World of Warcraft adds new spell: TPS reports
by Kevin Kelly 
{ Nov 21st 2006 at 2:45PM }
A new World of Warcraft commercial started airing on Monday, and it features everyone's favorite anti-cubicle movie, Office Space. It seems that Peter is too busy to talk to Lumbergh, because he's currently pwning in WoW. I think they really missed the boat here, because they should have featured Milton playing the game. Plus that would let them do a South Park-esque tie-in where the Red Stapler becomes a new weapon in the game. Either that or burning down the building as a pretty sweet paladin spell.
Ah, yeah. Mmmkay?
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Efren Abrego @ Nov 21st 2006 2:59PM
Ahahahah.. freaking sweet.
Kanadwen @ Nov 21st 2006 3:06PM
Where's Dark Age of Camelot 2? :(
Murdoink @ Nov 21st 2006 3:11PM
*Maybe* Blizzard got the idea from this: http://hellopeter.ytmnd.com/
O_o
BklynKid @ Nov 21st 2006 3:21PM
Office Space > *
txrxs @ Nov 21st 2006 3:22PM
stolen from a ytmnd. Amazing that they actually thought WOW players or anyone with the interweb for that matter wouldn't notice.
KapsLocked @ Nov 21st 2006 3:27PM
Cool. BTW, #5... YTMND's don't make it on TV usually.
Not hating on YTMND... love the site... but whoever thought of this should get mass props. Maybe whoever thought of it got credit?
Hamza @ Nov 21st 2006 3:40PM
#6, he's saying that a guy from YTMND thought of the idea (http://hellopeter.ytmnd.com/), and Blizzard just altered it to make their commercial.
Which is probably the case.
Frank Tinsley @ Nov 21st 2006 3:41PM
In cool commercial guy voice: "Play it at work, instead of working."
FSK405K @ Nov 21st 2006 3:43PM
Incredible. Pardon me, Joystiq bloggers, but I found no problem with it and think it might tempt a few non-gamers of our generation to look at the website where the demo is available. Even without the red stapler. Whether more people will play, well hey, it's advertising.
Spock Walk @ Nov 21st 2006 3:50PM
I saw that commercial last night. I thought it was great.
Joshua Ochs @ Nov 21st 2006 4:19PM
What the heck do you think this has to do with YTMND? They're nothing alike, other than they feature the same clip from Office Space. IIRC, Peter was playing a game in the movie, so this is more similar to the original than it is to YTMND.
Damn awesome commercial. :)
Andy Dick @ Nov 21st 2006 4:56PM
Peter was originally playing Tetris.
Vlad @ Nov 21st 2006 10:57PM
bravo Blizzard, for making something funny, different, and culturally relevant. They could have so easily gone with some lame X-TREME AWESOMENESS commercial, but they did it right. and yes, now it's just a matter of time before the red Swingline becomes an epic drop. sweet.
btw, I can't wait to see what anti-gaming types say about this...
Jim @ Nov 21st 2006 6:33PM
OFFICE SPACE is one of the funniest movies evar made!!!
Tony C @ Nov 21st 2006 10:29PM
Yeah, saw it last nite too! Loved it!
But when it came on, I thought it was going to be one of DirecTV's movie scene redux commercials.