An interesting fact about WoW

Anonymous · August 21, 2007, 11:49:52 AM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6951918.stm

DuVeL · August 21, 2007, 11:56:43 AM

Aslong as it doesn't spread to BattleField or CounterStrike.:flirty:

Anyone from SOG infected?

Bob · August 21, 2007, 12:15:45 PM

When reading the article, I almost got the impression that this was something that happens regularly inside WoW - which ain't the matter at all.

The infection mentioned in the article is something that is a part of a boss-fight in a 20man raid instance. When that instance was released, more than a year back in time, the developers had forgotten to "remove" the disease when the players were finished with the boss and left the instance, leading to them bringing it with 'em to all the major cities, and as one find the biggest concentrations of players in those cities, it spread rapidly.

It was kinda fun and interesting to see how it all acted out, but of course it didn't take many days before a hot-fix was applied to correct the bug

Nefertem · August 21, 2007, 12:15:55 PM

interresting.. first I hear of it though :g:

EDIT: hmm.. ok.. read what Bob wrote.. remember it now.. Just memory failure..

spiritus · August 21, 2007, 12:28:09 PM

no comment on this one :crazy:

Jamoe · August 21, 2007, 01:06:19 PM

Wasn't it something to do with them forgetting to take it off the pets?

Not really sure how it relates to real life, surely most of the players who spread it for fun did so because its a game.

Penfold · August 21, 2007, 01:17:55 PM

I don't know.

There's plenty of people who have been jailed for deliberately infecting people with the AIDS virus etc.

PEN

Jamoe · August 21, 2007, 01:20:19 PM

Quote from: Penfold;202319I don't know.

There's plenty of people who have been jailed for deliberately infecting people with the AIDS virus etc.

PEN

I agree, but I wouldn't like to build a model based on something happening in a world that has no consequences.

kregoron · August 21, 2007, 02:42:40 PM

i remember that time, was a great laugh ass all the big cities were flooded corpses, tho still scary in a way :blink:

Gaara · August 26, 2007, 04:51:08 PM

Haha yeah i remember that i was great fun to see all the uproar haha.
Some people went about yelling AIDS AIDS AIDS which was a bit harsh though O_o

I too believe they forgot to remove the disease from pets so when the hunters teleported back to the major cities all hell broke loose haha.

Luminance · August 26, 2007, 05:20:46 PM

it was Zul'Gurub rigth?

but why did they just post it now? it happand over a year ago lol

Gaara · August 26, 2007, 05:47:13 PM

Yeah it was ZG, it was the poison form Hakkar, which you needed to kill him with his health drain crap

Blunt · August 26, 2007, 05:57:05 PM

Quote from: Luminance;203105it was Zul'Gurub rigth?

but why did they just post it now? it happand over a year ago lol

It's in the news now because it is being used to study the behaviour of people in an epidemic.

QuoteResearcher Professor Nina Fefferman, from Tufts University School of Medicine, said: "Human behaviour has a big impact on disease spread. And virtual worlds offer an excellent platform for studying human behaviour.
"The players seemed to really feel they were at risk and took the threat of infection seriously, even though it was only a game."

Luminance · August 26, 2007, 06:01:00 PM

yeah but that bug was fixed in the next patch, so that still leaves a full year of reaction time

Bastet · August 26, 2007, 08:09:59 PM

Aye, from the hunter pets it spread to the NPC guards in the city, who regenerated more health then the poison took off, and thus from there it went back to all the players.

Bug was live maybe 3 days or so over a year ago. Kinda late post, i think we had one back then in the WOW section :flirty: