@itsmephiz: That time a World of Warcraft may have saved the lives of millions of people. Today's videogame history is World of Warcraft's corrupted blood incident- a digital plague so bad that it shut the game down for nearly a month. #gaming #History #GamingOnTikTok
I'm surprised it's not considered part of WoW's canon.
2026-09-14 21:42:51
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Mrstealth93 :
Werent around in WoW when this happened, but still nuts hearing about it. There’s also the fact that several players took it upon themselves to stand outside Horde and Alliance capitals to warn others about not entering because of the debuff still in effect past the gates.
2026-09-15 18:24:11
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MacPoopum :
It's strange how there's parallels to an outbreak in video game and reality...
2026-09-14 15:04:41
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Triomodeustheeternal :
and even more interesting fact: people had to fight WoW tooth and nail for this data, as WoW tried to sweep it under the rug and refused to hand it out to help out of shame
2026-09-14 18:22:21
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Zeta_Omega1🇮🇸 :
I remember that. I stayed out of the big towns during that time like a Zombie survivor.
2026-09-15 00:17:31
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Ertril96 🇦🇺 :
oh the corrupted blood incident
2026-09-14 16:52:09
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EricaJ. :
I remember this. I was a little hunter...and my pet died out of no where, and then npcs were dying I was so freaking confused what was going....no one knew what was happening at first.
2026-09-16 02:36:44
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Puck :
what u forgot to mention is the "software patch" that fixed it was ... setting everything back to before the raid update happened. timetravel :D
2026-09-17 14:49:55
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Keebo :
the funniest WoW lore ever is that the blood plague actually assisted humanity in handling the covid outbreak
2026-09-29 16:03:02
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Shillianth🇦🇺🌻 :
auction hall in IF was the bomb
2026-09-14 21:48:20
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Cloudia Marie :
Healer here! I received a phone call to log on to debuff everyone in stormwind. Mind you I died multiple times before I got myself debuffed.
2026-09-19 17:11:48
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Nightmerr :
I was there..... I saw all the horror 😂 my favorite thing was when warlocks used to bind demons and bring them to town to unleash them 🤣
2026-09-15 14:03:19
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That_puck_guy :
And they used plague inc to map potential infection vector’s.
2026-09-15 02:35:14
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Artemisa Huntress :
I vaguely remember this. I was a resto/balance Druid at the time and was repeatedly told by my guild to stay away from the cities. It was an interesting time.
2026-09-16 12:45:43
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RAⓋ𝓘ℕмㄖσ𝐧 :
I was one of those hunters
2026-09-14 14:33:47
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Lunalaur :
Knew this fact and it’s crazy that actual medical data could come from a game. I think it’s neat~
2026-09-15 17:31:42
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LiirNemdren :
are there still ppl playing this patch version becaus they are antipatcher and say no, we nood no patch to fix a bug?
2026-09-15 14:57:01
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m3lted_nikhowaz :
Yea I heard about this MatPat made a video about it during the height of COVID
2026-09-14 20:14:42
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Ricardo :
Still have ptsd from that time haha
2026-09-14 11:46:21
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Cynthia Davis :
dont forget the wrath of the rich king roll out event
2026-09-15 03:40:23
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ChronicOra :
omg I remember playing this raid fudge...was a warlock back then
2026-09-14 16:42:59
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Eddie :
Iirc Players even created their own quarantine areas where healers would be constantly curing and helping infected players
2026-10-12 09:30:48
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Anarky :
stoppppp this is so epic
2026-10-06 13:17:09
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