After losing a schoolyard fight, a 17-year-old boy in Beijing recently covered a classmate with gasoline and lit him on fire, claiming he "had lost himself in World of Warcraft and when he committed the crime he had transformed into a Fire Mage." The boy has been sentenced to 8 years in prison and ordered to pay the victim and his family a restitution of 760,000 RMB (approximately $103,140 USD). In light of the recent "Mortal Kombat killings," we"re hesitant to believe the claims of any youth who says they have been influenced by a video game into violence. In this case, though, we believe him simply because China lacks our American legal system that allows people to claim "games made me do it," and subsequently shift all blame to the game"s creators. While this crime is both shocking and bizarre, we have to applaud the Chinese officials for offering a sane punishment as response. Had this occurred here in the United States, the blame would have landed squarely on Blizzard, and a multi-million dollar lawsuit followed by a governmental inquiry into the evils of World of Warcraft (possibly helmed by Tipper Gore) wouldn"t be at all surprising. source: http://news.asiantown.net/read/4879.html lol.
Thats sad and pathetic. Theres always someone out there better than us and just for a trivial thing like this setting ppl on fire just aint right.
I know people killing each other is not suppose to be funny, but I looked at the title and just couldn't help laughing. I AM FIRE MAGE FROM WORLD OF WARCRAFT!!! lol.... But seriously, that guy needs to cut down on the lvl 70 mage.
This is absurd, losing a fight isn't the end of the world....... And taking revenge in such a lame way ...., it's too cowardly.....-_-2 And saying that he lost himself in wow .....<_< Well atleast they didn't gave him the dead penallty
omg shit that's why WoW is bad for kids hahaha...seriously people who thinks of a game as reality should've never played games in the first place...
i just want to know how did the person just allow him to cover him with gasoline and to set him alight. surely after beating him in a fight he should know that something bad was gonna happen if the same person was coming up to u. usually they would stay right away.
...thinking he's a fire mage...and lights classmate on fire with gasoline....kinda suspicious...I recall fire mage doesn't use gasoline lol
lol next thing you see, the same thing happens in korea and the person's excuse will be: "zomg i killed him by driving a tongue-like spike up his ass because i thought i was a sunken colony in starcraft"
Nah i think the guy who got lit on fire had high resilience ratings and quite alot of stamina and mounts wont work while in battle .
ya im an ex Wow Pro lol, luckily the guy never play Guild Wars as he would have succeeded in boring his victim to death
this is so sick man well its just a case of one in 1.3 billion ppl its all the lack of education and parenting
you really have to wonder about these kids who do these things and then blame the game. it's not always bad parenting though even though i would have to agree that parenting has a lot to do with it. maybe he's a total loner and all he has is his games. him losing meant that he had lost the only thing he was ever good at.
