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Mar 4, 2008 5:12 PM

in response to:
PCWorld
Jerks of the Web
I was a part of the funeral raid, also this happened 2 years ago almost to the day.
Also, no one calls it a massacre.
It could be deemed as griefing, but people need to step away from video games and realize that they are just that, games. Games, especially multiplayer games, are not places where you should live out real life events. Games are about playing and having fun. When people take it too far and attempt to turn them into serious rituals, then there SHOULD be pushback.
Did we raid the electronic funeral to make some nerds mad? Maybe. But in the end it was a clear statement. Video games are video games. If you want to make an online medium your home, and your personal place where you can enact relife tragedy, then you really should re-evaluate your priorities, turn off your pc and take a step outside.
No one needs to deal with your real life drama in a game that was programmed to be a game about goblins and wizards fighting each other.
sp