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World of Warcraft has been a match truly ahead of its time. So much so, that its players already witnessed the effects of a pandemic over a decade past.

A damaging effect, called Corrupted Blood, devoting tens of thousands of players, and left lower-leveled characters in an unavoidable death-loop. The effect, known as a debuff, was a temporary condition, but one that could spread to other gamers when they stood close to one another, exactly like a true virus.

A week following the outbreak, it compelled Blizzard to restart every WoW server to prevent it from spreading out of control.

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Hakkar would toss Corrupted Blood on players and it would damage them for approximately ten seconds. Players would disperse the impact to others if they got too close to those infected. After the 10 seconds were done, or players finished the boss battle, the harmful impact was supposed to finish. Only it did not.

A programming supervision allowed the debuff to spread beyond the website of this Hakkar boss struggle and into the world at large. Much like rats fueled the Bubonic Plague, personalities' trained creatures lacked the Corrupted Blood outbreak. Hunter characters can summon and discount pets to fight at their side at will. Once ignored, all the consequences on the pets have been paused until it's called back out again. In consequence, the critters could contract Corrupted Blood through the boss fight, vanish and then exhibit the symptoms elsewhere in the world map if they were summoned. There it might spread to cheap wow gold classic other pets and players that came in contact with them.