WoW Funeral for Chinese Girl
Players in World of Warcraft held an online funeral for a young girl who died while playing the game during the national day holiday in China. The girl, who played under the character name of “Snowly” died last month, marking the second World of Warcraft-related death so far. Chinese officials have since started a move to place a limit on the allowable time spent in-game, something that is certainly not going to go down without a fight.
Should regulations be put in place for gaming? Well, there should certainly be something.
In the meantime, China View reports that there are 7 major developers who’ve begun testing anti-obsession systems on eleven online games. The trial period began October 20th.
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10 opinions for WoW Funeral for Chinese Girl
Karine
Nov 4, 2005 at 4:05 am
That is very sad, and at the same time, completely surreal.
Lishesque
Nov 4, 2005 at 8:29 am
o.O Damn. How long was she playing for?
xargon
Nov 9, 2005 at 6:53 am
lets hope its the last. wow players need to take a fecking break every few hours man, you’l all be transparent cripples by the end, screaming for updates junkfood and soda :)
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Tor
Jan 23, 2006 at 11:51 pm
I think it’s sweet… We do stuff like that on the RP server all the time… except of course there the characters die, not the RL people… :(
Kelly Clubb
Apr 20, 2006 at 8:00 pm
Well, all I can say is that if you are going to announce it, then at least have the funeral in non constested territory such as the barrens or something of the sort that you have plenty of room to do it and can still have both factions there…. think next time…
Kiesh
Jul 21, 2006 at 7:50 am
Was the death caused by too much play? Or was there more to it, such as medical conditions / not eating / not sleeping? Just seems strange…
Haan
Dec 25, 2006 at 9:28 am
Its really sad tht some1 dies for obsession of a game and its also sad tht no1 stops another person from doing a maratone of gaming. WoW is a really gd game but its not worth to die playing it.
I myself think its not worth to pay for it (i pay pirate wow)
Kiesh, lemme explain u how she died:
“Snowly” has 3 free days on a national hollyday, so she decides to make a wow marathone, she wakes up at first hour of the day and starts her maratone of WoW, 3 days later she dies of exaustion.
(thts what was written on the 2007 Guiness)
Dave
Jan 23, 2008 at 12:03 am
freeeeaaaaakkkksss….get a life
Chris
Jan 23, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Dave you are so right
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