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DOUBLE BILL: When a Plague Struck World of Warcraft/Blood on the Tracks
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Blizzard's World of Warcraft Quarantine Was Not Working
corrupted blood was making the game unplayable. The programmers had failed to anticipate how that might happen. Blizzard didn't really have the option of imposing a lockdown. They could take the entire game offline to reset it. But World of Warcraft was so complex that its creators weren't sure if there was another way to fix it.
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