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  • @Respectable_Username
    @Respectable_Username 11 місяців тому +331

    I feel the most bad for the dad. Like he's already grieving the loss of his daughter, he tries to do something nice for her friends, and then some random group comes to attack and kill his daughter's avatar in the middle of it all. That must have been absolutely awful!

    • @BeverlyHighland
      @BeverlyHighland 8 місяців тому +27

      It wasn’t her dad. He might have been there, but he wasn’t logged on her character. The guild contacted blizzard and they put her character there. It was basically an npc.

    • @greghughes6098
      @greghughes6098 2 місяці тому

      Seth Green was involved?

  • @MiaWinter98
    @MiaWinter98 11 місяців тому +757

    Tbh it's kind of cool how many "bounty hunters" managed to get ppl of that guild to not get their stuff back for weeks, driving them out of the game. Not only gives it a lot of material for psychological and ethical analysis, it also kinda warms my heart.

    • @johnsnow5125
      @johnsnow5125 11 місяців тому +17

      knowing the internet, it was probably still "worth it"

    • @SkimpyJigglesJr.-ff2ib
      @SkimpyJigglesJr.-ff2ib 11 місяців тому

      ​@preacher3958Learn a second word, you dolt.

    • @serenity8839
      @serenity8839 11 місяців тому +38

      It really shows there intent that they went for her character first for the video, its really nasty to think the items they cherished were taken after there passing.

    • @AspieMemoires
      @AspieMemoires 11 місяців тому +13

      When justice calls, there will always be people to answer because they want to. They desire to. 🤠

    • @maggiem6209
      @maggiem6209 11 місяців тому +24

      I love that even though it's a game, her memory was worth the time and the energy to uphold her honor. I think the western story set-dressing is perfect, considering this was an internet wild west moment. Yeehaw, cowboys.

  • @AspieMemoires
    @AspieMemoires 11 місяців тому +375

    You know? In a roundabout manner, Serenity Now assured her memory would be remembered. Not just remembered by her friends, but spread across a world to be remembered.
    Unintentionally, they gave her an amazing parting gift.

    • @maggiem6209
      @maggiem6209 11 місяців тому +41

      I consider myself lucky to know about her. Even if the people who memorialized her were pieces of shit for crashing a funeral. I'm torn, entertained, and more than a little wistful at the thought. I hope her family and friends are well.

    • @BlakeTheDrake
      @BlakeTheDrake 11 місяців тому +36

      You're not truly dead, so long as someone still remembers your name... or, perhaps, the name of your WoW character.

    • @FirewaII33
      @FirewaII33 11 місяців тому +26

      This is so true. Had the funeral gone by, it would have been a small factoid that only the people there and a few players knew or cared about. This way, it's got a great story behind it, and can be told to our grandchildren. Like a mobster hit at a funeral, it has mass appeal (to us nerdy kinds at least)

    • @Ragetiger1
      @Ragetiger1 11 місяців тому +11

      I just wish there was a micro-holiday for that day, like they did for the March of the Gnomes. Wish they had granted the players request to place a NPC of her character at that location.

    • @Migey11
      @Migey11 11 місяців тому +24

      Yeah it sounds like people were mad at the time but if that statement is true, that amongst the things she loved in WoW was PvP... then yeah, a gigantic brawl in your honor is a cool send-off.

  • @BlueAversion
    @BlueAversion 11 місяців тому +304

    Love how you’ve stylised this into some kind of old west stand-off

    • @POTATOEMPN
      @POTATOEMPN 11 місяців тому

      He's being held hostage, not a standoff............
      And it's a Western movie style. There are hundreds of them, it's a whole genre.

  • @davidlazerz8564
    @davidlazerz8564 11 місяців тому +434

    as someone who was playing during this period of wow I appreciate the embellishment lol. It makes the game seem a lot cooler and more complex than it actually was

    • @AngryBoozer
      @AngryBoozer 11 місяців тому +46

      @dammer001I’m an EVE war veteran. I could tell you the thrilling stories of love, betrayal and adventure.
      But that’s just about all I could do, because visually, I was basically just clicking through some spreadsheets.

    • @ayou055
      @ayou055 11 місяців тому +7

      @@AngryBoozer that should be the tagline for the game

    • @michelvanderlinden8363
      @michelvanderlinden8363 11 місяців тому +1

      I mean thats basically what trailers do as well

    • @bluemcneil5883
      @bluemcneil5883 10 місяців тому +1

      @@AngryBoozer THEY WERE SPREADSHEETS OF LORE, OF LOVE!

  • @fusrohduck3200
    @fusrohduck3200 11 місяців тому +159

    Frost hat gets bigger every time I can’t believe they put a scary movie 3 reference in here

  • @FaithyJo
    @FaithyJo 11 місяців тому +340

    For the longest time, I was only a fan of Zero Punctuation, nothing else.
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    Please keep up the awesome content!

