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07-22-2007, 05:40 PM
Today, I have chanced across this oversea gaming news. These kind of news are bad for the image of gaming, however the criminals in this news article kind of give new meaning to the word "morons". This news seemed to be funny to me at first but after a few laughs, it dawn on me that this on the other hand in fact somethings serious. Worse is that this incident will add more negative publicity to gaming than what it has been before.
An armed gang of four kidnapped one of the world's top RPG gamers after one criminal's girlfriend lured him into a fake date using Orkut, Google's social network. After sequestering him in Sao Paulo, they held a gun against the victim's head for five hours to get his password, which they wanted to sell for $8,000. And yes, the story gets even better.
Surprisingly enough, after five hours the hostage wasn't talking. The group leader had a gun against his head all that time but the guy didn't say a word. At that point, the crooks gave up and decided to let him go. The brazilian police then caught the four suspects, aged 19 to 27.
According to the police, the captive is the world leader in GunBound, a turn-based RPG-style multiplayer online game. Developed in South Korea, in this artillery game you get more experience points, offensive and defensive capabilities depending on your skills during battle, as well as money to buy more weapons, armor and all kinds of gear for your multiple avatars. You can only play with one of your avatars each time, but all of them belong to a single account.
The game looks to be quite popular, so the four gangsters decided they could make some quick cash if they kidnapped him to steal his user. Their plan: use one of the criminal's girlfriends, called Tamires, to get him into a date using Google's online social network Orkut, which is also extremely popular in Brazil. After contacting and seducing him, she told the GunBound wizard to meet her in a shopping mall.
But she never appeared. Instead, Igor the boyfriend did. Gun in hand, he abducted and held the player prisoner, planning to rely the password to his mates using a cellphone. Against all odds, our hero (or very stupid guy) resisted. Probably using some Stamina +357 spell. Or a Big Cojones +577 mana potion.
Whatever he did to resist the torture for a stupid game password, boys and girls, there's a moral to this story: if you live in Brazil, keep playing Tetris.
Now talking about bad publicity, let's us look back at the sitution locally. Bumping into black sheep gamers being a complete jerk while playing online is already something that has been dogging the gaming community since the early days. And up till today, this have not change for the better pretty much and seems like it's getting worse. For example looking at just DotA, the frequency of (1)leaver, (2)maphackers and (3)bad mannered gamers has been on the rise.
All these will definitely give outsider more negative image about gaming and I think we do not need any more of that. It's going to hurt the industry and commnities in the long run.
So my sincere advice to all our beloved gamers (for all games, not only DotA). Next time you have the urge to scold or to call someone names. Please think twice before you do so as I am sure you too will not be happy if someone do that to you. So remember, do not do onto others if you do not enjoy the same kind of treatment back to you.
Finally, my favour line "Make Love not War".
Source: [ Kotaku (http://www.kotaku.com) ]
An armed gang of four kidnapped one of the world's top RPG gamers after one criminal's girlfriend lured him into a fake date using Orkut, Google's social network. After sequestering him in Sao Paulo, they held a gun against the victim's head for five hours to get his password, which they wanted to sell for $8,000. And yes, the story gets even better.
Surprisingly enough, after five hours the hostage wasn't talking. The group leader had a gun against his head all that time but the guy didn't say a word. At that point, the crooks gave up and decided to let him go. The brazilian police then caught the four suspects, aged 19 to 27.
According to the police, the captive is the world leader in GunBound, a turn-based RPG-style multiplayer online game. Developed in South Korea, in this artillery game you get more experience points, offensive and defensive capabilities depending on your skills during battle, as well as money to buy more weapons, armor and all kinds of gear for your multiple avatars. You can only play with one of your avatars each time, but all of them belong to a single account.
The game looks to be quite popular, so the four gangsters decided they could make some quick cash if they kidnapped him to steal his user. Their plan: use one of the criminal's girlfriends, called Tamires, to get him into a date using Google's online social network Orkut, which is also extremely popular in Brazil. After contacting and seducing him, she told the GunBound wizard to meet her in a shopping mall.
But she never appeared. Instead, Igor the boyfriend did. Gun in hand, he abducted and held the player prisoner, planning to rely the password to his mates using a cellphone. Against all odds, our hero (or very stupid guy) resisted. Probably using some Stamina +357 spell. Or a Big Cojones +577 mana potion.
Whatever he did to resist the torture for a stupid game password, boys and girls, there's a moral to this story: if you live in Brazil, keep playing Tetris.
Now talking about bad publicity, let's us look back at the sitution locally. Bumping into black sheep gamers being a complete jerk while playing online is already something that has been dogging the gaming community since the early days. And up till today, this have not change for the better pretty much and seems like it's getting worse. For example looking at just DotA, the frequency of (1)leaver, (2)maphackers and (3)bad mannered gamers has been on the rise.
All these will definitely give outsider more negative image about gaming and I think we do not need any more of that. It's going to hurt the industry and commnities in the long run.
So my sincere advice to all our beloved gamers (for all games, not only DotA). Next time you have the urge to scold or to call someone names. Please think twice before you do so as I am sure you too will not be happy if someone do that to you. So remember, do not do onto others if you do not enjoy the same kind of treatment back to you.
Finally, my favour line "Make Love not War".
Source: [ Kotaku (http://www.kotaku.com) ]