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[Spectatrix]

new alliance race? pretty weird, but cool

http://www.malicesb.net/wapnew/alliance-race.php

check out the other stuff on the links on the left.  insane gear from naxx if it's true.

It's official now... new race is Draenei.

http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/burningcrus...ll/draenei.html

This post has been edited by Spectatrix: May 10 2006, 04:40 PM

[impala454]

cool

i'll have to check it out when i get home where i can see wow.com

[impala454]

weird... exactly the same creatures in that web page i posted except they call them draeni. prob just a lore flub up.

[Spectatrix]

Did they call them Eredar?

[Dogmeat]

as soon as I fix my desktop I am gonna start an alliance char on Andorhal I've decided....

[Jim]

Draenei are related to the Eradar. Read the expansion stuff for more details.

[pebkac]

But that would involve READING. Can't someone just explain everything to us?

[Spectatrix]

But that would involve READING. Can't someone just explain everything to us?

But then you'd have to read our explanation.

[Xentither]

It is time for dancing, why is it time for dancing?

CAUSE I'M LEVEL 60!!!!!!

I win WoW. Time to grind like more hell but with less satisfaction.

[Psykopath]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060512/ap_on_..._online_suicide

Game Distributor Sued Over Boy's Suicide


BEIJING - The parents of a 13-year-old Chinese boy who they say jumped to his death from a tall building after playing one of the popular "Warcraft" online games for 36 hours straight are suing its Chinese distributor, a news report said Friday.

Zhang Xiaoyi died on Dec. 27, 2004, leaving behind a suicide note saying he wanted "to join the heroes of the game he worshipped," the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

It said Zhang's parents, who live in Tianjin, just east of Beijing, are seeking 100,000 yuan ($12,500) from Aomeisoft, the Chinese distributor of "Warcraft: Orcs and Humans."

The suit says Aomeisoft failed to include a warning that the game's U.S. maker rates it as suitable only for players above age 13, according to Xinhua.

The Warcraft games are made by Blizzard Entertainment, a unit of Paris-based Vivendi Universal SA. Xinhua said a Tianjin court rejected a claim by the parents against the game maker.

The vice president of Aomeisoft, Bai Jie, told The Associated Press that he saw news reports about the lawsuit but that the company hasn't received any official court notice.

Bai said Zhang's parents were suing the wrong company, because Aomeisoft was set up in August, eight months after his death. Bai said he didn't know which distributor sold the game in 2004.

China has 111 million Internet users, second only to the United States. It is one of the world's biggest markets for online games, with tens of millions of players, many of whom hunker down for hours in front of PCs in public Internet cafes.

But the government has expressed concern about the violence and sexual content of some games. It has imposed curfews and time limits on children in Internet cafes and banned them near schools.

Also Friday, a newspaper said the Beijing city government has launched a review of the Chinese capital's 1,007 licensed Internet cafes to ensure they are complying with rules on admitting minors.

Violators could lose their licenses, the China Daily said.

In 2004, China shut down thousands of Internet cafes nationwide after a series of fatal fires and other accidents.

Xinhua said Zhang played at a "game hall," but didn't say whether that was an Internet cafe, which would have been required to limit his time there to a few hours.

Several cities have clinics to treat what psychiatrists have dubbed "Internet addiction" in users, many of them children and teenagers, who play online games or surf the Web for days at a time.

Specialists at a Beijing hospital examined Zhang's diary, school records and suicide note and concluded that "Zhang had excessively indulged in unhealthy games and contracted serious Internet addiction before his death," Xinhua reported.

His parents' suit also calls on the distributor to put a warning on the game's packaging saying "playing games excessively harms health," the report said.

Bai, the Aomeisoft executive, said the company plans to add "anti-addiction warnings" to future games.

The Warcraft games have 2.5 million players in China, with copies in more than 100,000 Internet cafes, Vivendi Universal chairman Jean-Bernard Levy told reporters in Shanghai in April.

[Spectatrix]

Retarded...

[JRockTTU]

That story is atleast a year old.

[impala454]

tier 3 sets are pretty tight lookin

[Seeker]

i thought i'd pop in this thread and just remind you folks that i am gay, kthx

This post has been edited by TetraGrammaton Cleric: May 21 2006, 03:29 AM

[impala454]

i thought i'd pop in this thread and just remind you folks that wow is gay, kthx

i think someone at mindcontrol.com was looking for you