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It would be cool if that incident was merged in the Warcraft storyline plot. Do anybody know if Blizzard did so?--92.118.191.48 (talk) 18:20, 22 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
A long paragraph is better than a short one. - The New Age Retro Hippie used Ruler! Now, he can figure out the length of things easily. 18:29, 28 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]
There is controversy and disagreement over whether Gaetan Dugas intentionally spread the AIDS virus. As such, it is inappropriate to use him as an example of this incident. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.104.77.47 (talk) 22:34, 20 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I, for one think this section needs to be added. The glitch (where on the day a skill called construction came out) allowed a single player to kill others outside designated player killing areas. It's one of Runescape's most cited glitches, well sourced and will make teh artcile more interesting... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.162.197.176 (talk) 09:23, 26 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU1VgYuHqEQ Runescape wiki article here http://runescape.wikia.com/wiki/World_111_Glitch Dark Runescape Wiki article here http://darkrunescape.wikia.com/wiki/Durial321
JaGeX also provided feedback via their main website
Not much media coverage; however, I fail to see how this is reletevent.
The glitch is related because it involves a single player exploiting game mechanincs and leaving the rest of the server in hysteria. Please note, the "similar incidents" section is there to document other incidents relating, but not exactly the same to teh first... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.133.90.138 (talk) 17:58, 14 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
what exactly is meant by "hard reset" in this article? were the servers reset to a state as if noone has played on them before? Were they rolled back to thier status from a previous date? Did they simply reset the "Corrupted Blood" status and leave everything else alone or what? Plugwash (talk) 01:39, 27 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
On WoW, "hard reset" is not a common term, what most likely is meant is what WoW refers to as "Server Restart" Some game changes are made as hotfixes...small downloads to the game users' local files that do not require a server restart. They do this for quick fixes to client side issues that are not game stopping class "A" bugs, mostly. Occasionally they will do hotfixes to apply a "band aid" for a class "A" bug, until such time as a real fix can be applied to the servers at the next scheduled server restart. Most likely this would have been a case of Server Restart to apply a full fix, since there is no perma death or real damage to the players or the game itself, there would not have been a need to "roll back" anything. it was inconvenient but in the end it did not permanently alter your character or the game environment. Aen13 (talk) 00:08, 12 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Does anyone think that the Make Love, Not Warcraft episode refers partly to this incident? It is clear that there is "global" problem of sorts going on in WoW, and many players are affected... would love to hear if anyone agress/disagrees, or thinks it deserves a "See also" Jherm (talk) 07:55, 6 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Some mention of Blizzard's intentional Zombie Plague that was let loose as a prelude for Wraith of the Lich King (Regarding the Zombie Plague) should be made as the results were nearly identical to those of the accidental Corrupted Blood plague. Capital cities became effective ghost towns and many people were complaining that they couldn't get or turn in quests thanks to the quest giver going zombie. For some people it got so bad that they stopped playing until the whole thing was over.--BruceGrubb (talk) 18:18, 17 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
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Tigole has the Blizz icon where the level number should be and "Blizzard Poster" underneith his name ergo per Forum Flags he is "An authorized representative of Blizzard Entertainment". Clearly a WP:RS as explained by Blizzard themselves.--BruceGrubb (talk) 22:40, 18 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
By the way as a common courtesy tell everyone when you do something like Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Noticeboard#reliable_forum_post.3F next time, please.--BruceGrubb (talk) 23:00, 18 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The two Sunday Times references in the "Zombie Plague" section also deal with the potential for real-world disease modeling. I won't ascertain whether they need to be incorporated or not, but FYI. — pd_THOR | =/\= | 16:02, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]
As a casual reader, I would expect at least two pieces of information from the article: first, how long it took Blizzard to get things under control, and second, what was this incident's net influence on the player base. The second one might be harder to confirm (though there should be some estimations) but the first one should deifnitely be included. --Oop (talk) 18:48, 23 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Nice 353 × 282 screenshot you have there guys, 100% understandable what's going on ;) — 178.150.20.195 (talk) 13:43, 13 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]
I was sad there was no See Also section wikilinking to other similar MMORPG events like the Eve Online defection worth thousands of real-world dollars, but that story doesn't even have its own article???
If you know of other relevant events, please add them in a See Also section! There have to be some Ninjalectual (talk) 19:53, 20 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Also see the "similar to runescape" talk discussion. I think that would be entirely appropriate for a see also link, no? Ninjalectual (talk) 19:55, 20 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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Reviewer: Protonk (talk · contribs) 19:12, 18 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I will review this article. I have made five edits to the page, almost entirely all about 10 years ago. I do not consider that significant contribution. Protonk (talk) 19:12, 18 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you for your patience. This article is, in the main, well illustrated (such as it can be), stable, neutral, broad, verifiable, and well written. I have no major complaints which would stop me from passing it immediately. I will make another pass through the article to see if there are any things which I might want changed but would not want to change myself. If I find nothing I'll pass it. Protonk (talk) 16:50, 22 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Ok. I've passed the article. I made one minor stylistic change while searching around for more significant concerns or ways that I could improve it. My only suggestion right now is that the lede be somewhat rebalanced to match the distribution of content in the article--obviously it should not be a fixed relationship to the sections lengths, but the last paragraph discussing epidemiological response to the incident deserves a little more space. That is not part of the GA criteria, just a suggestion as to improvement. Very good job, especially with the recent edits and improvements by GhostRiver. Thank you. Protonk (talk) 17:05, 22 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]