The World of Warcraft Funeral Crashers | The Stuff of Legends
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I feel the most bad for the dad. Like he's already grieving the loss of his daughter, he tries to do something nice for her friends, and then some random group comes to attack and kill his daughter's avatar in the middle of it all. That must have been absolutely awful!
It wasn’t her dad. He might have been there, but he wasn’t logged on her character. The guild contacted blizzard and they put her character there. It was basically an npc.
She loved snow, fishing and pvp
Seth Green was involved?
You know? In a roundabout manner, Serenity Now assured her memory would be remembered. Not just remembered by her friends, but spread across a world to be remembered.
Unintentionally, they gave her an amazing parting gift.
I consider myself lucky to know about her. Even if the people who memorialized her were pieces of shit for crashing a funeral. I'm torn, entertained, and more than a little wistful at the thought. I hope her family and friends are well.
You're not truly dead, so long as someone still remembers your name... or, perhaps, the name of your WoW character.
This is so true. Had the funeral gone by, it would have been a small factoid that only the people there and a few players knew or cared about. This way, it's got a great story behind it, and can be told to our grandchildren. Like a mobster hit at a funeral, it has mass appeal (to us nerdy kinds at least)
I just wish there was a micro-holiday for that day, like they did for the March of the Gnomes. Wish they had granted the players request to place a NPC of her character at that location.
Yeah it sounds like people were mad at the time but if that statement is true, that amongst the things she loved in WoW was PvP... then yeah, a gigantic brawl in your honor is a cool send-off.
Frost hat gets bigger every time I can’t believe they put a scary movie 3 reference in here
"They attacked her with Cold Blood, _metaphorically and literally._ " My rogue main looks onto that pun with pride.
Love how you’ve stylised this into some kind of old west stand-off
He's being held hostage, not a standoff............
And it's a Western movie style. There are hundreds of them, it's a whole genre.
as someone who was playing during this period of wow I appreciate the embellishment lol. It makes the game seem a lot cooler and more complex than it actually was
@@dammer001I’m an EVE war veteran. I could tell you the thrilling stories of love, betrayal and adventure.
But that’s just about all I could do, because visually, I was basically just clicking through some spreadsheets.
@@AngryBoozer that should be the tagline for the game
I mean thats basically what trailers do as well
@@AngryBoozer THEY WERE SPREADSHEETS OF LORE, OF LOVE!
Tbh it's kind of cool how many "bounty hunters" managed to get ppl of that guild to not get their stuff back for weeks, driving them out of the game. Not only gives it a lot of material for psychological and ethical analysis, it also kinda warms my heart.
knowing the internet, it was probably still "worth it"
@@preacher3958Learn a second word, you dolt.
It really shows there intent that they went for her character first for the video, its really nasty to think the items they cherished were taken after there passing.
When justice calls, there will always be people to answer because they want to. They desire to. 🤠
I love that even though it's a game, her memory was worth the time and the energy to uphold her honor. I think the western story set-dressing is perfect, considering this was an internet wild west moment. Yeehaw, cowboys.
For the longest time, I was only a fan of Zero Punctuation, nothing else.
But Nick, you've really turned The Escapist around! Adventure is Nigh!, Three Minute Reviews, The Stuff of Legends... I've now proudly reenabled notifications after what, 10 years of Subscription to The Escapist?
Please keep up the awesome content!
Glad you’re enjoying!
this commenter personally responsible for his impending raise
Yeah Yahtzee is great but ultimately he's mainly just game reviews. WHich are good but the nature of such limits the content in a way.
These offer an entirely different kind of content and his delivery is top notch.
@@tayzers69 upgraded to the deluxe meal,
Our boys are makin' moves 😢
Cold Take was a really good addition, and The Stuff of Legends is actively tied with ZP for my favorite Escapist content. This commentator is hopefully definitely going places if he keeps up with the great narratives.
This kind of story is why WOW gets used for so many studies! It's a fascinating little peak into people's psyche when they think they're immune to things. Great telling as always!
Serenity Now were pretty much screaming basement gremlins, and the shrieking from them after a huge chunk of the server not only decided to go after them for this, but even their own faction actively avoiding assisting them, was so good to see.
