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Geek Culture / World of Warcraft "Corrupted Blood epidemic"!

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Posted: 25th Aug 2007 14:39 Edited at: 25th Aug 2007 14:41
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As many of you may already know, a new area was added to WoW recently, the Zul'Gurub dungeon was added which gave players a chance to confront and kill the fearsome Hakkar - the god of Blood. In his death throes Hakkar hits foes with a "corrupted blood" infection that can instantly kill weaker characters.

Now, Some higher level player gave the infection to his ingame pet and let it loose in a city, and literally hunderds of players contracted the disease, most below level 50 died almost instantly. The epidemic has been spread (apparantly) to two other servers already.

According to players, on one of the servers you can't even go near the major cities without being infected. Some players and the WoW equivalent to moderators have tried to quarentine the infected players, but some players who wish to spread the disease have managed to get out of the quarentined areas and into other cities and spread the infection further. Most players simply fled, I personally would have logged out and waited for the whole thing to end but some players are just taking the WoW to seriously.

Some people at Blizzard (the company that made the game) tried to sort out the problem, it worked for a short while, but small pockets of the disease have started to break out again...THIS IS INSANE!

I'm not a WoW player myself and only heard about on Click, a technology program that is part of the saturday morning news on BBC1, how often does an MMORPG get onto part on a national news program? This may well be the first true "World event" for World of Warcraft.
Heres's a link to the full story
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20050921-5337.html

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stuff Wow, Play Dungeon runners

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Sounds almost set up to me.

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Posted: 25th Aug 2007 15:13 Edited at: 25th Aug 2007 15:43
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wow is so crap
its for nerds that dont have a life, so they can have a second one with magical crap.

i hope all of WoW dies


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Posted: 25th Aug 2007 15:31 Edited at: 25th Aug 2007 15:32
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Sounds like a lot of jealous/prejudiced people here.

WoW, if you ask me, is set up great both technically and gameplaywise. I don't think we can argue that, based upon 8 million (casual) players. And like in any game (I don't recall fanatic CounterStrike players being called 'nerd that dont have a life to have a second one with uzi crap') we have a hardcore group that plays a darn lot. So what, let them be, I'd say, their choice.

Besides, I think the whole phenomenom of that disease (it spread earlier, made news back then too - I thought it was Zul'Gurub back then too - so how is it new?) is quite cool. Indeed a true world event (besides those Ahn'Qiraj gates or sumtin).


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...i miss the scourge invasions


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Posted: 25th Aug 2007 16:37
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So, in this game that you pay for, you are being killed for absolutely no fault of your own? Yeah, how much fun is that? Real value for money there!

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Quote: "So, in this game that you pay for, you are being killed for absolutely no fault of your own? Yeah, how much fun is that? Real value for money there!"


I guess that's the price to pay for being able to play with other people. Well, that, and the monthly fee

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Posted: 25th Aug 2007 16:45 Edited at: 25th Aug 2007 16:47
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thats not NEWS thats OLDS happened ages ago, 2005?

I think putting anything in a game that can enter low level areas and 1 hit players is stupid. Making it self replicate, double stupid.

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Posted: 25th Aug 2007 17:02
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strange...I only heard about it this morning...it happened in 2005? well, sorry for starting this thread then...

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Posted: 25th Aug 2007 17:07 Edited at: 25th Aug 2007 17:08
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Quote: "WoW, if you ask me, is set up great both technically and gameplaywise."
gameplaywise!? you call repetitive tasks and quests good gameplay!? the only reason they have so many players is because they designed the game to be addicting. they just want their money.

also, something about this epidemic sounds very set up on blizzard's part. how could a patch not fix it? they could have just temporarily removed it from the game entirely...

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Posted: 25th Aug 2007 17:13 Edited at: 25th Aug 2007 17:17
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Definitely set up. Or Blizzard are stupid.

Quote: "I don't think we can argue that, based upon 8 million (casual) players."

All noobs no doubt.

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I wonder how long it will take until this happens in the real world.
how cool would that be? But I'd be dead within 5 minutes . probably.

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Sounds like the WoW South Park episode to me.

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Hehe, I find it hilarious that they tried to "quarantine" players. How does that work?

Blizzard employee "Uhhh..... now everyone say right here and don't move. You're paying a monthly fee to stand in this room until you're not contagious. Thanks"

Player "Hey guys, let's not listen to him!"

Player 2 "Yay!"


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Quote: "I wonder how long it will take until this happens in the real world."


It has...just centuries a go, on more than one occasion, the plague actually helped us English clear the French rulers out of our country (And the French protractors, compasses and the odd pencil or two. )

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Quote: " gameplaywise!? you call repetitive tasks and quests good gameplay!? the only reason they have so many players is because they designed the game to be addicting. they just want their money."

Well, seeing that 8 million people seem to enjoy, get addicted to and pay for the repetitive quests, they must've set them up quite well. So yup, I find that WoW has been set up great gameplaywise.


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Quote: "I wonder how long it will take until this happens in the real world.
how cool would that be? But I'd be dead within 5 minutes . probably."

Yeah, Bubonic Plague from 1347-1351, killed 1/3 to 1/2 of Europe's population .


