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World of Warcraft is Infectious

Posted by Zonk on from the practice-safe-mmoging dept.

ringbarer writes "News is coming in that the lands of Azeroth have become infected with a deadly plague which the developers never intended to spread. Originating from the new Zul'Gurub instance, the plague has spread from player to player via town NPCs. Entire cities are being wiped out, yet players are finding this surprise content entertaining!" From the article: " Some servers have gotten so bad that you can't go into the major cities without getting the plague (and anyone less than like level 50 nearly immediately die). GM's even tried quarantining players in certain areas, but the players kept escaping the quarantine and infect other players." Commentary on Terra Nova.

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  1. Fixed by interiot · · Score: 5, Informative
    The issue was hotfixed on Friday:
    Beginning at 4:00 AM PDT on 9/17 we will be issuing rolling restarts to all realms to apply a hotfix. We expect this to resolve several issues:

    -Fixed an exploit with drakonids where players could get a head start.
    -Nefarian's drakonids have reduced damaging abilities
    -The wild polymorph cast by Nefarius in Blackwing Lair, can no longer be canceled early by clicking it off.
    -Arathi Basin holiday honor should now be awarding the bonus properly.
    -Hakkar's spell Corrupted Blood can no longer exist outside of Zul'Gurub

    1. Re:Fixed by Gojira+Shipi-Taro · · Score: 5, Informative

      The hotfix didn't work

        It appears that the hotfix remedy concocted to combat the recent Azerothian outbreak has not yielded desired results. At this time, our medical staff is continuing to develop an effective cure. We look forward to ensuring the health and vitality of the citizens of Azeroth in the near future.

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    2. Re:Fixed by interiot · · Score: 2, Informative

      Strange. Well, according to the original thread (that now seems to be deleted), you could /pvp to remove the infection. Haven't tried it myself tho.

  2. Re:Unintentional? by MindStalker · · Score: 3, Informative

    It was partially intentional. It was supposed to stay inside the instanced quest. Unfortunatly due to a bug it crossed outside the instance. It has been fixed.

  3. Re:'Twas interesting... by BigDork1001 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Easy fix for when you are getting blocked, go to http://babelfish.altavista.com/ and enter forums.worldofwarcraft.com in the appropriate area and have it translate Chinese-simp to English. I'm on a military network and they block most forums and and game related stuff like WoW. This way I still get to surf the forums when I have nothing going on.

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  4. City of Heroes too... by antdude · · Score: 2, Informative

    According to Shacknews, City of Heroes are also affected by another disease.

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  5. Re:Unintentional? by buffer-overflowed · · Score: 2, Informative

    Geddon's living bomb. Yup. But that was over in one explosion, it didn't linger around for hours upon hours. You could only "legitimately" do it once every 6 days. And it only did 2000 fire damage and tossed you almost as far as screwing up reloading the Goblin Mortar does.

    It's also been fixed for quite a while.

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