What do you call a digital plague that isn't a virus?
With thanks to Priya, who keeps us (semi)topical, even when she doesn't bring the angst.WoW digital plague
A deadly virtual plague has broken out in the online game World of Warcraft.
Although limited to only a few of the game's servers the numbers of characters that have fallen victim is thought to be in the thousands.
Originally it was thought that the deadly digital disease was the result of a programming bug in a location only recently added to the Warcraft game.
However, it now appears that players kicked off the plague and then kept it spreading after the first outbreak.
*snip*
The spread of the disease could have been limited by the fact that Hakkar is difficult to kill, so some realms may have fallen victim to his parting shot.
In World of Warcraft players can be orcs, humans or other fantastic creatures
The digital disease instantly killed lower level characters and did not take much longer to kill even powerful characters.
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.
If nothing else, it should make epidemiology a much more popular topic at LAN parties.
posted by Elizabeth @ 4:35 PM
2 Comments:
Since I'm doing stuff for a GPE class, may I point out that the "lower level characters" died first? So, even the virus was elitist. Damn those elite classes. Even viruses/virii spare them.
And here I jsut thought it was being biologically accurate (the weaker succumb earliest).
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