Irvine (CA) - A mysterious and apparently unintentional plague has recently ravaged the popular World of Warcraft (WoW) online game. The plague is caused by a bug in the game code, in which a spell generates damage to some characters continually. Lower-level characters who have low 'hit points' die quickly, while high-level players are slightly inconvenienced. Blizzard, the game's manufacturer, has tried to contain the plague by "quarantining" characters, but some players have responded by breaking quarantine, spreading the plague to others as though it were a feature of the game itself.
Travis Meacham, a media computing analyst at Disney and author of a recent
Tom's Hardware Guide article,
"How to Meet Women in World of Warcraft," told us, "Spells like these are supposed to wipe (disappear or dispel) when leaving the area, but this one didn't."
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Sep 21, 2005, 07:33 PM
