Posted November 22, 200519 yr Blizzard faces a lawsuit from Chinese parents, who say World of Warcraft caused the death of their son. In the latest saga over online gaming addiction in China, the parents of a 13-year-old Tianjin boy are suing the makers of World of Warcraft, blaming the game for the death of their son, according to the Chinese news agency Xinhua. The parents filed a suit against Blizzard Entertainment on Wednesday, saying their son jumped to his death while reenacting a scene from the game, the report said. The parents are backed by the anti-Internet addiction advocate Zhang Chunliang. Mr. Zhang has spoken to 63 parents whose children have allegedly suffered from online gaming addiction and plans to file a class-action suit, according to the report. Blizzard executives weren’t available to comment to RedHerring.com about the lawsuit. The high-profile backlash to China’s booming online game market reflects the growing size of the industry. World of Warcraft alone has 1.5 million paying players. China’s online game market brought in $580 million this year, and is the fastest-growing market in the world, according to research firm DFC Intelligence. That market is set to nearly triple in size to an estimated $1.7 billion by 2010. Blizzard Entertainment developed the game and works with The9 in China as the local distributor. The9 already posted second-quarter revenue of $6.7 million, up from first-quarter revenue of $1.5 million. Some analysts estimate the game is raking in more than $30 million per month in basic subscription fees. Vivendi Universal Games, the parent company of Blizzard, recently said that through the first half of 2005, World of Warcraft brought the company’s revenue up 61 percent from the year before to €238 million ($290 million) (see World of Warcraft Storms Asia). But the company, which now counts 4.5 million World of Warcraft players worldwide, must contend with the backlash of parents concerned with addictive behavior. Many Chinese parents contend that their children spend hours gaming in Internet cafes at the risk of their health, work, and school. Source : http://www.redherring.com
November 22, 200519 yr I hate these fucking ignorant parents. It's not Blizzard's fault that he got the game, is it? Instead of putting the blame on Blizzard they shouldn't buy or let him buy the game. Blizzard just make games they dont tell people to commit suicide like retards.
November 22, 200519 yr aparently like in this gme like you cant own noobs and sutff like your suppose to liek gropu with them adn say liek hey u wanna b godo friends and like chat it up uniekl fps wear it akes good skil .
November 22, 200519 yr It's not up to Blizzard... ...whether the kid buys the game or not. ...to monitor the child's usage of the computer/WoW. ...to get involved in the kids life and spot that he is mentaly ill. gg parent's neglecting your children and blaming it on something else when they kill them-selves.
November 22, 200519 yr It's not up to Blizzard... ...whether the kid buys the game or not. ...to monitor the child's usage of the computer/WoW. ...to get involved in the kids life and spot that he is mentaly ill. gg parent's neglecting your children and blaming it on something else when they kill them-selves. Great point. If the kid is stupid enough to try something from the game that involves death, he obviously doesn't deserve to live.
November 22, 200519 yr It's not up to Blizzard... ...whether the kid buys the game or not. ...to monitor the child's usage of the computer/WoW. ...to get involved in the kids life and spot that he is mentaly ill. gg parent's neglecting your children and blaming it on something else when they kill them-selves. Great point. If the kid is stupid enough to try something from the game that involves death, he obviously doesn't deserve to live.Wow, that's exactly what I said and you only respond to Marco's post? :(
November 22, 200519 yr You are hated, and I dearly apologize for that. EDIT : I changed my mind, I want secks.
November 22, 200519 yr ']Oh...some Chinese kid... Who cares. exactly, it's not like there isn't 1,306,313,811 more
November 22, 200519 yr pshh people these days they believe they are in WoW i dont believe... i know i ride my mount to school all the time kids make fun of me i squish them
November 22, 200519 yr There could be any number of reasons for this, but none of which is the makers of WoW's fault. 1. The kid had mental issues. 2. Having never seen a game before (because parents do stupid shit like this in Japan), he got overcome with excitement and pulled of something stupid like this. I'm curious, though. How would they know he was immitating something he saw on a video game? Sounds pretty set up to me.
November 22, 200519 yr I bet if it was a girl no one in china would care...Anyway I played WoW for 30 days and i hated every chinese asshole on there there was a chinese guy that hadn't logged off for like 16 days straight playing this shit...in the end whose fault is it? The kids and the parents who let him sit there, also in the game when does someone jump off a huge ledge/building shouldn't the kid of taken an axe to some kids head or something? In my opinion his life sucked he commited suicide and it had nothing to do with WoW
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November 22, 200519 yr Geesus']WoW owns' date=' dont talk shit cause you cant afford it.[/quote'] Geesus, go reinact something from WoW involving heights
November 22, 200519 yr Don't you have to pay a monthly fee to play that ghey game?? I am wondering how this 13 yo Chinese bastard was paying that fee?? His dipshit parents were probably paying the fee and bought the pc and the game and then let his little ass play so much he died. WTF?!?!?! I thought we only had dumbass parents in America how blame others for thier inability to parent......Guess it's going global
November 22, 200519 yr eventually all WoW players will kill themselves off(hopefully), then the world will be a better place.....1.6 fo life mutha fucka
November 22, 200519 yr aparently like in this gme like you cant own noobs and sutff like your suppose to liek gropu with them adn say liek hey u wanna b godo friends and like chat it up uniekl fps wear it akes good skil . RIFL
