The Shrine

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid ... renity+now

Some lady dies IRL, her guild (Horde) is holding an in-game funeral for her in a contested zone on a PvP server when the Alliance shows up and all hell breaks loose.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not trivalizing this person's death, just the way it was commemorated. If people want to pay their respects they should do it IRL, not by standing around a virtual lake side by side with a bunch of pixels. Yeah they might not be able to hop on a plane and attend the real thing, but they can always send cards or flowers or such, and barring that they can express their condolences through email/IRC/message boards. Holding in-game funerals is little more than a cheap substitute. As far as I'm concerned these people got what was coming to them (read - a serious beatdown).

But what do I know, maybe society is moving to where virtual words and real ones get intertwined to the point where this sort of thing is actually taken seriously.

The guys who crashed the funeral were the local asshats of their server.

If they were gonna do it they should have done it in private, but one of their members made it public knowledge and the enemy guild got wind of it, and well the rest is history.

They met the person who passed online, and they said goodbye online. Some people take it very seriously. These are pure 100% nerds, they don't know another way to say goodbye.

Manshoon, what you're basically saying is "I don't think your way of grieving is valid."

Funerals aren't for the dead, they're for the living. They met the person in a game, so they chose to collectively grieve within that game. That makes sense to me. The people who crashed it are dicks.

I don't see anything wrong with the way these people grieved. Yes, they are "nerds" and perhaps they're nerdliness when it comes to MMORPGs is higher than mine, but I bet I surpass some of these people in other nerdly ways.

The guys who raided it are pricks, pure and simple. I don't get why the mourners held it in a major PVP zone. Maybe they thought other people would have some common decency. Beats me.

Heh, I saw that video a few days ago; it's still funny though =)

I especially liked how they used Scatman as the song when they began the slaughter =)

Classic =)

This shit used to happen all the time in Dark Age of Camelot (which yes, I still do play, but I get to play for free! :p). I've never participated in something like this before, but if I was running around the frontier and saw a big group of people from enemy realms, like hell I'm not going to take a few down if I can

Wow, whether it was ok to break that up aside... those guys seriously got owned.

Ha, pretty funny. I would have done the same thing.

Everything is funnier with Scatman.

Eric wrote: They met the person who passed online, and they said goodbye online. Some people take it very seriously. These are pure 100% nerds, they don't know another way to say goodbye.

Well that's something they need to work on then. What if a relative of theirs who never touched WoW died? Would they still have their in-game funeral, complete with /sobs, /crys, and /salutes, and make a video of it to pass on? That would be utterly ridiculous.

Kupek wrote: Manshoon, what you're basically saying is "I don't think your way of grieving is valid."

Funerals aren't for the dead, they're for the living. They met the person in a game, so they chose to collectively grieve within that game. That makes sense to me. The people who crashed it are dicks.

Except that this was a real person who died and not simply her online avatar. Now if she was permanently retiring her character or it got perma-banned or something, then an online funeral would be perfectly appropriate. But if people are playing WoW to the point where it becomes an extension of their real lives, they've got bigger issues to worry about than a bunch of PKs crashing an in-game funeral.

And yes, the people who crashed the funeral were dicks, but there's no rule in the WoW ToS against being a dick. What do you expect to happen when you're on a PvP server? If this particular group hadn't crashed the funeral, you can bet another group definetly would've. If the funeral attendees were thinking at all they'd have held it in friendly territory, and then they wouldn't have to worry about telling everyone to "plz don't attack, we are making a video". But that's the chance they took.

Manshoon wrote:But if people are playing WoW to the point where it becomes an extension of their real lives, they've got bigger issues to worry about than a bunch of PKs crashing an in-game funeral.

Heh, welcome to the world of MMORPGs.

I think it was fucking hilarious. I like grieving when they are actually creative about it.