Today's most nerdcore video: Blizzard employee raps for community

48 Comments by Ross Miller Dec 28th 2007 1:36AM
Filed under: Culture, PC, Online, Strategy, Video

What's the best approach for telling the community your patch isn't coming out this year? If you're Blizzard, you can try responding to a YouTube rant about an absent WarCraft III patch. And you can do it by trying to rap. We applaud the effort, but the "rhyming" verses make us cringe. Video embedded after the break.

[Thanks, Medievaldragon]

Tags: blizzard, hip-hop, hottestvideo, rap, warcraft, warcraft-3, warcraft-iii

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Sam406: Dec 28th 2007; 1:51AM

I thougth it was settled, Nobody. Likes. Rap.

(Or, to be fair to my rap liking friends, nobody likes bad rap)

roxxxo: Dec 28th 2007; 2:06AM

biggie was cool

but yes, bad rap is bad. go figure

B1gC72: Dec 28th 2007; 2:14AM

well if record labels keep signing rappers then someone must like rap. its the first music genre choice for me. Lupe Fiasco, Talib Kweli, Common, Kanye West, Nas.....you know, the good ones. people like Soulja Boy on the other hand should collectively jump off a bridge...

roxxxo: Dec 28th 2007; 2:30AM

ugh, i can't stand any rap made in the last 8 years or so

UltimateQ: Dec 28th 2007; 2:46AM

Amen Roxxo

fesh: Dec 28th 2007; 3:47AM

you forget though, all rap is bad rap

(can't spell crap without rap!)

Korova: Dec 28th 2007; 6:51AM

That wasnt really rap. It was more like spoken word with a beat behind it. Rap requires rhythm, intonational changes akin to singing.

Also, some rap is great, some not. Just like rock, internet blog commenters and things in general. I think you are being unreasonably categorical.

Doug Kaplan: Dec 28th 2007; 9:10AM

@ Korova

And you can't spell crock without rock or pop without pope, whats your point? Way to generalize though.

As for this video, very creative. Even if it's not the best rap i've ever heard, it's great seeing devs with sense of humors and there needs to be more communication with developers and the fans and this is a great showing for Blizzard even though I don't play any of their games, good on them!

Doug Kaplan: Dec 28th 2007; 9:12AM

Ooh sorry about that, my comment was towards fesh not Korova. My apologies Korova.

A Pissed-off English Gamer: Dec 28th 2007; 10:46AM

"intonational changes akin to singing."
Yes, however singing requires something which is absent in rap aside from the odd chorus; pitch variation. And when i say "the odd chorus" i mean that, on average, a chorus in a rap song is usually amongst the most simple melody ever produced by mankind. Besides, for music that's all about the words they're hardly expressing the depths of human emotion, are they?

ToonPac: Dec 28th 2007; 11:02AM

I don't know why people bother to argue over musical tastes, it's not as if you're gonna sway someone who likes rock to like rap, the only way to do that is to make them listen (without applying their prior judgements and opinions) then see if they like it.

Oh and bad song choice, even the original was crap as far as I'm concered. Oh and rap (and crunk) ftw!

playwhutyalike (hates games lists): Dec 28th 2007; 11:04AM

The shit that Viacom and local radio stations put down your ear-throat everyday is garbage. If you want better hip-hop or rap, look for it. If you don't like it, don't cry about it.

*these painkillers are kicking in*

Vegeta (aka Ska Oreo): Dec 28th 2007; 11:45AM

sigh, that's sad.

dark_inchworm: Dec 28th 2007; 12:33PM

Wait, somebody just said Kanye West is good. What the fuck?

B1gC72: Dec 28th 2007; 2:23AM

omg. this guy is absolutely terrible lol. glad this was just a joke lol.

i guess my question is.....why is he wasting time writing rhymes when he could be working on the patch?

Medievaldragon: Dec 28th 2007; 2:31AM

Because it is vacation break. Most of Blizzard are off from December 26-January 1.

Zsavior: Dec 28th 2007; 2:32AM

Man this is going to be my most immature response ever so forgive me. AHEM.....

Man I would like to drop my patch on his girl! Yup she can get my hot fix!

Yes I am ashamed for that but it had to be said. That woman is who is keeping that patch back I tell you that right now!

plyx: Dec 28th 2007; 2:51AM

Beautiful girlfriend.

Evading Fate: Dec 28th 2007; 5:17AM

her rhythm is crap though. i suppose of you just tune her out its not so bad, its not so bad...

steve: Dec 28th 2007; 12:46PM

Agreed!

lolo: Dec 28th 2007; 3:39AM

yes!! http://www.increible.mactanque.com

TomCo: Dec 28th 2007; 9:28AM

gtfo

parasite_evil: Dec 28th 2007; 3:53AM

GFW Radio's version is 1000 times better than this trash. Nice try but failing is still failing.

parasite_evil: Dec 28th 2007; 3:56AM

http://www.mediafire.com/?9tztgldzrv1

grim-one: Dec 28th 2007; 4:54AM

So Blizzard's customer support reps are now responding on YouTube videos? If only the developers had that much spare time!

krazy: Dec 28th 2007; 5:47AM

LOL What was the point?!

