WoW Guild Ambushes a Funeral

I thought it was hilarious. They hold a funeral on a PVP server and didn't expect this?
 
Secretly I'd rofl if someone naked came to a funneral (which was in the middle of a warzone and people had said "Try not to fight at the funneral") pushed the coffin over and said "lol pwnt"

So what if people on the internet know I'd ROFL TBH?
 
The funeral being a dumb/weird/creepy idea is not the point. People do weird things all over the world, that's nothing new. The point is the guys that took advantage of this are immature c**ts, and that some people find this funny. Unfortunately that's nothing new either.

The only thing that sets this vid aside from countless others is poor taste. It's only because a kid died that people find it amusing - and that's why I fail to see the funny side.

Funny in an wanna be rebelious, adolescent, attention seeking, 'hey that's sick and I just don't care'!, kind of way (i.e. not funny :thumbs: )
 
What baffles I, where are the funeral police?
 
I don't understand how someone can not understand having a funeral in WoW. You talk to a person and play with them for a couple of years, you can probably consider them a friend. There are people on this forum I consider very good friends, having met some of them, and if they died I'd be pretty ****ing sad. There are people that I knew once but have since moved away, and I now keep in contact with them via the internet. Just because you know someone over phone lines rather than face-to-face, it doesn't mean the friendship is any less valid or that there would be any less emotion when they die. Since they can't go to the real funeral, a remembrance service in WoW, is the way they express their mourning. Although it seems crazy to do it in contested territory.

Then again, if it was my funeral, and I was looking down on it being trashed by enemy playes, I'd be like 'ha. You guys got served,' and laugh my ghostly head off. It'd be so very fitting for a group of friends who I'd PvP'd with. :LOL:
 
The GM's? They're stopping the dupers.

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sinkoman said:
No, we won't put a corpes in the middle of the hole in Karkand and all crowd around it crouching.
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Awww man... I was looking foreward to that. And the 21 AK-101 salute!

*note for future ingame "funerals": Hire goons. Many many goons to make sure that this doesnt happen at yours. And remember, for the best security, hire Germans!
 
Meh. People grieve in different ways. It's not like they had any other alternatives, save for flying out to the funeral personally (especially considering they might not have known the deceased's location, let alone where the service is being held... and I somehow doubt the family would be all that willing to disclose this sort of thing to her online friends).

As for holding it in a contested zone, and ANNOUNCING they were doing so beforehand... wow were they ever asking for it >_>

What I would call excessive, however (although the video did manage to get a smirk out of me), is the way that players and guilds in WoW like to wear these sort of comments ("degenerate piece of shit" etc.) like medals, and infact are PROUD to call themselves total assholes. Unfortunately, THIS is what WoW does to people who become excessively involved. I see it even in my own guild (who I'm hardly involved with anymore), who set out to be totally against this sort of behaviour. The power of total annonimity, eh?
 
Before I started playing WoW or knew what the game was like, I told my brother that I'd play a sneaky character that ripped everyone off, killed everyone, and steal heir loot. That was mostly because the only 'true' RPG I had ever played was Morrowind.

After playing to about level 20, the game dynamics began to make sense - guilds, loot behavior, classes, etc. Considering the amount of time you invest into a game like that and other game dynamics, I would venture to say that certain behavior in these games is morally wrong, as wrong as it might be to steal in real life. You might say "It's just a game" but rewind a couple hundred years and you'd be shot for cheating in a card-game, even if money wasn't involved.

It's the concept of honor - level 60's shouldn't ambush level 20's. Loot should be distributed to those with greatest use/need. For those who haven't played WoW, such actions are equivalent to team-killing, hacks, or cheating - and in some cases it's about 100x worse (not exagurating).

I will admit that in some regards that the ambush was quite ingenious and hilarious. The 'execution' was perfect. At the same time it was extremely rude, immature, and disrespectful. If you understand this concept of honor, you would also understand why I would "blacklist" that entire guild (if I was alliance).
 
So how did they manage to get videos from Alliance and Horde point of view if they didn't know it was going to happen?

Looks like a setup to me.
 
Maybe it was, I dunno... I dont see why people got in such a long line, too far away to even see the person who died.

Realistically, people would have just crowded around in the front I think. I mean it's not like they have to form a line as if someone is passing out candy one by one, unless they did it just for the sheer fascination of making a line like that.
 
The reason I play many games is to do things that I can't do in real life for whatever reason and I can understand wanting to take advantage of a weaker force, but even these excuses are vile as the funeral procession wasn't just for a game character but for a real person that was representred in-game by that character. The connection with the actual death of this gamer is what makes this so maddening and inhuman. Really poor taste IMHO.
 
Shadow-warrior said:
So how did they manage to get videos from Alliance and Horde point of view if they didn't know it was going to happen?

Looks like a setup to me.
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They didn't, the other perspective was just someone from the guild who was filming from the funeral. If you'll notice, the entire procession is in red to them... and they're the one who kills the dead girl :p
 
Icarusintel said:
That video has to be the funniest I've seen in a while. It was a total slaughter. And maybe I'm an asshole as well, but having a funeral in a game just makes me laugh. They don't actually know the person, and yet they're grieving? That's just utterly ridiculous.
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How do you know they don't know him? it's just disrepectful what they did..so what that they did a funeral ingame. Do you think they didn't have a real life funeral for him? As for them grieving, they aint, they're just getting involved...thats like me caring about 9/11 ..i dont know a single soul in them twin towers yet i was shocked to see it happen and still be quiet during the minute silence we have.
 
