I'm surprised PETA hasn't mentioned the ingame faction that was inspired by them 'D.E.H.T.A"(Druids for the Ethical and Humane Treatment of Animals). The best part is if anyone kills an animal in the zone they will get blood on them and when they go near the D.E.H.T.A encampment, all of the members will chase after them shouting "Murderer!" and "Baby killer!" :)

But out of curiosity, what are these Baby Seals in game? I have only seen baby polar bears, and Snowfall Glade Pups (human-like baby seals). A shame this isn't on a more popular realm, and even more a shame that Horde can't participate in stopping the seal killers.

Posted by: Heather | April 6, 2009 06:44 PM

Instead, why not do the same thing but in real life?

Posted by: Wowplayer | April 6, 2009 07:45 PM

This sounds pretty awesome to be honest...

But I've on the Zangarmarsh server and I'm not gonna transfer just to do this :P

Posted by: Cody Crawford | April 6, 2009 07:56 PM

I love it!!! I've been a avid wow players for years now. You actually only need to be lvl 68 to get to Howling Fjord. It;s too bad this can't be done on ALL realms as Blizzard charges $25 for a 1 way realm transfer. Try to get this event on the Dragonblight realm and I (and my guildies) will be sure to help!!

Posted by: Chris | April 6, 2009 08:14 PM

I actually do find this somewhat ironic, as there is soooooo much animal killing involved during the levelling of your characters.

Posted by: Chris | April 6, 2009 08:15 PM

Why do people always do this crap on our server?

BTW, Whisperwind is not a PvP server. If someone is not flagged there's nothing you can do to stop them.

Posted by: DavidS | April 7, 2009 09:11 AM

What a wonderful way to spend a holiday weekend...with your face at a computer screen fighting a war game instead of celebrating Passover or Easter with your family, volunteering to to help needy families in your neighborhood, or at the very least going outside and enjoying the real, non-virtual world.

Next week be sure to blog how it went because this gamer will be out interacting with live beings, both human and animal.

Posted by: Meg Schramm | April 7, 2009 11:08 AM

its FAKE.

Posted by: NATALIE Dechiara | April 7, 2009 12:19 PM

peta have that on the calnder and on the button!!!!!!!!!:)

Posted by: romy | April 7, 2009 01:03 PM

I get why you guys hate the canadian seal clubbing thing, but it's a GAME, it doesn't advocate any kind of violence towards living animals. It's been really common in Warcraft lore that critters are just there to be looked at or killed. In ALL of the Warcraft RTSes, by clicking on ANY critter enough times, they'll explode (same for Blizzard's StarCraft game) in a nuclear-blast kind of way. It's an inside joke of Blizz's.

Posted by: Blake | April 7, 2009 01:09 PM

Can we maybe limit PETA's activities to the domain of real animals?

Posted by: Jenny | April 7, 2009 01:23 PM

@Meg Schramm:

Actually they pushed Noblegarden back a couple of weeks this year.

Posted by: Chris | April 7, 2009 01:24 PM

Can you at least please get your lore right? Thrall does not answer to the Lich King.

Second, I am a little aghast that you chose Alliance; if you want to be environmental you really want to be looking at the Tauren mythology. They are one with the earth and they are very environmental. As someone who plays mostly Horde characters, this just comes off as prejudiced.

Finally, Whisperwind is a PVE server. What are you guys thinking? How do you expect to stop the Horde when they aren't flagged?

Seems like a publicity stunt that's not very well thought out.

Posted by: Teni | April 7, 2009 02:33 PM

2 reasons why this is a horrible idea:

1. Whisperwind is NOT a pvp server, most likely you are just going to be a witness to the biggest in game seal slaughter and you will be powerless to do anything about it.

2. Whisperwind is already a very high population server, which means most PETA members are just going to see the queue screen like the Ron Paul people did.

Why not find a low population PVP-RP server, would be a much more logical choice.

Posted by: Bumcrum | April 7, 2009 02:34 PM

Guys, odds are the person at PETA who approved this doesn't know what PvP and PvE are. The outcome of the event is irrelevent to them. This has done exactly what they wanted. There are thousands of people who normally aren't reached by thier message actively arguing on gamer boards about this.

