cough cough to the auction house and then to the flight path!
everyone always overexaggerates how useful the incident was to epidemiologists. It was certainly an interesting novelty, and some cool studies were produced, but the issue was that there weren’t actually consequences for bad actors. It’s a lot harder for assholes to willingly catch a disease with the goal of spreading it when that disease can actually kill them.
I’m more miffed that they never figured out a way to rerun the event for WoW Classic, if even for only 24 hours.
honestly if anything, covid showed us how bad actor assholes can easily be substituted with stupid people & negligence/spite
“covid? it doesnt exist! lets have a party with 200 people!! :D”
There’s at least one video I saw of a maskless person claiming they didn’t need the mask to protect themselves because they already have covid.
Reminder, masks were not suppose to protect YOU. They were to stop you from coughing/spitting on other people. You needed eyewear/face shield to properly protect yourself.
So like Covid
Yea, if anything it underestimated how many people would be willing dedicate themselves to becoming full time plague spreaders.
For the uninitiated/lazy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood_incident
After several failed hotfixes, Blizzard ended the pandemic by performing a hard reset, and a later patch prevented companions from contracting Corrupted Blood entirely.
Note to the future: next pandemic, try a hard reset.
Seriously though, it’s wild they couldn’t hotfix it.
It’s wild that they couldn’t change the spread property of the debuff to be deactivated if you weren’t in the boss chamber. That should not be a hard fix…
Who else remembers learning this from Cracked articles (which they read at work)?
Huh, TIL. Neat.
Also, if you like videos: https://youtu.be/EB3jOD2wjUc
That was highly entertaining, thank you
Loved that event. Was a lot of fun.
Too bad we can’t have that sort of fun in WoW anymore…
t… TWENTIETH??? 😨
Ohhh nooo. I was having an okay day, and now the inexorable passage of time is fucking it up again!
Did someone say Corrupted Blood?
Did someone say [Thunderfury Blessed Blade of the Windseeker]?
Anal [Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker]
The perfect weapon for shamans
Hunter weapon
Barrens chat was really something.
Dammitalltohellinahandbasket.
I feel old now. (I was there, Gandalf. I was there.)
that shit came in handy during the covid pandemic /s
