Michael Jackson Themed MMO In the Works

norton123 writes "SEE has announced plans to published a Michael Jackson themed MMO. From the article: 'Planet Michael is described by SEE as "a massive social gaming experience" with "collaborative in-game activities," set in "an immersive virtual space themed after iconic visuals drawn from Michael's music, his life and the global issues that concerned him."'"

Comments

It's a shame

[Anonymous Coward]

Too bad about the COPPA Act. The intended target audience is impossible unless the chatlines and names were narrow pre-determined choices ala Toontown.

Captcha: upward.

WTF?

[Anonymous Coward]

Why? Just... why? Let his memory die already, please.

Re:WTF?

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

Some memories are too profitable to die...

Re:WTF?

[spazdor]

Say, does anyone want to buy some of these beautiful, gilded "Diana: Princess of Hearts" commemorative dinner plates?

Let me guess

[GodfatherofSoul]

You can only play male gnomes and dwarves.

Re:Let me guess

[Chucky_M]

You've been hit by you've been hit by a smooth criminal....

I can see the daily quests now...

[CodePwned]

1) change your skin color
2) adjust your facial features
3) buy a monkey

I don't want to even THINK about the achievements.

Re:I can see the daily quests now...

[Lunix Nutcase]

Don't forget about trying to buy the skeleton of the elephant man.

Re:I can see the daily quests now...

[eamonman]

1) change your skin color.

It's not a daily quest; the longer you play, the lighter your skin becomes.

Re:I can see the daily quests now...

[MozeeToby]

Make fun of him all you want for #2 and #3, and please disparage him for either being a child molester or at the very least being socially retarded as to not know how creepy he was.

But #1 never happened. His autopsy confirmed that he had never bleached his skin, that he in fact suffered from an extreme case of vitiligo. In fact, all the evidence points to him being very uncomfortable with his loss of pigmentation; supposedly the reason that he started wearing the single glove was to hide the start of it on his hand, and he never brought it up in any of the interviews he did. It just seems harsh to me to make fun of someone after their death for having a disease that they were so obviously ashamed of.

Re:I can see the daily quests now...

[Anonymous Coward]

Does the game end when my nose falls off or do I just respawn at my plastic surgeons with my last face and pigmentation settings?

Re:I can see the daily quests now...

[DNS-and-BIND]

Oh, come off it. Micheal Jackson obviously had a huge complex where he wanted to be white. Look at the photos of him when he was young - he was a handsome African-American man with a wide nose. He could have done quite well with the ladies, had that been his objective. Obviously, it was not. As time goes on, he gets whiter and whiter, and his nose gets narrower and narrower until it became disfigured by too many surgeries. So he likes kids? Great! Get hitched and shit out a litter of his own pups. Then nobody will quest for inconvenient truths like why he sleeps in the same bed with children. If he honestly had a platonic idea of love with young'uns, then he wouldn't have needed his Jesus Juice, eh? The whole thing stinks of a tragic man, isolated from society by his wealth and his enabling entourage. Have you listened to "Thriller" in the past few years? Give it a fresh listen, it is an outstanding work. I cordially hated MJ during his popularity period in the 80s, mostly due to his endorsemanship of Pepsi (Coke or Dr. Pepper or DIE!)

However, his music before "Bad" was outstanding, even I cannot deny this. When "Bad" was released, it was obvious to everyone that he had jumped the shark (even though this term was not in common usage at the time). When he started molesting little boys, that was it. He crossed the line. America is endlessly forgiving of popular celebrities...just look at how many of them are reprehensible in one way or another. All you have to do is go to rehab, don the sackcloth and ashes of the repentant, and claim you have seen the light and will sin no more. Look at Robert Downey, Jr...the man got high and broke in to his neighbor's house. He got the Emmy when he was released from prison! A personage no less than Mel Gibson himself took the financial risk to get him back making movies again, and just look at the Ironman franchise these days.

But the whole "adopting white kids" thing took him really over the edge. There are millions of colored children who would love to be adopted by rich celebrities...just look at Madonna or Brangelina. It's fashionable! Micheal Jackson was a man with serious issues. If he wasn't the son of Joe Jackson, he would just be another 50 year old child molester serving a long sentence in a California prison.

Character selection screen

[js3]

The character selection screen will have two choices. Micheal Jackson and a Little White boy.

Re:Character selection screen

[spun]

I thought you said two choices? What's the other one besides Michael Jackson the Little White Boy?

Re:Character selection screen

[jornak]

Ding! You've leveled up! You can now change your class to "White MJ"! You've learned the skill "Dodge Lawsuit"! You've gained 3,000 MP (Molestation Points)!

First question on signup

[Caerdwyn]

A/S/L ?

At level 40 milliion$, you can buy your 1st mount!

[Anonymous Coward]

Well it is not so much buying, as paying off his parents.

They Are also introducing an SciFi themed Michael Jackson FPS called Alien vs Child Predator.

this aint right

[frovingslosh]

A MMO based on abusing drugs, molesting little kids and buying white babies to claim they are your own? Just doesn't seen right.

Truly sad

[BobMcD]

Now that he's dead the owners of his 'brand' will sell, sell, sell his image until it becomes a mere parody of someone famous.

I imagine he would have wanted better. Respect, for example.

Re:Is this really just...

[dkleinsc]

How come you're such a fussy young man?
Complaining 'bout the jokes if people come to play?
You better settle down, or be modded as a troll, so
quit it, just quit it.

Is there a reason you don't wanna behave?
Expecting stupid parodies or tech news you crave?
Just remember samzenpus is editor today, so
quit it, just quit it.

Quit it! Quit it! Don't you make me submit it!
Have an Insightful, have a +5,
if you don't like it then post some dumb flame, and
quit it (quit it, quit it)

Re:Funny? Really?

[Wyatt Earp]

His body guards came out and gave interviews. You know the guys in the best position to dish out dirt and make a buck off him.

They all said he wasn't a child molester, he was shy but did date adult women. He just had a hard time acting like an adult. The bodyguards liked working for him, they had fun with the boss, doing stuff like letting him drive when they went through drive throughs just to freak out the people working.

While I did believe some of the hype about him in the 1990s, when I read what the body guards said, I figured if anyone knew he was doing bad things, it was them.

Enough With The Trial By Media, Already

[damn_registrars]

Naturally a small army of people started threads here asserting their certainty that Michael Jackson actually did what he was accused of doing.

Yet not one of those people bother to point out that there was never a criminal conviction on those charges. Instead they keep bashing him over what can't be taken to be anything more than accusations.

And if you think he did do what he was accused of, the person you should really be directing your anger at is the parents of the child who was victimized. Those parents would be roughly the fourth or fifth worst parents in the world; not only for allowing their young child to spend the night with a weirdo but then for dropping the charges in exchange for money. No decent parent, regardless of their financial situation, should ever be willing to compromise on matters of the law in exchange for money. Ever.