WoW player commits suicide from Trade chat trolling

[Spl4sh3r]

Not to look down at the post or anything, but why didn't you just copy paste the message instead of posting several screenshots of the message?

[s_bushido]

victim blaming

What a worthless accusation. If a person is unwilling/unable to use the tools provided them to mitigate a problem, the hell are we supposed to do about it other than suggest that people should use those tools if they don't want a similar problem?

And, I'm not sure how to tell you this, but: suicide is literally the victim's fault.

[Demona3]

Are some posters in this thread seriously victim blaming a person who committed suicide? For goodness sake, people. This is why there's such a social stigma against mental illness.

The thing is, there are measures within a game the person could of taken instead of going this far. Report / ignore feature / name change / server change, etc etc. The list goes on. I feel for this guy, but to take his own life over 1 person whom he never met from a video game.. is a bit extreme.

[IIamaKing]

Could of swore there was an ignore, report and name change feature in this game

[Lahis]

Report, block, ignore and log out.


There, dealt with the problem.

[Hitei]

Blame aside, the person clearly had other issues going on that led to this.

[Dartz1979]

My prayers and thoughts will be with you and your friends and family and those of that knew the victim.

[Arrashi]

That's what happens if you don't seek professional help.

[S7orm]

Are some posters in this thread seriously victim blaming a person who committed suicide? For goodness sake, people. This is why there's such a social stigma against mental illness.

No one is doing that. People are just pointing out that the game isn't the reason for the suicide because of how easy is to prevent someone cyber-bullying you in WoW (right click > ignore and the whole account is ignored).

The most likely scenario is the guy had severe mental health issues in real life, finished his daily routine, played a few hours while thinking about his current life situation, concluded suicide was the only way out (I'm not saying it was the correct conclusion, just stating what was going on in his mind) and killed himself. Then people assumed his last actions before the suicide were the cause of the suicide itself. It happens all the time and it's rarely the correct assumption

[Selastan]

Damn, I need to step up my trolling game.

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[Tabrotar]

Are some posters in this thread seriously victim blaming a person who committed suicide? For goodness sake, people. This is why there's such a social stigma against mental illness.

Please if your´re that weak that WORDS bring you to killing yourself then you´re not suited for the world and the life outside of a game period.

[Dark-Zarupia]

/ignore??

I'm sorry but i cant' feel sorry for a person that commited suicide from some 'cyber bulling' in a game like WoW He probably had something else going IRL that made him desperated,

And also from the text it seems he was a roleplayer...And every roleplayer is 'Damaged'?? Give me a break are roleplayers now the special snowflakes with mental issues ?

I understand that people wanna escape reality but that doesn't mean you have to take your 'internet' live seriously..

[Seefer]

WoW player commits suicide from mental health issues

Corrected that title for you.

No one kills themselves because people are mean on the internet - they do it because they're sick, and did not get the psychiatric help they needed.

Wrong, people being internet trolls can escalate said mental issue, you really shouldn't speak about that which you know nothing about.

[anveena]

What loot did they drop?

[Deleted]

Also side note to the people victim blaming. Go fuck yourself.

How about you go fuck yourself with your dumb accusations? How can you tell this isn't fake and it's not some person bullshitting. Are you so quick to believe anything on the internet just so you can equip your sjw shield and "righteously" belittle people from your moral highground?

people like you make the internet a really annoying place sometimes

[Cleric75]

This has got to be fake. A trade chat troll? Really? How fucking fragile do you need to be to let that get to you to the point where you kill yourself?

I don’t know if it’s a fake or not, but surely you can’t say that it’s completely out of the realm of possibility. We’ve all known that one player who has 50 110s. The guy who is seemingly nice but always very quiet. The guy who collects everything and spends entirely too much money and time in game to the exclusion of everything else. Warcraft is an amazing escape from reality, but for some that escapism is a way of life. That their life is so wrong and broken that they have nothing else.

And then you have trade chat. Filled with people who are less than kind. White supremacists, trolls, and so on. And some of them are unrelenting. Some of the people are cruel. And yes, I have heard of harassment before, we all have.

I’m not entirely surprised someone committed suicide. I’m more surprised that we don’t hear about it more often.

[Firatha]

Wrong, people being internet trolls can escalate said mental issue, you really shouldn't speak about that which you know nothing about.

That dosnt make him wrong it still stems from a mental issue if your mental health are so bad that you cant take what a random person on the internet says through a game you shouldnt be playing it distance yourself from the problem.

[Fight4Fun]

If you coomit suicide coz internet trolling there is major mental problems, and without treatmnet, he could kill himself a day or a year later.

[The5thVegetable]

I could write a long and detailed post explaining how this is not bullshit to the people who claim so.

But I'm not going to bother because who the fuck is honesstly going to care?

[Divinexve]

Damn he killed himself over cyber bullying like just walk away from the computer... its not like the bully will terrorize him irl

Or if it got REALLY drastic he could have just name changed

Plus he obv had irl toubles