An Ontario, Canada man is recovering after being assaulted and stabbed in the chest by an acquaintance who was enraged over a game of “World of Warcraft.”
Canadian news service QMI Agency reports that Jordan Osborne went over to his neighbor’s house Wednesday after hearing a loud argument. He said that his neighbor, Justin Williams was fighting with a friend and several other “World of Warcraft” players over his headset, when Osborne tried to intervene.
“I was telling him, there is no need for you to be freaking out about ‘World of Warcraft.’ It’s just a game,” Osborne told QMI.
According to N4G, Williams responded, “It’s not just a game, it’s my life,” then allegedly assaulted Osborne, grabbing him by the throat, punching him in the face, and finally stabbing him in the sternum.
Osborne received treatment for his wound at Peterborough Regional Health Center, and was later released.
According to police, Williams was arrested and charged with aggravated assault and assault with a weapon.
A massive multiplayer online game from Blizzard Entertainment, “World of Warcraft” has millions of active users. And although it is only a game, some players use it as a virtual business.
“World of Warcraft” has generated controversy in the past, since people have sold virtual goods acquired in the game for real money. One famous transaction involved the sale of an account for the equivalent of more than $9,900.
And, this isn’t the first incident of assault tied to “World of Warcraft.” In February 2010, a 27-year-old man choked his mother and was shot by his grandfather after being asked to “keep it down” during a gaming session.
*blinks* we just stabbin’ mofos over elves and dragons huh
for those that play these types of games how consuming are they? do you ever feel like you have to take a real break from playing just to keep your sanity?
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So how is this any different from drunk folks getting cut over reneging on spades when they bid wheels? Don't look at me like that…I've seen that mess in action. No, I wasn't the one doing the stabbing lol.
<———- does not know how to play spades
Don't feel bad Beth,me either.The only card game I know how to play is uno.
Cosigns with both of you…
I don't know how to play either. Judging by the flipped tables, heated arguments stemming from
siblings sleeping with another sibling's crush in the 70s, and the general fuggery that goes on with it, I'm not interested in learning.
I've seen people get their thumb broken slapping the cards on the table. I also once saw a table get flipped over a chick over lying about the cards. Depending on who you playing with, you might need a kevlar vest too!
I stopped playing when I got yelled at for reneging. That's what happens when you ask a TEN YEAR OLD to play for an adult.
LMAO…same thing happened to me when I was 12 and tasked with sitting in for a hand of bid whist while my auntie got some stuff off the grill…I was completely out of my depth and resigned to only learn the rules once I'm over the hill.
THAAAAAAAANK YOU. Every time you read an article about someone going nuts over some nerdy shyt, they laugh and ridicule but those same c*ckmonkeys have damn near come to blows over the fact a bytch renigged in spades.
fugg outta here with that.
I refuse to play spades…purely because of the shyt talking.
I have cussed a mofo out for phvcking up a spades game….
to this day, "how you gon' let da five ride???" its a personal expression of disbelief whenever
someone does something stupid.
explanation: was playing yahoo!spades online..I bid nil and had the benefit of the guy to my left going first.
Guy on my left kicks out a 5 of clubs, partner lays down a 4(!!!!), girl next to me lays down a 3…I either have to have the 2 or we are busted…my lowest was a 6.
I took it ok, bad luck can happen…so, next card, dude leads with a 9..my partner throws out the goddamn Jack of clubs!!!!!!!….ole girl covers that with the Q….I cut as I had no more clubs…
I was livid.. "dude, how u gon let the 5 ride when u have the damn Jack!?!?!?!??!"
UGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
If I could have reached thru the internet to choke a b!tch, I surely would have that day.
while reneging is a serious offence, my family down south didn't go crazy about the other stuff. they were just happy to take the quarters and knew not to pick you as a partner again. or if they had friends over, they set them up with the bad bidder like you gave your friend the broken hungry hungry hippo lever.
