Tuesday, September 18th 2007
Blizzard Shuts Down World of Warcraft Sex Guild
Some people play RPG's like World of Warcraft to escape reality. Some play them for the online community. However, the World of Warcraft ex-guild "Abhorrent Taboo" took the latter reason a little too far. The interests of the group could be summed up in three letters: ERP ('erotic roleplay'). Among other strange pleasures that should not be mentioned for the sake of decency, the guild indulged in what they call "extreme ageplay", which is where members pretend they are ages they are not. Concerned World of Warcraft players decided to take a closer look at the clan, and promptly found a twelve year old girl engaging in "erotic roleplay" with a man much her senior, who did not stop "erotic roleplay" even when she stated her real age. Blizzard took a valiant stand against this, and Abhorrent Taboo is now an ex-guild. However, they have reformed themselves under the name "Vile Anathema". Whether or not they've learned not to have ERP with a 12 year old girl remains to be seen.
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Neoseeker
25 Comments on Blizzard Shuts Down World of Warcraft Sex Guild
Blizzard isn't to blame.
"Abhorrent Taboo" isn't to blame.
You know who's to blame? The parents of this 12-year-old for letting their kid play an online game which clearly states in its ESRB that content may change online.
Parents -- please be parents, and don't leave the job up to video games.
Even if she was just stating that she was "virtually" twelve, there's no law being broken -- I don't even think it breaks Blizzard's TOS.
Or is this a little more than just that
But how many of them are frivolous? How many have even the faintest chance of winning?
Bah -- the article was very vague about what this is all about, anyway.
Sorry about that
Edit - I looked but I cant find the video. Anyone else seen it?
Hell, I know that this sort of thing is actually more common than most people, and ESPECIALLY parents, know. As an avid RP'er myself, I've seen it often enough. It's there, it's real, and it comes it pretty much every shape and form there is, from mere stripping/erotic dancing to scenarios where you have rape, BDSM and everything else. Just as in real life, and often just as disgusting if not worse. Most of it is hidden, but sometimes it comes out into the open and people are shocked, horrified and start blaming the game-company. Why?
It's not the game-company's fault that people get off on pixels. Neither is it the game-company's fault that people do this or are exposed to it, and every time people start bitching about this or that company "allowing" this to happen, it annoys me to high heaven. The company designs and makes available a game-world with it's features and content, and people fill it with life. Then who's to blame? Partially the parents of the kids that are caught up in it, since they don't seem to bother and/or take interest in what their kids are doing (most because they haven't the slightest clue what so ever, and even less of an interest (and treat the computer as the babysitter that you don't have to pay), and partially the mere fact that if you put people into a situation where they have a perceived belief that they are anonymous, they'll do the strangest things. Give a person anonymity, a stage and an audience, and you'll have them change their behavior so completely that you'd think that you've never met them.
These things are present in ALL MMO's, regardless of what people say. In some it's more acceptable, like for example Second Life. Why people are surprised I have absolutely no clue about.
This guy was guilty of nothing but being a creep and a weirdo, which, fortunately for computer aficionados like us, is still legal in most countries.