{"id":193,"date":"2006-02-20T12:56:55","date_gmt":"2006-02-20T17:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=193"},"modified":"2008-08-16T10:45:02","modified_gmt":"2008-08-16T15:45:02","slug":"terrorist-guild-holds-world-of-warcraft-server-hostage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=193","title":{"rendered":"So-called Terrorists in World of Warcraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A guild in World of Warcraft has decided to hold an entire server hostage. The guild has created the item that allows them to open up a great deal of content in the game, but they are refusing to use it until somebody pays them 5000 gold to do the deed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t call these guys &#8220;terrorists&#8221;. Ever.  (They are being called that by fellow players)  People need to stop using the word &#8220;terrorist&#8221; to mean &#8220;a**hole&#8221;.  Terrorists slaughter innocent civilians.  A**holes mess up your computer game for their own amusement. There is a difference, and if you can&#8217;t spot it then you shouldn&#8217;t be writing headlines. Grow up already.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anyway<\/strong>. These guys <em>are<\/em> being jerks, on purpose, for no other reason than they can and they want people to &#8220;remember&#8221; them.<\/p>\n<p>This is just the sort of thing I was talking about a few days ago when I <a href=\"?p=175\">made the case that multiplayer gaming was not the magical future that some claim it will be<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: The thread on Digg is now flagging this as a &#8220;hoax&#8221;.  As in: The guys doing this were &#8220;just kidding&#8221;.   The hilarity of the &#8220;joke&#8221; escapes me.  Either way, they are being idiots.  The people calling them terrorists were being melodramatic, and above all I&#8217;m glad I don&#8217;t depend on these people to take part in my on-line entertainment.  Kids get bored with the game and decide to amuse themselves by spreading rumors, causing problems,  perpetrating hoaxes, and being a bunch of drama queens.  They make for poor playmates, and anyone who thinks the single-player experience is &#8220;an abberation&#8221; should spend a few hours locked in a room with these defective brats.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And while we&#8217;re all here: Happy President&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kotaku.com\/gaming\/wow\/terrorist-guild-holds-wow-server-hostage-155844.php\">read more<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/gaming\/_Terrorist_Guild_holds_World_of_Warcraft_server_hostage\">digg story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A guild in World of Warcraft has decided to hold an entire server hostage. The guild has created the item that allows them to open up a great deal of content in the game, but they are refusing to use it until somebody pays them 5000 gold to do the deed. I wouldn&#8217;t call these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}