WoW virus?

[asterroc]

Any WoW players here encounter this virus? I thought there were a heckofalot of you, and yet I hadn't heard anything about this happening. Was it only "released" in limited areas?

Comments

[ayashi.livejournal.com]

I did :) it happened a long, long time ago which might be why you hadn't heard anything about it from people who play, though. This was at least a year and a half ago that it happened, I think, if not more like two years :)

It was pretty funny though, in a morbid (and often annoying) way. People would infect NPCs in-game who wouldn't necessarily die from the disease (like the flight masters), but those NPCs could spread it to players who walked nearby. So someone would infect the flight master, then poor lower level people who got on a gryphon would die in mid-air, way too far away to res via normal means (you have to walk within X feet of your body to retrieve it) and would have to "spirit res" which means your gear is going to break a lot (=more repair cost) and your stats are all reduced by a lot, making the game basically unplayable for 10 minutes until it wears off :X

Still, it was very funny to watch the videos of this wow disease spreading through cities and killing all the players!

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Was there any way to know if you or someone else was infected? That would change the gameplay and choices people make.

[ayashi.livejournal.com]

I believe you could tell - I think there was this red "bleeding" animation that would appear over infected characters every few seconds.

Let me see if I can find a youtube video of it...

Here are a couple of different ones:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=UA9gOcgIlsw
http://youtube.com/watch?v=sAEhyHiNdrA
http://youtube.com/watch?v=pxVuoOOMx0s

(I think the last one might be the best)

[weirdlilfaechld.livejournal.com]

I think that happened when the first few groups when into Ahn'quraj. That disease was spread to those who fought a certain boss in there, lasted for a long time, and did a good amount of damage to high level characters, but was meant to go away when you left the dungeon. Due to a bug, when pets or minions died and then were brought back in a city the pets still had the disease and spread it to everyone nearby. It was meant to be tough for high level characters, so I remember walking into Ironforge with my little level 9 warrior I was playing with and dying almost instantly. Pretty funny really.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Man, it's a good thing death isn't permanent in the game.

[demigoth.livejournal.com]

Wow, I've never heard of that before. I wonder if it was just on one or a few servers.

I should go into epidemiology.

[kelsin.livejournal.com]

I think it's so dumb. Like Ayashi said it ONLY spread cause people were able to affect NPC's that don't die from it. So it just sat on them and infected others. So it's only applicable to the real world if we had super humans that could spread a disease without dying, and they had no morals, and could not be killed.

Everyone knows the internet + anonymity = dickwads so behavior is really dumb to look at in wow :-)

But yeah it was a long time ago.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Well, in reality there are some cases where people can be carriers and not be affected by the disease themselves. Less common than in WoW-land though, I'm sure. How did the NPCs eventually get uninfected?

[kelsin.livejournal.com]

Hand of god :) otherwise known as Blizzard just fixing it so NPC's can't get infected.