View more from World of WarcraftMan Subpoenaes Celebrities For WoW Lawsuit
Erik Estavillo, a gamer in San Jose, California is suing Blizzard because he believes that World of Warcraft ruined his social life. He argues that Blizzard's World of Warcraft is a "harmful virtual environment," and that much of its design is "sneaky and deceitful." In particular, this oddball plaintiff believes that World of Warcraft has the highest subscription fee of any MMORPG ($14.99 USD monthly), and that portions of the game, like having to walk to one's corpse and a lack of mounts at lower levels, are all designed to waste his monthly fee.
Hilariously enough, the gamer is also subpoenaing Depeche Mode musician Martine Gore and actor Winona Ryder because they both understand what it's like to be lonely and anti-social. Gore was chosen because "he himself has been known to be sad, lonely, and alienated, as can be seen in the songs he writes," and Ryder was named because of her acting role in J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye. Previous to this lawsuit, Estavillo also sued Sony for banning him from their Playstation Network while he was playing Resistance: Fall of Man. The case was dismissed in September, but Estavillo has now appealed it, and is also suing Microsoft and Nintendo because a broken Xbox 360 caused him "undue stress," and a Wii update that blocked access to a third-party program interfered with his inalienable right to pursue happiness.
*Hides in dark corner and giggles* Teeheehee
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I'd ruin his social life by tossing his ass in a ward somewhere.
Last Time I checked, Blizzard didn't have a gun to my head Forcing me to Pay or Play the game.
Watching one Boomkin take on and killing 3 80 allys alone priceless.
NO One forced him to sit and play this game, and if he's too damn lazy to go outside then thats his fault.
What a jerk off LOLOL
The judge should tell him, before anything really gets underway that it is his intention, should the man win, that he be banned from any video game - online, PC based or console - for his own protection. The dude would probably leave burn marks as he raced out of the courtroom :)
I used to play EverQuest too much for my own good, and considering that everquest doesn't have mounts.. requires a considerable amount of time to do anything, back when it started...
In WoW, you can go from just about anywhere in the world, to anywhere else, in an 2 hours, if not under an hour. You can gain 3-4 levels in a day if you know what your doing... you die.. you lose a lil bit of money and have to run from a place nearby back to your corpse
EverQuest.. at least when i left, shortly after LDON... Have some people power level you for the entire day, *at 45+*.. you might gain half a level.. you die you lose 1/5th of a level in experience... Your not a mage class? run from whichever city you last had a mage bind you in.. could be several hours running... and your not a ghost.. you'll likely die 3 more times trying to get your body if your in a bad spot.
New Generation MMORPG'ers don't realize how easy they have it...
And if WoW has ruined this guy life Social Life what it would help to give him millions of compensations. Then he would not have to work anymore to do these ridicilious cases and file them to courts and this could ruin his social life even more. Now he needs to do a lot of these cases and he needs to meet nice people at least in the court and its more social life for him.
This guy really needs to ask himself what I can do to improve my social life rather than go on blame the society.
...........because you're yellow, and yellow pisses me off!
I don't deny anyone the right to file suit for legitimate claims, but when people like this file multiple frivolous suits, something needs to be done.
Soon.
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