Red is Dead on a PvP server, but this is the kind of thing where you take a step back and walk away. Somebody died. This was somebody going out and letting people who knew their child say their final goodbyes in the medium where they first met, something they did not have to do. I played on PvP servers from Vanilla to about the middle of Wrath and, for the most part, PvPers showed a lot of respect and restraint.
Don't square up to a lowbie unless they step up to you. Don't gank a Hunter while they're taming a rare. Don't kill Quest-Givers unless its a life or death situation, that kind of thing. You're there to fight other players and prove your skill, not be a dribbling shitstain bullying the weak. Serenity Now was the pinnacle of the worst aspects of WoW's PvPer community, and I still get annoyed when people say they were 'justified' because it was a PvP zone. If you walk into a smoking area and I walk up and purposefully blow a lungful of cigar smoke into your face, you deserved it because you walked into a smoking area?
Couldn't have said it better
I remember hearing about this story. This is what that Warcraft movie should've been.
It should have been the corrupted blood incident.
@@MarkPeckham The corrupted blood incident... The case study on the mentality of people who out of pure spite will spread a disease we could otherwise have stopped. Now we live in a world where that happened in real life. Proof that when humanity as a species inevitably goes extinct, we'll have had it coming.
Either or would be better than the current movie
One fun addition for the video: At the start of the fight, you can see allot of AoE (area of effect) spells used by mages. One mechanic in wow is that, once engaged in combat you cannot change your gear, so people using cloths were unable to put their gear on and fight back. I can't talk about the etical stuff but the planing? that was something else entirely
If you watch the original leeroy jenkins video, you see the planning guilds go through to do raid fights. The game didn't use to have so many tools it does now, so tight coordination was needed
Runescape had some funerals, one father even uploaded videos after his son passed I cant remember the name, but was a sweet thing to see a community come together like that.
Probably helps that those funerals are not held in PVP zones.
"My dead son really loved just fishing near the chaos elemental, HE found the sounds of the damned calming"
Ah the days of if a load of attacks happened in PvP at the same time your framerate somehow hit negative numbers.
Tarren Mill remembers.
You know, ironically, it's probably lucky the crashers did this when they did. Not because Blizzard would take harsher action today then they were willing to back then, but because if happened today the name and address of the crashers would be uploaded to the Internet inside of an hour.
I'm not saying that the crashers would deserve to have their lives destroyed by the combined might of the Internet, but the world has changed since 2006.
"I'm not saying that the crashers would deserve to have their lives destroyed by the combined might of the Internet"
I mean, I wouldn't be sad if that had happened either. Going on the news for your 15 minutes of fame over it is especially gross.
Their lives? no.
As much of a bunch of jackasses these people were ... just being a dick to people isn't justification for ruining lives or death threats.
But I certainly wouldn't be adverse to the idea of hackers nuking their accounts and just erasing the guild from existence. or an organized griefing of them that lasts so long they all quit because all their doing is watching their dead body all the time.
It's a PVP server. What they did to crash the funeral was 100% justified and in spirit of what a PVP server is. Also since it's a PVP server, guilds are 100% justified in enforcing civility. That too is in the spirit of what a PVP server is. You do a dick move like that, then bounties to ruin your game are also justified. Taking anything outside of the game is not justified.
@@ObadiahtheSlim So if the trolls had crashed a funeral IRL would that have also been part of the game? If it is ok to crash a funeral in a game, then is it ok to crash a funeral IRL? Why not? What's the difference between the real world and the virtual world?
The problem with the "it's just a game, it's not real" way of thinking is that it justifies any virtual activity simply because it is virtual. Undertale made that point perfectly, when Sans berates you for doing something not out of any sense of moral compass, but just because you can. "And because you can, you have to."
SAO, for all its faults, also made that point. Just because something is virtual doesn't mean it isn't real. The pain that the parents and friends of the dead player felt was real pain because of the real actions the trolls took in the virtual world. To say nothing of what they did in the real world afterwards.
The book "The Cyber Effect" does a great job of pointing out why online actions are real world actions and why "it's just a game" is a very dangerous sentiment. Long story short, if you wouldn't do it IRL then you shouldn't do it online, and if you are able to do something to someone online you are equally able to do it IRL. Since the only real difference between the real world and the virtual world is accountability.
