And you thought the drama in your guild was bad? In Russia a man was beaten to death by members of a rival MMO clan.
In China, a 41 year old man stalked and stabbed a 21 year old boy to death when the boy sold a borrowed sword for real life money.
Is there something special about MMOs that drives people to these violent acts? Or is it simple human nature?
The writer posits that while sensationalistic and interesting, the stories provide no direct casual link between the MMO gameplay and the act of violence. As MMOs get more popular, it is simple mathematics that a certain percentage of players will be unstable long before they make their first character.
But perhaps there are things MMO developers can do to at least minimize the danger of MMO drama spilling over into RL violence.
Blizzard Entertainment has announced the opening of beta registrations for “World of Warcraft: The War Within,” inviting players to explore new subterranean worlds beneath Azeroth.
Danish from eXputer: "Despite Blizzard's attempt to give a fresh new spin to World of Warcraft, some fans still seem to be stuck in the past."
HG writes: "Blizzard is usually pretty bad at keeping secrets, but the company somehow managed to keep this one under wraps until now. Plunderstorm is a special limited-time event that’s basically World of Warcraft’s take on the Battle Royale genre."
Come on people teh lewt isn't real.
Its disturbing but true and these people who are so into these games lose their sense of reality. Its these kind of gamers who should really "get a life" cause if they cant separate gaming life from real life then they shouldnt be permitted to play. This kind of news gives us healthy gamers a bad name.
Man i remember a dude scammed me for a good scrolled cape. 1 of his friends gave me his real name so i used the internet :) narrowed down
to the school he went to and neighborhood he lived in .... ... so i sent him an ingame message with some of the info and told him i was close to 30 years old (NOT) and was very capable of traveling and blah blah blah
so he tells me he sold it for 160m in game and he gave me 160 ... immediately after the trade i told him the cape was worth 240m and he paid me the differnce too and then some
240m at that time in game was worth almost $100usd
...which imitates life.
You could probably find more instances of murders between people who met in supermarkets or on buses or at screenings of Disney movies. If enough people to meet each other chances are some of them are gonna wind up killing each other.