Talk:Corrupted Blood incident

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title:  Is it canonical? 

message: 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)
replies: text: 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 | =/\= | 22:41, 20 April 2009 (UTC)

text: 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)
thread_title:  Remove the AIDS reference 

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)

text: 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)
thread_title:  Similarities to Runescape's "Durial 321  6/6/06 glitch"  

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title:  hard reset 

message: 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)
replies: text: We would need a reliable source to first discuss any tenuous connection between the two.  —  pd_THOR | =/\= | 15:21, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  South Park reference 

message: 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)
replies: text: 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 | =/\= | 18:26, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: 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)

text: 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 | =/\= | 16:02, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: 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 Wikipedia: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)
thread_title:  Great Zombie Plague of '08 

message: 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 | =/\= | 16:02, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: But "Zombie Plague" is a generic term while "Great Zombie Plague of '08" is not.--BruceGrubb (talk) 08:01, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Further expansion 

message: 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)
thread_title: What the article lacks

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