Last week, we got word of a
lawsuit filed in China by parents against Blizzard,
claiming their 13 year old child killed himself because of his addiction to World of Warcraft. However, that
is quite impossible, as the child killed himself in 2004 (World of Warcraft was not released in China until
May 2005).
The lawsuit actually claims the child killed himself over Warcraft III, the episodic real-time strategy game,
which would be much harder to connect to the child's suicide. The Chinese government has been very
concerned with World of Warcraft, as well as
other MMORPG's, because of their addictive qualities. This
error originated from Xinhua, a foreign press outlet that seemed to have misread the lawsuit.
[via GamePolitics]
