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  • koschwarz
    #40224
    Warcraft Plague Runs Amok
    In a bizarre case of art imitating life, players of the Blizzard Entertainment game World of Warcraft suddenly found themselves dying from a mysteriously rampant plague that ravaged their virtual world.

    The plague began innocently enough. Blizzard introduced a new dungeon area in the world, intended to give high-level players a bit of a challenge. But when players reached the boss at the end of the dungeon, they got more than they bargained for — and unknowingly took a little something back to town to share with their friends. The dungeon boss, called Hakkar the Soulflayer, cast a spell called Corrupted Blood. The powerful spell caused about 280 damage points to anyone it hit, and spread to other members of the attacking party as well. Such powerful spell attacks aren’t unusual in the World of Warcraft game world. But what happened next was just plain weird.

    When infected adventurers returned to town at the end of their quest, they inadvertently passed along the Corrupted Blood infection to those nearby. In short order, the plague ravaged the population. Soon entire cities fell victim to the artificial disease. And while 280 damage points may be easy for a level-58 Night Elf warrior to contend with, it’s enough to kill a lower-level player in seconds.

    Game administrators were baffled. As they scrambled to quarantine areas of the game world, the disease quickly spread beyond their control. Partially to blame was the game’s “hearthstone” feature, which allows players to essentially teleport from one area to another, and which made it possible for the plague to reach the most distant regions of the map in just minutes.

    Eventually the game’s administrators came up with a “spell” to cure the plague and managed to distribute it to the players en masse. But the legacy of Corrupted Blood remains. While software viruses are nothing new, Corrupted Blood is unique in that it’s the first such infection ever to spread through a virtual environment without being deployed by malicious intent. It was, in a certain sense, naturally occuring in its environment. You might even say it evolved and sought self-propagation, just as any lifeform would do.

    In the days since Blizzard eradicated the plague, the company has remained surprisingly quiet about what happened. But you can still find plenty of players willing to talk about it. One 14-year-old Orc told me openly of the incident: “Humans were dying left and right. We just laughed and laughed.”

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    Sunday, September 25th, 2005 at 10:25 pm


    World of Warcraft Guild
    Well me and some friends made a guild in WoW on the Blackhand server, so if your interested and or need some people to party with or talk with let me know and we can hooks your up with an invite.


    Saturday, September 24th, 2005 at 11:43 pm


    µTorrent v1.1
    µTorrent is an efficient and feature rich BitTorrent client for Windows sporting a very small footprint. It was designed to use as little cpu, memory and space as possible while offering all the functionality expected from advanced clients.

    With BitTorrent, you can download files faster and contribute by sharing files and bandwidth.

    * Multiple simultaneous downloads
    * Smart bandwidth usage
    * File level priorities
    * Configurable bandwidth scheduling
    * Global and per-torrent speed limiting
    * Quickly resumes interrupted transfers
    * UPnP support (WinXP only)
    * Supports popular protocol extensions
    * Typical memory usage less than 4 MB
    * Incredibly small: 82 KB

    Get it here!


    Wednesday, September 21st, 2005 at 8:57 pm


    Done with stats
    Yes its true, the stats are down, down for good. Why? Well I havent had much time to work on them, and with EA rolling out their new stat server I would have to take them down ne ways to redo them, which im not doing, so im just taking them down for good. Sorry for this but it was gonna happen sooner or later. BF2s.com is still up and running since they are the ones who are testing the new Stat server and is doing very well, their style is updated and now looks better with more features. I wish I was able to continue this project but Ive had other things to take care of.

    Got3n™

    ha valaki nem vágná: nincs többé a got3n-en bf2 statisztika, mert nincs rá idejük. ajánlják a bf2s.com-ot helyette, ami szerintem is jó, kicsit több adattal.
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