The Million-Gnome March

This past Friday a sea of Gnomish fury swept over the chilly vale of Dun Morogh. The reason? Their character class isn't balanced. AFK Gamer has details on this outpouring of tiny fury, with liveblogging from the event itself and pictures of the naked gnome march from later in the weekend. Despite GM crackdowns and general apathy towards the Warrior cause, they appear to have gotten some sort of response from a developer (even though the response has nothing to do with the march). Terra Nova has picked up the topic and poses it as a question about the right to assemble in virtual spaces.

Comments

From the "wtf-bbq-hax" dept.

[Pseudosapiens]

As a Blizzard customer and World of Warcraft subscriber I demand the right to assemble with large numbers of thoroughly incompetent teenagers in low level zones to protest the imbalance of [insert class/race/skill here], regardless of how many times the developers have said "we know, we're working to address the issue." Any negative effects of this protest indicate Blizzard's inability to "learn some programming wtf." Clearly the players know more about running an online game for hundreds of thousands of people and have a better understanding of how [class/race/skill] balance works than the people that spent several years developing the game. Seriously. Let's start an online petition or something.

Re:Gnome?

[servognome]

I agree, the use of gnomes as a symbol for the downtrodden just shows how much anti-gnome racism there is.
Gnomes are consistantly ridiculed, mocked, taunted, and punted. To use them to put forward the agenda of nerfed warriors, without addressing the real community issues that lead to gnome bashing is the greatest travesty.
Gnomes cannot even be clerics, even the Gods of Blizzard hate gnomes and ignore their prayers!
-Squishi the Gnome Warrior