Plague in World of Warcraft
This just in by email from Brian Jepson: "This is really weird--apparently Blizzard recently added a new opponent that has a powerful attack with a contagious effect. They've even tried quarantining affected characters: http://crystaltips.typepad.com/wonderland/2005/09/plaguelands.html"
As virtual worlds become more complex, they appear to mimic the natural world, even to unexpected side effects. All I can say is: just extend that line of sight for a few years, a decade, and tell me what you see!
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In Bloglines, this headline appears to read "Plaque in World of Warcraft". I figured maybe Blizzard had introduced gum disease, but I guess a "plague" is even more amazing.
I think we'll see some really exciting developments in virtual worlds, particularly those with economies like Second Life, as they mature.
The contagious effect was only supposed to affect characters inside an "instance" - an in-game area that is limited only to the party of characters that started it - but some inventive characters found a way to bring it out by exploiting game mechanics, and released it in a high-population area of the the in-game world.
I can confirm that it was still "loose" on Saturday (on the game server "Uther"), despite Blizzard's claims to have fixed it on Friday.
Regarding Andy Lester's statement above, it wasn't fixed. They attempted to disinfect the world outside of the dungeon, but they were unsuccessful.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.aspx?fn=wow-general&t=4929988&p=1&tmp=1#post4929988
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Andy Lester [09.19.05 10:07 AM]
It's a bug, at least as far as existing outside of a specific dungeon, and has been fixed.
http://www.wowguru.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8036
Still, it's interesting to see it get "outside the lab".