James: Dec 28th 2007; 7:52AM

What.

breaddy: Dec 28th 2007; 8:01AM

oh!
yeah i would get my Patch on her CRACK
anyday.
uh"
shitcome to new zealand where
20% of our largest city is korean"! maaaaan deeez streets is seething
]

Blazur: Dec 28th 2007; 8:31AM

That was Karune, the community manager for Blizzard. As far as I know he doesn't work directly on patches, but instead functions as the liaison between the players and developers. He's also very active in SC2 forums, and communicating updates to the fans.

Also that isn't his girlfriend. Her name is Lina So (http://myspace.com/linaso), and she's married to some dweeb linked off her myspace. Beautiful woman, however!!

TomCo: Dec 28th 2007; 9:31AM

gtfo

wickedpheonix: Dec 28th 2007; 9:43AM

Slow news day?... seems to be happening quite a bit during the holiday season...

Tamer Brad: Dec 28th 2007; 10:46AM

Slow commenting day?

wickedpheonix: Dec 28th 2007; 11:24AM

All slow news days are slow commenting days.

Winter break leaves me bored with little to do...

horngreen: Dec 28th 2007; 10:34AM

Uhhh I think they should do themselves a favor and go back to youtube and click PRIVATE only on that video. I had that feeling watching that video where you feel uncomfortable for the person in it. Like thay should be ashamed which they should.

playwhutyalike (hates games lists): Dec 28th 2007; 10:41AM

Sometimes I cut myself to see how much I bleed
Today is one of those days thanks to this video feed

I'm a poet and didn't even know it.

Tamer Brad: Dec 28th 2007; 10:47AM

What a bunch of humourless fucks you lot are.

lawrence: Dec 28th 2007; 10:53AM

kojima raps better than that retarded idiot.

keine: Dec 28th 2007; 11:12AM

the name of that hot girl in the blizzard representative vid :
http://www.gamingnewslink.com/2007/12/28/blizzard-community-manager-responds-to-an-angry-fan-video-with-a-video-of-his-own-a-hot-girl/

Vegeta (aka Ska Oreo): Dec 28th 2007; 11:51AM

What the fuck is going on with the comments???

Vegeta (aka Ska Oreo): Dec 28th 2007; 11:55AM

goddammit.

Vegeta (aka Ska Oreo): Dec 28th 2007; 11:56AM

JOYSTIQ FIX YOUR COMMENTS THINGY!!!

WiNG: Dec 28th 2007; 12:40PM

This rap was weak at best, and lame at worst.

Come on, I could write a better one in less than 5 minutes.

Matthew Hilario: Dec 28th 2007; 1:13PM

wc3:dota

i got your defense livin' in fear,
this undead picked the venomancer so stand clear.
i hit you with my plague spear, then the decompose,
got you leakin like cum drippin outta these hoes! oh no

your hero can't even come near my carrion swarm,
i sent a hoard of bats leavin you shattered n torn.
be warned i perform like a teacher at academics,
get schooled fool i just learned the epidemic.

im nemesis, undead supremesist got you screamin "healer!
luna come back and lucent beam this deathbringer!"
your ring of regeneration looks like decoration,
my combination of attacks is strictly devastation.

rofl. burn now!!

Kamui: Dec 28th 2007; 2:38PM

A blizz employee actually communicates with the users and puts a little humor into it and all you jackasses are whining about the song choice or that he doesn't sing/rap well. Grow the fuck up it was just a joke, you people take everything way to serious. Well that and most people who comment on here just get off by making themselves feel more important by trying to point out every little mistake in every post, or just mindlessly bashing things such as this. Get a fuckin life.

roxxxo: Dec 28th 2007; 5:01PM

bot bot bot bot spambot bot

Philip: Dec 29th 2007; 4:10AM

That video was awesome, great parody of "Stan" by Eminem.

RevAaron: Dec 31st 2007; 10:05AM

Umm, what kind of moron thinks this is rap?

All I hear is a parody/re-work of a Dido song, with a voice-over in between from the guy the song is about. I guess talking is rapping, in the sense that Bill Cosby says to his song "Hey, Theo! Sit down with me for a sec, we gotta rap about how you're doing in school." E.g., talking. So, if writing new words to a pop song and adding a spoken word part is rap, perhaps we can call any shitty music that uses instruments punk, alt *and* indie rock?

Nor is this hip-hop.

Rap music involves rapping. Way too many people seem to think that rap, rock, punk, and pop music involves a catchy loop with people talking over it. What distinguishes one from the other in their minds is beyond me.

Lipton: Jan 6th 2008; 11:23AM

Hehe that video rocks, here are the videos that he was responding too:

http://www.starfeeder.com/blog/archives/karune_sings_and_his_girl_is_hot/

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