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Today I saw an article about how Chinese gamers have threatened to stop playing World of Warcraft...
Here's a quote from the page: "Game unions have threatened to quit playing WoW, as players continue to post their complaints on Internet forums and make personal calls to fellow members to join the cause."
OMFG LOL
Now, if the media is to be believed China has bigger problems than slow connection speeds to the World of Warcraft servers. Apparently they have this whole censorship thing going on, people are starving, and bird flu outbreaks are occurring with more regular frequency than ever.
And yet 500,000 people are threatening to stop playing a game. What kind of a dumb-ass movement is this? "Fix our servers or I swear to god we'll start being productive citizens! We're not kidding here, we're card carrying members of the game union and if something isn't done soon we will flood your forums with incessant whining, after which we will proceed to go out, drink coffee, and say very nasty things about your development team. You have been warned."
Good lord... Game union?!?!?!
Since when do gamers need to be unionized? Do they mean guilds? Please, tell me they mean guilds. I can't believe that there is a game union. How do you get to be a member? Do you start out as an apprentice gamer, and when you become UBER enough you move up to journeyman?
How is it that the chinese have gone from super cool protests, like this one...
...to threatening to stop playing a game? That's not even a good threat. Take it out of context and see if it works...
Try these:
"Give me a raise or I will stop watching television."
"Put down the gun or I will turn off my MP3 player."
"Eat all your supper, young man, or I won't watch the hockey game tonight!"
Hey, I love games, but there just isn't a game I feel the need to protest over. There are a zillion games out there, banding together in protest over something game related just seems like a bit of a waste of time....
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