Posted by: Horde for Life | April 7, 2009 03:12 PM

While Tauren Druids are certainly in tune with nature, so are Night Elf Druids. And Draenei spend a great deal of time and effort minimizing their effects on the environment.

But the Horde does contain the single most destructive race in the game: the Blood Elves, who have such a thirst for magic that they drain it from the life around them.

Posted by: The Naaru have not forgetten us | April 7, 2009 04:02 PM

It pains me greatly to see the number of wowkiddies that are coming in here with their underdeveloped senses of humor and QQing about a silly in-game even. Take a break from the internet and get a clue. Does Thrall exist IRL? No. That should be your clue right there.

Posted by: Hammer | April 7, 2009 04:52 PM

^^ Well if you want to be like that, the Allys have the Dwarfs and their coal burning iron mining city...

Also, the orcs are just as in touch with nature as the Tauran (it's why they're allied), so are the Darkspear (the playable faction, for those who don't know) trolls.

The Blood Elves are addicted to magic, but that in itself doesn't harm the enviroment (their "addiction" manifests as the ability to drain mana from creatures, which can regenerate even if they drain it all), Fel energy does though (as Outland shows).

The nearest to any envirmental destruction the Horde gets in the Forsaken. And that's not really their fault.

Posted by: Bisected | April 7, 2009 05:16 PM

That's just ridiculous. First of all, you can't just decide a battle on a PvE server.

Second, what's with all the Horde bashing? You -know- the better candidates for seal clubbers have to be dwarves and gnomes. It's cold in Dun Morogh...they need their fur much more than any member of the Horde does, considering the bulk of the Horde lives in the deserts of Kalimdor or the lush temperate climates of Eastern Kingdoms.

This makes me want to fly my drake to Howling Fjord, AoE as many seals as I can find, and post screenshots here.

It's a GAME, ffs.

Posted by: Foxdie | April 7, 2009 06:36 PM

Haha....

Posted by: Petamoron | April 7, 2009 07:02 PM

hahahaha, wow.. LAME.

Posted by: Loraine | April 7, 2009 07:20 PM

Psh, of course they make it so the HORDE is the evil ones, come on! Nerd rage time! PETA can't favor Alliance like Blizz or I'll cry =[

Posted by: level 80 blood elf priest | April 8, 2009 12:19 AM

I see 2 possible outcomes for this.

1. Players from the Horde (or both factions) show up and start slaughtering seals as fast as they spawn and, because it is a PvE server, you will be helpless to stop this.

2. Seal slaughterers PvP flag in an effort to provoke others into attacking them resulting in an all out PvP battle in the middle of the Howling Fjord zone.

Since you have singled out the Horde as being responsible for this (despite the fact that Hemet Nesingwary is responsible for more dead animals than all other NPCs combined and is a member of an Alliance race) you will likely provoke a response from their players who might not care for being singled out like this.

Posted by: Ozmodius | April 8, 2009 12:23 AM

All politics aside, do they really expect people to transfer their characters to this server for one day's worth of armchair activism and then have their 70+ toon stuck on this server for a month or whatever? D: That's pretty poor planning on Peta's part.

Posted by: Eddy | April 8, 2009 01:40 AM

"Well if you want to be like that, the Allys have the Dwarfs and their coal burning iron mining city..."

Ahem? Did you see that lake of fire in the Great Forge? That's geothermals, baby! Coal is only used to smelt steel. Gnomes now... They're heavily into nuclear.

Right. Gotta go. Need to make someone the whole dusky armor set.

Posted by: Mostor Astrakan | April 8, 2009 05:16 AM

Hats off to Megan Schramn above, I couldn't agree with you more:)

Posted by: Penny | April 8, 2009 08:33 AM

Oh please! This is ridiculous to even do or put on such an event. And in an mmorpg no less what do you think that will achieve? Absolutey nothing! Maybe in real life it would but insid a computer game it is not going to fly!

Posted by: Tim Bennett | April 8, 2009 10:06 AM

Chris hit the real problem. If youre gonna protest, better be PVP.

Level 70 to enter HF? Teh outrage. Exalted with D.E.H.T.A imo.

Posted by: Nasty (Fossils of War) | April 8, 2009 11:06 AM

ZOMG.

So, "the Alliance" made a protest to "the Horde" despite not sharing a language. Okay.

