Comment on The Digital Plague: When World of Warcraft Accidentally Simulated a Pandemic (my article!)
nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social 4 days ago
@PerfectDark Oh wow. Somehow I never even heard about this. In its own crazy way it's kind of fascinating.
dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I started playing just after this, so I missed it. I was there, however, for the opening of the AQ gates. That required a single person on each server doing a huge quest chain, along with the entire server donating war provisions. The only reason to open the AQ gates at that time was for big raiding guilds to do AQ, since smaller raiding guilds weren’t much of a thing back then. The whole server knew exactly what time the gates would be allowed to be open, so any player level 58+ showed up to the gates for a massive PVP kill fest. Opposing players who weren’t on raiding guilds were griefing the single person who could open the gates, since they didn’t care if the gates were ever actually opened. The server crashed so many times. It took hours for the gates to finally be opened.