@@jamisonosborne It's a PVP server. Being a dick and suffering the in-game social consequences for being a dick are part of the PVP experience. If you find that unacceptable, don't play on a PVP server. All of that is enumerated within the PVP server's terms of service.
Now I wouldn't crash an in-game funeral because I'm not a dick. I would also gladly go kill and camp some dick who my group of friends had declared to have broken the code of civility that we abide by.
Much respect to whoever had the idea of having the hat get bigger with every cutaway.
You should tell the story of Fansy the Famous Bard, the guy who broke an Everquest PVP server by leading high-level monsters into other players before he was high enough level to be targeted by them.
Go go Good team! Fansy was a menace.
already did
Oh Jesus, I remember that one. Leading a conga line of Sand Giants on a path of destruction…one of the most infamous EverQuest moments of all time.
I never had the pleasure of running into Fansy. I was too busy leveling in other areas. But I had to respect the hustle of using the game mechanics for his advantage. Still I do blame Sony for allowing that sort of exploit to exist in the first place. It's a PVP server. Kill or be killed. Giving invulnerability to low levels is against the spirit of PVP.
The Corrupted Blood story is a good one as well.
Would've been pretty cool and forward-thinking if they'd had a bunch of well-equipped PVP veterans around as guards for the event.
They did. It mentions that they were facing a different direction and got caught unaware by an unexpected Flanking manuver.
From what I heard they did have guards. Its just that Serenity Now took an obscure route so they wouldn't get caught. Which honestly sounds in character for them.
These "stuff of legends" videos have quickly become my favorite videos that this channel posts. Can't wait for the next exciting tale!
One of my favorite stories about World of Warcraft is that when they introduced WoW:Classic (game servers where you would play on the vanilla version of the game) it was sold and heralded by many as a return to form and the olden days when the game was good and made to be played carefree with your friends. And yet, somehow, the players themselves turned Classic into just as miserable a grind as the retail version, to the point where Blizzard had to add a new item to the 15 years old version of its game to alleviate some of the worst issues.
Because the past is dead and can never be resurrected. The game was the same as back then, but the players... the players had changed.
When you say "Players had changed" I heard "Fused with and become indistinguishable from the beaniebags they were sitting in."
early wow was far worse in terms of grind because leveling was painfully slow, adhoc dungeon group finder didnt exist, getting money was insanely difficult and some of the zones were absurdly large with no real justification for their size
the entire thing was fueled entirely by streamer delusion
I stopped playing before they actually added Classic, but before that whenever someone asked for early mode servers, I argued that early WoW wasn't actually hard, only that nobody really knew what they were doing and nostalgia was kicking in. The way Classic servers turned out, I'm pretty sure I wasn't wrong. (The way current WoW looks from other players, I'm not sure I could enjoy a raid ever again).
Sylvanas burned Teldrassil to the ground in revenge for the Serenity Now funeral massacre and I refuse to be told otherwise.
Damn, that's the kind of story I would tell to some gaming-adjacent friends.
I'll have to send this to those friends when this comes out of early access.
Frost, if you are willing to take ideas for The Stuff of Legends, look into how Konami attempted to copyright all rhythm/music video games
Didn’t they also semi-successfully patent loading screen games?
@@darkmooink69that was namco
@@darkmooink69 Yes, yes they did
I don't think it's particularly worth a video, but there was also Bloober Team patenting dual-mode, which was definitely not a "Shit, we couldn't get this out in time for the Wii U, CYA on the game cost" move. Definitely not.
The video Serenity Now made was the first I ever watched on the internet. I remember it in all its 144p glory.
There was a similar funeral in like.....Planetside, I think? Rival Group too the opportunity to send bombers while everyone was gathered, and got banned for major Griefing. Which, shows the difference between the two companies.
Yeah, as someone who has no will to go back into MMos and who was a runescape player way back when this does kinda show me blizzard at least respect the rules of the game, you build the mechanics and then leave the world to use them as they come, trying to enforce something as subjective as morality as a law is retarded in real life where there are actual stakes, in videogames it's a sign you have nothing but soup in between them ears...
