World of Warcraft adds new spell: TPS reports

15 Comments by Kevin Kelly Nov 21st 2006 2:45PM
Filed under: Culture, RPGs, Video, Competitive Gaming, MMO

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?

Tags: Blizzard, commercial, Gary Cole, Lumbergh, Office Space, Peter, Ron Livingstone, TPS reports, TV, video, World of Warcraft, WoW

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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.

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.

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...

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