Quote from the mmorpg forums:
quoteAs much as I hated what you did to the funeral, I just wanted to ask questions without starting a huge flame war.

1. Why did you do it?

All they were trying to do was have a final farewell to their friend. I agree, they should have done it in non-contested area, but still.

and I know you say "Send her parents a card, play your game."

Well, she may have known them, but her parents probably didn't. What would they think if they got a card from a stranger?


2. How come you don't feel bad for their loss of a friend?


I guess that those are the only two questions I had.

-Fusk

Reply by serenity now:

1. I did it to piss off those people that brought RL drama into a public video game. I did it because i think the idea of holding a memorial inside a video game is ridiculous and uncalled for, and frankly i think it's embarassing and even dissrespectful to the deceased.

the area that they held it in doesn't matter, it was just a mistake. the whole concept of acting out a funeral with your warrior cows or undead sorcerers is laughable to me, and i enjoyed crashing the event.

sending a card from strangers is wierd? how about sending them a video of you as computer game characters bowing and kneeling infront of your daughter's troll?

2.
People die every day. I lost 2 family members last year, and i don't log on to a video game to expect complete strangers from all over the world to respect my loss. Most of them probably didnt know her outside the game.

That said i do feel sorry for her loss, i just don't feel a need to respect a bunch of dorks acting out a funeral in a video game. For me it wasnt about her, it was about the people in the game.

Damn, if I was playing in a PvP server, had a clan full of idiots that would probably host a funeral for me in that very PvP server and died IRL, this is the way I would wanna go. With a bigass fragfest after some mourning.

Props to the guys who did this. Even being rivals, at least they bothered to turn up at the "e-funeral".

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My respects to the family of the deceased though.

this made my day

So you people are saying that if a human being you've known dies, than you are an idiot for feeling something about his death?

When someone YOU know and respect dies, please let me know so I can bash you over the head with a baseball bat and call you a dumbass, and see how you like being mocked for having Human feelings.

Granted I can understand where some of you are coming from. You say it's only a game, but consider this: through this: the game is the way they met, and it's how they became friends. Are you saying that their friendship is somehow less important because it formed online instead of in person?

Would you, personally, feel sad if an online friend died? I wonder that.

PeteMate

So, in essence, what you are saying is that if YOU don't agree with it, it must be destroyed?