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Added by Brad Shoemaker on April 30, 2009
In yet another instance of life imitating games, some fearless World of Warcraft players have pointed out that the ongoing Swine Flu pandemic has found its way into the fabled lands of Azeroth, as evidenced by this Wowhead page. Here's the photographic evidence.
Residents of Azeroth are urged to proceed to the nearest auction house and procure a Gleaming Surgical Mask of the Bear. Just like in real life, the ill effects of the virus include 120 Nature damage every two seconds, and a 70 percent reduction in movement speed.
To be fair, a Blizzard representative pointed out this spell has been in the game since Wrath of the Lich King went into beta and is certainly not a late attempt to capitalize on dire current events. This stuff has been around for a while, after all.
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majnuker said:
"lmao INFECT YOUR FRIENDS!Interactive gameplay!"I dont need a computer to do that ;)
Haha, more swine flu. How about "whine flu!"
yep, that's not a great joke.
yep, that's not a great joke.
yeah, i dont find this funny, with the swine flu approaching my area quickly but whatever. i dont play wow so i dont really care. blizzard can do what they want
I'm worried that swine flu might be so bad as to cause an a-pork-alypse.
Oh dude "Whine Flu" is excellent! it's not bad!
a-pork-alypse is terrible...
No i like that too.
a-pork-alypse is terrible...
No i like that too.
My college shut down in Texas, things are Resident Evil over here
Tacky joke btw, people are dying here
Tacky joke btw, people are dying here
Bigandtasty said:
"Too bad it's not another Corrupted Blood. That was the stuff that made WoW fun.Yeah, that was fun.Then again maybe it's not bad since I'm not missing much"
people die from any old flu, all the time, so...but hey, it's not my place! they weren't my jokes!
This article is pretty bad though.
EDIT: i meant subject wise! also...why do MMO playes call their characters toons? i refuse to do it in all of my MMORPG game playing. It's like at that point, all they see is scrolling numbers, "character" become irrelevant .
This article is pretty bad though.
EDIT: i meant subject wise! also...why do MMO playes call their characters toons? i refuse to do it in all of my MMORPG game playing. It's like at that point, all they see is scrolling numbers, "character" become irrelevant .
13,000 people have died from the normal flu this year in the U.S., so yea, H1N1 mutated strain of influenza = not the end of the world.
"To be fair, a Blizzard representative pointed out this spell has been in the game since Wrath of the Lich King went into beta and is certainly not a late attempt to capitalize on dire current events. This stuff has been around for a while, after all."
Read that part as well, please everyone who is overreacting.
"To be fair, a Blizzard representative pointed out this spell has been in the game since Wrath of the Lich King went into beta and is certainly not a late attempt to capitalize on dire current events. This stuff has been around for a while, after all."
Read that part as well, please everyone who is overreacting.
Now that's too soon! :D
Surely you should cure it with some kind of Oinkment? Right guyz??
Surely you should cure it with some kind of Oinkment? Right guyz??
L2READ
He said that its been part of the game BEFORE the latest scare
Jumping to conclusions ....
He said that its been part of the game BEFORE the latest scare
Jumping to conclusions ....
Blizzard actualy put out this swine flu around the world so more people would stay inside and play WoW.
So what you're saying is that Blizzard Devs can predict outbreaks of dissease? Awesome. I'll be looking to starcraft 2 and diablo 3to see what medications to stock up on for future disseases will affect us.
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