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Dead Chinese Gamer Wasn't A WoW Player

Posted by Zonk on from the bad-story dept.

Despite earlier reports to the contrary, GamePolitics has the news that the dead Chinese gamer whose parents were suing Blizzard was not a World of Warcraft player. From the post: "World of Warcraft (WoW) was not released in China until May 2005... the actual lawsuit claimed he committed suicide after playing the real time strategy game Warcraft III... Without WoW, it would have been much harder to pin the blame on Warcraft because it's a strategy game, not role playing. But with WoW, and the recent focus on the alleged addictive qualities of MMORPGs, the lawsuit gets much more attention..."

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  1. he jumped out the window by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    when he realized that every character around him were NPCs.

  2. "Strategy" by Mini-Geek · · Score: 1, Funny

    He was playing a strategy game and died? Here's a strategy for him: don't play Warcraft III so much you die...he must've been really bad at the game to have such a poor strategy he couldn't even figure that out.

    --
    do {print "Mini-Geek Rules!\n";}
    until ($TheEndOfTheWorld);
  3. take that Tetris! by Imazalil · · Score: 2, Funny

    So are we just now finally retributing the Soviets for Tetris? How many hours were wasted by that infectious little game, now is the time for our revenge! Lets ship some computers to Cuba with free copies of WoW or W3, Blizzard will singlehandedly destroy the last traces of Communism on the planet! :)

    Im.