Warcraft Plague

A recent outbreak of a "plague" in a popular online game has scientists
considering how the virtual world may provide clues to what people
would do in real-world pandemics. In the role-playing game World of
Warcraft, a "corrupted blood" spell killed characters and affected
players in unexpected ways.

Get the audio at www.npr.org.

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"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -- Toulouse-Lautre, Moulin Rouge

Very cool, and very interesting. They've started to use games for a
number of scientific reasons recently, so why not something like this.

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Ham and Jam Contributor
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'Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!'

but i want to know how they got affected..

Was corrupted blood that infection that was supposed to stay in one place but due to a bug characters carried it out of that one place and the infection was meant for high level characters so it killed lower level people very fast?

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Reckless disregard for childrens well being, women and nothing but utter contempt for other cultures.

The explanation:

A new dungeon was released recently called Zul'Gurub, and the main boss
gives players a disease called "corrupted blood" which did a ridiculous
amount of damage over time and would infect people near you. Basically,
someone had managed to hearthstone out of the dungeon and into a major
populace with the disease, and unleashed it on all the poor lowbies.
Luckily it never happened on my server. ^^ It was patch-fixed a few
weeks ago, so don't bother trying it anymore.

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I Ain't Gettin' On No Plane, Foo'

The scenario sounds eerily similar to a potential influenza pandemics. The bird flu virus is undergoing mutation, and millions of people could die from it if it evolved in a certain way.

The scary thing is that we can't resurrect people in real life.

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"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." -- Toulouse-Lautre, Moulin Rouge

that is a great idea, the whole plague thing. they should do things like that for all rpgs, but more variation like natural disasters or full scale real-time wars or something.

WoW was okay but the graphics seemed a little too cartoony for me. i personally thing best RPG ever is Final Fantasy IX.

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Bullet Control: $5000 for a bullet.
"I would blow your f**king head off! ...if I could afford it. I'm gonna get another job, start saving some money... then you a dead man!"

Best RPG is going to be Oblivion... if that counts as RPG... whichI think it does.

French Toast said:
Best RPG is going to be Oblivion... if that counts as RPG... whichI think it does.

forgot about that one.

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Bullet Control: $5000 for a bullet.
"I would blow your f**king head off! ...if I could afford it. I'm gonna get another job, start saving some money... then you a dead man!"

Seen the new gameplay video? f**kin A man.

Link, please.

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Bullet Control: $5000 for a bullet.
"I would blow your f**king head off! ...if I could afford it. I'm gonna get another job, start saving some money... then you a dead man!"

Link, please.

WUTHESAID..

I comenmerate Blizzard for adding these things to the game. In an upcomming release they are going to add costumes for holloween, not much significance on most servers, but fun stuff to do on the good ol' RP servers.

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Posting And You

I can't wait for Oblivion. They near-eliminated the only thing I hated about Morrowind: The amount of time travelling back and forth between places. Also now it has havok physics and a supposedly kick-ass AI called Radiant :smile: .

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Reckless disregard for childrens well being, women and nothing but utter contempt for other cultures.