Sheetrock's Journal: Remember when gaming was fun?

The BBC reports that World of Warcraft has developed a different kind of bug:

In the last week, [Blizzard] 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.

It was a hate crime!

[StalinsNotDead]

This pet was then unleashed in the orc capital city of Ogrimmar.

Clearly this was a racially motivated attack by anti-orc extremists. They should be hunted down and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Heh...

[FroMan]

There have been other incedents like this before. I forget which mob it was, but I think it was one in MC could set up a player/pet as a ticking bomb. Then if they player ported back to IF or Ogr they could then run up to the AH and blow up a lot of players. You'd think blizzard would have figured out its not safe to have effects touch folks not in the raid/group. Oh-well. Its funny.