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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. Of course it got the Emmy! by dbolger · · Score: 5, Funny

    Its the best show in the World!... (of Warcraft)

  2. Just watched the episode again by realsilly · · Score: 3, Informative

    My husband and I just had the opportunity to watch the episode again on DVD. We listened to the commentary by the South Park creators and found it interesting how the episode came to be.

    Best part about what I learned is that Blizzard was gun-ho to help out with the episode.

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  3. a trial subscription with the DVD? by jollyreaper · · Score: 4, Funny

    a trial subscription with the DVD? That's like handing out free needles with the DARE program.

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  4. Not just WoW players by techpawn · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I know a lot of other MMO players who got a kick out of watching it and laughing at WoW players or ourselves seeing a bit of ourselves in the WoW universe

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  5. 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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  6. 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.

  7. Does this game make me look fat? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    > Would you like to see WoW references appear more often on TV?

    "Are you insecure about your choice of hobbies? Do you require the validation others?"

  8. 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.

  9. How to win an award by Opportunist · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Let's take a quick look at the episodes that won an emmy or something smiliar. Bottom line: Be creative and move a hint away from the vanilla roll-down-22-minutes-to-fill-between-ads trash that clogs our TVs today, and you got one.

    And that episode simply and plainly did that. It's one of the first to feature and parody a popular video game. I mean, a video game it doesn't try to sell.

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  10. Another Good WoW Story by Greyfox · · Score: 4, Funny

    Jimmy's Story.

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  11. errr by doyoulikeworms · · Score: 3, Funny

    Mom! Bathroom! Bathroom!

  12. 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.