Planetside sounds like trash but I guess the space operas I crave are more the EVE stories anyway.
no lol those guys got banned for being insufferable racists in all chat, the developers really dont care if you airstrike a bunch of people willingly standing still
their leader was buzzcutpsycho aka a massive loser who was so universally despised by everyone that certain clans kept tally of who made him screech in VC and ragequit the most
Crazy to hear this story again.
I actually worked with a guy who was part of the raid. Me, being a teen at the time, stared in abject horror, as I watched this IT guy, prior paramedic, cackled and laughed. He showed me the video, and would point out all of his friends who were in the video.
Now I'm a soldier in the army, singing songs about clubbing baby seals, and dreaming of what napalm does to kids... But I still shake my head in disgust at the fat. Cycling, neckbeard; who saw pleasure in the idea of have a few deaths at a funeral.
Holy crap, kinda crazy to see a clip from a Nekrogoblikon music video in there. I knew those dudes. My sister was their live keyboard player and was dating/living with one of the leads for a few years.
Wasn't there an instance where the horde got a worldboss to stormwind. I remember the video said it was revenge for the funeral
Yes. That was where they lured Lord Kaazak to Stormwind from the Blasted Lands (think luring something from Florida to Washington DC). I don't know if it was revenge for the funeral crashing, but I wouldn't be surprised.
There is also the infamous event when someone brought a plague from one location to a bank, which caused an actual epidemiological study. WoW players can get creative.
That framerate is nostalgic
Probably my favourite Stuff Of Legends yet! Brilliantly told, great editing and footage, and a fascinating story!
I adore this series and the narration. More of these please.
I don't play WoW, but I'll always enjoy this story just because of how ridiculous the entire thing sounds.
Pity internet shit-talking causes an attack on an online funeral so infamous it gets picked up by the mainstream, shortly followed by a quest of retaliation on the perpetrators.
Damnit I wanna know how it ends! Frost you should write a movie script for this and narrate it. That was fantastic.
This series, is just fantastic.
Well done to all involved!
Serenity now Seinfeld clip is a once in a lifetime reference. Well edited
Really liking the content Escapist has been putting out as of late. I'll be honest, I wrote them off as dead a year ago, but they seem to have had a sort of Renaissance. Hope this trend keeps up.
Well, yhatzee has been carrying them for awhile, but since they've gotten sponsors and more money do do things like animations. They have a lot more opportunities for new projects
"WHO CRASHES A WAKE!?"
-Father Zaphord, Borderlands II
I love this series! Really great concept and I've very much enjoyed the stories you have featured so far.
Subscribed for the ZP but now these are my favorite things that come out of the escapist, and the ZPs are as high quality as ever so that's really saying something.
TRUST ME, im not surprised a group of griefers griefed an in-game event, strangely enough, meant for grieving (not griefing).
But im still on the funerary procession's side. What I would have done is offer to PAY more players to be guards.
And make actual warnings or even threats to any players Immoral enough to interrupt the proceedings.
Or very simply not enforce a god damn dress code.
I'd imagine that this story would have played out differently if it was 1 guild vs 100 fully armored players.
I'm surprised that there are now two Stuff of Legends videos that I was around to directly witness (via internet forums.) Guess being an old-time MMO player pays for something.
Why did this make me tear up a little, great video, you’re quickly becoming one of my all time favorites
I love the storytelling and flow of every one of the stuff of legends! Keep up the good work!
Ohhh this story~ this was trolling to a new level.
This series is incredible. Simply stellar.
I, like many others, have mostly just stuck around for ZP and such, but these little vignettes of gaming history and culture are one of my new favorite things. Curious if we'll ever get a video on WoW's Corrupted Blood plague, that's always been one of the stories I share with non-gamers.
They published it in the public forum, i dont know how they thought this would go well
5:06 attacked with cold blood is just freaking hilarious.
I love this series so freaking much, it's like a trip down memory lane of all the huge events that happened when I was a kid
I love this series so much, the gaming history lore we need!!!! Just as capitvating as gaming historian but with some style!!! You got the perfect person and voice to tell these stories too love it love it love it, keep up the amazing work!!!!
gotta love the "increasingly bigger hat" joke.