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Quote: "Yeah, Bubonic Plague from 1347-1351, killed 1/3 to 1/2 of Europe's population "


And as I said, killed a lot of the French people ruling England at the time Please DO pay attention to the IMPORTANT details my friend.

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You guys say this is all crap and whatever, but really for an online world to have plagues and epidemics built in by accident is pretty awesome. Thats a "feature" they didn't mean to add. Of course it's kinda lame that players purposefully spread it for laughs, but it could put a whole new twist on gameplay which might be fun.



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Quote: "Well, seeing that 8 million people seem to enjoy, get addicted to and pay for the repetitive quests, they must've set them up quite well."


uh, ya?

Quote: "So yup, I find that WoW has been set up great gameplaywise."


so you find repetitive quests with no storyline to be great fun?

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Quote: "so you find repetitive quests with no storyline to be great fun?"

I'm sorry? No storyline? Go sit in a corner.

Warcraft has a great storyline and I love seeing the story fit together as it does in World of Warcraft. The game keeps giving the feeling of advantage up till and even past level 70 (with a small dip around 30). The repetitiveness in my opinion isn't so bad as you claim it to be. I had great fun doing all those quests in all those environments with my guild. The only quests that ever got boring to me were the "collect this loot item".

No storyline...? Shame on you. I can't wait for the battle with Arthas.


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What about all the cheats? If i'm gona pay for a game I'd rather not have them

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Quote: "What about all the cheats? If i'm gona pay for a game I'd rather not have them "


Cheats? Uh?


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There's mods for the UI... there's no cheats to my knowledge. There may be a few bugs and exploits... but thats it.



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Quote: "'m sorry? No storyline? Go sit in a corner."


i was talking about the quests, not the main story line. practically all of the quests are: "Me needs items. Now go get them." whereas a good game like oblivion or morrowind had a story for every quest be it short or long, just a letter from someone to you or volumes of books on the subject.

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Quote: "there's no cheats to my knowledge."


How to speed cheat WoW
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/737005/how_to_speed_hack_in_world_of_warcraft/

Earn Gold and Level while you sleep. Wow Bot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKD46KkurfU

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Quote: "i was talking about the quests, not the main story line. practically all of the quests are: "Me needs items. Now go get them." whereas a good game like oblivion or morrowind had a story for every quest be it short or long, just a letter from someone to you or volumes of books on the subject."

Since most of the quests are linked, you'll find that most of those retrieve item quests have a story and goal. I mean, I've encountered similar quests as you describe in Oblivion in World of Warcraft - with books and volumes on a certain subject, to create something with the power to destroy something but at the cost of so much of that item. There's always a reason. If you just click through those stories, you shouldn't complain about lack of story. And of course, at the start everything is of less importance and less story. Oblivion does it greatly with the death of the king nearby and you getting that amulet (I loved the first trip into Oblivion at Kvatch or something, and then shutting the gate, it was quite overwhelming), but for an MMO such goals seem impossible to me.

"Hey the king just died and gave me this amulet!"
"Hey me too!"

So I think they're not comparable at all.

How to speedcheat WoW 'on private servers where you won't get banned' didn't really give me the idea Blizzard doesn't easily detect and takes action against such things. It only strengthened the idea Blizzard has everything under control (except that epidemy, lol). Bots - OMG. 30 gold per day? Whoa. That's a whole lot... Can't even pay a (few) repair bill(s) with that.


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Quote: "Bots - OMG. 30 gold per day? Whoa. That's a whole lot... Can't even pay a (few) repair bill(s) with that."


If you watch the vid he said that was the minimum, on a good day he got 60-70hr from rare drop selling.

30 gold an hour, 720gold day, 262800 year

farm 10 bots = 300 hr, 7200 day, 2,628,000 year

now imagine he sends all this gold to his real character

Don't forget he's also getting level and skills too and then sell the bots later for RL money!

If you play without cheating, this guy will outlevel you and have bought all the best eq while he sleeps and you will have died from exhaustion playing 24hrs a day trying to keep up

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I suppose you'd have WoW as a dumb console game where the user picks their actions with 500 safeguards and contingencies to make sure they aren't cheating in any way, with only a minor loss of 99% gameplay(Give or take 1%).

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Quote: "If you play without cheating, this guy will outlevel you and have bought all the best eq while he sleeps and you will have died from exhaustion playing 24hrs a day trying to keep up "


Cool. Let him be. I enjoy the game and as long as his bot doesn't PvP gank me, I'm happy he can make a living out of it.


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Hehe A game with infectious disease thaat kills all n00bs. Sounds good to me.

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Well the game maybe a waste of time but the CDC is using this information because thats how people in the real world would act so its not all bad.

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Personaly I think that people liked it because it was a random event that never happened before. They didn't expect a plague to spread. And the devs prabably didn't intend for this to happen, but when it did, why stop it if people like it? And to the WoW haters- most mmorpg games made at the time used that system, and many games still do today. I don't play WoW, but I do play mmorpgs and all of the ones I play/have played have players that use those programs.

And while those 8 million people may not be hard-core gamers, niether are many of the people that play games.
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