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- The ads that started the craze, one featuring William Shatner, and another with Mr. T.
- "I am a Paladin" with Spanish actor Willy Toledo.
- The mage that is Jean-Claude Van Damme.
WoW Moviewatch: A commercial parody
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
12-09-2007 @ 12:06PM
Zghuk said...
Well, I miss the German and a Chinese Actor ;-)
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12-09-2007 @ 12:27PM
gg said...
Suck.
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12-09-2007 @ 12:30PM
Zeplar said...
People on the forums mostly didn't like his fake voice. But what the heck, this guy isn't a paid actor, cut him some slack.
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12-09-2007 @ 1:20PM
Patyn said...
I'm waiting for it to go the other way...
Hi, my name is Patyn and I play an American teacher.
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12-09-2007 @ 5:01PM
Mainman said...
That's what I was expecting from this video.
=/
12-09-2007 @ 1:29PM
SaintStryfe said...
I'd be funnier if he wasn't doing his best constipated Randy Orton impression while talking into the camera.
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12-10-2007 @ 11:05AM
Zandar said...
He didn't trip over his own words like Randy and completely eff up the promo.
12-10-2007 @ 5:09PM
SaintStryfe said...
If Randy had the ability to cut and retake...
12-09-2007 @ 1:49PM
Thijz said...
I don't like the way he thinks he's all that...
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12-09-2007 @ 1:51PM
prudychick said...
Yeah I was expecting an in-game character doing the commercial saying he played a human whatever. I think that would have been more interesting.
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12-09-2007 @ 3:56PM
Marc said...
Here comes the viral videos from Blizzard's marketing department.
Pretty smart way to get free press.
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12-09-2007 @ 4:12PM
Kwinto said...
One comment to rule them all: http://www.darklegacycomics.com/120.html
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12-09-2007 @ 4:51PM
vlad said...
fail
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12-09-2007 @ 8:04PM
Jess said...
I wouldn't mind seing a female celebrity shilling for wow. There are a lot of women who play WOW, it would be nice to see us repersented in adverstising.
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12-10-2007 @ 3:14AM
Christian Stricker said...
A Tauren claiming to eat gnomes?! How hilarious and original!
0/10 for effort.
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12-10-2007 @ 12:39PM
Jay said...
My names Howard, I shout into the camera and I suck at video editing!
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12-10-2007 @ 2:10PM
Beth said...
This commercial is... mostly kind of sad. Ah, well, they can't all be winners.
And I agree with Jess; I'm pretty annoyed that with 5 commercials they couldn't find a single woman. How are little girls supposed to grow up to be corpse-camping jerks without solid rolemodels? Seriously, though, as a woman gamer it's all the more alienating when the company doesn't seem aware of your existence, on top of all the stupid garbage you have to deal with from your fellow gamers.
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12-10-2007 @ 3:03PM
Surpriseb said...
@16
GOD! I'm so sick of hearing how woman are oppressed in gaming, blah blah blah. Your forgetting that one of Blizz's own, Nethaera, is a female. Stop tossing your martyred self on the train tracks and stfu and enjoy the game. If you don't like the absence of a female video, make one yourself. Petition your local female gaming celebrity to make one. For god sakes, stop turning everything someone comes up with into why didn't a female think it/make it up.
12-10-2007 @ 4:29PM
Chris Anthony said...
I don't know what the actual situation is (I suspect that nobody outside of Blizzard marketing does), but I feel obliged to point out a scenario which is admittedly contrived but which I believe to be reasonable, in which Blizzard isn't marginalizing women and has still only released videos with men in them so far:
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Blizzard invites fifty celebrities to record videos advertising that they play World of Warcraft. Half of the invitations go to men, half to women. Of the invitees, forty refuse; of the ten left, seven are men and three are women. All of them agree to record ads as their schedules permit. The first in the studios are Mr. T, Verne Troyer, William Shatner, Willy Toledo, and Jean Claude van Damme, and these videos are released as they are recorded. (Troyer's is delayed for unspecified reasons.) All five are male.
At this point, therefore, Blizzard has positive responses from three women and seven men, despite sending queries to twenty-five women and twenty-five men. None of the women have recorded; five of the men have. And the five (well, four, Troyer's is delayed) men's ads are the ones that have run.
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I don't mean to say that this is how it happened, and I don't mean to say that Blizzard isn't marginalizing women. I'm just saying that four videos (and a fifth that hasn't aired yet) isn't really a whole lot of evidence on which to base the assumption that they /are/.
12-10-2007 @ 9:00PM
Gamerz22 said...
Fail... Parodies should = comedy, not a poor attempt at trying to be important.
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