This crazy ish here is why I limited my MMORPG to second life ONLY!!!!I only go on SL every few months because some of them fools there take that game a tad bit too seriously.
That is no lie about SL. I used to be around there fairly frequently-I like to play dress up and I like to "take pictures", but yeah, people get all serious and weird.
Now if I do go on SL it's just to build on my Husbands' sim or to listen to some of the live bands that are usually there.I had to kick my 12+hrs a day SL habit.
Any game can be all consuming if you let it. People freak ALL the way out over loot rolls, DKP (dragon kill points), who gets let in the raid and even more in WoW. It gets serious, and it gets bad really fast. People spend hours, even years building up these characters. They are more invested in their virtual lives than their real lives in a lot of cases. I stopped playing WoW years ago for several reasons, but I will say, I've been on Ventrillo when people lost their minds and threatened to come and find folks. Do you know these people willingly gave out their address so that they could fight in person?
This story doesn't surprise me at all.
I had to stop playing once I had my daughter. When I was pregnant I would get off from work, grab a bowl of cereal and play until I went to sleep…I haven't logged on in about 2 years now.
Walks up to the mic *tap tap tap* Long slow sigh.
Hi my name is BSmuv and I am a gamer. I also am a recovering World Of Worldcraft gamer. TO answer your question Beth, yes SOME games can be very intense, immersible and literary have you playing for hours on end and not realizing just how much time has passed. I started playing WOW when it was in private beta testing, and on through to it's public release. I would wake up M-F head to work and then rush home in the evenings directly after work and play until 2-3am and then on Friday I would play from the time I got off work until maybe 5am, take a nap and then play 20-23 hours straight take a nap then on Sunday play till like 4am and then take a nap and then head to the work again. I also gained about 110 lbs from eat nothing but delivery pizza or Chinese. It's bad when you can call the place and they recognize your number and the conversation goes "You're usual BSmuv? Yup. You know the total? Yup You paying with card as usual? Yup. Be there in 10. You know it *click*"
Anyhow I refuse to play WOW ever again. Not cause it wasn't fun but because of the dark place it took me and the amount of time I look back at how much I lost in that. Now a days I play another MMORPG called Eve Online. I play it more casually mostly sticking to playing it on Weekends for a few hours at a time.
WOW is better than EVE but both kill your time/life. Chinese food sounds delicious….
Well better depends on why you are playing. Eve is much more complex and more then just running around bashing stuff and running quest and or dungeon complexes. There is a whole market within market economics and there there are the territorial wars, the spies and corporate espionage, the merc corps the pirate corps. I will just say if you have never been apart of a large fleet battle in 0.0 or a Wormhole, or involved in the logistics of building the equipment for said fight, you really haven't played the game of EVE.
And by the way I always loved this picture showing the learning curves of the MMO's
<img src="http://www.restokin.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Sensory_Overload.jpg"/>
That picture is true. I had an ex try to get me into EVE started me off with duplicates of the ships, weapons, etc. that he had. I realized exactly how much time I would spend/waste/lose/whatever playing EVE and got myself out while I was still mildly functional. Given that I have offspring, "responsibilities", need of an occasional sunlight spree, and knowledge of how addictive certain games are to myself I quit. That's just me knowing my limits.
A bit more color wouldn't hurt EVE at all. Yes, I know it is supposed to be space but can I get a jazzy space suit? Maybe a nice space parasite that I can use to track enemy ships? Not a bad game but I prefer WOW and I prefer life over both of them.
Not sure how long ago you were playing, BUT the dev team from CCP the makers of EVE have introduced a LOT of sweeping changes in the last two releases with even more to come in the next Winter Expansion. They have made it so you can really customize your character facial features and clothing, walk around your captain quarters [yes you can get out of your pod now] and interact with objects in the captian's quareters which is a small sub set of up coming feature of being able to walk around the station's and interact with other players. They have made a first person shooter Dust 514 in Halo style where the soldiers on the ground are battling to control Planetary resources in large scale battles. The game is available only on PlayStation BUT the soldiers on the game can call in planetary bombardments that decimate the battle ground from orbiting battleships which are controlled by players in the EVE Online Universe. SO they have married a PC MMO with a first person shooter on a console. The first time this has ever been done. They have reskinned the ships, weapons, modules UI and the Universe itself is more organic in colors and object and visuals.