    • @theescapist
      @theescapist  11 місяців тому +56

      Glad you’re enjoying!

    • @tayzers69
      @tayzers69 11 місяців тому +14

      this commenter personally responsible for his impending raise

    • @metazoxan2
      @metazoxan2 11 місяців тому +6

      Yeah Yahtzee is great but ultimately he's mainly just game reviews. WHich are good but the nature of such limits the content in a way.
      These offer an entirely different kind of content and his delivery is top notch.

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      @dillonmoore9810 11 місяців тому

      @@tayzers69 upgraded to the deluxe meal,
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    • @MasterChampo
      @MasterChampo 11 місяців тому +4

      Cold Take was a really good addition, and The Stuff of Legends is actively tied with ZP for my favorite Escapist content. This commentator is hopefully definitely going places if he keeps up with the great narratives.

  • @MegaChickenfish
    @MegaChickenfish 11 місяців тому +56

    "They attacked her with Cold Blood, _metaphorically and literally._ " My rogue main looks onto that pun with pride.

  • @TheKrenk999
    @TheKrenk999 11 місяців тому +90

    Serenity Now were pretty much screaming basement gremlins, and the shrieking from them after a huge chunk of the server not only decided to go after them for this, but even their own faction actively avoiding assisting them, was so good to see.
    Red is Dead on a PvP server, but this is the kind of thing where you take a step back and walk away. Somebody died. This was somebody going out and letting people who knew their child say their final goodbyes in the medium where they first met, something they did not have to do. I played on PvP servers from Vanilla to about the middle of Wrath and, for the most part, PvPers showed a lot of respect and restraint.
    Don't square up to a lowbie unless they step up to you. Don't gank a Hunter while they're taming a rare. Don't kill Quest-Givers unless its a life or death situation, that kind of thing. You're there to fight other players and prove your skill, not be a dribbling shitstain bullying the weak. Serenity Now was the pinnacle of the worst aspects of WoW's PvPer community, and I still get annoyed when people say they were 'justified' because it was a PvP zone. If you walk into a smoking area and I walk up and purposefully blow a lungful of cigar smoke into your face, you deserved it because you walked into a smoking area?

  • @jamisonosborne
    @jamisonosborne 11 місяців тому +383

    You know, ironically, it's probably lucky the crashers did this when they did. Not because Blizzard would take harsher action today then they were willing to back then, but because if happened today the name and address of the crashers would be uploaded to the Internet inside of an hour.
    I'm not saying that the crashers would deserve to have their lives destroyed by the combined might of the Internet, but the world has changed since 2006.

    • @Silverizael
      @Silverizael 11 місяців тому +58

      "I'm not saying that the crashers would deserve to have their lives destroyed by the combined might of the Internet"
      I mean, I wouldn't be sad if that had happened either. Going on the news for your 15 minutes of fame over it is especially gross.

    • @metazoxan2
      @metazoxan2 11 місяців тому +13

      Their lives? no.
      As much of a bunch of jackasses these people were ... just being a dick to people isn't justification for ruining lives or death threats.
      But I certainly wouldn't be adverse to the idea of hackers nuking their accounts and just erasing the guild from existence. or an organized griefing of them that lasts so long they all quit because all their doing is watching their dead body all the time.

    • @ObadiahtheSlim
      @ObadiahtheSlim 11 місяців тому +24

      It's a PVP server. What they did to crash the funeral was 100% justified and in spirit of what a PVP server is. Also since it's a PVP server, guilds are 100% justified in enforcing civility. That too is in the spirit of what a PVP server is. You do a dick move like that, then bounties to ruin your game are also justified. Taking anything outside of the game is not justified.

    • @jamisonosborne
      @jamisonosborne 11 місяців тому +45

      @@ObadiahtheSlim So if the trolls had crashed a funeral IRL would that have also been part of the game? If it is ok to crash a funeral in a game, then is it ok to crash a funeral IRL? Why not? What's the difference between the real world and the virtual world?
      The problem with the "it's just a game, it's not real" way of thinking is that it justifies any virtual activity simply because it is virtual. Undertale made that point perfectly, when Sans berates you for doing something not out of any sense of moral compass, but just because you can. "And because you can, you have to."
      SAO, for all its faults, also made that point. Just because something is virtual doesn't mean it isn't real. The pain that the parents and friends of the dead player felt was real pain because of the real actions the trolls took in the virtual world. To say nothing of what they did in the real world afterwards.
      The book "The Cyber Effect" does a great job of pointing out why online actions are real world actions and why "it's just a game" is a very dangerous sentiment. Long story short, if you wouldn't do it IRL then you shouldn't do it online, and if you are able to do something to someone online you are equally able to do it IRL. Since the only real difference between the real world and the virtual world is accountability.

