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'Make Love, Not Warcraft' Episode Wins An Emmy

Posted by Zonk on from the mmogs-are-just-a-bit-mainstream,-methinks dept.

WoW Insider has the word that the South Park Episode "Make Love, Not Warcraft" has won the Creative Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program. The episode, which heavily features machinima shot inside a Blizzard-run World of Warcraft server, has proven extremely popular with fans of both the game and the show. So much so that the DVD set including that episode includes a 14-day trial for WoW, and extensive commentary on the episode from the show's creators. From the WoW Insider post: "This isn't the first Emmy that South Park has won, but perhaps this kind of attention will get WoW more positive (or at least humorous) attention in other television shows. Though, when it comes to TV ratings, 9 million people worldwide does not a target audience make. For example, American Idol was considered slipping when it only had 30 million US viewers for an episode. Would you like to see WoW references appear more often on TV? Or are you too busy playing to care?"

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  1. I was impressed, until... by damrat · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I was impressed with the Emmy, until I saw this morning that Andy Samberg and Justin Timberlake's "Dick in a Box" won an Emmy last night, too. Makes you wonder just how low the standards for winning an Emmy are, after all. Or how sorry the competition was...

    1. Re:I was impressed, until... by multisync · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I don't know what the competition for it was, but I remember that Samberg/Timberlake video well and found it hilarious. In fact, I remember the show Timberlake hosted as one of the best of last season. If you didn't think it was funny, you're entitled to your opinion, but for me it doesn't work as an example of the "low standards for winning an Emmy."

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  2. more choice by Tom · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Or are you too busy playing to care? No, like most non-WoW-players, I'm too busy caring about whether or not WoW is good or bad for me (as a player and consumer) and the industry.

    Certainly the size and money involved allows Blizzard to try things nobody else could afford. On the other hand, in markets in general and creative markets specifically, too much concentration on one offer (no matter how good it is) reduces the progress of everyone else.

    I'd rather have more choice.
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    1. Re:more choice by phildawg · · Score: 3, Insightful

      But you have one major failure in your logic. WoW isn't stealing MMO players away from other competitive MMOs. It is creating new MMO players from those who used to refuse to pay a monthly fee for a video game they could never own, or never had a desire to try out an MMO as they were content with playing diablo, counterstrike, etc.

  3. Well, Emmys are for television... by AmazingRuss · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...and television is 200 channels of suck. I would hate to be the person who has to dig through all that and find the bits that suck the very least.

  4. Re:No, I wouldn't. by Don853 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Except that it's special just because of the size of its user base. It's a huge force in the PC gaming industry, and it affects future development because everyone else wants to try to replicate that kind of success. (and it seems to be unfortunately keeping Blizzard pretty occupied with a genre I'm not particularly interested in).

    Walmart doesn't do much of anything unique either, they just do it better/faster/cheaper, and because of that they're very relevant.