WOW related viral epidemic

2005 saw another WOW-related viral epidemic, however, although this one was in the mostly safe world of the internet meme. Bellowing his own name with heroic stupidity, a player character called charged heedlessly into a room full of dragon whelps in the Upper Blackrock Spire dungeon and caused an ignominious death for his entire party.wow gold     Caught on video and posted mock-seriously on WOW's forum, the moment spread first across the game's community and then beyond it, and eventually escaped the confines of the internet and into national and international media. Leeroy became a sort of folk hero of WOW. His name and idiotic feat are immortalised as an in-game achievement and title; his image is recreated alongside Warcraft's heroes and villains in the WOW trading card and miniatures merchandising; the player behind him, Ben Schultz, does public appearances at conventions.

Looking back, the video's wild popularity isn't that easy to explain. It's funny in a dumb sort of way, but fairly deeply entrenched in the arcane vernacular of raiding. Then again, you don't need to understand how WOW dungeons work to understand the enormity of his mistake, his gung-ho vigour, or the fact that he's having fun and not taking the game too seriously. Schultz did Blizzard an incalculable PR favour, not just in terms of exposure, wow gold kaufen   but in demonstrating that WOW could be about friends messing about rather than nerds obsessing over detail. To this day, the most famous WOW player character isn't a successful guild leader or elite PVP hero, but a chicken-eating village idiot just like the rest of us: a common man.