Its just fantastic how the Escapist is becoming better and better by the day
Thank you!
Fuck I'm crying first thing in the morning over this story. TBH though I needed a good cry. Wonderful storytelling, Frost!
Never stop these, they're fantastic!
I always look forward to these videos. Keep it up Nick!
I love the stuff of legends, all the stories you tell are just so interesting
This series has turned out ery entertaining and fun to watch.
Look forward to more to come.
The storytelling is FABULOUS. Smooth, soothing, moving, a little funny. And perfect considering this was the time of the wild west online. I hope her family and friends are doing well. And I hope to see more content like this!
Correction: Cold Blood, in Vanilla, was a cooldown which guaranteed a critical strike on the next damaging ability. Many rogues, especially in this situation, would combine it with Ambush for a strong burst opener. Depending on gear, it could one-shot a cloth-wearing class.
I recall first learning of this by fibding the SN video. "Yes, we know we're a-holes." Was posted at the end.
Also where i heard "I'm the Scatman" for the first time.
The Stuff of Legends is one of my favorite newish series on this channel. Hoping for more stories!
Great production value. Pleasure to watch and most importantly to listen:]
Captivating stuff. Thanks for the tale!
Misread the title and thought it was gonna be the wedding crashers. A couple having a ceremony at a special tree that was almost outside the map. Only for an uninvited guild to come charging over the hill, slaughter the procession, and the leader claiming the bride as his own. This is still a good story too of course. The contrast between the two events is amusing.
Duude! You are so damn good at this. Kudos to Jesse and Jm8 for the excellent animation as well. Well done all!
the fact this made history in the game she loved is kind of the best sendoff she could have wished for.
Fayejin has been immortalized by the funeral crashing event thanks to Serenity NOW. She loved Fishing, Snow... And PvP.
Love this series
Man I'm loving this series with every new episode. I am curious as to if you think the Salome incident in Elite dangerous might be worth a video, since I heard about it when it happened despite not playing the game.
I love this. The fact I actively was playing back then not on the server that happened on but heard about the funeral n the aftermath... damn, wish I could claimed some of them bounties back then
I love how you gave me details of the aftermath of that video. I had no idea! Amazing game history
On the one hand, its distasteful to do that to a funeral.
On the other hand, holding a funeral in a game and expecting everyone to respect said funeral was very dumb and they should've expected this.
They seem to have. They had guards. They didn't expect it to be a stealth attack I guess, but there's also everyone else: if this was such an inevitable outcome, why didn't more people participate? Apparently most of the server either respected the funeral or just didn't care about it. If it were done again the two sides would try harder with their lessons learned.
Or you cod just not be a dick even if winterspring is a pvp zone lol cuz back in the day there wws pvp servers.
@@ItsHyomotobut also, very lackluster job on the scouting. Tssk, amateurs
I was ready to disagree until I watched the video and saw it was a PVP zone.
Like... no. Sorry for your loss but you can't dangle that good of a carrot in front of PVP'ers and expect nothing. I don't like victim blaming but if a bank openly decided to have no security you can't blame bank robbers for thinking it's an easy mark.
Can you imagine it elsewhere? Jumping into any sort of PVP based lobby and trying to tell the other team not to do any fighting? Again, I don't support the outcome, but I can't say I'm surprised. At all.
Yeah the dress code thing was a nice idea, but was extremely foolish without transmog being a thing. They should have all showed up battle ready.
It's kinda sweet how this resulted in such a hardcore bounty that it actually resulted in some of the offenders quitting
this is my new favorite series on the internet
And thereafter, the last thing anyone in Serenity Now or their associates could claim to feel was serene.
Always a good day when a new stuff of legends comes out
Ive heard about this for years, but its great to actually get some details
This series has to be one of the best Escapist productions in a very long time.
best series ever!
i like that the South Park clip was relevant and also from the WoW episode!
Thank you kind sir for another gripping story
Oh, THIS story. I read about this in a Cracked article about legendary dick moves in video games. Props to Frost for giving it a Spaghetti Western spin on it. And now I now where "Serenity Now" comes from; I always thought it was a "Firefly" reference. Was that Seth Green, and that other guy from Robot Chicken? Why were they being interviewed?
