Blizzard honour blind Iraq veteran player and his ‘seeing-eye’ guild-mate in WoW
By Tim Colwill on October 1, 2012 at 11:50 am
A touching story for your public holiday Monday: Blizzard have crafted special in-game items to honour British soldier Ben Shaw, an Iraq veteran who lost his sight to a roadside bomb while on a tour of duty in Basra.
Shaw continues to play the game with the help of his guild-mate, a Scotsman named Owen. Through a series of macros installed on both computers, Owen’s character Davidian (a Death Knight) is able to help Shaw’s character Hexu (an enhancement shaman) with all in-game tasks, from raids to repairs.
Touchingly, Blizzard have now honoured the pair with their own pair of in-game items: Hexu’s Amplifying Helm and Davidian’s All-Seeing Eyes. The descriptions for the items are beautiful as well: “A man with a friend is never without vision”, and “Sharp enough to see for two men” complete the picture. Lovely stuff.
You can read more about the pair over here on WoW Insider.
Source: WoW Insider
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That’s lovely =-).
Amazing guys.
Any more details? like how the macros work and specifically what they help the vet actually do?
It’s a heart warming story .
I used to have a deaf player in a battlefield 2 clan. Was the most self aware player on the field even though he couldn’t hear anything. I died many times trying to rattle off instructions over chat, also pressing the wrong key and broadcasting those plans to the other team lol… but we made it work and he was a fantastic player.
That brought tears to my eyes – yes i’m a big softie. :P
I think i remember reading something like this a year or two ago. Good to see blizzard doing small things like this for their players.
He has a pile of /follow and target assis macros IIRC, they also run a second voice program so they don’t spam out the raid with their chatter, was a pretty cool story.