Aye i agree with a lot of what others said, it is extremely harsh, but then again the video was amusing. Meh ...
 
i watched the video 1st without reading the posts, i thought the guys character died and they were having a funeral for his character(couldnt read the text in the video, too small), i lol'd.

i didnt realise the actual player died IRL so now i'm abit :/ but having a 'funeral' in-game, i dunno, seems a bit too far, yeah make a thread etc but this :/
 
Aye its a bit ott, but for those that really knew him and couldn't meet him IRL, it's a good way for them to show their condolences (sp?)
 
Bob_Marley said:
*note for future ingame "funerals": Hire goons. Many many goons to make sure that this doesnt happen at yours. And remember, for the best security, hire Germans!
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The ironic thing is that a lot of goons are in Serenity Now.
 
I don't see any problem with the in-game funeral since they person actually died. MMO's are usually better if they actually have communities, and it seemed like a community oriented thing to do. That's one of the reasons why people criticise WoW, no community. Even guilds just seem like "loot collecting tools". Seems more productive than sitting in Ogrimmar/Ironforge for hours waiting for a raid to start.


However, they had it coming. They held it in a contested zone, and were suprised? That's just stupid. Yes it was an asshole thing to do of the guild, but what do you expect? It was completly whoever planned the thing's fault, should have held it in durotar or something.
 
I can understand paying some online respects to online friends that you've made over the years, but I wouldn't do it on a public server where we advertised it and asked "please don't attack us". Are you kidding? The video was funny because they made a mistake and got, well, you know, tore the fu¢k up! Time for an old school, Hatfield v. McCoy -style feud.
 
I haven't ever played WoW, so i'm not real sure what happened, but every says they got pwned so, "Holy crap those guys socks got rocked!"
 
Yeah, so now relying on human nature to be kind is funny.

What a beautiful world we live in.
 
I don't think thats what everyones finding amusing tbh :|
 
Hey this is actually a pretty interesting for Wow itself. These actions are actually causing REAL virtual wars. The two sides don't attack eachother because they are supposed to, but because they really hate eachother now. That makes the game way more interesting.[/joke]
 
Everyone who is making fun of the ingame funeral... do you deny the existence of online friends?

Once you get past that, I really don't see why holding a funeral ingame is odd at all. It's like driving by a real life funeral and pointing and laughing - "Look at all of those idiots crowded around a dead body... Oh, isn't that nice, they wanted to hold it on the navy base where he served 25 years... that's so CORNY lolollolol! Just burn the body and be done with it!"

EDIT: But yeah, this one was a publicity stunt. Telling everybody is just asking for an ambush - so they're pretty much taking advantage of someone's death to make themselves famous. That is what people need to be questioning here.
 
O.K. - Fair enough, someone who was in a guild unfortunately passed away, and to his fellow members, they felt he needed a send off and also wished to pay respects.

So they attempt this on a public server of a massively online mulitplayer game? What the hell did they expect? Publicity stunt maybe, maybe not.

The bottom line is, this is a freakin' game. I'm not defending an attack that's disrespectful to the dead, but Gordon bloody Bennett this is stupid on both parts.
 
Cormeh said:
O.K. - Fair enough, someone who was in a guild unfortunately passed away, and to his fellow members, they felt he needed a send off and also wished to pay respects.

So they attempt this on a public server of a massively online mulitplayer game? What the hell did they expect? Publicity stunt maybe, maybe not.

The bottom line is, this is a freakin' game. I'm not defending an attack that's disrespectful to the dead, but Gordon bloody Bennett this is stupid on both parts.
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Yeah, I'm not going to preach hellfire on the ambushers, because it is a game, and people are going to play it. You know how I feel about where/how they held the funeral, after all.

It's just important to realize that though WoW is "just a game," the people you meet are very real.
 
both events are to be expected in a game where it emulates life of some sort...an attack would be attempted by a real gang at a funeral (in limerick there are 2 feuding families, there was a funeral with huge security presence)

It is a nice thing to have a service but a dumb idea to have it in a contested area!
 
I admit it is pretty stupid to hold it in a contested area. Was it stupid not to expect to get attacked by a random group with no aim beyond chaos?
 
Never heard of Serenity Now.

Must just be some no name WoW pvp guild, rather than a universal one which i'm more familiar with.
 
let me put it this way.

What if hypothetically a hl2.net forum goer were to die. His friends decide to remember him by holding a little mock ceremony on a public server running overwatch or something. And they tell everyone on the forum the IP address for the server.

There is no way i cannot see someone or an entire clan joining the server and grav gunning filing cabinets through the middle of the ceremony
 
I don't think they will put the IP and pass in a public thread. All the regulars would be contacted via PM.
 
yeah, rather then having people that didn't even know him joining to try and ruin it, ala WoW
 
I guess they didn't know everyone who knew him.
 
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