Remembering the Corrupted Blood incident: That time WoW was overrun by a virtual plague now referenced by Covid-19 researchers

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Remembering the Corrupted Blood incident: That time WoW was overrun by a virtual plague now referenced by Covid-19 researchers
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Jody's first computer was a Commodore 64, so he remembers having to use a code wheel to play Pool of Radiance. A former music journalist who interviewed everyone from Giorgio Moroder to Trent Reznor, Jody also co-hosted Australia's first radio show about videogames, Zed Games.

changed the DNA of videogames as a whole. One incident stands out in terms of reaching beyond the world of videogames though, and that's the Corrupted Blood plague.

It took almost a month for Blizzard's patches and rolling restarts to halt the spread of Corrupted Blood, by which time it had infected more than four million players. Some of those infections were simple proximity contagion, but there was also an element of malice, with groups of players deliberately catching the plague and using healing magic to delay their deaths so they could spread it to cities belonging to rival factions.

"You start to see people like, 'Oh this isn't a big deal, I'm not going to change my behavior. I'm going to the concert and then going to see my elderly grandma anyway,'" said Dr. Lofgren in 2020."Maybe don't do that. That's a big takeaway. Epidemics are a social problem... Minimizing the seriousness of something is sort of real-world griefing.", and referenced in the Scourge invasion that took place as part of the Shadowlands expansion in 2020.

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