http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood_incident#Model_for_real-world_research I got one question, why the hell is Ministry of Health or The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention contacted Blizzard for statistic of the 'Plague'????? http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=131791
For research on the epidemic. Basically, they used the in-game world of WoW as a model of how people would react in real life if there was an incredibly contagious and deadly disease. I don't know if anyone here played during that time, but it was literally mass panic. People were freaking out. Mass hysteria ingame, but the Ministry of Health and the CDC decided that's how people would react in real life.
Fenix, explain plox. Like, fast. They made some spreading aoe spell or what? I seriously don't get it. :/ Edit: Just read the link. Cool experiment.
It wasn't experiment lol. From what I remember, a hunter pet got it, then was dismissed. When the huntard resummoned it, it still had the debuff. It's contagious in like 20 meters or something, and he summoned it in the middle of SW's trade district. I think. I can't remember the exact details and I'm to lazy to click the link. So, what happens, people start getting it, passing it on, and dying. You couldn't see the stones for the bones.
The original version of Hakkar the blood god had a debuff called corrupted blood, which was quite contacious. anyways, some huntards pets got it and were dismissed. and poof, when they re-emerged into IronFoge(ofc it was IronForge) poof, everyone had it. The nature of the de-buff was temporary damage, low lvl players couldnt survive it and even worse, NPC's could get it through contagion. WoW got boned.
Wait, all the reaction are: Pissed, Angry, Pissed off with Blizzard, lots of call to Blizzard customer service with an angry reaction from the customer. I don't know about the rest but that wiki article have the genuine source from the reaction. I really don't think if someone have any bacteria infection or plague in real life they would be pissed off or mad at the doctor. but in this situation it is completely the opposite. I don't really why they need statistic if one character/user spawn 3 or 4 time in 10 minutes. If they include all the character who are infected with the CB virus.
They were pissed because it was a bug. If a doctor does something wrong and infects you with some virus, you'd be pissed too. Right? Anyway, I'm having a hard time believing that nobody saw it coming. Why couldn't they just remove the spell from the game, instead of doing nothing? I mean, a hard reset sounds like they eventually needed to do more then just removing the effect, right? Also: world events are kewl. Not as good as the best event ever, which took place in Everquest iirc. Not sure if I posted it before, but there's this dungeon with an incredibly powerfull boss in it. It's guarded by 4 other bosses. Kill the guardian things, and the main boss awakes, escapes the dungeon, and starts killing stuff all over the server. Epic.
that sounds like a nice version of the Pre-WotLK even with the plague creates. that was epic chaos on a grand scale level. Every shatt city was a war zone with the thousands of npcs they had there and all the main citys were a GTFO zone.
imagine the damage of the zombie event without any enemies, thats how it was. and i didnt really like zombie attacks on shattr. Its no fun when you cant attack other players
I think some people who have a life threatening virus will be dull and scared waiting for their death while the doc searching for a cure, it's not like regular flu or something, regular flu reaction are "****, I'm sick" and all those swear words, Like AIDS or Swine Flu? they most probably shock and of course the shock may be escalate the virus or it will lowered your anti body/immune system.
