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Death Is Bad For Online Gamers

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Death really wrecks the online gaming experience. So many games are multi-player these days. One day your pal doesn’t show up. He’s not there the next day. So on and so on. What happened? He died in real life. This phenomena is a fact of life online and off.

Now some are seeing this as a service that can be sold. They’ll notify people that you’ve gone to the great beyond.

The site was created by Mike and Pamela Potter in Colorado Springs, Colo. They also run a business that makes software for online games. Pamela said they realized the need for a service like this when one of their online friends, who had volunteered a lot of time helping their customers on a Web message board, suddenly disappeared.
He wasn’t dead: Three months later, he came back from his summer vacation, which he’d spent without Internet access. By then, the Potters had already had Slightlymorbid.com up and running for two weeks.

A third site with a similar concept plans to launch in April. Legacy Locker will charge $30 per year. It will require a copy of a death certificate before releasing information.

Now your fellow gamers won’t be left hanging.