Yes it would’ve made more sense to host the funeral in a neutral zone, but the alliance players would’ve shown up and made a scene anyway, shouting obscenites and the like. They held the funeral in Winterspring, a zone that is both aesthetically pleasing and difficult to reach. You have to be at least level 55 to even get into the zone (the only way into the zone is through a cave guarded by level 55 monsters). Therefore, they did the right thing by filtering out a good portion of the population. The neutrral zones are also swarming with lower level players who would pester them to no end.

In regards to Bartoneus’ comment regarding honor and DarthCthulu’s confusion, here is how it works. Barton knows it’s not a matter of actual honor, it’s just a stupid label that Blizzard gave it for the dynamics of their PvP system. An “Honor Kill” is awarded for every member of the opposite faction who is 10 levels less than you or above. You get no in-game rewards for ganking low level characters (except for personal satisfaction). A “Dishonorable Kill” is awarded for killing NPC civilians of the opposite faction. I realize that makes no sense for the “evil” horde, but it’s a matter of game balance. They could come up with different terms for the horde, but noone really cares. As you gain more and more “honor”, you gain military rank amongst your faction which gives you access to better gear. So yes, the term “honor” makes no sense, but it is disregarded.

There really aren’t that many assholes in WoW. The only issue I have at times is the level of maturity as the game is really popular with high school kids. The RP servers have mature players and even fewer assholes (based on my experience playing on RP, PvP and Non-PvP servers)

I do not mean to cause strife, but rather to clear up some confusion. Obviously I am not trying to change anyone’s opionion of WoW or MMO’s as I tend to think of them as anchovie’s on pizza, they’re an acquired taste .

MMORPG’s – an alternative for addicts, at least its not crack!

-Josh

P.S. I did find it pretty funny too just because of the speed at which everyone died.

2. People like that are often the reason that other people will avoid MMO’s. Yes, there are assholes in real life too. But, we don’t play games and hang out with them just because they live nearby (which translates roughly to being on the same server).

3. I would be pissed off and appaled if that happend to me.

4. Because it did not happen to me, and because the editing and music accompanyment were clever, I found it hard to not be amused. It’s funny, I’ll admit it. But it’s only funny because I have no emotional link to the deceased. That’s an important point.

Sadly I think it’s consequences, not morals, that keep this from happening. I guess along the same lines as Josh I’m not defending MMO people so much as attacking “RL” people.

Directed at Justin.

If that’s the case, then even there are even LESS decent people on WoW than I originally thought as 99.99999% of people in real life are contemptible assholes. That’s a lot of assholes! With a population of around 6 Billion on the planet, that makes roughly 600 non-assholes around the globe. I think my estimate might be a little too cheritable to the human race. It’s probably more like around 30.

Billions and billions of assholes. Eat your heart out, Carl Sagan.

“There are benefits, you get honorable kills for it.”

Bwahahaha! Okay, now THAT is funny. Ruin a funeral… FOR HONOR!

Just like when we played City of Brass where I Betrayed someone and managed to get lots of honor for it.

That’s why I commented, saying that the guild should have -predicted- that it was going to happen and taken the proper precautions to prevent it. (Mainly having it in non-contested territory, any decision otherwise brings the hammer down on them)

If they were really smart the would have gotten the best guild on their side to stand guard, or several guilds to help out. That way crashers would be scared off before they could wreck anything. Daes Dae’mar, man, Daes Dae’mar.

Besides, it wasn’t: Group holds in-game funeral, accidentally aggros Level 90 Giant Monkeybrain, or even group holds in-game funeral, opposing group accidentally finds them, fight breaks out.

It is: group hears about funeral, goes out of their way to disrupt and kill everyone there, for no big benefit (if I understand the PVP system correctly.)

Those Alliance players are assholes.

Not to condone it, but its tantamount to saying the word ‘poop’ in a room full of eighth graders. Even if its contextualized in a serious manner, they’re gonna giggle. Similarly, WOW is the sort of place where ‘serious’ events like a funeral are going to get shit all over.

Drawing conclusions based on 0.01% of the population has a name: stereotyping.

There are, after all, assholes in real life too, and I’m willing to bet the percentage is just about the same as that of assholes on WoW.

Is my take on it. I was really pissed off when I read the story, and even more so when I read people’s comments when the video got Digged.