…in the World of Warcraft computer-gaming environment, that is. Coverage here and here. I guess this incident happened in 2005, but now researchers are studying the “outbreak” for insights into real-world human responses to such things.
I haven’t played a computer game since about 1995, so as far as this WOW thing’s concerned I’m pretty much like Angela in this comic. Clueless.
Any RNS readers’ WOW characters get whacked by the plague?