Thursday, January 3, 2008

Ron Paul supporters out of this world.....literally.

And into the World of Warcraft.

WoW Players Stage In-Game March for Ron Paul

Political action was surprisingly a largely civilized affair.
By Mark Whiting, 01/02/2008

That's why it's interesting to hear about the big demonstration that went down yesterday over on Blizzard's servers. Apparently, sometime around 8:30 PM EST on Tuesday, a throng of Alliance members took to the streets of Ironforge in a surprisingly well-orchestrated in-game demonstration designed to drum up support for (very real life) Republican dark horse presidential candidate and Internet darling Ron Paul.

Surprisingly, the WoW demonstration seems to have gone down reasonably smoothly, without much civil unrest or excessive PKing. The procession opened with upwards of 200 Alliance members who assembled en masse in Ironforge sporting names and guild affiliations (such as "RP Revolution") obviously designed to indicate support for the candidate. Some players went as far as to sport custom armor bearing a scroll symbol meant to represent the US Constitution.




I have to admit, that's pretty inventive. Wonder if the various other politicos are going to try and start organizing cyberspace rallies now.

3 comments:

Phelps said...

BFD. Maybe if they did something impressive, like take down Lady Vashj, I would take notice.

Anonymous said...

What server was it on?

Thirdpower said...

No idea. I don't play. Just happened to run across the article and thought it would be blogworthy.