One incident stands out in terms of reaching beyond the world of videogames though, and that's the Corrupted Blood plague. In 2005, a bug allowed a damage-over-time effect from a raid event to ...
In 2007 a study of the corrupted blood incident was published in The Lancet, one of the oldest and most respected peer-reviewed medical journals in the world. To quote that piece: "The Corrupted ...
A WoW Classic player attempted to recreate the Corrupted Blood incident In 2005, World of Warcraft saw one of the strangest events in MMO history: the Corrupted Blood event, a plague that spread ...