The parents of a 13-year-old Chinese boy who they say jumped to his death from a tall building after playing one of the popular "Warcraft" online games for 36 hours straight are suing its Chinese distributor, a news report said Friday.

Zhang Xiaoyi died on Dec. 27, 2004, leaving behind a suicide note saying he wanted "to join the heroes of the game he worshipped," the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

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i hate to say it but...only in china!
some people take game far to seriously

Natural Selection at its finest.

only in china!

Those industrious chinese dont f*** around with razor-blades and emo poetry on myspace, even at the tender age of 13 it only takes 36 hours of gaming to build up the balls to get the job done right

Should've picked an an ankh of reincarnation with him just incase he changes his mind half way down his jump.

I guess he was out of light feathers

Don't play Warcraft

Someone should have given him a soul stone just in case he changed his mind.

meh, slef had it coming.

Warcraft: Orcs and Humans

isnt that the name of warcraft 1? i think it is , and if it is the kids a total retard he killed himself over really s*** looking pixels!

well you don't see dolphins killing themselves over a computer game

Bad parenting kills again

i'm looking forward to the gate-crashing of the in-game memorial

meh, slef had it coming.

LOL, i see what you did there..

also this thread sux with nerdy comments from warcraft players.

he'll get ganked in the afterlife

Where were his parents?

his e-funeral will be held next tuesday

isnt that the name of warcraft 1? i think it is , and if it is the kids a total retard he killed himself over really s*** looking pixels!

Guessing here but I think thats what World of Warcraft is called in China.

meh, slef had it coming.

That's what I first thought. I thought why would a kid kill over a video game unless slef took something really good!

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last edited by Triamks at 15:07:57 13/May/06

Hope this doesn't impact the gold farming industry.. last thing we need is a rise in the price of G.

i really don't understand that funeral s***

I wonder if his e-funeral will get pwned by a bunch of opposite factions coming along for a quick gank.

i really don't understand that funeral s***

the recurring punchline?

Or this?

and here i was thinking all asians were smarter

How is this news ? People kill themselves every day over lots of other stupid things. It's not even close to when he killed himself.

(On a side note: the official chinese version of wow was released on june 5 2005)

How is this news ? People kill themselves every day over lots of other stupid things. It's not even close to when he killed himself.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say the headline of the article might hold the answer. Let's see...

Game Company Sued for Warcraft Suicide

Oh okay.

^^its news cause his partents are suing
Edit: beeten by hashy

So someone is being sued for a suicide, uh, big deal ? And they're not even targetting blizzard, just the distributor.

last edited by eXemplar at 17:40:30 13/May/06

pfft, roleplayers.

This raises too many questions.

At 13 years of age, surely his parents should be responsible for where he is? Was he playing the game 36 hours straight at home? If so, the parents should have been aware. If he was playing at an Internet cafe or gaming hall, again the parents should have been concerned as to his where abouts? Also, suing for a mere $12,500, surely the life of their son was worth a bit more than that?

~$60,000 in Australian wages. but still a pretty small amount

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whoa.... e-stalker

Got something to get off your chest there Greazy?...

I really think Greazy is a closet homosexual who tries to hide it by acussing everyone else of being one. It's ok to admitt it Greazy, no one will think less of you, how can they when they don't even think of you at all?

Nice way to bring down a sensitive thread post dumb ass.

f*** your a dick greazy....grow up.

f*** your a dick greazy....grow up.

Im sorry its not my fault Im only 13.

Shouldnt you be raving and shoving ice cubes up your butty Fireblood?

Hay guyz what's going on here.

lol

Also, suing for a mere $12,500, surely the life of their son was worth a bit more than that?

yeah thats more what a daughter would be worth

well that's better than the singapore army, according to them, the life of a conscript is only worth SGD$10,000

that's cause singapore sucks arse

TK you should be stoked someone made you a gif