So, Warchief Thrall didn't impose a ban. Guessing this is because he's an NPC and has no will other than what Blizzard programs him to to, but let's not let that stand in the way.

So, seal fur is "so profitable for Orgrimmar" even though neither cities nor factions have any measurable wealth.

So, now that this event is getting some attention, more players will show up and start farming the baby seals just for spite.

Okay.

So... given all that, PETA wants me to pay Blizzard $25 to transfer my character to the WhisperWind realm so I can participate in watching a slideshow of non-flagged players killing simulated baby seals while there's jack that anyone can do about it?

I say "slideshow" because I know how much lag a region gets when there are a couple hundred players in the same place. Assuming the realm doesn't crash entirely.

You guys have fun, alright?

Posted by: FireflyNerd | April 8, 2009 11:39 AM

Time to train up a death knight in WoW

Posted by: Ps360 | April 8, 2009 01:01 PM

I think showing barbaric acts such as seal clubbing and making it into a game encourages that behavior and blood lust. disguising it as publicity against such acts is just PR slant.

Posted by: bunny | April 8, 2009 02:03 PM

Every DK Please Send a tell to Tastymurder Horde Side

Posted by: Tastymurder | April 8, 2009 03:39 PM

This must be a prank or something.. right?

Posted by: Trent | April 8, 2009 04:07 PM

While I normally hate PETAs "Animals deserve more rights" crap, I agree that clubbing seals is pretty terrible.

Although you've got it backwards. The Alliance sees the Horde as a bunch of thugs and would never ASK for anything. It'd be a brutish demand. Thrall is actually the CALM one in the scenario.
Secondly, the Tauren (You're supporting the side whose for killing cow-people?) are Horde.

"Ahem? Did you see that lake of fire in the Great Forge? That's geothermals, baby! Coal is only used to smelt steel. Gnomes now... They're heavily into nuclear."
Hey man look at the Trolls! They live all natural!

Posted by: Mike | April 8, 2009 04:19 PM

This is not a war between the Alliance and the Horde..So please.. Keep it out of this commentary..Or it will be a mass of comments like...NO!HORDE IS BETTER! or NO alliance is! etc etc.

I have something to tell though.
As said before...

It wont work out properly.
Maybe they will make so you will be PvP flagged in that area, but I dont think they will.

Its a PvE realm, wich means, its not ment to be Players VS. Player..Its killing animals...Basiclly.

WoW is also a game, where half, if not more, of the creatures we kill are some kind of animal.
Wolfs, Bears..We can even kill Deers and rabbits in a town.. Yepp..Thats Possible.

DHETA was a excellent thing in my opinion, and I loved all quests from them. Its just a game, yes, but I hated to see those elephants trapped..

Well..It is just a game.. But if this should work in any way at all, it should be on all realms. And when entering that area , or accepting a quest.. You become PvP flagged.

Posted by: Isak | April 8, 2009 09:38 PM

Why do you have to demonise The Horde?

Posted by: bob | April 9, 2009 04:58 AM

This is pretty sad... As if people are going to strat clubbing baby seals after having seen it on WoW :S

Posted by: jinx | April 9, 2009 05:12 AM

This is ridiculous.

Posted by: lawlpeta | April 9, 2009 01:15 PM

I wish PETA would get more involved in protecting the poor Dogs and Cats who are slaughtered in our "Humane Shelters" every day. There is no reason they have to be killed other than for the financial convenience of the local governments. We can spend Billions in Iraq and Afghanistan, we can spend 100s of Billions on "stimulus packages." But when it comes to these poor abandoned animals, we send them to their deaths because we don't have the money.

PETA gets bent out of shape when a few wolves are killed in Alaska, and doesn't bat an eye when thousands of dogs are killed in our shelters.

Lets start at home before we go after the Canadians and Alaskans.

Posted by: John | April 9, 2009 03:08 PM

QFT - what John said ^ ^

@Meg Schramm
not everyone has a family...or people to spend their day with.

Posted by: tank | April 9, 2009 08:08 PM

Come on! Thats ridicioulus!
What are you expecting to happen?

I guess all the cons have already been posted here, except for one thing ...

How do you want to stop Alliance player from slaying seals?

As far as I know, this so called "protest" is completly against Blizzards terms of use....

