Deadly Plague Hits Warcraft world

SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
edited September 2005 in Science & Tech
A deadly virtual plague has broken out in the online game World of Warcraft. Although limited to only a few of the game's servers the numbers of characters that have fallen victim is thought to be in the thousands.
Many online discussion sites were buzzing with reports from the disaster zones with some describing seeing "hundreds" of bodies lying in the virtual streets of the online towns and cities.

"The debate amongst players now is if it really was intentional although due to the effects of the problem it seems unlikely," Paul Younger, an editor on the unofficial worldofwarcraft.net site, told the BBC News website.

"It's giving players something to talk about and could possibly be considered the first proper 'world event'", he said.

Luckily the death of a character in World of Warcraft is not final so all those killed were soon resurrected.

Blizzard tried to control the plague by staging rolling re-starts of all the servers supporting the Warcraft realms and applying quick fixes.
Submitted by: Trogan_1000

Source: BBC

Comments

  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited September 2005
    hmm... in-game news... next thing we know we'll have news from soaps and god knows what else...

    Anyway: http://wowaids.ytmnd.com/
  • LincLinc Owner Detroit Icrontian
    edited September 2005
    That's friggin' awesome. Virtual disease. Amazing. My one professor is going to love this.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2005
    My guild is at Hakkar, trying to get one of my pets infected so we can drag it to Ironforge.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited September 2005
    I was wondering why there were so many dead people in IF.
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited September 2005
    I'm starting to understand why my 70ish parents get that glazed-over look in their eyes after listening to my daughter try to explain WoW to them. The line between "real" and virtual gets more blurred each day.
  • TheSmJTheSmJ
    edited September 2005
    So was this disease started by some sort of bug in the game, or was it a story driven event?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2005
    It's a bug.
  • lemonlimelemonlime Canada Member
    edited September 2005
    Wow... no pun indended

    :D

    Im trying with all my strength to avoid buying this game..
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2005
    hmm. that would actually be cool if there were diseases and plauges in the game.
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