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Deaths of gamers leave their online lives in limbo

Yahoo news writes "When Jerald Spangenberg collapsed and died in the middle of a quest in an online game, his daughter embarked on a quest of her own: to let her father's gaming friends know that he hadn't just decided to desert them.

It wasn't easy, because she didn't have her father's "World of Warcraft" password and the game's publisher couldn't help her. Eventually, Melissa Allen Spangenberg reached her father's friends by asking around online for the "guild" he belonged to.

One of them, Chuck Pagoria in Morgantown, Ky., heard about Spangenberg's death three weeks later. Pagoria had put his absence down to an argument among the gamers that night."

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Gun_Senshi5532d ago (Edited 5532d ago )

Its just a online people who you play with, they are NOT friends -.-

And specifically for WoW, they are just pawns to help you get Raid gear.

Though if they are IRL Friends thats another story

Panthers5532d ago

Ive met some really cool people playing Socom that I ended up meeting in real life. So I understand. I mean you automatically have something in common if you are playing the same game.

drewdrakes5532d ago

Ive met a bunch of awesome friends on Xbox Live. Its to the point where all the single player games i like go into neglect. Although theyre great, i just have a better time online.

Mikerra175532d ago

Ive played MMOs with a person for 5 years that I met playing EQ2 we moved on to WoW and went back to EQ2, he died of a heart condition on christmas.
Until you can say something like this has happened to you, you shouldent speak of things you dont know

FarEastOrient5532d ago

@Gun Senshi

Listen to "The Instance Podcast" and look for the episode marked special tribute. If you haven't gotten that close or enjoyed the time of being around certain people than you are in no position to lower generalize other people as mere pawns. I've played with this Australian and another an Irish far longer than anyone else on my friend's list.

I'm an American so finding if anything happened to them will be really hard and for those that know what I'm talking about will agree that loosing a fellow gamer is a big deal.

f7897905532d ago

Anyone else is too impersonal. Plus you cant remind how you destroyed them the next day in person.

AuToFiRE5531d ago

I have to disagree with you, There are people on the computer who will eventually mean a lot, maybe even more than some people you actually know in real life, ive been sent christmas and birthday gifts by numerous WoW players that i used to play with, Hell, Ive even had sexual relations with some of them too.

NeX, who frequents N4G is a really good friend, like a brother to me and vise versa, and we met here on N4G, weve never met in person either.

there is more to online players than one might think, you see a part of them that you wouldnt see in person, normally in person someone may be shy, but online they can be who they want, a courageous knight defending those he cares about

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Confused5532d ago

if I died while postling on N4G, none of you guys would give a fu........

evrfighter5532d ago

I personally wouldn't give a fu....

UltimateIdiot9115532d ago

OMG! ALERT THE NEWS MEDIA, THE PRESIDENT, BATMAN, EVERYONE!!!

Fellow N4G follower down. Does anyone know where we can find a phoenix down?

Kulupoo5532d ago

I would shed a single man tear
nah... not really...

Confused5532d ago

haha! thanks for the support guys! i'm off 2 top myself now :)

gambare5532d ago

The obliged question for a fellow N4G buddy down would be:

"Did he drop a good loot?"

Bubble Buddy5531d ago

Don't worry, I'm a medic, I can heal you back to life. :)

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sukru5532d ago

Who cares about games, after you... die?

I seem to have missed something, but isn't real life more important than games? At least the life and death part???

Skizelli5532d ago

I think you missed the point. It's not about the games themselves. I've met some good people online from around the world that I've never met in person, but talk to on a regular basis, whether during games or on chat protocols, and I'd personally like to know if something tragic has happened to one of them. Just because you've never met somebody doesn't mean you can't share a bond with them.

jerethdagryphon5532d ago

a online deathnote system would be of use for anyon who deals with a lot of email riends and such when my mother died i had to hack her email, then igure out who she was currently talking to and compose emails to them people i didnt even know.

being able to logint to a single place which had digital wishes for ino upon my death would have been easy

prewritten notes or something
but its a good idea

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Nintendo says Switch 2 will be officially announced before the end of March 2025

Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa has officially confirmed this morning that the successor to the Nintendo Switch will be announced within this fiscal year which runs until March 2025.

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Profchaos2h ago(Edited 2h ago)

I'm excited for a switch 2 however I don't feel it will be coming this year as per the tweet in they are commuting to a reveal in this Japanese financial year in 2025.

Realistically we will get one last holiday season to focus on the switch because it would be madness for Nintendo to go into the holidays where the switch always performs well when they have announced a switch 2.

I'm thinking we see a announcement late Jan 25 personally with a release between March and June depending on when the software is ready and how strong the holday sales were if they need to boost those figures for the next earnings call or not

gold_drake2h ago

yea agreed. they'll probably match it with the new pkmn game they announced

VenomUK2h ago

So it begins!

Where one contender pulls out of the game, another comes back bigger and stronger.

Nintendo Switch 2 - let the games begin.

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Famous actor loves Helldivers 2 and wants to play General Brasch in movie adaptation

A famous actor from Starship Troopers has showered praise on Helldivers 2 and said he is open to the idea of playing General Brasch.

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It's good SLI is dead and buried - and my wallet agrees

Kevin writes: "Multi-GPU gaming was one of those things that seemed like a good idea for as long as it lasted. I mean honestly, the idea of a modular approach to graphics upgrades – be that SLI or CrossFire – was brilliant. I repeat, the idea was brilliant."

darthv723d ago

Im old school... when i hear the term SLI, I immediately think of 3dfx. I still have a pair of 12mb Monster V2's in an old rig. I never tried out the more modern take on SLI or Crossfire for that matter.

Vits3d ago

I mean, it was mostly for bragging rights. It was a very temperamental tech that improved with newer iterations, for sure. But folks like myself, who have used it, probably recall that troubleshooting was an integral part of the experience and the value that you got out of the setup was really low.

However, none of that mattered because it looked sick as hell on a well-built PC.

Wretchedstain3d ago

I remember doing my research at the time 😂 I got 2 GTX 460's, as they in SLI were meant to be better than the 480 at the time. Not all games were optimised at the time, which meant some games meant setting them up for 1 card alone. Never forget the time I came home from night shift, turned on my computer like normal, went and made a cuppa, come back and it was still off. Tried to turn on again, and one of the 460's caught fire... good times.

shaenoide3d ago

Why ? For the price of two SLI cards you only get one RqtX card now...

OpenGL2d ago

Exactly what I was thinking. When SLI was around an Nvidia flagship card was $700, less than half the price of their current flagship.