Theres no real spoilers in this, but at the second last cutscene where raynor gives his big speech to the marines, he ripped a dog tag of a dead marine, which read M.Koiter. Being the lore nerd I am I searched his name up expecting him being one of raynor's old buddies.

In case anyone else was wondering, apparantly Micheal Koiter was a Blizzard artist who died in 2004 of heart failure, he was only 19. Very nice tribute by Blizzard, very tragic.

vyyye

Sweden3917 Posts

July 29 2010 20:54 GMT

I knew I'd seen that name before, he has some tribute in WoW as well I believe.

Kvz

United States463 Posts

July 29 2010 20:56 GMT

there's a grave of him in the barrens. they used to have his beta character's body at his grave too.

Disarray

United States1164 Posts

July 29 2010 21:18 GMT

the grave in the barrens up top the mountian where wailing caverns is, is for the other Samwise twin I thought ?

Deadlyhazard

United States1177 Posts

July 29 2010 21:37 GMT

Woah, they got people 19 years old working at Blizzard in art? I think I'll apply! Haha.

But yeah, poor guy. I think there's also a reference to him in WoW, where you can only see a ghost named M. Koiter in spirit form.

itgl72

United States13 Posts

January 05 2011 04:45 GMT

Had to search his name out, and found it in a wiki, and then in this forum. Wow...

Hautamaki

Canada1311 Posts

January 06 2011 17:37 GMT

I figured it would be something like that, only not quite so sad =[

TSM

Great Britain584 Posts

January 06 2011 20:43 GMT

so sad that part that just makes it sadder :'(

FlaShFTW

United States10253 Posts

January 06 2011 22:01 GMT

i knew that before, but i didn't know his name.... thats quite sad, only 19 years old. he had such a future ahead of him...

Fruktsoda

Sweden206 Posts

January 07 2011 01:32 GMT

#10

remember this part from the campaign but had no idea of who he was. figured it was some guy from brood war or something but this is really sad

Blazinghand

United States25557 Posts

January 07 2011 06:17 GMT

#11

Yeah I read about this a couple months ago... It's really good that he's given that tribute though... it's sad that such potential and such a skilled person had to die so young

;_;

at least it was a cool speech though. it's touching

cristo1122

Australia505 Posts

January 19 2012 16:40 GMT

#12

not to necro but if anyone is interested in him and his brothers work this is their site which contains a very moveing tribute to him.

http://www.sonsofthestorm.com/memorial_twincruiser.html#tribute

HackBenjamin

Canada1094 Posts

January 19 2012 19:28 GMT

#13

I couldn't imagine having a twin and watching him die in front of me. It definitely makes my heart ache any time I run into an M. Koiter tribute in blizz games.

Shiladie

Canada1631 Posts

January 19 2012 19:53 GMT

#14

Wasn't there a tribute ontop of one of the bluffs in old barrens? You had to wall-walk to get up to it, but it had a gravestone and spirit healer looking angel floating there.
I remember finding it by accident way way back in the early days of WoW when I was running around there as alliance and thinking it was touching once I looked it up.

aha, did a quick search and I'm right!
http://www.wowwiki.com/Michel_Koiter

BlueBoxSC

United States582 Posts

January 22 2012 20:03 GMT

#15

Yeah, sad, but thoughtful move on Blizzard's part.

Amestir

Netherlands2126 Posts

January 23 2012 20:55 GMT

#16

On January 20 2012 01:40 cristo1122 wrote:
not to necro but if anyone is interested in him and his brothers work this is their site which contains a very moveing tribute to him.

http://www.sonsofthestorm.com/memorial_twincruiser.html#tribute

Damn, that was really really touching. Great read.