    • @ObadiahtheSlim
      @ObadiahtheSlim 11 місяців тому

      @@jamisonosborne It's a PVP server. Being a dick and suffering the in-game social consequences for being a dick are part of the PVP experience. If you find that unacceptable, don't play on a PVP server. All of that is enumerated within the PVP server's terms of service.
      Now I wouldn't crash an in-game funeral because I'm not a dick. I would also gladly go kill and camp some dick who my group of friends had declared to have broken the code of civility that we abide by.

  • @but_in_space_though2919
    @but_in_space_though2919 11 місяців тому +325

    I remember hearing about this story. This is what that Warcraft movie should've been.

    • @MarkPeckham
      @MarkPeckham 11 місяців тому +10

      It should have been the corrupted blood incident.

    • @natsume-hime2473
      @natsume-hime2473 11 місяців тому

      @@MarkPeckham The corrupted blood incident... The case study on the mentality of people who out of pure spite will spread a disease we could otherwise have stopped. Now we live in a world where that happened in real life. Proof that when humanity as a species inevitably goes extinct, we'll have had it coming.

    • @allanperez8743
      @allanperez8743 7 місяців тому

      Either or would be better than the current movie

  • @loganusher591
    @loganusher591 11 місяців тому +83

    This kind of story is why WOW gets used for so many studies! It's a fascinating little peak into people's psyche when they think they're immune to things. Great telling as always!

  • @serenity8839
    @serenity8839 11 місяців тому +62

    Runescape had some funerals, one father even uploaded videos after his son passed I cant remember the name, but was a sweet thing to see a community come together like that.

    • @Vouru
      @Vouru 11 місяців тому +8

      Probably helps that those funerals are not held in PVP zones.

    • @InsanityPlusOne
      @InsanityPlusOne 11 місяців тому +9

      "My dead son really loved just fishing near the chaos elemental, HE found the sounds of the damned calming"

  • @kr4ftt
    @kr4ftt 11 місяців тому +79

    One fun addition for the video: At the start of the fight, you can see allot of AoE (area of effect) spells used by mages. One mechanic in wow is that, once engaged in combat you cannot change your gear, so people using cloths were unable to put their gear on and fight back. I can't talk about the etical stuff but the planing? that was something else entirely

    • @mattwing05
      @mattwing05 6 місяців тому

      If you watch the original leeroy jenkins video, you see the planning guilds go through to do raid fights. The game didn't use to have so many tools it does now, so tight coordination was needed

  • @ramboacdc
    @ramboacdc 11 місяців тому +71

    Ah the days of if a load of attacks happened in PvP at the same time your framerate somehow hit negative numbers.

  • @bennyshores8979
    @bennyshores8979 11 місяців тому +97

    You should tell the story of Fansy the Famous Bard, the guy who broke an Everquest PVP server by leading high-level monsters into other players before he was high enough level to be targeted by them.

    • @Chris_Sizemore
      @Chris_Sizemore 11 місяців тому +5

      Go go Good team! Fansy was a menace.

    • @Bubbles.Erotica
      @Bubbles.Erotica 11 місяців тому +5

      already did

    • @CmdrVoltaire
      @CmdrVoltaire 11 місяців тому +3

      Oh Jesus, I remember that one. Leading a conga line of Sand Giants on a path of destruction…one of the most infamous EverQuest moments of all time.

    • @ObadiahtheSlim
      @ObadiahtheSlim 11 місяців тому +2

      I never had the pleasure of running into Fansy. I was too busy leveling in other areas. But I had to respect the hustle of using the game mechanics for his advantage. Still I do blame Sony for allowing that sort of exploit to exist in the first place. It's a PVP server. Kill or be killed. Giving invulnerability to low levels is against the spirit of PVP.

  • @MrSubejio
    @MrSubejio 11 місяців тому +17

    Much respect to whoever had the idea of having the hat get bigger with every cutaway.

  • @quetzalthegamer
    @quetzalthegamer 11 місяців тому +41

    Would've been pretty cool and forward-thinking if they'd had a bunch of well-equipped PVP veterans around as guards for the event.

    • @t.estable3856
      @t.estable3856 11 місяців тому +27

      They did. It mentions that they were facing a different direction and got caught unaware by an unexpected Flanking manuver.

    • @fenrirsrage4609
      @fenrirsrage4609 7 місяців тому

      From what I heard they did have guards. Its just that Serenity Now took an obscure route so they wouldn't get caught. Which honestly sounds in character for them.

  • @robbyrne6968
    @robbyrne6968 11 місяців тому +19

    The Corrupted Blood story is a good one as well.

  • @Gflo189
    @Gflo189 11 місяців тому +23

    These "stuff of legends" videos have quickly become my favorite videos that this channel posts. Can't wait for the next exciting tale!

