In the episode "South Park" "Lead Loveubov, not Warcraft" (October 4, 2006), Stan and Cartman (Trey Parker) and Kyle and Kenny (Matt Stone) We were inbuved about the new video game on the Internet "World of Warcraft". They have created fantasies for themselves and looking forward to leveling, becoming more powerful and advancing in the game. Their efforts, however, are soon stimulated by an anonymous, ultra -powerful player who kills them as soon as they sign in. The four boys would like to fight this mysterious player-which is seen in his apartment as an awkward adult-but they are not almost strong enough. Children invent a plan to level them in secret, hiding in the woods of their enemy, slaughtering pigs for points for an experience. dots. Their plan, however, requires constant dedication, forcing them to stay on their computers for days at the end. They soon gain weight and develop bad skin from their Warcraft habit.

"Lead Love Coat, not Warcraft" is one of the better episodes of the series, mocking the obsessive nature of online RPG players, while understanding a lot about the attraction of the game and the lifestyle that encourages it. The episode will continue to win EMI.

"Lead Loveub, not Warcraft" also uses the widespread use of CGI animation in play, giving South Park a striking visual variety. The parts of the CGI were actually made in collaboration with Blizzard, the company that made "World of Warcraft" and they were happy to borrow South Park their visual and technical means. However, as Parker and Stone did the episode, using a real game "Warcraft" as a model, the online player somehow broke into their server ... and began to give them sadness. Gaming Lexicon refers to such players as sorrows. It was iousubopite that Parker and Stone wrote a story about their sadly disturbing characters, and then suddenly had to cope with one in real life. Parker and Stone talked to the incident in a short video interview On the channel Comedy Mountain YouTube.

Parker remembers how exciting it was that they had to work with Blizard. All South Park writers and animators have been named World of Warcraft fans and will spend their free time in the office, regardless of the game. When they reached Blizard, they were surprised to hear that they wanted to cooperate. From Parker's description, Blizzard installs several of its computers in South Park production offices, using a real server to extrapolate the desired animations.

But since the Blizzard computers were all on a common network, they were able to be hacked from the outside. And, Lo, a resourceful computer hacker somehow managed to locate and break into the Blizzard server. Blizzard staff didn't even play a proper game - they just worked on animations - and they regretted them. Fortunately, when such things happen, Blizzard has a plan for unforeseen situations. They can "kill" the online character. Parker refers to this unforeseen case as "death". As he said:

"We had all set up on these Blizzard computers in our offices and we are ready to start the stage ... and all of a sudden this character starts jumping around on the screens. And we're like "Who is it?" And the staff were like "someone is hacked in us, someone is hacked in us!" What should we do?

It should be noted that the idea of ​​"Deathtouch" is also in the script of Stone and Parker for "Love Loveub, not Warcraft". Employees of the Blizzard episode have an online tool that they call the sword of a thousand truths, which can kill almost every online character. It is so powerful, lives on its own flash drive. However, it seems that Blizzard real -world employees have access to something similar.

Stone has expanded saying that "Deathtouch" - their mandate, not Blizzard's - is an extreme measure for the company. It is not something used often and requires many security permits. Having hostile in their animation program was not acceptable, yet Blizard has flogged big guns. They were able to essentially delete a character without the player's entry. As Stone said:

"To expose the death code - either death or whatever - Blizard was" we must ask for permission. Get the double ... Turn the keys. It was a big deal, and they actually pampered death and killing that man, whatever he was a breakthrough in the system. "

It seems that the hacker did not do any harm to production, except to slow it down, so making "Leading Loveubo, not Worcraft" seemingly passed smoothly afterwards. The episodes were broadcast on time and continued to be one of the most popular episodes of the show. South Park is notorious, with Stone and Parker being episodes up to about 12 hours before being broadcast. "Lead Love Cuke, not Warcraft" searched for two simultaneous animation teams for central sequences, one for the sequences in the Blizzard game and the two turn into their scenes at the same time. As is usual for the show, the episode was turned 12 hours before broadcasting. "Warcraft" continued to be a movie. Remember that?

On IMDB, "Love Loveub, not Warcraft" is the second highest rated episode of the series, just below "Scott Terimman must die", and still above The recent anti-transpoint episode "Mountain Sermon". It remains astonishing that Parker and Stone, with their fouls for a little bit of paper, still manage to hit the pockets of cultural importance 28 years after debuting South Park.