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Philmckraken
A collection of pixels in a video game is clearly what has been lacking all these years.
agreed
let me amend my original statement by saying
god forbid we put something in the game to remember all those who have fallen...
Why stop there? Let's make it mandatory to have a war memorial in everyone's living room, so they never forget the sacrifices that someone made so they could have a sofa. Also, a picture of a fallen soldier should be hung on the wall of everyone's bedroom, so that it is the first thing they see in the morning, lest they forget that someone died for their alarm clock. Homes would be subject to surprise inspections by the patriotism patrol to ensure full compliance.
In addition, not displaying a yellow ribbon magnet (made in China) on your car would be considered a moving violation and a ticketable offense. When the officer approaches your window and notices that you aren't listening to Toby Keith, he could write you up for that, too.
Posting crazy, unpatriotic things like this would be an offense punishable by death. After all, if I'm not thinking about the sacrifices of our soldiers in all wars past or present, every second of every day, then clearly I'm not being a good citizen.
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Philmckraken
Well, the bottom line is the Bottom Line, and it would be an expensive nightmare to implement it, so Blizzard will never do it.
While I agree in principle to having some sort of marker or memorial (if requested) for a WoW player who died tragically for any reason (
and it has been done
), it's just not practical. When that starts happening, every load screen becomes patch day.
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Celdhyrean
To fix your analogy somewhat : it being impractical means it wouldn't stand a chance to get implemented unless you'd find a WoW developper with a passion about turning WoW into a gigantic online memorial and who'd really want to bring this to the world, managing to convince all the Blizzard people, financial analysts and other down to earth people through his sheer charisma.
Like all those great names you toss around did.
Though , it's strange how it does sound less romantic and fruitfull when expressed like that, don't you think ? Compared the objective to flying or discovering a faster and new route to somewhere, or freedom and equality.
Will you able to find that one programmer/head honcho from Blizzard ?
It might be done punctually but will never be generalised.
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Philmckraken
having a small memorial dedicated to those who have fallen in real world wars implemented in World of Warcraft does not = turning WoW into a gigantic online memorial
i just think its a great idea - i wholeheartedly agree with the OP intentions
truth be told i have seen Phil come in and denounce, derail, and dismiss just about every idea someone has had - usually with spite and malice - my last posting was directed more at that than anything
its too bad that s/he has such a lack of vision - s/he sounds intelligent but very frightened
I didn't say it was an inherently bad idea, just one that would be too complicated, controversial and costly for Blizzard to implement, and would have as good a chance of alienating existing subscribers as it would of retaining or attracting new ones.
The word you're looking for is
pragmatic
. But hey, if it's something you feel that strongly about, there's no one stopping you from petitioning Blizzard to have a war memorial added to WoW in the next patch. If you get a response that includes and of the reasons I (or anyone else) mentioned as why they like your idea but won't implement it, then you'll know for sure.
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Sweetscot
having a small memorial dedicated to those who have fallen in real world wars implemented in World of Warcraft does not = turning WoW into a gigantic online memorial
i just think its a great idea - i wholeheartedly agree with the OP intentions
Actually I think you are missing the intentions of the OP, he wanted tooltip (or some form of) memorials to people who played the game and had passed, his friends being in the military was just secondary info, he never said it had to be people from military, and in his original post he said nothing about having the fact that they were military included in said tooltip... From his post it could be anyone that paid blizz to get the memorial put in whether the former player was a military person, died of cancer, car crash, or getting drunk and jumping into a dry swimming pool..
On the one hand, I wouldnt mind, just a tooltip over the existing stones in wow, on the other I agree that it would cost more to implement and be a bigger pain in the toosh for programmers than what they could reasonably charge the family/friends of the person who has passed. Also the idea of Blizz making money from players passing away (while entirely voluntary to those requesting it) seems kinda wrong to me. It's a game not a mortuary.
The other idea that got mixed in with this, a hall showing the current most progressed guilds (or those who got highest first) Highest rated arena teams etc and located in a nuetral zone would be pretty darn neat. While a per server basis wouldnt be feasible one that showed cross servers/battlegroups would still be an interesting addition. I dont see them wasting the time on it but I would go look :)
Preferably with sections for the original, burning crusade, and wotlk and not just mixed
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Celdhyrean
Let's suppose that adding tooltips for friends has become possible and is a widely accepted normal thing. 9 million players play WoW, let's restrict ourselves to 2M players per area (US, EU, China, ...) since those can be separated easily.
Now amongst those 2M, think about the number of people who had playing friends die and who would all want a memorial for them. There aren't enough graves in WoW for that, they'd have to add new ones. There's be people to ask for non-player friends and other non-WoW related memorials too, that can be garanteed.
Thus WoW turning into a "gigantic online memorial" as i was jokingly saying before.
What i want to say is that such an idea could only work because only a very small minority wants it (and thus there's no reason to implement it). And if a majority of people wanted it, it'd becomes unfeasible.
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