Deadly plague hits WOW realm!

[antowan]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4272418.stm

A deadly virtual plague has broken out in the online game World of Warcraft.

Although limited to only a few of the game's servers the numbers of characters that have fallen victim is thought to be in the thousands.

Originally it was thought that the deadly digital disease was the result of a programming bug in a location only recently added to the Warcraft game.

However, it now appears that players kicked off the plague and then kept it spreading after the first outbreak.

Since its launch in November 2004, World of Warcraft (Wow) has become the most widely played massively multiplayer online (MMO) game in the world.

Its creator, Blizzard, claims that now more than four million people are regular players.

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[MartinMorrison]

!!!!In the last week, it added the Zul'Gurub dungeon 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.

The infection was only supposed to affect those in the immediate vicinity of Hakkar's corpse but some players found a way to transfer it to other areas of the game by infecting an in-game virtual pet with it.

This pet was then unleashed in the orc capital city of Ogrimmar and proved hugely effective as the Corrupted Blood plague spread from player to player.

Although computer controlled characters did not contract the plague, they are said to have acted as "carriers" and infected player-controlled characters they encountered.

Scary stuff!

 

[justinct]

Wonder if they create a realm in sa if they will create a god of blood here (remember la magra from blade 1 ) and if u kill it you get aids?

Maybe they should make a telkom god, when you attack it, it steals all your gold and then comes back to life and then charges interest on the amount you still owe it when you try cancel the fight with the telkom god, it takes your money anyway and you must now wait 6months to fight it again. Wonder if they should call it the "telkom god" or the "anc=telkom god" or "anc=sabc=telkom god" i reckon the "anc=telkom=sabc=vodacom god" is the best. Its invincible though, so best choice is to avoid the telkom god, o wait you cant, ITS THE ONLY ONE IN THE SA REALM!!!

 

[h0ll0w]

LMAO!!

No the telkom monster will just rob you of all your items and sommer your clothes too. You wont be able to damage it with the most powerful weapons, because the guardians - which have the ultimate power in the realm - protecting the entrance of the cave, so n00bs dont waltz in there unknowing, who warn you before going into the lair, are actually healing the telkom monster 2000000 HP p/s and so keep it alive. They do this so they can score some l33t epic items etc which the monster gives to them.
When the monster is finished robbing you and beating you up it just kicks you out of his lair followed by a string of curses and a pile of ****.