The news of the passing of Byron “Reckful” Bernstein, a well-known streamer of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:World of Warcraft and168澳洲幸运5开奖网: Hearthstone, has caused a massive outpouring of support across different mediums. Social media is filled with well-wishes and positive memories, and players in World of Warcraft ar๊e also gatheri♔ng in large groups to pay tribute to Reckful.
Shortly after the news broke of Reckful’s passing, areas in both Alliance and Horde capital began to fill with players. In Stormwind, this began at the Cathedral as seen in the image below, with players organized into rows, but🐼 soon it was impossible to maintain any form of order.
A short while later, the ser𝓀vers were pushed to their limits as so many playe🐭rs packed in to pay their respects to Reckful.
This is not happening on any single server, but across every server in the game on both the retail and Classic versions of World of Warcraft. This🍨 unorganized, spontaneous gathering of players is a testament to the influence Reckful had on the community. This should come as no surprise given his personality and dominance in the PvP aspect of the game. His 3000 rating and Rank 1 held over six consecutive seasons is one of the most impressive feats that could be achieved in the game.
Although predominantly an Alliance ⛎player due to the overpowered racial passive afforded to the Humans race, these tributes were also seen throughout Horde cities. In some cases, Horde players ventured into Alliance cities to pay tribute, and the results were mixed. In some cases, Alliance players did nothing and allowed the opposing faction to join them in peace, but in other cases, the situation quickly devolved to fighting.
These types of in-game tributes are not new to World of Warcraft, and we have seen similar gatherings for the passing of other players, or♏ in celebration of events like weddings. Blizzard has also actively ensured that some players are immortalized in the game through ෴the addition of permanent memorials throughout the world.
With that in mind, a quick search online already reveals forum posts calling for Reckful to be added as an NPC in the game, but there may be good reason not to create such an in-game tribute. At the moment, we know little about the passing of Reckful, though sources close to the incident are saying it was by suicide. Providing an in-game tribute to a player who died in this way may work to glorify the act of taking one’s life, something that is heavily in the media as recently as last year with Netflix’s show 13 Reasons Why.
Social media has so far seen only an outpouring of support for friends and family of Reckful. We stron𒅌gly encourage anyone with suicidal thoughts to contact the (US), (CA), (UK), or (AUS). Read🃏ers who reside outside of these regions can for a hotline in your area.