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Okay, you absolutely MUST do a story on the recent Plague that is affecting world of warcraft.

Heres the skinny: Blizzard adds in a new instance, Zul'Gurub. Inside is the god of blood, Hakkar. Well, when you fight him he has a debuff called Corrputed Blood. It does like 250-350 damage to palyers and affects nearby players. The amazing thing is SOME PLAYERS have brought this disease (and it is a disease) back to the towns, outside of the instance. It starts spreading amongst the genral population including npcs, who can out generate the damage. Some servers have gotten so bad that you can't go into the major cities without getting the plague (and anyone less than like level 50 nearly immediately die).

GM's even tried quarantining players in certain areas, but the players kept escaping the quarentine and infect other players.

I think a story on how blizzard dealt with what is now an epidemic and how it came about would be awesome.

Sep 16, 2005 8:11pm PDT

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Paging CNNMORRIS Okay, you absolutely MUST do a story on the recent Plague that is affecting world of ... : pigz
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- affects should be Infects : pigz
- sounds like a Wired article : mr brown
- Fucking Orii - Xian : j33uk
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  are you serious? because that is fucking AWESOME : TheTick
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    I'm not kidding, the developers are at a loss. ON some servers it's infected to many npcs to go into t... : pigz
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      At a loss my eye. Take the servers offline, then UPDATE players SET infected=0; and it's fixed. : ThomW
      
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      I think it would be a little more difficult. I think they'd also need to address the code that causes the... : zipper76
      
      ok fine create trigger on PLAYERS if :new.location != 'Zul'Gurub' then :new.horrible_plague = 'N' ... : Solar Jetman
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    I agree. stuff like this is great. : broly1718
    - Stuff like this is the reason the original resource model didn't work for Ultima Online : j33uk
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      shit like this makes me actually want to play the game. the whole "you can affect the world" shit appe... : TheTick
      
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      Honestly, you can't do shit to affect the greater world in WoW, it's all grind. This will be cleared up a... : j33uk
      
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      which MMOs aren't grind? : mr brown
      
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      Eve Online seems to have very little of the grind : Mr.Fusion
      
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      You can't grind in eve, because there're no levels to get, skills train independly, realtime, you can onl... : ksibinski
      
      yes i know and that makes me sad :-( : TheTick
      
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      I know. MMO's become too.....structured. The world should be chaotic. NPC's die off, new ones pop up. ... : broly1718
      
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      That's the main thing I love about EVE, the game developers' "anything goes" philosophy, which means a pl... : sgtsanity
      
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      Yeah I've never really been that interested in MMOs, but what I've read about eve appeals to me. : TheTick
      
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      Really, it's fun in a completely different way from World of Warcraft or any other game I've played. It's... : sgtsanity
      
      that lures me too : TheTick
      
      Yeah, its cool to see how something like this can effect the game world. Would be cool if Blizzard introd... : xenoeye
      
      ^^ IAWTP. Reason why I don't play MMOs, right here. My actions have no real consequences. : SpiderMonkey
- Have a link? I havent heard any of this. : Chod
- Mal'ganis, you guys need to go plague IF. Have a summoning team waiting near IF and go get plagued, then... : yAak
- That is so fucking brilliant. : sgtsanity
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  lol, i remember this effect in Team Fortress, with the medic kit. too funny. : Nighthavvk
  - damn medics : RikiTiki2
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    As soon as I'd see an enemy medic running towards me I would prime an EMP grenade. I'd just stand there ... : Omaha
    - We actually had a player in TFC called "Aids" almost always playing the bloody flying medic. Very distur... : jeroenhmg
- Ahh, holy shit that's so fucking cool. : Visceral Monkey
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  video of it: http://files.filefront.com/WoW_plauge_divxavi/;4145249;;/fileinfo.html : mr brown
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    that is totally awesome but only UO would do it on purpose. I guess this will be removed ASAP. : Luminair
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      Actually, eq2 did it seveal months ago. You could catch the plague and spread it to others, so could npcs... : Visceral Monkey
      
