Pandemics

WoW server suffers outbreak after a debuff breaches containment, giving me flashbacks to a 21-year-old incident so large…

A debuff called Withering Contagion from the Dragonflight expansion of World of Warcraft unexpectedly spread through the Moon Guard US server's capital cities, causing widespread player deaths and drawing comparisons to the 2005 Corrupted Blood incident. Blizzard Entertainment has since hotfixed the bug, but the event highlights emergent sandbox gameplay possibilities in MMOs.