  • @raphsere
    @raphsere 11 місяців тому +31

    One of my favorite stories about World of Warcraft is that when they introduced WoW:Classic (game servers where you would play on the vanilla version of the game) it was sold and heralded by many as a return to form and the olden days when the game was good and made to be played carefree with your friends. And yet, somehow, the players themselves turned Classic into just as miserable a grind as the retail version, to the point where Blizzard had to add a new item to the 15 years old version of its game to alleviate some of the worst issues.
    Because the past is dead and can never be resurrected. The game was the same as back then, but the players... the players had changed.

    • @Dalladon
      @Dalladon 11 місяців тому +4

      When you say "Players had changed" I heard "Fused with and become indistinguishable from the beaniebags they were sitting in."

    • @richardvlasek2445
      @richardvlasek2445 11 місяців тому +2

      early wow was far worse in terms of grind because leveling was painfully slow, adhoc dungeon group finder didnt exist, getting money was insanely difficult and some of the zones were absurdly large with no real justification for their size
      the entire thing was fueled entirely by streamer delusion

    • @JRiddelle
      @JRiddelle 11 місяців тому

      I stopped playing before they actually added Classic, but before that whenever someone asked for early mode servers, I argued that early WoW wasn't actually hard, only that nobody really knew what they were doing and nostalgia was kicking in. The way Classic servers turned out, I'm pretty sure I wasn't wrong. (The way current WoW looks from other players, I'm not sure I could enjoy a raid ever again).

  • @michealfisher2887
    @michealfisher2887 11 місяців тому +4

    Sylvanas burned Teldrassil to the ground in revenge for the Serenity Now funeral massacre and I refuse to be told otherwise.

  • @GayBearBro2
    @GayBearBro2 11 місяців тому +49

    Damn, that's the kind of story I would tell to some gaming-adjacent friends.
    I'll have to send this to those friends when this comes out of early access.

  • @eddthehead123
    @eddthehead123 11 місяців тому +13

    There was a similar funeral in like.....Planetside, I think? Rival Group too the opportunity to send bombers while everyone was gathered, and got banned for major Griefing. Which, shows the difference between the two companies.

    • @InsanityPlusOne
      @InsanityPlusOne 11 місяців тому +1

      Yeah, as someone who has no will to go back into MMos and who was a runescape player way back when this does kinda show me blizzard at least respect the rules of the game, you build the mechanics and then leave the world to use them as they come, trying to enforce something as subjective as morality as a law is retarded in real life where there are actual stakes, in videogames it's a sign you have nothing but soup in between them ears...
      Planetside sounds like trash but I guess the space operas I crave are more the EVE stories anyway.

    • @richardvlasek2445
      @richardvlasek2445 11 місяців тому +10

      no lol those guys got banned for being insufferable racists in all chat, the developers really dont care if you airstrike a bunch of people willingly standing still
      their leader was buzzcutpsycho aka a massive loser who was so universally despised by everyone that certain clans kept tally of who made him screech in VC and ragequit the most

  • @alexcarracino
    @alexcarracino 11 місяців тому +3

    Holy crap, kinda crazy to see a clip from a Nekrogoblikon music video in there. I knew those dudes. My sister was their live keyboard player and was dating/living with one of the leads for a few years.

  • @ThatFanBoyGuy
    @ThatFanBoyGuy 11 місяців тому +17

    Frost, if you are willing to take ideas for The Stuff of Legends, look into how Konami attempted to copyright all rhythm/music video games

    • @darkmooink69
      @darkmooink69 11 місяців тому +2

      Didn’t they also semi-successfully patent loading screen games?

    • @meapickle
      @meapickle 11 місяців тому +1

      ​@@darkmooink69that was namco

    • @ThatFanBoyGuy
      @ThatFanBoyGuy 11 місяців тому

      @@darkmooink69 Yes, yes they did

    • @JRiddelle
      @JRiddelle 11 місяців тому

      I don't think it's particularly worth a video, but there was also Bloober Team patenting dual-mode, which was definitely not a "Shit, we couldn't get this out in time for the Wii U, CYA on the game cost" move. Definitely not.

  • @SgtRackhamm
    @SgtRackhamm 10 місяців тому +1

    Crazy to hear this story again.
    I actually worked with a guy who was part of the raid. Me, being a teen at the time, stared in abject horror, as I watched this IT guy, prior paramedic, cackled and laughed. He showed me the video, and would point out all of his friends who were in the video.
    Now I'm a soldier in the army, singing songs about clubbing baby seals, and dreaming of what napalm does to kids... But I still shake my head in disgust at the fat. Cycling, neckbeard; who saw pleasure in the idea of have a few deaths at a funeral.

  • @dawesome_sauce
    @dawesome_sauce 11 місяців тому +14

    I adore this series and the narration. More of these please.

