006 12:42PM

Thats so funny. Sad gits.
I hera the leader of the other clan was called Michael Stone. He's got form.

JaneHudson · 14-03-2006 12:55PM

I don't think it is stupid to have an online funeral for your online friend. It's no more ridiculous than some priest babbling rosaries over your corpse and everyone mumbling away with him.
It looked like a cute little funeral.

sunzz · 14-03-2006 02:36PM

I have no quarrels with the funeral however people want to remember someone is fine by me, but after watching that vid I think a little pee came out.

It's a pvp server what can you expect.

Tar.Aldarion · 14-03-2006 02:49PM

That made me angry and it made sad.
I guess it's because somebody I know died recently and I know how much it would have meant to some of them...

Hobbes · 14-03-2006 03:07PM

Drakar wrote:

I can understand what people are saying with the "its on a pvp server, what do they expect".

In Ultima Online and Neocron these sort of things were expected. UO for example at professional events where GM intervention wasn't expected trained fighters/mages where put in as police to stop any kind of muppets. In UO they had a fight night where they had police characters spamming the fighting area with detect hidden and slaughtering anyone found in the area that wasn't supposed to be fighting.

Likewise in Neocron on the server I was on there were clans that actually made a living out of policing events/outposts for other clans who didn't have the firepower.

If your going to hold an event you have to expect the asshole factor showing up.

DRakE · 14-03-2006 04:25PM

That kind of **** goes on on RP servers afaik..

BrokenArrows · 14-03-2006 05:12PM

it was kinda ****ty of then to crash it....

...but in saying that my god it was funny.

StephenInsane · 16-03-2006 01:16AM

LOL total ownage. Music and build up was perfect. When scatman hit I nearly fell over laughing. Probably the best video on the internet ever.

PS. I read on another forum that the reason they held the funeral there is because she spent a lot of time fishing there.

Bartonprince · 16-03-2006 09:58AM

kwalsh000 wrote:

Normally i would not reply to something like this, and am not too sure whether this is about the chinese girl that died a while ago or someone else but either way, the people who "ruined the mourning" can be akin to scumbags simple as that. I thot for a second i seen a name Homeland security in the video, take a guess as to where most of them wudprob be from, not to be offensive just pointing out the obvious. As for the fact some people who get involved in the game, and probably talked to this girl many times and even were friends found it a fitting way to show a little respect. And i dont care who thinks its *sad* to do that, because if it is, why the hell are you reading this forum?? I play Wow as do a few people i know, some way more addcited then me, but we all work, all go out and have a laugh but find it nice to sit down and loose urself in the imaginary world for a while, no harm in that. And how do any of you know that the people mourning there in Wow didnt know her for a long time? and maybe just logged on just for that? They might not have been able to pay their respects in real life due to any number of reasons. Needless to say i was sickened by the people that ruined it and they are the type of people who would always pick on someone smaller and weaker. ( damn that psychology course came in handy:P). Needless to say i think the "raiders" are scum

Amen.

It's not about the game really in this case. They were friends. If you were to leave the game now you would miss people you speak to a lot and just sit around chatting to.

Think of it this way, if someone in your guild who you liked died today (god forbid), and you logged on ans were told about it, and the guid leader asked you to log on at a certain time to pay respects, would you? or would you say it was sad?

Some people are such good friends that it makes it easier to pay proper respect to them by logging on, there could be 50 people from all around europe or whatever all attending to pay respects, instead of all of them travelling to the funeral (and probably being unwelcome)

WarZoneBrother · 16-03-2006 08:58PM

I heard some 1 stabbed because this person gave one of the best swords to there m8 and they didnt get it back so went to station to see what he/she could do and they said its not a real thing so they couldnt do anything.Then the person stabbed the person that took the sword to death and is in prison.

no offence but world of warcraft should be banned

Joseph · 16-03-2006 09:24PM

pardon my french but the ppl that did it are a bunch of **** {no offence inteneded}

the_syco · 16-03-2006 09:39PM

From reading this thread, it looks like Team A were holding a memorial service, and Team B, who were running around kicking ass, came across a couple of people, and decided to pillage them. Unless they knew there was a memorial, then its just another raid to them.

Thought thats what WoW was all about. Killing people. So you see a group of people doing nothing, and you and your mates want a fight. So what do you do? Ignore them, or fight them?

