They had the Balls, and Actually did it!

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Sure, but it didn’t exist then. There were practical reasons why people hated the zombie event.

The most laughable part about the zombie invasion, though, was that people (maybe you?) were fooled into thinking that what they did actually mattered, when it didn’t.

You could go to a deserted city, like Thunder Bluff, and watch the infected crates plague the guards, who would then turn into zombies and infest the town. No player involvement required.

But a lot of people got off on “oh I was so cool I infected lots of people”. No you didn’t. The event was on auto-pilot. Your “participation” was totally irrelevant.

But it sure fooled a lot of people into thinking they were important, that’s for sure.

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This time it starts with clicking a cockroach then it goes insane

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Ofc it didn’t, its a video game.

Whole point is to suspend your disbelief sometimes and just enjoy it for what it is. Specially when short term, one of a kind scenarios like this happen.

I’ll admit that’s easier to do as a teen than now though.

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They should bring back the ZG plague…

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Some dev out there is trying to find out how they can ruin this and milk it to become a 3 hour daily

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The bug, that turned into a event, that taught the CDC something, that America didn’t even use when it mattered most.

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My first thought upon seeing this is “This is probably just a PTR specific thing that wont go live”.

People freaked out about it back in 2008 back when inconvenience was still somewhat common in the game.

This going live exactly as it was would cause people to riot.

That being said, Blizzard:

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What doesn’t kill us will only make us stronger…I think

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Or gives you lung and/or heart defects.

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They are going to add masks to the vendors that you can purchase and wear.

Of course, they won’t protect you from the plague, but they’ll make you feel safer.

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It is the ultimate blast from the past. I squealed like a little girl I was so excited when I had 80 zombies jump me! I flought as long and hard as I could! It was fantastic!

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Nothing a few glasses of wine and some pain killers can’t fix.

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Won’t protect you from getting it, but prevent others from getting it from you… So you get all the not fun parts of it.

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Honestly that alone is a reason to do it. Think of all the free press for them from the Twitter/Tumblr/Kotaku obligatory outrage.

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I can’t wait to group up and heal people! Don’t worry yall, I’ll riptide us out of this

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Can we avoid the plague if we stand six feet away from everyone else?

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I doubt it, people who queue for stuff they do will be largely unaffected, since there’s no need to actually travel in the world anymore for them. Only people who do Mythic+ and Normal and up raiding will be affected.

If they put infected crates in battlegrounds, arenas, and queued dungeons, that would be a different story.

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i think the event is cool for 5 minutes then it becomes can i play the video game and not be grave camped

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Please, just don’t

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It’s time to blast

and Munch on AH bots!

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