  • @andrewhickinbottom1051
    @andrewhickinbottom1051 11 місяців тому +12

    Probably my favourite Stuff Of Legends yet! Brilliantly told, great editing and footage, and a fascinating story!

  • @steelcladgamer6578
    @steelcladgamer6578 11 місяців тому +4

    The video Serenity Now made was the first I ever watched on the internet. I remember it in all its 144p glory.

  • @Feeble_cursed_one
    @Feeble_cursed_one 11 місяців тому +11

    That framerate is nostalgic

  • @clencheastwood1571
    @clencheastwood1571 11 місяців тому +6

    Really liking the content Escapist has been putting out as of late. I'll be honest, I wrote them off as dead a year ago, but they seem to have had a sort of Renaissance. Hope this trend keeps up.

    • @meapickle
      @meapickle 11 місяців тому

      Well, yhatzee has been carrying them for awhile, but since they've gotten sponsors and more money do do things like animations. They have a lot more opportunities for new projects

  • @bluemcneil5883
    @bluemcneil5883 11 місяців тому +1

    Serenity now Seinfeld clip is a once in a lifetime reference. Well edited

  • @DanGamingFan2846
    @DanGamingFan2846 11 місяців тому +198

    As Yahtzee said about this, "What the f*** did they expect?" Obviously, causing a massacre at a funeral for a real life person is just disgusting, but on the otherhand, it was in a warzone, more specifically a warzone in _World of Warcraft,_ someone really should've seen this coming.

    • @watershipup7101
      @watershipup7101 11 місяців тому +6

      Agreed

    • @genjis5155
      @genjis5155 11 місяців тому +8

      Trolls will be trolls.

    • @legomaniac213
      @legomaniac213 11 місяців тому +42

      ​@genjis5155 That's not entirely fair, there are plenty of Orcs, Elves, and dwarves who participated in stupid shit for attention.

    • @louisduarte8763
      @louisduarte8763 11 місяців тому +3

      @@legomaniac213 Not having played WoW, ever, IS Troll a playable race?

    • @legomaniac213
      @legomaniac213 11 місяців тому +4

      @@louisduarte8763 Yep, they are one of the original Horde races.

  • @U-Flame
    @U-Flame 11 місяців тому +4

    It's kinda sweet how this resulted in such a hardcore bounty that it actually resulted in some of the offenders quitting

  • @Bro490
    @Bro490 11 місяців тому +3

    Subscribed for the ZP but now these are my favorite things that come out of the escapist, and the ZPs are as high quality as ever so that's really saying something.

  • @wesleythomas7125
    @wesleythomas7125 11 місяців тому +1

    "WHO CRASHES A WAKE!?"
    -Father Zaphord, Borderlands II

  • @thetruemandalorian2637
    @thetruemandalorian2637 11 місяців тому +13

    Damnit I wanna know how it ends! Frost you should write a movie script for this and narrate it. That was fantastic.

  • @Heavenlyhounds96
    @Heavenlyhounds96 11 місяців тому +3

    TRUST ME, im not surprised a group of griefers griefed an in-game event, strangely enough, meant for grieving (not griefing).
    But im still on the funerary procession's side. What I would have done is offer to PAY more players to be guards.
    And make actual warnings or even threats to any players Immoral enough to interrupt the proceedings.

    • @Vouru
      @Vouru 11 місяців тому +3

      Or very simply not enforce a god damn dress code.
      I'd imagine that this story would have played out differently if it was 1 guild vs 100 fully armored players.

  • @deldideldeldidumm4280
    @deldideldeldidumm4280 11 місяців тому +6

    Wasn't there an instance where the horde got a worldboss to stormwind. I remember the video said it was revenge for the funeral

    • @legomaniac213
      @legomaniac213 11 місяців тому +3

      Yes. That was where they lured Lord Kaazak to Stormwind from the Blasted Lands (think luring something from Florida to Washington DC). I don't know if it was revenge for the funeral crashing, but I wouldn't be surprised.

    • @JRiddelle
      @JRiddelle 11 місяців тому

      There is also the infamous event when someone brought a plague from one location to a bank, which caused an actual epidemiological study. WoW players can get creative.

  • @gxtzqvtunes
    @gxtzqvtunes 11 місяців тому +5

    This series, is just fantastic.
    Well done to all involved!

  • @Robin4
    @Robin4 11 місяців тому +2

    Its just fantastic how the Escapist is becoming better and better by the day

  • @azuarc
    @azuarc 11 місяців тому +5

    I'm surprised that there are now two Stuff of Legends videos that I was around to directly witness (via internet forums.) Guess being an old-time MMO player pays for something.

  • @DetectiveLance
    @DetectiveLance 11 місяців тому +5

    Ohhh this story~ this was trolling to a new level.

