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gray_ghost) wrote2005-09-22 07:17 pm
gray_ghost) wrote2005-09-22 07:17 pm
Virtual Plague infects WOW
Okay...this is just fucking weird
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.
The debate amongst players now is if it really was intentional although due to the effects of the problem it seems unlikely," Paul Younger, an editor on the unofficial worldofwarcraft.net site, told the BBC News website.
The "Corrupted Blood" plague is not the first virtual disease to break out in online 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.
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.
The debate amongst players now is if it really was intentional although due to the effects of the problem it seems unlikely," Paul Younger, an editor on the unofficial worldofwarcraft.net site, told the BBC News website.
The "Corrupted Blood" plague is not the first virtual disease to break out in online 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.
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lol...anyway I don't know how anyone can take stuff like this seriously. I cannot imagine calling some person at a help desk and bitching about the fact that my virtual guinea pig killed my avatar in some game I was playing online. I can't even type that and keep a straight face. I'm sure lawsuits were filed though....