Some lands in the World of Warcraft universe have been hit by a bloody plague. It's called Corrupted Blood, and started as a booby-trapped body sort of thing. But the Beeb reminds us that people like to play with dead things, and technology:
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.
Jon Lebkowsky quotes Joi Ito quoting someone else, to the effect that this was perhaps intended as a way for some people to get some time by themselves: an antisocial social plague.
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