  • @Vyruz64
    @Vyruz64 11 місяців тому +1

    gotta love the "increasingly bigger hat" joke.

  • @JoshZanders
    @JoshZanders 11 місяців тому +1

    I, like many others, have mostly just stuck around for ZP and such, but these little vignettes of gaming history and culture are one of my new favorite things. Curious if we'll ever get a video on WoW's Corrupted Blood plague, that's always been one of the stories I share with non-gamers.

  • @maggiem6209
    @maggiem6209 11 місяців тому +1

    The storytelling is FABULOUS. Smooth, soothing, moving, a little funny. And perfect considering this was the time of the wild west online. I hope her family and friends are doing well. And I hope to see more content like this!

  • @Spect3r.
    @Spect3r. 11 місяців тому +5

    They published it in the public forum, i dont know how they thought this would go well

  • @Respectable_Username
    @Respectable_Username 11 місяців тому +1

    Fuck I'm crying first thing in the morning over this story. TBH though I needed a good cry. Wonderful storytelling, Frost!

  • @neocrow-xn5vq
    @neocrow-xn5vq 11 місяців тому +8

    I don't play WoW, but I'll always enjoy this story just because of how ridiculous the entire thing sounds.
    Pity internet shit-talking causes an attack on an online funeral so infamous it gets picked up by the mainstream, shortly followed by a quest of retaliation on the perpetrators.

  • @glennwahlberg8780
    @glennwahlberg8780 11 місяців тому +2

    the fact this made history in the game she loved is kind of the best sendoff she could have wished for.

  • @kenpachielric
    @kenpachielric 11 місяців тому +1

    I love this. The fact I actively was playing back then not on the server that happened on but heard about the funeral n the aftermath... damn, wish I could claimed some of them bounties back then

  • @Tuss36
    @Tuss36 11 місяців тому +1

    Misread the title and thought it was gonna be the wedding crashers. A couple having a ceremony at a special tree that was almost outside the map. Only for an uninvited guild to come charging over the hill, slaughter the procession, and the leader claiming the bride as his own. This is still a good story too of course. The contrast between the two events is amusing.

  • @dorotamarszaek7534
    @dorotamarszaek7534 9 місяців тому +6

    Fayejin has been immortalized by the funeral crashing event thanks to Serenity NOW. She loved Fishing, Snow... And PvP.

  • @seokkyunhong8812
    @seokkyunhong8812 11 місяців тому +5

    5:06 attacked with cold blood is just freaking hilarious.

  • @Jimbo877CashNow
    @Jimbo877CashNow 11 місяців тому +1

    I recall first learning of this by fibding the SN video. "Yes, we know we're a-holes." Was posted at the end.
    Also where i heard "I'm the Scatman" for the first time.

  • @MQWalkman
    @MQWalkman 11 місяців тому

    So much to love about this. The RPG plushies on the floor. The growing hat. The B-reel footage. Commendations to all concerned.

  • @GallowglassVT
    @GallowglassVT 11 місяців тому +1

    And thereafter, the last thing anyone in Serenity Now or their associates could claim to feel was serene.

  • @Jbayz
    @Jbayz 11 місяців тому

    Every 2-3 years we are subjected to a new video about this funeral or how scientists studied a blood plague of hakkar. Pepper in a spoopy karazhan crypt story and you've got yourself a new old new wow video. Rinse repeat

  • @jcsader1969
    @jcsader1969 10 місяців тому

    I was a Tauren Warrior (Sader) in the guild with Fayejin. An Orc Warlock (Yanoa) was her boyfriend that posted on the forums about having an in-game funeral for her. Our guild name was Malediction. So glad to be a part of WoW history!

  • @onedeadsaint
    @onedeadsaint 11 місяців тому +2

    i like that the South Park clip was relevant and also from the WoW episode!

  • @deadhead4077
    @deadhead4077 11 місяців тому +1

    I love this series so much, the gaming history lore we need!!!! Just as capitvating as gaming historian but with some style!!! You got the perfect person and voice to tell these stories too love it love it love it, keep up the amazing work!!!!

  • @wcjerky
    @wcjerky 11 місяців тому +1

    Correction: Cold Blood, in Vanilla, was a cooldown which guaranteed a critical strike on the next damaging ability. Many rogues, especially in this situation, would combine it with Ambush for a strong burst opener. Depending on gear, it could one-shot a cloth-wearing class.

  • @snack_overflow4217
    @snack_overflow4217 11 місяців тому

    I love this series so freaking much, it's like a trip down memory lane of all the huge events that happened when I was a kid

  • @loveisinportant5570
    @loveisinportant5570 10 місяців тому

    I had a feeling it would have been the Alliance being this callous and sociopathic.