So much to love about this. The RPG plushies on the floor. The growing hat. The B-reel footage. Commendations to all concerned.
I was a Tauren Warrior (Sader) in the guild with Fayejin. An Orc Warlock (Yanoa) was her boyfriend that posted on the forums about having an in-game funeral for her. Our guild name was Malediction. So glad to be a part of WoW history!
This format would be great at talkong about the biggest eve fight.
This event, Tainted Blood, and others like it are the reason I started playing WoW around 2007/8 during TBC. I was quite the menace and earned many rivalries...
"there ain't been nothing but funerals since that funeral"
This reminds me of a city raid I did with a group of friends. It was probably the best time I've ever had in-game. We originally planned on just raiding stormwind. We were so outnumbered that it wasn't funny. So, the leader had a brilliant idea. And I mean, it was the best thing I think anyone has ever thought of. See, he had the idea to make a SECOND group and raid the Exodar. So as we ran back to our corpses to do the rez of shame, he was in a voice chat laying out his ingenious plan. We ran back to our mangled bodies and logged out. We regrouped in Orgrimmar to make the second raid and made our way to the Exodar. To say we were excited would be an understatement. We travel through the countryside and get to Darkshore. We get on the boat, try not to sound the alarm. It was kind of hard since we had to go to Darnassus at the time. Once we got there, the leader sent went back to see if there were people still camping our bodies. Luckily, the keep was still full of players doing unnatural things to our corpses. At that point, a rogue he had sent into the Exodar reported back that it was void of players. So it was decided we would take the Exodar first. And it was glorious! Velen was around 50% by the time we started getting hit with the players. There was nothing they could do. It was either stay in Stormwind or protect the Prophet. Well, 75 to 80% of them decided to come to the Exodar. We had them right where we wanted them! We waited for them all to get to us and made sure all of them were down for the count. We hearthed, then logged into our characters in Stormind. The only players left were lower levels who thought they could take us down. Boy, were they wrong. And again, in another glorious attack, we took down King Varian Wrynn. Players scrambled to make it back to Stormwind in attempts to save the King, but to no avail, he died by the hands of the mighty horde. That day, the alliance understood just how magnificent and powerful the horde really was. Everyone involved had so much fun that night. It lasted way longer than we expected, and some of us had to work super early the next day, but not one person regretted it. I would like to say that if you were one of the people who partook in that battle, thank you for one of the best days in-game. And a big thanks and shout out to Jaegermeister (Sam), you were the best leader ever! ❤❤
I played WoW pretty much from the start of the game. I never played PvP servers but everyone heard about this story. Being reminded of it now almost, aaaaalmost, makes me want to pick up the game again. But i've been clean since cataclysm and i'm not dipping back into that now.
Awesome content
I like this series.
As Yahtzee said about this, "What the f*** did they expect?" Obviously, causing a massacre at a funeral for a real life person is just disgusting, but on the otherhand, it was in a warzone, more specifically a warzone in _World of Warcraft,_ someone really should've seen this coming.
Agreed
Trolls will be trolls.
@genjis5155 That's not entirely fair, there are plenty of Orcs, Elves, and dwarves who participated in stupid shit for attention.
@@legomaniac213 Not having played WoW, ever, IS Troll a playable race?
@@louisduarte8763 Yep, they are one of the original Horde races.
The fact it was an alliance guild made this story all the more hilarious. One of the best moments in WoW history
Every 2-3 years we are subjected to a new video about this funeral or how scientists studied a blood plague of hakkar. Pepper in a spoopy karazhan crypt story and you've got yourself a new old new wow video. Rinse repeat
Oh shit I remember this!
I was in this guild for a little while, I wasn't part of the raid but I had to leave after the whole thing went down because no-one outside the guild would party with me as long as I was associated
hey this is good! very enjoyable, thank you ol' western man
and importantly the video they put out introduced me to the wonderful Scatman John.
Maaaaan the internet really is an internet-flavored place to be 🤷🏻♂️ Thanks for story time Frost 🙏 Cheers and hope you're as well as can be man 🍻
I heard about this. Well I heard about the massacre, I didn't know about the bounties afterward.