World of Warcraft 'funeral' ambush

, posted: 18-Jun-2006 11:46

Where to file this one? Under "sad" or "funny"? It's a video of the World of Warcraft online "funeral" ceremony for a girl who died in real life. The virtual attendees were set upon by other players...



I was going to ignore it but people are really getting worked up about the whole thing. Even The Guardian takes -10 silliness damage by launching into a long shpiel about the evolution of games into virtual societies and "griefers" forgetting that people have been getting emo like this well before the Internet. Ho-humm.





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Comment by Hamish, on 27-Jun-2006 21:32

Unsurprisingly, the guilds website (Serenity Now) has been haxed.


Comment by World of Warcraft cheats World of Warcraft hacks a, on 27-Mar-2007 15:55

hmm..i was confused about this at first.


Comment by Koondog, on 22-May-2007 21:25

Hi I run a free private World of Warcraft server here in Wellington, New Zealand. To join visit.

http://craft.servegame.com/join.htm


Author's note by juha, on 22-May-2007 21:33

Cheers for that Koondog.


Comment by Reece, on 2-Jul-2007 23:26

A touching sentiment but they should have realised something like that could happen.


Comment by ladymeba, on 10-Jul-2007 20:45

Isn't that what the game is about - If I ever die I would want my 'wow' funeral to be similar to that one - although I would hope that my mourners were on the winning side :D


Comment by rocky, on 21-Sep-2008 05:51

i din't get u.



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Comment by WOW Strategy Guide, on 12-Oct-2010 23:23

This is a totaly sad thing. The death of a friend is in no way a funny or silly thing.
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Comment by Stuart, on 27-Apr-2011 23:00

I agree 100% with WOW Strategy Guide, it's def not funny or silly.


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