  • @InsanityPlusOne
    @InsanityPlusOne 11 місяців тому +1

    "there ain't been nothing but funerals since that funeral"

  • @hourglass1988
    @hourglass1988 11 місяців тому

    I played WoW pretty much from the start of the game. I never played PvP servers but everyone heard about this story. Being reminded of it now almost, aaaaalmost, makes me want to pick up the game again. But i've been clean since cataclysm and i'm not dipping back into that now.

  • @Tolly7249
    @Tolly7249 11 місяців тому +3

    I still can't believe this happened. The sheer disrespect of the attackers is mindboggling. I belong to the group who thinks everyone in Serenity Now absolutely had the bounties and harassment coming.

  • @AEtherimp
    @AEtherimp 11 місяців тому

    This event, Tainted Blood, and others like it are the reason I started playing WoW around 2007/8 during TBC. I was quite the menace and earned many rivalries...

  • @OmniGundam777
    @OmniGundam777 11 місяців тому +93

    On the one hand, its distasteful to do that to a funeral.
    On the other hand, holding a funeral in a game and expecting everyone to respect said funeral was very dumb and they should've expected this.

    • @ItsHyomoto
      @ItsHyomoto 11 місяців тому +21

      They seem to have. They had guards. They didn't expect it to be a stealth attack I guess, but there's also everyone else: if this was such an inevitable outcome, why didn't more people participate? Apparently most of the server either respected the funeral or just didn't care about it. If it were done again the two sides would try harder with their lessons learned.

    • @Krushak8888
      @Krushak8888 11 місяців тому +10

      Or you cod just not be a dick even if winterspring is a pvp zone lol cuz back in the day there wws pvp servers.

    • @johnsnow5125
      @johnsnow5125 11 місяців тому +2

      ​​@@ItsHyomotobut also, very lackluster job on the scouting. Tssk, amateurs

    • @Nero24200
      @Nero24200 11 місяців тому +12

      I was ready to disagree until I watched the video and saw it was a PVP zone.
      Like... no. Sorry for your loss but you can't dangle that good of a carrot in front of PVP'ers and expect nothing. I don't like victim blaming but if a bank openly decided to have no security you can't blame bank robbers for thinking it's an easy mark.
      Can you imagine it elsewhere? Jumping into any sort of PVP based lobby and trying to tell the other team not to do any fighting? Again, I don't support the outcome, but I can't say I'm surprised. At all.

    • @deebzscrub
      @deebzscrub 11 місяців тому +5

      Yeah the dress code thing was a nice idea, but was extremely foolish without transmog being a thing. They should have all showed up battle ready.

  • @louisduarte8763
    @louisduarte8763 11 місяців тому +2

    Oh, THIS story. I read about this in a Cracked article about legendary dick moves in video games. Props to Frost for giving it a Spaghetti Western spin on it. And now I now where "Serenity Now" comes from; I always thought it was a "Firefly" reference. Was that Seth Green, and that other guy from Robot Chicken? Why were they being interviewed?

  • @Boyofdestiny205
    @Boyofdestiny205 11 місяців тому

    The fact it was an alliance guild made this story all the more hilarious. One of the best moments in WoW history

  • @Zylock
    @Zylock 11 місяців тому +1

    This series is incredible. Simply stellar.

  • @DMShoes3033
    @DMShoes3033 11 місяців тому

    This reminds me of a city raid I did with a group of friends. It was probably the best time I've ever had in-game. We originally planned on just raiding stormwind. We were so outnumbered that it wasn't funny. So, the leader had a brilliant idea. And I mean, it was the best thing I think anyone has ever thought of. See, he had the idea to make a SECOND group and raid the Exodar. So as we ran back to our corpses to do the rez of shame, he was in a voice chat laying out his ingenious plan. We ran back to our mangled bodies and logged out. We regrouped in Orgrimmar to make the second raid and made our way to the Exodar. To say we were excited would be an understatement. We travel through the countryside and get to Darkshore. We get on the boat, try not to sound the alarm. It was kind of hard since we had to go to Darnassus at the time. Once we got there, the leader sent went back to see if there were people still camping our bodies. Luckily, the keep was still full of players doing unnatural things to our corpses. At that point, a rogue he had sent into the Exodar reported back that it was void of players. So it was decided we would take the Exodar first. And it was glorious! Velen was around 50% by the time we started getting hit with the players. There was nothing they could do. It was either stay in Stormwind or protect the Prophet. Well, 75 to 80% of them decided to come to the Exodar. We had them right where we wanted them! We waited for them all to get to us and made sure all of them were down for the count. We hearthed, then logged into our characters in Stormind. The only players left were lower levels who thought they could take us down. Boy, were they wrong. And again, in another glorious attack, we took down King Varian Wrynn. Players scrambled to make it back to Stormwind in attempts to save the King, but to no avail, he died by the hands of the mighty horde. That day, the alliance understood just how magnificent and powerful the horde really was. Everyone involved had so much fun that night. It lasted way longer than we expected, and some of us had to work super early the next day, but not one person regretted it. I would like to say that if you were one of the people who partook in that battle, thank you for one of the best days in-game. And a big thanks and shout out to Jaegermeister (Sam), you were the best leader ever! ❤❤

  • @MannequinSmiles
    @MannequinSmiles 11 місяців тому

    this is my new favorite series on the internet

  • @grayshadowglade
    @grayshadowglade 11 місяців тому

    Duude! You are so damn good at this. Kudos to Jesse and Jm8 for the excellent animation as well. Well done all!