I have been plying Eve off and on since 2004 and what I can say is, it is constantly changing. The people I have met playing are a good bunch of people. In my corp there are professors, policemen, SWAT, US/ UK military service personal, teachers, lawyers, restaurant owners, it professionals, stay at home moms, students just a good mix of people from around the US and the UK. I like the game because it completely mimics real life in that there are good people, bad people, neutrals and antagonist, dumb asses and f**k tards with a sprinkling of douchbags. The challenges of making a business in a real economy where a war on industrial mining ships that are mining Ice getting blown up in massive amounts drives up the price of Ice and the products produced from refining that Ice. Which in turns makes it more expensive to fuel ships and player owed space stations which make products researched and invented at those stations higher which in turn drives up the price across an even wider array of goods and services throughout a region of space. Then there are the back room deals that people make in the first place to pirate and merc corps to go out and start the ball rolling on the war in the first place. It's all just mindnumbingly complex set of factors.
That is why I like Eve, it's not scripted, it's not just running quests mindlessly grinding away for leveling up or grinding complexes for the uber gear. You can play the game from so many different angles it's whatever you want to do, it's there.
Hmm…I was playing early last year. But these changes sound intriguing. However, my new guy has been keeping me entertained (and contained) with his PS3 in the spare time we have after he gets off. EVE may be something I return to in the future but not today. Today, I am off to kill zombies.
And this is so true about the differences between High Sec, Low Sec and Null Sec
<img src="http://www.5secrule.de/wp-content/uploads/lowsec.jpg"/>
Thank Gawd I have a life…..This is ri-damn-diculous!
I wonder how many hit points he lost in that skirmish? Should have used a holy shield of light or something.
As a casual MMO player, who once got so into an MMO that I left the love of my life for some 19 yr old cajun strange, I know full well how you can find yourself completely consumed by a game like this. But you have to start at such a terrible level of self loathing and want to "escape your life" while still not doing anything about it….that this kinda thing *can* get to where it consumes your life.
My point is this-the game is not the problem with these people, it's their view of themselves and their lives.
Now, I play Everquest 2, pretty much in the same way I play the Sims 3-to decorate ish.
Shyt used to get reaaalllllll back in the day. I can remember before having kids n ish, how much time Wanna and I used to run around Everquest and everquest 2.
i remember being waaaayyy too into the damn game to the point that if I could have had the chance to do harm to my ingame enemies in real life… i would have.
at one point, i was trying to buy a plane ticket JUST to go poison someone's dog and set their car on fire…. not even kidding.
Just to show my level of dickbag.
luckily for them i was broke at that time. otherwise… i really would have done it.
ahem.
this is not representative of all canadians.
merci.
WoW makes people crazy. us rational folk can say that the shyt ain't serious, but to a lot of people it is. i had a few people in my old guild that would call in sick for days on end to play that game. some of them got fired. alot of them struggled to pay bills, take care of basic needs of self like not bathing, eating while raiding and not even sleeping. their "sleep" was breaks in between leveling. and this is just the tip of the iceberg of what WoW can do to people. internet can make the meekest of people lose their minds, let alone sanity because they embody the character they're playing.
You could say the same thing about people who watch Fox News 24/7.
You got here late in the day, but you came with it. LOL.
Hah! Play Call of Duty on Multiplayer and you're ready to shank a few people yourself.
I've had to mute people because they get heated over headshots and knive shankings. Then you have the white kids who think it's cool to drop the N-word every five seconds.
When I played Uncharted online, a few of them tried to get ratchet as well. I usually just hid in dark corners and snapped their necks.
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