WarZoneBrother · 16-03-2006 09:44PM

Deaddude wrote:

pardon my french but the ppl that did it are a bunch of **** {no offence inteneded}

i totally agree and people who play this game are nothing but lazy people who cant step off computer and get a god damn job.

the_syco · 16-03-2006 09:49PM

WarZoneBrother wrote:

i totally agree and people who play this game are nothing but lazy people who cant step off computer and get a god damn job.

Actually, many who play have jobs.

ai ing · 16-03-2006 10:17PM

WarZoneBrother wrote:

I heard some 1 stabbed because this person gave one of the best swords to there m8 and they didnt get it back so went to station to see what he/she could do and they said its not a real thing so they couldnt do anything.Then the person stabbed the person that took the sword to death and is in prison.

no offence but world of warcraft should be banned

I think crazy people should be banned.

Binomate · 16-03-2006 10:21PM

Taking ganking to a whole new level.

Jim · 17-03-2006 12:18AM

WarZoneBrother wrote:

I heard some 1 stabbed because this person gave one of the best swords to there m8 and they didnt get it back so went to station to see what he/she could do and they said its not a real thing so they couldnt do anything.Then the person stabbed the person that took the sword to death and is in prison.

no offence but world of warcraft should be banned

That was a different MMO, not wow.
I heard that a game called football incites riots, no offence, but it should be banned.

koneko · 17-03-2006 10:58AM

WarZoneBrother wrote:

i totally agree and people who play this game are nothing but lazy people who cant step off computer and get a god damn job.

Why are you on this board if you dislike people that play the game? You could not be more wrong, btw. Go troll somewhere else.

pwd · 17-03-2006 11:20AM

Fascinating.
Forum link doesn't work and dialup stops me seeing the vids.
It's very common for people to become emotionally attached to each other online.
You criticise this service. Yet would it not be stranger for people who only knew the girl from the game to appear at her real funeral?
Who are you to say that their feelings are invalid? Different people take different things from this game. Playing it to win is in no way superior to playing it to connect with people.
I do not play the game. It is strange that people who do are so ready to laugh at and judge others who do.
I think the service is quite sweet personally.

Fenster · 17-03-2006 03:18PM

Blackly funny. The worst I've done personally was gatecrash a wedding near Thunderbluff with some friends, slaughter the guests, MC the bride and run her off a cliff.

KdjaCL · 17-03-2006 03:33PM

Thats funny , but if they wanted peace why not go to one of the no fighting places.

kdjac

kwalsh000 · 17-03-2006 07:43PM

Jimeatsmenu wrote:

That was a different MMO, not wow.
I heard that a game called football incites riots, no offence, but it should be banned.

Totally agree with you there. I cant bother looking back at the name of the person who posted it but why should something be banned like WOW or the people who play it are lazy? I worked in a football facility before and i can tell u this, each game i refereed or watched had a few "****" there and got much worse than any other game in terms of violence. So if i adopt your attiude both football players and people who watch football are scumbags and shuld be locked away. As for people to "go get jobs", as was said many do have jobs, and by the sounds of it have more of a grip on reality than you. You condem people lazy for playing a game , then i say why dont you get off the computer and go excercise! But, wait, again i would be acting similar and judging people under the same banner. The simple fact is, if your not gona post something in response to the topic of the post then dont post anything. The people who did that are scumbags and shud not be given the satisfaction of laughter at their little "prank". And before it is said, yes i do play WOW and yes i do work hard and earn a living. My condolences are to that girl and her family

Horsefumbler · 19-03-2006 08:04PM

Mulgore, now that would have been a nice place to have a memorial...

DRakE · 20-03-2006 12:14AM

I'd have my ashes scattered in Blackrock Mountain ;D

Hal1 · 20-03-2006 12:27AM

downloading the high res copy of it now. #

Jim · 20-03-2006 05:03AM

KdjaC wrote:

Thats funny , but if they wanted peace why not go to one of the no fighting places.

kdjac

Theres no place in wow really where you can be totally safe, the cities provide some safety, but as was said the opposing faction was invading the city in question.

hairball · 20-03-2006 07:08AM

kinda cool eh?:)

Mutant_Fruit · 24-03-2006 01:07PM

WarZoneBrother wrote:

no offence but world of warcraft should be banned

So you're blaming a game for a mentally unstable person killing someone else? Wow. Ever hear of Jack Thompson? I think ye'd get on very well together! Games don't kill people, people kill people. If he was that unstable, he shouldn't be playing games. He clearly can't seperate whats important from whats not.

Girls Dies, ingame memorial service bombed!?

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