World of Warcraft Rank 1 Player Reckful Commits Suicide

[RodgerDodger]

Recently popped my head into the WoW Classic servers. Was kind of shocked at how polite people were. It seemed kind of weirdly out of place for a WoW gaming experience. I found the experience of not being harassed by internet edgelords and keyboard shitheads disconcerting. I logged off and set my Anti-Virus programs to keep a close eye on the “Stepford WoW” servers. Something about them is creepy.

 

[Dom Cruise]

He was just weak. Defective.
Even worms have a self-preservation instinct.

I got no sympathy for the suicidal. At best I'm hoping for some kind of "point proving" shock value suicide a la Budd Dwyer to analyze and laugh at.

In this nightmare of a world we live in, you really can't understand why someone would just get sick of all this shit?

 

[Donovan the Man]

Recently popped my head into the WoW Classic servers. Was kind of shocked at how polite people were. It seemed kind of weirdly out of place for a WoW gaming experience. I found the experience of not being harassed by internet edgelords and keyboard shitheads disconcerting. I logged off and set my Anti-Virus programs to keep a close eye on the “Stepford WoW” servers. Something about them is creepy.

Classic servers appeal to a niche demographic, most people playing classic are older. Likely came back after not playing since wrath or what not. They have no time to be assholes like they were as teenagers. Your reputation matters a lot when you have to run into people you’ve fucked over all the time. Transferring to other realms is not an option last time I played.

Classic players remember stuff like militant raid leaders, ninja looters, and everybody being really bad at the game. People for the most part have chilled out, they know all the encounters having played on private Vanilla servers for a decade, no reason to scream about more DOTs.

Some assholery has happened in Classic when Blizzard introduced honor causing some realms to turn into apocalyptic hell scapes. PvP is kept to battle grounds now, and some servers could transfer because of low faction population. It’s not fun to world PvP when you outnumber the opposite faction 99/1.

 

[Smug Cat]

What the fuck is happening to the gaming community as a whole right now

The same thing that's happening to everyone else. 'Rona isolation. It's totally anecdotal but I'm one degree separated from three different suicides in the last few months, which is obviously not normal. Healthy people aren't coping with this all that well, so I think people who were already on the edge are having catastrophic meltdowns. I would be surprised if there isn't a huge spike in suicides during lockdown.

Jews are destroying everything. That's what is happening to the world.

It's not an A&N thread without somebody sperging about the jews.

need an "edgy" rating for posts like these

I request that the rating icon be a bloody knife.

 

[Donovan the Man]

The same thing that's happening to everyone else. 'Rona isolation. It's totally anecdotal but I'm one degree separated from three different suicides in the last few months, which is obviously not normal. Healthy people aren't coping with this all that well, so I think people who were already on the edge are having catastrophic meltdowns. I would be surprised if there isn't a huge spike in suicides during lockdown.

There seems to have been more women absolutely bugging out since lockdown happen. Some people react to anxiety and uncertainty with extreme actions like that gun wielding lady and other Karens recently.

 

[GenociderSyo]

The same thing that's happening to everyone else. 'Rona isolation. It's totally anecdotal but I'm one degree separated from three different suicides in the last few months, which is obviously not normal. Healthy people aren't coping with this all that well, so I think people who were already on the edge are having catastrophic meltdowns. I would be surprised if there isn't a huge spike in suicides during lockdown.

It's not an A&N thread without somebody sperging about the jews.

I request that the rating icon be a bloody knife.

I find bloody scissors perferable...

Classic servers appeal to a niche demographic, most people playing classic are older. Likely came back after not playing since wrath or what not. They have no time to be assholes like they were as teenagers. Your reputation matters a lot when you have to run into people you’ve fucked over all the time. Transferring to other realms is not an option last time I played.

Classic players remember stuff like militant raid leaders, ninja looters, and everybody being really bad at the game. People for the most part have chilled out, they know all the encounters having played on private Vanilla servers for a decade, no reason to scream about more DOTs.

Some assholery has happened in Classic when Blizzard introduced honor causing some realms to turn into apocalyptic hell scapes. PvP is kept to battle grounds now, and some servers could transfer because of low faction population. It’s not fun to world PvP when you outnumber the opposite faction 99/1.

It's weird I have played on classic on both smaller and mega server. The mega servers seem to be filled with a lot of elitist players.
Blizz just announced that if you transfer server theres a 90 day wait to be able to gain rewards from AQ gates.

 

[timewave0]

Just heard about this, pretty crazy. I was never a big fan or anything, but I do remember watching him occasionally waaay back in the earlier days of WoW. One thing I can say for sure about him is that he was a pioneer in this space. I’m not one to care about celebrity deaths but with these types of dudes it feels kind of different somehow, for whatever reason. iNcontrol’s passing last year almost felt like losing an irl friend, especially since I’d spoken with him multiple times.

