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[Bregor]

I was actually surprised this didn't hit the forum earlier, as the plague broke out last week.

For those who play, it is not actually classified as a disease, so priests can't cure it. If you are 60 or near it, you can survive, but lower level characters are usually doomed.

It broke out in Ironforge on my server - I evacuated my low lvl alts as rapidly as possible and my lvl 60 main spent only minimal time in IF, so I never actually caught the plague, but the place was littered with bodies and skeletons of those who had.

 

[Hydro_Alexis]

:lol i dont even play WoW, but that sounds awesome

Co-Sign.

Yeah... and what REALLY PISSES ME OFF is that we PAY for this game.
Fix your shit, Blizzard.
Greedy fucks.

:lol Whats funny is that your avatar perfectly fits your post :lol

 

[Dr_Cogent]

http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=10760041



http://wowaids.ytmnd.com/

Amusing enough for anyone to appreciate. ^_~

This happened in my realm. I left to go do something while I was standing at the AH, came back - and I was dead!

I thought IF got raided, but it turned out it was the plauge.

I went in to IF and saw all this blood splattering off infected people, someone told me what happened, and I teleported my Mage ass outta there.

I love that feature of the Mages

 

[Leatherface]

The living bomb bug was the greatest thing ever. There was this one guy that was really annoying on our server so the locks in my guild and in others would go out of our way to blow him up. He would be in the middle of the Western Plaguelands and we would find him and blow him up. Good times.

Please share with me these secrets. I too would like to blow people up.

 

[DarienA]

Personally, as a non-WoW player, I find this sort of thing fascinating. It's really interesting to see how real-world phenomena -- a deadly outbreak -- can be replicated in microcosm in a fictious game world and how everyone reacts. We have the "government" (Blizzard) scrambling to find a cure, the attempt to use the virus as a weapon (which was done with the real plague in the Middle Ages), etc. Sure, it's all unintentional, but so would a real outbreak like this!

I can see why an actual player of the game would be peeved, though, since they're paying to fight monsters and not participate in social psychology simulations .

As for me ... well, I'd probably be more interested in MMORPGs if they had more such studies of group behavior and less level grinding .

Agreed.