James Swan

We all know that World of Warcraft is very addicting that some people lose their jobs, lose their social life, and even get personal with fellow players to the extent like this  42 year old WoW gamer and a teen fall in love (link to article here). This is another casualty of the ever growing MMO addiction caused by Blizzard’s Cash cow World of Warcraft.

According to True Crime Report, James Swan is a 27-year-old WoW addict that still lives with his mom, playing with his computer in a room together with his younger siblings. One night, he was drinking while playing WoW around 10pm when he was shouting all of sudden. Since it was already late, his Mom told him to quite down, but instead of granting his Mom a favor he went on a outburst and choked her Mom. When his little brother tried to restrain him he did the same to him just like he did to his Mom.

Apparently, his Grandpa is also living with them who happens to have a revolver. So Grandpa and James who almost killed each other wrestled over the revolver eventually unloading a shot who grazed James head and went straight out their living room window. This also ended his outrage and eventually ended in the hospital to treat his wounds before getting arrested for assaulting his own family.

Seriously, this dude is pretty fucked up to the extent of strangling your own mother and little brother. People like this makes bad reputation for gaming, especially World of Warcraft since I am a fellow WoW player. Well, maybe he was playing Arena or was in a Raid that’s why he was shouting but that doesn’t mean you have to get noisy all of a sudden late at night and worse, beat up your own blood.