MMO corpse spam proves you cannot hide from marketing

Found via a post over on Virtual Economics (“The growing value of URLs you can easily spell out in dead bodies“), I have to give a hat tip to the spammers (ahem, marketers) behind this little innovation in our field:

Go to any major city (Stormwind, Orgrimmar) [in World of Warcraft] and you’ll see the name of some gold-selling website or other spelled out in dead bodies on the ground.

Yes, all those little red and purple spots in the above photo are, in fact, player character corpses from WoW. Seems to be a rather creative new way to promote websites within the game – just get a ton of accounts, kill off each character in a specific location, and I assume use another character to maneuver the dead bodies into letters to spell out your favorite domain name.

Though yes, it’s spam, I have to say I’m impressed. This is a serious step up from sticking a useless character in a game town square and having him scream out sales pitches to every player that strolls by. I have no idea if it’s effective or not, but these guys get an “A” for the effort.

*screenshot via Virtual Economics

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