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.
I love that this very serious CNN article reads like a fantasy epic of the worst order. I had to keep checking to be sure it wasn't posted on the Onion's website.
Okay, I play WoW, and I find it amusing XD. But what's brilliant about that report is that it's all LotR!EPIC!battle!disease!devastation... and then ends with THIS:
The "Corrupted Blood" plague is not the first virtual disease to break out in game worlds. In May 2000 many players of The Sims were outraged when their game characters died because of an infection contracted from a dirty virtual guinea pig.
The "Corrupted Blood" plague is not the first virtual disease to break out in game worlds. In May 2000 many players of The Sims were outraged when their game characters died because of an infection contracted from a dirty virtual guinea pig.
Yeah, I saw that a few hours after posting. Nuts to current events; its still interesting. i wonder what brought it back up on the BBC's 'most read' list.
Did you ever see the South Park WoW spoof episode titled "Make Love, Not Warcraft"? I guess the WoW plague story partly explain why that episode was made.
Yeah this happened a long time ago, but I would have loved to have been playing then. I've heard that when some people realized what was happening, the infected would run around and get everyone else infected too. That's WoW for you, such amazing goodwill =\
Duuuude, I read an article a while ago calling this a really good opportunity for the studying the possible effects of a wide-spread plague on mankind without actually, you know, inflicting a wide-spread plague on mankind. Apparently, they thought the MMORPG would be a really good way to simulate what people were likely to do then, i.e., some would help, some would run away, some would loot or infect others, etc.
Oh lordy, the aftermath of that was AWESOME. I wasn't ever actually present for an epidemic, but afterwards the streets were literally paved with skeletons. SO COOL.
Also, there is a video somewhere of it actually happening. Can't remember where, though.
I know a guy who plays WoW. Apparently a bunch of...whatever the class is that can resurrect things...once got together and tried to bring water back to life. They created a monstrous, swirling hurricane that is sort of alive, in an NPC kinda way. The moderators couldn't got rid of it/thought it was cool, so they fixed up the graphics and left it there. No one had succeeded in killing it, last time I heard. Large groups (hundreds of players) have tryed to gang up on it, but it hasn't worked. Oh, and speaking of The Sims...the latest big glitch is called the 'super duper hug' glitch. Strikes terror into one's heart, no?
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IT IS A WORLD OF LOLCRAFT.
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The "Corrupted Blood" plague is not the first virtual disease to break out in game worlds. In May 2000 many players of The Sims were outraged when their game characters died because of an infection contracted from a dirty virtual guinea pig.
LMFAO!! XDDDD
Peace,
Rotae
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a dirty. virtual. guinea pig.
::snerk::
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Yes, I do play WoW.
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Oh man, the internets. <33
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Also, there is a video somewhere of it actually happening. Can't remember where, though.
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Hundreds of bodies...dirty virtual guinea pigs...I swear.
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(Anonymous) 2008-03-29 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)Oh, and speaking of The Sims...the latest big glitch is called the 'super duper hug' glitch. Strikes terror into one's heart, no?