Slaughter at the magic funeral (VIDEO)

May 4, 2006

Slaughter at the magic funeral (VIDEO)

Posted at May 4, 2006 9:58 AM

I'm not even sure what to say about this one. I'll let the article and video do the talking. I will however explain "pwned" since someone already asked me this morning. pwned means "owned", which is what gamer nerds say when they kill someone. To use it in a sentence, "Ohhh! You got owned!!".

Read the article for the setup. Scroll down to view the Video.

from sploid.com:

Slaughter at the magic funeral

People who play a computer game about wizards killing each other were outraged when their "virtual funeral" for a fellow player was attacked by a gang of enemy characters.

The game, World of Warcraft, is played by more than 6 million people around the world. And much like the real world, players from one side are required to be the enemy of players on the other side -- it's part of the game's cruel and pointless design. (Gamers are connected to the massive virtual world through the Internet.)

For reasons yet to be explained, a group of players decided to hold a "funeral service" for another player who reportedly died in real life on February 28 ... and they decided to hold it in an open-combat area.

They announced it on a World of Warcraft message board.

A gang of rival players known as "Serenity Now" thought that was a fine way to slaughter a whole lot of enemies with minimal effort.

In a hilarious video that even makes sense to those who have never entered this "Lord of the Rings"-style world of wizards and elves and dragons, the Serenity Now gang raids the solemn lakeside funeral and slaughters dozens and dozens of dimwitted mourners.

But first, an "advance man" goes to the memorial service to check things out. When his marauding horde is just about to reach the funeral, he brutally kills the character representing the girl who reportedly died in real life.

Then the gang makes quick work of all the mourners. Finally, the advance man returns to the virtual corpse of the supposed real-world dead girl. He genuflects and says she liked fishing and snow and playing the combat style of World of Warcraft.

The raid has led to much hand-wringing about player ethics, with many people apparently shocked that a game about wizards killing each other would be used for exactly that purpose.

The funeral raid happened on March 4, and just three days later the brutal video appeared on Google, apparently as a "recruitment video" for the Serenity Now gang.

Even those who found the raid distasteful say it was idiotic for the "funeral' to be held in an open combat zone.

It's not the first time World of Warcraft gamers have taken their hobby a little too seriously. There was outrage last month when a transsexual (in real life) started a club for homosexual players that advertised itself as friendly to such persuasions.

The game company said no, and the whole stupid mess led to 1,000 World of Warcraft employees going to "sensitivity training."

The company recently banned more than 5,000 players and suspended another 10,000 accounts for various virtual crimes.

SO WE PWNED THIS FUNERAL TODAY: SERENITY-NOW.ORG

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Comments

The rade was hilarious! The video had great music to it, and it was so unexpected. I'm sorry about the guild the funeral was made for, but look at in a funny way.

Thinks for the laugh

Posted by: Michael Lafean at May 19, 2006 2:09 PM

Well, while the idea of raiding a funeral is stupid, not to mention cruel...
Okay, it was funny that someone decided to be mean and raid it but honestly....
Why hold the funeral in an open-combat area? O_o.; You'd be smarter to not hold it there. Then again, maybe that was the only place to hold it.
I have a warped since of humor, so I found the slaughter funny.
Funny, yes, but so very cruel.
rip to the guild member who passed away. Your fellow gamers remember you, thank you for playing.
And you guys...funny, but mean. ^__^.v

Posted by: Schuldig at June 6, 2006 5:16 PM

Shit like this makes me want to play these games. God damn, that was funny.

Posted by: Ted at June 8, 2006 3:28 PM

OMG DUDE I HAVE 2 QUIT MY GUILD AND JOIN SERENITY OMG I AM I HOPE THEY COULD USE MY 3 LVL 60S
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Posted by: wtfpwn at June 26, 2006 11:50 AM

Sorry for this

Posted by: calvin at July 6, 2006 12:22 AM

yes very funny lol.but why hold it in a contested zone? very sad to hear of girls passing :( but why not hold a funeral in a capital be pretty funny if they did it in UC (under-city) lol

Posted by: steph at July 29, 2006 5:59 AM

This raid made my month but the stupid dumbass who decided to hold the raid in winterspring was a fucktard o.O why not go elsewhere wiht snow and water serenity-now owns i'd join if i was on that server .

Posted by: kumali at October 15, 2006 3:15 PM

This is the main reason why I refuse to play these games... It really surprises me how pathetic the human race truly is.

Posted by: Darc at October 21, 2006 9:51 AM

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