It seems like he was struggling with mental health issues for a while now. This is a shitty outcome to say the least. Now we will just have to wait and see how quickly the vultures jump on this to push their ideological agendas. *edited to remove last sentence, I was thinking of someone else

 

[Cypher]

I can't back any of this up but apparently he jumped off of his balcony. This is his apartment, which looks pretty fucking high from the ground.

Nigga probably fell 10 stories flat into the fucking pavement.

 

[Donovan the Man]

It's weird I have played on classic on both smaller and mega server. The mega servers seem to be filled with a lot of elitist players.
Blizz just announced that if you transfer server theres a 90 day wait to be able to gain rewards from AQ gates.

Mega servers have streamers and their mega guilds filled with fans on them. It’s a huge thorn in people sides. Asmongold before he did a face turn would purposely destroy servers by swarming them with his retarded viewers.

 

[Basil II]

need an "edgy" rating for posts like these

have it be a katana

 

[Irrelevant]

I can't back any of this up but apparently he jumped off of his balcony. This is his apartment, which looks pretty fucking high from the ground.

Nigga probably fell 10 stories flat into the fucking pavement.

Notable about the second link is he was offering a free apartment for people to live near him because he was "lonely" and wanted "fun".

It also raises the question as to why other streamers stopped hanging out with him. I'm going to guess that his mood swings made him a huge burden to have around and he was too blind or selfish to realise how his behaviour affected the people around him.

He seemed to think chasing highs was the solution (hence the drugs, proposal, "fun with the boys", etc) rather than learning how to avoid the troughs and maintain a more stable life.

 

[RodgerDodger]

I can't back any of this up but apparently he jumped off of his balcony. This is his apartment, which looks pretty fucking high from the ground.

Nigga probably fell 10 stories flat into the fucking pavement.

Ouch! Friends let me make a humble request. If you do at any point feel the need to An Hero yourself. Please do so in a way that is neat and considerate of the poor souls that have to find and clean up the mess. Just please avoid leaping off high places onto concrete. Or even worse busy highways. If you feel the need to jump off something, find a bloody bridge over water. It’s more environmentally friendly. Suicide is an inherently selfish act, but doing so in a way that leaves a huge mess that needs to be cleaned up by people getting paid way to little to be dealing with your area effect splash damage is among the worlds biggest dick moves. Don’t Do It!

 

[GenociderSyo]

Notable about the second link is he was offering a free apartment for people to live near him because he was "lonely" and wanted "fun".

It also raises the question as to why other streamers stopped hanging out with him. I'm going to guess that his mood swings made him a huge burden to have around and he was too blind or selfish to realise how his behaviour affected the people around him.

He seemed to think chasing highs was the solution (hence the drugs, proposal, "fun with the boys", etc) rather than learning how to avoid the troughs and maintain a more stable life.

Self medication is very common in mental illness. Might not have even been chasing highs but just "normal"

 

[Happy Fish]

So wait he was making his own MMO? Sadness.

Everland is a social MMO. Few games exist nowadays for just logging in and hanging out with your friends. While Everland will have various forms of progression, there's no fear of falling behind and being unable to play with other people. We hope you make some new friends too.

 

[Thiletonomics]

Regarding the timing of this incident, and the numerous people in the gaming world getting #metoo'd and cancelled, does anyone suspect that Reckful was also about to get #metoo'd, and the accusations that came out would actually be true, which resulted in him taking his own life to save his skin? Did he even had a history of scumbag acts like those other people in the gaming world that got cancelled?

 

[Chin of Campbell]

So wait he was making his own MMO? Sadness.

Jesus Christ man. This is fucking sad as hell.

 

[Bad Take Crucifier]

I don't know what I expected from this fucking comment section on Reckful's tweet.

Spoiler: various examples of the tweets bullying reckful

Spoiler: kind comment from someone who didn't realize he died

I know some people are saying this was just his bipolarism. But no, #MeToo sentiment is all over the comment section, look how it has everyone saying "how dare you love women."

I also see some obvious troll edgelords calling him names, but they're vastly outnumbered by normies who are acting like he just sexually harassed her with his fucking tweet. Sigh, not sure how to word this, but if you see people acting like Reckful did, please recognize it is a cry for help. I know we really shit on people sometimes inside the farms, but it's the general rule we don't go out and tip the cows over. This was just a lot of twitter Bullying from normies.

 

[Irrelevant]

Self medication is very common in mental illness. Might not have even been chasing highs but just "normal"

To rephrase what I said: I think he was trying to be "normal" by chasing highs but to be "normal" you also need to push away lows. (Also "highs" doesn't mean drugs.)

So wait he was making his own MMO? Sadness.

Apparently he had like 10-20 devs employed on this who are now probably unemployed. Shit like this is why people say suicide is selfish.

 

[Bad Take Crucifier]

Apparently he had like 10-20 devs employed on this who are now probably unemployed. Shit like this is why people say suicide is selfish.

I hope no one says that his suicide was selfish to the team. If anything they should get funding to finish the game as a memorial to him.

 

[usernames can change now!]

So was it streamed or nah? Did he do a flip?

/edge