Friday, September 23, 2005
In Serious Need Of A Life
It's one of those on-line worlds you can inhabit and play around in. Here is the crux of the tale:
In the last week, it added the Zul'Gurub dungeon which gave players a chance to confront and kill the fearsome Hakkar - the god of Blood.Spending unending hours pretending to be someone else in a pretend universe is bad enough, but then figuring out how to kill everyone else there? Really, there must be something better to do with your time. Although, it's better than writing a "real" computer virus, it makes a blogging flame war look tame.
In his death throes Hakkar hits foes with a "corrupted blood" infection that can instantly kill weaker characters.
The infection was only supposed to affect those in the immediate vicinity of Hakkar's corpse but some players found a way to transfer it to other areas of the game by infecting an in-game virtual pet with it.
