That's a bit... extreme!!! To say the least.

. . .

What. The. Hoof?!?

Some people really really aren't fit for society, after all.

I hope Alberts' sister doesn't mean just the rival clan when she says 'they'. It sounds to me like both clans agreed to this. Poor decisions all around in this case.

Could we just mark this up to darwinism and move on? I really don't want to live in a world where the Bloods and the Crips are fighting the Coo-Clocks for territory.

Well I just finished reading the article and as callous as this sounds this isn't going to end well for gamers, online or off, especially once certain "experts" catch wind of this story. Even though the article ends on that "this is rare" comment people are going to overlook that and see "game=violence=evil=game". I truly do feel for the families of all reported here, even the murderers' families as they're all going to lose someone as a result of this. I also hope this is proof that online vendettas should STAY online and we can never be sure exactly what will happen.

Love the article title, Dennis :)

So fucking stupid.

wow - that's insane! some people are just fucked up...

It could be worse, I suppose. Still, it could be a lot better.

if people are actually physically attacking each other, over a game, i'm disgusted by them.

we keep things in the game, thats what they're for.
you play games, got differences? you fight in the game, settle things where the problem is. you take it into RL, this happens, and its stupid, plain and simply stupid.

Twin-Skies, you FAIL!

Not only is WoW inferior, but such action taken by the Coo-Clocks STILL should never have come to pass had it been a WoW clan.

The only defense your point has is that WoW is an MMO made for beginners!

I remember an incident liek this in South Korea a few years ago. In fact, every case I've ever heard where someone was murdered over a MMO involved the Lineage series.

Jack thompson would have a field day with this.

@blackice

he probably would if it helped him.

Bad taste on the headline. Dude's dead, not really the right opportunity to make a crack like that. And you wouldn't throw a joke into a story about a US gamer beaten to death. Bad form.

*wonders if DarrelBT is part of the Legion of Anonymous*

You wish Sleepy. You obviously aren't aware of the Soviet Russia meme.

Before anyone starts talking trash about game violence, let's first point out a few things:
1. Linage II is an MMORPG, not a ulta-violent murder simulator. The grind in MMORPGs isn't the same sa Grind House.

2. These were both adults. Stupid, pathetic adults who didn't see the game wasn't even worth what they were paying for it, much less the time it would take to meet someone they didn't like.

And, even though there has been news from all over the world recently about video game related violence, I wish to pose you a question or two...

1. How much alcohol related violence happened in the world in the past 48 hours?

2. How many alcohol related deaths happened in the past 48 hours?

3. Are there any new laws up for discussion on the regulating of alcohol, perhaps a new prohabition?

See, I'm willing to wager that the number of video game incidents is lower in the entire world for a week, maybe a month, then the answers to 1 and 2 above for 48 hours in any given country where a video game incident took place. A bar fight breaks out and people needs stiches, it doesn't even make it to local gosip, much less even a local newspaper. Someone bouces a controller off their dads head in Upper Elbonia and every major publication in the world is running the story within a day or two, along with political analysis.

People fight, they fight over turf, they fight over the color of hankerchiefs, they fight over HD formats. At some point, it stops being news.

Was this news story more important than any of the other 200 (number POoMA) people that died in the last 24 hours, some for more pointless reasons then this?

This incident is stupid beyond words.

Pardon my ignorance,
But if your lineage character dies, is it permanently dead?

Either way though this is beyond stupidity.

@Skyler:

Exactly! I was thinking that this was more of a gang thing.

When it crossed the thress hold to real life it became something like a gang.

prolly was a private server version of linage 2 (free lineage 2)

This has very little to do with games and a great deal to do with Russian society...

In Russia a humans life is worth as little as the dirt on your shoes... This isn't a criticism of Russia, it is a by product of the soviet years and first hand knowledge of Russia as it's citizen...

The fact that they killed someone over an internet beef isn't that surprising, what surprises me is that they actually had some reason to do it... friend of mine was killed for two rubles not to long ago...




ahh the young it was only 20 years ago that young people would simply go jew hunting with their parents while government officials went on TV and told jews to run and hide for their own safety while telling 'true' Russians to make it a pogrom for the whole family...western games have truly destroyed the youth of Russia... If anyone thinks the last paragraph is a joke or slander think again, I saw such friendly broadcasts myself....

@ chadachada(123)

Meh. One of the first things one should learn is that the internet is never to be taken seriously, if only because it's SERIOUS FUCKING BUSINESS! I guess this now extends to online games as well.

@GP: Why was the headline changed from "Video game kill you" to "Video game clan kills you"

The original was a better headline. Because in the context of russian reversal, it made sense. Sure, it didn't exactly tell the story, but it was still a better headline.

In America, you kill video game (as in finish the game)
In Soviet Russia, video game kill YOU

But the new one doesn't make that much sense.

In America, you kill video game clan (O_o)
In Soviet Russia, video game clan kill YOU (o_O)

With a name like the Coo Clocks Clan (an obvious play on the KKK) and the fact they "show no remorse" and are still threatening his family after he's dead, I'm thinking there might be another element involved, like racism, that isn't being reported. I can't see someone, no matter how crazy they are, murdering someone, then threatening to kill the rest of their family, entirely over Lineage Lootz.

This is the second of 2 cases i've seen where video games has been proven to be the actual cause of murder.

In both cases the games in question was MMORPG's and from what i've seen it wasn't mental influence that sparked the violence. In the first case, a guy somewhere in Asia (South Korea, i think) killed a friend of his that sold a sword that the soon-to-be murderer had given to him, after the police had turned down his request for arresting his friend with charges of theft. The sword in question was the rarest item in the game. The second case was this.

Back on topic, this is just outright ridicolous. I have to agree with shady8x here, i don't know much about post-soviet Russian society, but i'd wager his description is pretty accurate.

lolwut

sorry i make a mistake a in my last reply, that was for another blog you can erase please :(, and i think some gamers are obsessed with the virtul world,
they create a bad image of the other players

sorry again because my english is not good :(

Wow was it that serious?