So, do Canadian, EU, Asian, and other nations players get to file grievances against Blizzard for allowing political parties from the U.S. to campaign, when the Canadian, EU, Asian, and other nations have no interest in this and are not served in any way by this, but are basically being forced to watch this crap?

Also, are all the other Presidential hopefuls going to be given equal time, as U.S. law requires that if you give one party advertisement in any form of media ( and video games are media ), you must provide the same to the other candidates as well.

So, get ready to leave the game if Blizzard allows this, as then EVERY POLITICAL PARTY will have the right to do this, as will the political regimes of EVERY COUNTRY OUT THERE who has even 1 player in WoW.

 I know its only 1 server and its not even my server but jesus christ ...leave the politics out of the games please. If it were my server only a few stragglers might make it from getting corpse camped, lol.

Originally posted by Szark

WoW Insider is reporting that supporters of  Republican Presidential Candidate Ron Paul will be staging a march in support of their candidate on World of Warcraft's Whisperwind server.

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul's internet regiment has come to World of Warcraft-- a group of his supporters are planning to form a guild on Whisperwind and do a march from IF to Stormwind (which means they'll probably be Gnomes or Dwarves, which is too bad, because I liked the idea of "Trolls for Ron Paul") on New Year's Day at 8:30pm EST.

Now, we here at WoW Insider are politically neutral when it comes to Warcraft, so we won't advocate joining these guys (and we also won't advocate forming a "Horde for Hillary" guild to oppose them). But we are 100% in support of bringing widescale opinion expression of any kind into the game itself, so this should definitely be a fun event.

Read more here.

ITs cool Ron Paul has 0% chance of being elected and this should move him an entire -1% in the polls.

Originally posted by Jetrpg

Originally posted by Szark

WoW Insider is reporting that supporters of  Republican Presidential Candidate Ron Paul will be staging a march in support of their candidate on World of Warcraft's Whisperwind server.

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul's internet regiment has come to World of Warcraft-- a group of his supporters are planning to form a guild on Whisperwind and do a march from IF to Stormwind (which means they'll probably be Gnomes or Dwarves, which is too bad, because I liked the idea of "Trolls for Ron Paul") on New Year's Day at 8:30pm EST.

Now, we here at WoW Insider are politically neutral when it comes to Warcraft, so we won't advocate joining these guys (and we also won't advocate forming a "Horde for Hillary" guild to oppose them). But we are 100% in support of bringing widescale opinion expression of any kind into the game itself, so this should definitely be a fun event.

Read more here.

ITs cool Ron Paul has 0% chance of being elected and this should move him an entire -1% in the polls.

Sadly he is the only one also worth a hill of beans in all parties.

Originally posted by Taevil

hah what a joke.. Ron Paul doesnt even know what WoW is i bet. 

so true, lol.

Originally posted by Suvroc

But I really fear where this will lead, as I think this will be precedent setting for other "causes".

I know that I would get pretty sick of it if people were staging in-game protests and demonstrations and political rallies every month or so in a game I was playing.  Because if they allow it for one group they have to allow it for others.

How would you like to see pro-abortion / anti-abortion rallies in your game?  Gay rights parades?  Neo-Nazi rallies?  And the list goes on.

Do we really want all of that stuff brought into our game worlds?  I know I don't.

I agree with the other posters - keep this political and other real world garbage out of the realms where people PAY to go to enjoy themselves.  This could easily spiral out of control if this precedent is not quashed by blizzard gm's  and make other alternative mmo's more appealing.  At the very least flag them all pvp! and let the subscribers deal with them.

Im surprised theres so much opposition to this. Sounds like a lot of fun and not much if any harm.

 Ah, you crazy Americans! 

Don't you have to be 18 to vote? Seems like they would be missing their demographic here.

Originally posted by qombi

 

Originally posted by Jetrpg

Originally posted by Szark

WoW Insider is reporting that supporters of  Republican Presidential Candidate Ron Paul will be staging a march in support of their candidate on World of Warcraft's Whisperwind server.

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul's internet regiment has come to World of Warcraft-- a group of his supporters are planning to form a guild on Whisperwind and do a march from IF to Stormwind (which means they'll probably be Gnomes or Dwarves, which is too bad, because I liked the idea of "Trolls for Ron Paul") on New Year's Day at 8:30pm EST.

Now, we here at WoW Insider are politically neutral when it comes to Warcraft, so we won't advocate joining these guys (and we also won't advocate forming a "Horde for Hillary" guild to oppose them). But we are 100% in support of bringing widescale opinion expression of any kind into the game itself, so this should definitely be a fun event.

Read more here.

ITs cool Ron Paul has 0% chance of being elected and this should move him an entire -1% in the polls.

 

Sadly he is the only one also worth a hill of beans in all parties.

Great sense of humor.

Marches of any kind are fun, so I don't get what the big deal is.  Mmorpg's should have change and large social gatherings, it's what keeps it fun - so stop complaining :P  If you want your "relative peace" turn off your public chat and go sit in Darnassus, or just logout of WoW for a whole day if it's such a big deal. 

Seeing how this could just be free publicity for WoW, I wonder how much they would do to stop it. 

Once all those level 6 gnomes hit Burning Steppes, they'll have a pretty good foretaste of what their experience during the election is going to be like.

Originally posted by jinxit

everyone go get there level 70 horde toons and lets go killum   

But I'm not on that server...

Originally posted by ghaleonx128

Marches of any kind are fun, so I don't get what the big deal is.  Mmorpg's should have change and large social gatherings, it's what keeps it fun - so stop complaining :P  If you want your "relative peace" turn off your public chat and go sit in Darnassus, or just logout of WoW for a whole day if it's such a big deal. 

Seeing how this could just be free publicity for WoW, I wonder how much they would do to stop it. 

It's total BS if they leave this go on and not do anything about it. Like many other posters here they disagree to having this go on in game.

This sort of 'event' is something I'd expect to see in Second Life, instead of in WoW.

Either way, they'll have to finally start making those big decisions they've been avoiding like the plague for so long.  Is the publicity worth the backlash?  In an international game like this, how legaly secure could the eula possibly be, anyway?  This is really interesting though!

Ron Paul "What?? I thought you could make a Troll Mohawk, Mister T. said it!"

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Originally posted by Jetrpg
ITs cool Ron Paul has 0% chance of being elected and this should move him an entire -1% in the polls.

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Um no, actually it's leading in the straw polls even against Romney. Effectively, you're buying into what the Media is telling you and not what is actually going on. It's sad that you listen to talking heads and not to what's has been said.

-- Brede

Do they not understand they are just making a great GOP candidate look bad?

If anymore things come up about Ron Paul being related to WoW I'm going to have to remove the Ron Paul 2008 sign from my yard.