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      right which is totally different! People have to DIE with no concern for their feelings! : Luminair
      
      i loved UO because of the "lets fuck shit up and make it interesting" attitude the devs and RP community ... : sKetchflow
  - this is hilarious. : pyide
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  imagine being a developer and accidentily creating a "bug" like this : mr brown
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    Suprised they didn't learn from the whole Baron Living Bomb in the AH fiasco. : egofumpapa
    - ????? : mr brown
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      wasn't that where someone's pet had a bomb spell put on it, they unsummoned the pet, and then when they s... : Postal
      
      Yeah, quality. I was a little confused when I strolled into the AH one day only to find it carpeted with... : yAak
- How are they not dying? : Fred Garvin
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  And here I was thinking this weekend would be a good time to play.... : Arcanum
  - Never mind, being hotfixed early Saturday morning. : Arcanum
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  That is incredible and awesome. : Sarcastro
  - I saw tons of remains in Ironforge on Tichondrius, but only one plagued doofus screwing around in front o... : Sarcastro
- hahahahaha that's hilarious about the GM's and the escapees : proclone1
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  I blame Agent Smith ! : Ra5putin
  - Something similar happened in the Matrix Online a while back, but not quite to that extent, as NPCs weren... : Helter Skelter
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  i wonder if this would benifit scientists wanting to simulate plague transfer on a population. : ballystix
  - if a lethal airborne disease hit North America, lots of teens would be absolutely screwed, if WOW is any ... : Postal
  - Real people who have a horrible plague don't generally chase their friends shouting "OMG I R MKAE U D3DZ0... : Arcanum
- how about the plague that is world of warcraft? : prime8
- haha thats so awesome! : loboca
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  I'd rather see another story about how pathetic it is to play this game all day long. : Phreakin
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    ...as opposed to reading the shack all day long? : Magitek
    - Ahh, but some of us get Paid to read the shack all day, then go home and play WoW. wait... : loboca
    - I read it for a total of 30 minutes a day : Phreakin
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  MorrisatCNN for vanity search purposes. Also Rosewood for the hell of it : dognose
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    what about druicer? and good 'ol sammyl ? : nyranger66
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      drucifer, and you cannot forget rasputinreborn. tks : dognose
      
      Vantage for the trifecta!!!!! : dognose
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    that's fucking funny dognose. ha! and now you'll have a reminder of it next time YOU do a vanity searc... : kenmis
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      Paging Mr. Rosewood, Mr. William Rosewood : dognose
      
      I'll put the story in my news letter, promise : rosewood
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  Is that what they're bringing down the realms for tonight?
  
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  Is that what they're bringing down the realms for tonight? : slickdoody
- That is the funniest shit ever : Gauss
- Hallowed are the Ori. : armaduck
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  Everyone has AIDS! : Grimp
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    My grandma and my dog named blue : graincloud
    - the pope has got it and so do you : CoRDS
- They killed all the AFK fuckers that just sit in the AH last night.. I was so happy! : skitzo
- Wow - that's actually pretty interesting. : abrasion
- Cool story but not the kind of thing relevant to CNN Money, surely? I mean, it's not exactly going to eve... : node
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  - Dude : zehh
- OMG TEH SHACK GOT DIGG.COM'D : halophoenix
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  I was in IF when the plague started to break out, later when it was at full force, and even later when th... : ljp
  - They need to understand how it is spreading so that eventually it can die out like a real plague would. ... : BoogerBomb
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  Hi, I'm a reporter with National Public Radio and I'm doing a story on the plague that's hit World o... : LSydell
  - Wow, Laura is a shacker, holy crap. I listen to NPR like almost everyday. Ask her to let them play your v... : vegetaseiya
- My friend was over the other day, and I showed him http://www.exploitsrus.com/wow.html It is a site with ... : smacktad

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