Comment on Happy 20th anniversary to the Corrupted Blood incident!

twykomantis@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• pemptago@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  After several failed hotfixes, Blizzard ended the pandemic by performing a hard reset, and a later patch prevented companions from contracting Corrupted Blood entirely.

  Note to the future: next pandemic, try a hard reset.

  Seriously though, it’s wild they couldn’t hotfix it.

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  • fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s wild that they couldn’t change the spread property of the debuff to be deactivated if you weren’t in the boss chamber. That should not be a hard fix…

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    • Szyler@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s how the spells work in wow. The BUFF would get removed if you left the room, but the issue was that pets would get it in the room and resummoned in cities, and since the buff removal thing happened while the pet was desummoned the removal didn’t apply.

      Doing a check each time the buff spreads is inefficient use of server.

      Also, changing anything about the spell requires servers to be shut down, and they didn’t want that until they saw no other way and had to restart them.

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      • fushuan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        you didn’t understand. I know how the bug worked and was spread, using unsummoned pets and all. What I said is that it’s wild to me that they didn’t change the debuff to be unable to be spread at all for like a day. Like, change how the debuff spread works to temporarily disable it.

        Doing a check each time the buff spreads is inefficient use of server.

        WOW is server authoritative, meaning that who gets the debuff is decide by the server each time, doing a location check shouldn’t be that inneficient, the character object should have a cheap way to get the location it is in, including the name of the area, cheaply. IDK how the game is coded obviously, but that check should NOT be something expensive.

        changing anything about the spell requires servers to be shut down

        Are you sure they had no way to do hotfixes without server shutdowns? That’s been a thing for a while now.

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• taiyang@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Huh, TIL. Neat.

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• Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Who else remembers learning this from Cracked articles (which they read at work)?

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  • thejoker954@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Man i really miss Cracked. It used to be so good.

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    • Dasus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Image

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    • sheogorath@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I still credit my sense of humor to Cracked.

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    • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Good fucking riddance! They made me believe if I don’t poop standing up, I will get hemorroids…for years.

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  • AppleTea@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    you may or may not recognize the artist

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  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And who else didn’t need an article because they were there when it happened?

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• JakenVeina@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Also, if you like videos: youtu.be/EB3jOD2wjUc

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  • Bosht@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That was highly entertaining, thank you

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