WoW mage burns student alive in real life; Wii Zapper still rampant
By Danny Mendez
In a world where you can die and kill an infinite amount of times, video games constantly get blamed for random acts of violence, but that’s in America. Over in China, you’re guilty for your own actions, so when a Chinese student decided to light another on fire, blaming World of Warcraft wasn’t good enough.
According to billsdue, it went down like this: A 17 year old boy fought with his classmate. He lost, so a few days later, he dumped a water bottle full of gasoline onto his enemy and lit him on fire.
Claiming that he was a fire mage, the Chinese student accused World of Warcraft of altering his reality, but the government didn’t care. Currenlty, he’s spending 8 years in jail, and an accomplice got 7 years. Furthermore, he, the accomplice, and their families have to pay 760,000 RMB as compensation to the victim.
Sadly, the students are not well educated nor are they from affluent families, meaning they didn’t have much of a chance of going anywhere in Chinese society. Getting sent to jail only put the final nail in the coffin.
At least the Chinese understand that video games aren’t responsible for the crazy, violent things we see on the 10 o’clock news every night. Unfortunately, many in our culture are still more frightened by the Wii Zapper than poverty, bad “art”, or the inadequate education systems some of our children attend.
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December 23rd, 2007
Dumb article…violent video games obviously affect children.
December 23rd, 2007
“Claiming that he was a fire mage, the Chinese student accused World of Warcraft for altering his reality, …”
That should be “of altering”. You accuse someone “of” something not “for” something. (Ed: Fixed. Thanks)
December 23rd, 2007
I play a fire mage in World of Warcraft and I’m not setting people on fire. Stupid people emulate what they do or see in video games. It’s not the game’s fault, Bruno.
January 5th, 2008
Well im sure they could of got a priest to rez him and it would be no big deal
January 5th, 2008
Well im sure they could of got a priest to rez him and it would be no big deal
August 5th, 2008
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November 9th, 2008
Your web is great, I learned something about WOW here
November 17th, 2008
However mean your life is
December 10th, 2008
oh yes!
June 26th, 2009
The kid obviously had some issues that had nothing to do with WoW. I play a warrior and I have never actually killed anyone with a battle axe. You cannot blame a game. If you committed a crime like this wouldn’t you blame anything you could to try and get out of it? Over 10 million people play WoW and one kid sets someone on fire…..hardly conclusive evidence.
September 25th, 2009
I was picked on by another student once….now i am not sure if i should light him on fire or if i should elctrocute him. im an arcane fire mage….does arcane count as electricity? please help….i guess i could switch to frost and stab him with an icicle.