Dead Chinese Gamer Wasn't A WoW Player

Posted by Zonk on Friday November 25, 2005 @08:35AM 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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Re:Release dates by Larch · 2005-11-25 08:48 · Score: 5, Informative

From the article: "the actual lawsuit claimed he committed suicide after playing the real time strategy game Warcraft III"

So if the article is correct the lawsuit was always about Warcraft III and not WoW. It doesn't really have anything to do with release dates or being able to access US Servers.