Robin Williams To Live On in World of Warcraft

<p>Robin Williams may have passed on&comma; but his legacy will live on in more places than one&period; Thanks to <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;change&period;org&sol;petitions&sol;activision-blizzard-create-an-npc-within-world-of-warcraft-to-memorialize-the-late-robin-williams-an-avid-world-of-warcraft-player-and-one-of-the-funniest-men-alive">a successful petition<&sol;a> on Change&period;org&comma; the little known gamer will appear in <em>World of Warcraft<&sol;em>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A self-professed fan and longtime player of games like <em>Call of Duty<&sol;em>&comma; <em>Half-Life<&sol;em>&comma; <em>Portal<&sol;em>&comma; and <em>The Legend of Zelda<&sol;em>&comma; Williams reportedly spent a good deal of time in the MMO and now his fellow players are getting behind a gamer described as &&num;8220&semi;one of them&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Petition organizer Jacob Holgate wrote on the petition page that Blizzard employees have resolved to handle the petition&&num;8217&semi;s request to add Williams into the game as a non-playable character tastefully&period; When questioned about the petition on Twitter &lpar;before the goal of 10&comma;000 signatures had been met&rpar;&comma; World of Warcraft technical game designer Chadd Nervig wrote&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Yes&period; We&&num;8217&semi;re taking care of it&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Blizzard later confirmed that it would be adding Williams to the game via Twitter&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"500" data-dnt&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p lang&equals;"en" dir&equals;"ltr">&period;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;RobinWilliams&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">&commat;robinwilliams<&sol;a> Thank you&period; You gave us so much joy in our lives&comma; and we hope you enjoyed your time in our world&period; We’ll see you in-game&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&mdash&semi; World of Warcraft &lpar;&commat;Warcraft&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;Warcraft&sol;status&sol;499373912291938307&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">August 13&comma; 2014<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Williams was best known for his comedy performances and for his roles in <em>Dead Poets Society<&sol;em> and <em>Good Will Hunting<&sol;em>&comma; winning an Academy Award for the latter&comma; as well as Disney&&num;8217&semi;s <em>Aladdin<&sol;em> and Steven Spielberg&&num;8217&semi;s Peter Pan film&comma; <em>Hook<&sol;em>&period; He was also very open about his passion for gaming&comma; appearing in promotional videos for The Legend of Zelda and discussing his Call of Duty online matches with Jimmy Fallon&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;change&period;org&sol;en-AU&sol;petitions&sol;nintendo-of-america-name-an-npc-in-the-new-legend-of-zelda-game-after-robin-williams">A similar petition<&sol;a> continues to gain momentum asking for Williams to be added into <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;legend-zelda-wii-u-2015&sol;">the new Legend of Zelda<&sol;a> revealed at this past E3&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Williams was pronounced dead yesterday&comma; sources report that investigators have <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;robin-williams-dead-63&sol;">confirmed his death as a suicide&period;<&sol;a> He was 63&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;