Talk:Corrupted Blood incident

Is it canonical?
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)
 * Blizzard has not made it canon, though it has been considering making a similar scenario (an intentional one this time). - The New Age Retro Hippie used Ruler! Now, he can figure out the length of things easily. 08:09, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

Paragraph length
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)


 * A short paragraph is better than a long one. ^_^


 * While overuse of one-line sentances should be avoided (exception perhaps in a low-quality newspaper), there are sayings that "short paragraphs attract long paragraphs intimidate" and "shorter is better"
 * Paragraphs really only says that paragraphs should be as long as they need to be and that overuse of one-liners should be avoided.
 * To me each of the three people making statements are discussing very different points. 1) WoW should be looked at. 2)Wow should not be looked at. 3)Wow is not real, you realise?
 * These should be seperated for easier reading, and clearing the lines of who is stating what.
 * Yes, they are all related to Wow as a terrorism tool - but that is why they are in the one *section*.--ZayZayEM (talk) 00:34, 1 March 2009 (UTC)
 * That's an interesting point. Come on, let's get into character. - The New Age Retro Hippie used Ruler! Now, he can figure out the length of things easily. 07:20, 1 March 2009 (UTC)

Remove the AIDS reference
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)
 * Gamasutra made the correlation, not us; this article is discussing that such comparisons/examples were made, not whether it's appropriate for publishers to have done so a year ago. —   pd_THOR  undefined | 22:41, 20 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Comments have been taken on board. The reference is Gamasutra's, so is fine to include - however, it can be worded more neutrally. Some would even dispute the extent of Typhoid Mary's attempts to "try and spread disease" (or was she just a denier of Germ Theory?)--ZayZayEM (talk) 04:58, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Similarities to Runescape's "Durial 321 6/6/06 glitch"
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)
 * Just because it's similar doesn't mean it need be mentioned. At best, it should be a See Also. - The New Age Retro Hippie used Ruler! Now, he can figure out the length of things easily. 12:02, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Please provide further information to support your claim it is "well sourced". An interview conducted over a chat-relay on a community website is not a significant source. Please also provide information how this has achieved significant third party coverage (popular gaming media, mainstream media, governments and/or academics). Please also provide how this event is realted to corrupted blood. Corrupted blood was a spell bug that caused a plague-epidemic in a vitual world (actually across multiple servers) - while the exploit in runescape relates one player using it too conduct unauthorised PKs over a one hour period before being banned for EULA-violation, not a plague, no real world equivalent, no interruption of normal gameplay inside the main game world. Please point out where I'm not getting the connection beyond both being game-based bugs.--ZayZayEM (talk) 12:34, 26 April 2009 (UTC)

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)

hard reset
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)


 * Ick. That should probably be wikilinked... I would imagine that they are simply rolled back, as with your first option, that implies that everyone and their character on the server was removed... which was not the case. --Izno (talk) 02:50, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

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)

South Park reference
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)
 * We would need a reliable source to first discuss any tenuous connection between the two. —   pd_THOR  undefined | 15:21, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Great Zombie Plague of '08
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)
 * Your link is to a forum, not typically regarded as a reliable source. That being said, not only would you need sourcing to the event, but you need the same to relate it to this particular incident.  Just being similar and drawing such conclusions ourselves is original research, and not allowed.  —   pd_THOR  undefined | 18:26, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
 * My link was to Blizzard's own official forum with the first post being a blue (ie Blizzard employee) so that establishes the Great Zombie Plague of '08 as on official event. Please understand how the forums of Blizzard work regarding reliable source criteria.--BruceGrubb (talk) 19:02, 17 October 2010 (UTC)

Forum Flags: "An authorized representative of Blizzard Entertainment. Note: Individual Blizzard Employees can select their own special icon. Look for "Blizzard Poster" and a Blizzard icon to identify Blizzard Posters with custom icons."

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)

By the way as a common courtesy tell everyone when you do something like Reliable_sources/Noticeboard next time, please.--BruceGrubb (talk) 23:00, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
 * I was perturbed by your tone which I'd taken as confrontational, and didn't want to escalate a wikifight with you. I took the issue to the RSN because your initial reply here indicated that because you said so was the reason the source was to be taken as reliable.  However, what you provided there (and then here) is exactly what was relevant in the first place and I have no qualms about its current application.  —   pd_THOR  undefined | 16:02, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Considering that for the edit I stated "official blue post reference" to begin with in the edit perhaps finding out what that meant here rather than running off to Reliable_sources/Noticeboard without telling anyone here would have been better. The only way I even knew about that was due to my having issue at that time with the Weston Price article and showing that an article by Stephen Barrett was not a reliable source for the biography.--BruceGrubb (talk) 07:43, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Further expansion
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  undefined | 16:02, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
 * But "Zombie Plague" is a generic term while "Great Zombie Plague of '08" is not.--BruceGrubb (talk) 08:01, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

What the article lacks
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)

Nice screenshot
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)


 * Low resolution is unfortunately required by Wikipedia's fair use policy for non-free images.
 * Multiple attempts to replace it with an upscaled image have been tried but have all been reverted.
 * A higher resolution of the same screenshot can be found here, on the Warcraft wiki. Kaasterly (talk) 14:11, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

"See Also" section: what to put in it?
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)

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)