Happy 20th anniversary to the Corrupted Blood incident!
8 months ago by fossilesque to c/science_memes
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.
That's how the spells work in wow. The BUFF would get removed if you left the room, but the issue was that pets would get it in the room and resummoned in cities, and since the buff removal thing happened while the pet was desummoned the removal didn't apply.
Doing a check each time the buff spreads is inefficient use of server.
Also, changing anything about the spell requires servers to be shut down, and they didn't want that for each fix attempt until they saw no other way and had roll back the servers.
you didn't understand. I know how the bug worked and was spread, using unsummoned pets and all. What I said is that it's wild to me that they didn't change the debuff to be unable to be spread at all for like a day. Like, change how the debuff spread works to temporarily disable it.
Doing a check each time the buff spreads is inefficient use of server.
WOW is server authoritative, meaning that who gets the debuff is decide by the server each time, doing a location check shouldn't be that inneficient, the character object should have a cheap way to get the location it is in, including the name of the area, cheaply. IDK how the game is coded obviously, but that check should NOT be something expensive.
changing anything about the spell requires servers to be shut down
Are you sure they had no way to do hotfixes without server shutdowns? That's been a thing for a while now.
Man i really miss Cracked. It used to be so good.
I still credit my sense of humor to Cracked.
Good fucking riddance! They made me believe if I don't poop standing up, I will get hemorroids...for years.
And who else didn't need an article because they were there when it happened?
https://viruscomix.com/page599.html
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Also, if you like videos: https://youtu.be/EB3jOD2wjUc
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.
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.
That general approach was so common. It really is sad.
One of the really bad effects of modern society (american especially) has been conditioning us to think of ourselves as these independent entities separate from nature and from our actual physical communities & people. We just interact with those things when we require their resources, etc. Transactional relationships happen.
One effect of this is, of course, not being considerate to those around you. But as your example shows, some people are so bad about it that it's not even a question of deciding whether to choose their own convenience over the safety of others. Considering the risk to others never enters the picture in the first place. When asked about it they would answer something like "my health is my concern, their health is their concern, and it's also none of my business." Said politely and without malice. It's just ingrained that deep.
One vector for infection is the eyes. Even people wearing eye glasses had a measurably lower infection rates then people who didn't.
No, not at all like COVID. Don't confuse ignorance for malice. The issue with COVID was skeptics who only consumed right-wing propoganda downplaying the severity of the virus. There were no skeptics in the Corrupted Blood incident, people were maliciously trying to spread the virus knowing that it would kill other people.
Ohhh nooo. I was having an okay day, and now the inexorable passage of time is fucking it up again!
Last night I realized we're closer to 2030 than 2020 now
Did someone say Corrupted Blood?
Did someone say [Thunderfury Blessed Blade of the Windseeker]?
Loved that event. Was a lot of fun.
Too bad we can't have that sort of fun in WoW anymore...
Let's all laugh at an industry that never learns anything teeheehee
Plague Inc. doesn't include real human behaviour
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