  • @dotjaypg
    @dotjaypg 11 місяців тому

    Why did this make me tear up a little, great video, you’re quickly becoming one of my all time favorites

  • @revzsaz9418
    @revzsaz9418 11 місяців тому +1

    Maaaaan the internet really is an internet-flavored place to be 🤷🏻‍♂️ Thanks for story time Frost 🙏 Cheers and hope you're as well as can be man 🍻

  • @halkeye20
    @halkeye20 11 місяців тому +1

    This format would be great at talkong about the biggest eve fight.

  • @BladeLigerV
    @BladeLigerV 11 місяців тому

    I love the hat just slowly getting bigger and bigger.

  • @Lastkoss
    @Lastkoss 11 місяців тому +1

    I never head of this. A sad bit of affairs.

  • @richardnicklin654
    @richardnicklin654 11 місяців тому

    This series has to be one of the best Escapist productions in a very long time.

  • @kmdelong
    @kmdelong 11 місяців тому

    The Stuff of Legends is one of my favorite newish series on this channel. Hoping for more stories!

  • @JeffKryger
    @JeffKryger 11 місяців тому +1

    I love this series! Really great concept and I've very much enjoyed the stories you have featured so far.

  • @AlyxDps
    @AlyxDps 11 місяців тому

    Oh shit I remember this!
    I was in this guild for a little while, I wasn't part of the raid but I had to leave after the whole thing went down because no-one outside the guild would party with me as long as I was associated

  • @lordzendikar
    @lordzendikar 11 місяців тому +1

    I love the stuff of legends, all the stories you tell are just so interesting

  • @Slaanash
    @Slaanash 11 місяців тому

    I remember when the first happened people were like "I bet it's serenity now", being some of the more infamous local trolls in those parts.

  • @manofthecroc
    @manofthecroc 11 місяців тому

    I love the storytelling and flow of every one of the stuff of legends! Keep up the good work!

  • @joed7547
    @joed7547 11 місяців тому

    Never stop these, they're fantastic!

  • @lstallings96
    @lstallings96 11 місяців тому

    This series has turned out ery entertaining and fun to watch.
    Look forward to more to come.

  • @Canadamus_Prime
    @Canadamus_Prime 11 місяців тому

    I heard about this. Well I heard about the massacre, I didn't know about the bounties afterward.

  • @WarFan40k
    @WarFan40k 10 місяців тому

    and importantly the video they put out introduced me to the wonderful Scatman John.

  • @sanitize808
    @sanitize808 11 місяців тому

    I love how you gave me details of the aftermath of that video. I had no idea! Amazing game history

  • @MegaChickenfish
    @MegaChickenfish 11 місяців тому

    Even if for different reasons than she expected, her funeral wound up being one of the most remembered moments in WoW history, and that's pretty cool.

  • @claytopolis
    @claytopolis 10 місяців тому +2

    While people are valid in saying holding a funeral in an active pvp zone wasn't the best idea. I think something should be said about how it seemed that only serenity now attacked. If every other pvp player at that time stayed away, it only shows how little respect serenity now had for it. They got what they deserved tbh

  • @BiscuitsAndBBQ
    @BiscuitsAndBBQ 11 місяців тому +12

    This is one of those "guarantee a good laugh" whenever I watch the original video. Misfits and Scatman, fantastic combo

  • @meapickle
    @meapickle 11 місяців тому

    Ive heard about this for years, but its great to actually get some details

  • @runcmdexe7765
    @runcmdexe7765 10 місяців тому

    Bonus points for John Goblikon dress code!

  • @peggyliepmann5248
    @peggyliepmann5248 11 місяців тому

    Some say Frost's hat continues to grow to this day, greater than man or beast. Will it one day grow too great for the world? Only time will tell...

  • @Darkgun231
    @Darkgun231 11 місяців тому +2

    Everyone saying it was foolish of the wake's organizers to do this in a PVP area just doesn't get it. So what if it's a PVP zone? So what if it's in a video game? There's this thing called common decency. You don't go to funerals in the real world and teabag the casket just because the cemetery is in the bad part of town. The funeral crashers got what they deserved.