Posted by: ddsepp | April 10, 2009 09:20 AM

Sjees... grow up.

Posted by: Razor | April 10, 2009 09:38 AM

*sigh* You DO realise that you're going to get there and a couple of smartaleck mages are just going to aoe all the critters, right?

And I'm curious if you've contacted Blizzard about this before deciding to go ahead with this fiasco?

Posted by: Sparky | April 10, 2009 10:43 AM

Actually, you all are incorrect about the outcome of this event. There has been so much hype by supporters, and non- supporters alike, that if enough people log into the server to see the outcome or even participate, there will be one clear-cut winner, The server will crash, Blizz wins =D

Posted by: Zern | April 10, 2009 12:37 PM

I don't even know where to start on this undertaking. I present the following questions:

How did you get to level 70/80 without killing a single pixilated animal in the game? What type of character do you play?

Does your character wear leather? IE rogue or Druid?

If you only killed humanoids while leveling up how does this make it any different than killing the animals?

What do you eat in game to regain health?

Do you buy leg enchants for your gear? the majority of which are made from the skins of animals.

If memory serves me right I think the only 2 classes that you would be able to play without engaging in any type of animal killing as far as gear would be a mage or a preist as they wear cloth. This being said how many humanoids did you kill to get the cloth for your clothing? or to earn the money to buy the cloth made clothing?

How is this 'protest' going to do anything to further the cause of PETA?

In 2008 WoW hit the 10 million players mark, I would think you would be better off trying to convince people to quit playing the game and to donate their monthly subsciption costs to animal shelters.

Posted by: Rhonda | April 10, 2009 03:40 PM

Dude i want to see that so bad, sounds awesome but WTF WHY TARGET WOW ITS A GAME?

Posted by: Andrew | April 11, 2009 11:30 AM

lol - read the EULA

Posted by: dude man | April 11, 2009 12:05 PM

For the Horde

Posted by: MaddBoy | April 11, 2009 05:52 PM

This would have been a great idea if Horde and Alliance came together to fight for one cause and available across all servers.
Maybe a contest to see which side saved more seals or slaughtered the 'unknown invaders', who were clubbing the seals.

Posted by: Lvl 80 DK For The Horde | April 12, 2009 06:04 PM

The reason that PETA chose to target the Horde as the offending faction, is that the Horde, and not the Alliance have a quest to club the baby seals in the Fjord.

Do I think this is fairly stupid. Yes, which is the reason I chose not to participate.

Posted by: Heidi | April 13, 2009 11:40 AM

Hello
I think the seal hunt should be banned. We should kill these men with clubs and see how they like it. From Alice

Posted by: Alice Fraser | April 18, 2009 08:30 PM

My tauren has and never wil club a seal, is still levelling and strictly killing humanoids and eats fruit to regain health. I believe you picked on the wrong faction.

For The Herd, and For The Horde!

Posted by: Moorrissey | April 20, 2009 09:30 AM

i think the funniest thing about all this is that even alliance players made horde characters to kill the participants of this event, in protest of the absurdity of this whole protest.

please PETA. keep your animal rights protests out of our virtual reality and in the real world where it belongs.

also, animals are NOT people, no matter how much we love our pets. and although animal cruelty is unfortunate, and animal testing is unnecessary, there are so many cases of human abuse that your focus on animal abuse is almost comic.

also, animals kill animals for food everyday. would you try to stop that?

Posted by: solus umbra | April 28, 2009 03:34 PM

WOW -- literally. I was going to contact PETA about World of Warcraft including animals in leg-hold traps as part of their quests, but if they are doing this they probably aren't interested in the casual cruelty of Blizzard programmers. :(

Posted by: Wisunka | May 13, 2009 07:27 PM

Wow!...I love the suggestion that participating in this game...which involves killing pixilated versions of animals creates ppl who are thirsty for blood...Just Wow! Well, I play horde side on WW server and think that is in stark contrast to reality. Over the last 20-30 years, violent crime is drastically reduced and I know of no one who plays who has turned into some bloodthirsty fiend. I am a school-teacher, spin wool, knit, etc., and I play a lvl 80 troll mage.(Haven't committed a violent crime yet...). Learn to separate fantasy from reality folks.
-Guen

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