City of Heroes Causing Illness

GameRifts.com is reporting on a rather odd effect being caused by NCSoft's MMORPG City of Heroes. Apparently, an in-game effect that is part of a "Sonic Powers Buff" is causing headaches and nausea in a huge number of the game's players. The news post links to three of many threads on the game's official forums filled with players citing those specific effects as triggering the symptoms. Some speculated that the effects are causing a reaction in those suffering from epilepsy, but that seems to have been discounted.

Instead of a hot patch to correct the issue, NCSoft was informed by Cryptic that a patch would go in with the next update to correct this, after it's been through test. Now, we are talking possibly months before this fix will be put in place. If players are reporting illness due to a change, should not the change be reverted, especially when this issue was reported during the original test phase prior to being implemented onto the live servers? The real kicker is that less-than-mature players are using this beneficial tactic within game to grief other players.