by Byron Mudry on Nov 30, 2005
In Blizzard news, the parents of the recently deceased 13 year old boy in China are sueing Blizzard over Warcraft 3, not WoW.
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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 childs suicide. The Chinese government has been very concerned with World of Warcraft, as well as other MMORPGs, because of their addictive qualities. This error originated from Xinhua, a foreign press outlet that seemed to have misread the lawsuit.