Worldofwar.net: WoW's Plague Cured

Worldofwar.net is reporting that Blizzard's lead game designer, Jeffrey Kaplan, also known as Tigole, has announced the plague which is currently ravaging World of Warcraft is coming to an end later today.

Contrary to popular believe among WoW players, the event has come to a natural end, and has not been pulled due to complaints from the millions of players, who have had to put up with disruption to regular play.

[Leord]

No! Bummer =(

[Medievaldragon]

I was starting to enjoy it. Sad to see it go.

[Phaqutomb]

i loved the plague. i just didn't enjoy the time from 10 minutes to 5 the next then 2 then 1. if i was going on a raid to an alliance town then it wasn't bad

[Dorjan]

I love it when MMOs release events that are truly different from usual gameplay

[Maticus]

Most people hated it lol, typical that now everyone's sad it's going!

[Maticus]

Just a note: the story moved, so click the alt source to read all about it now.

[Guwapo77]

Thank god! I hated that stupid s#$t! If I didn't have to die at the end, I would had been perfectly fine with it.

[xionpunk]

ha i tried a trial account to check it out. most people were getting pissed of at those who tried to spread it around lol.

[Montrealien]

(complaints from the millions of players)

now where did they get this info from? It was a fun event, ogg to Northrend!

[Ghoul]

as usual, people complain no matter what you do or try.
I loved this pre wotlk event, everyday was a bit different and those people actually reading the quests connecting to the plague event had a lot of fun and enjoeyd it. At least i did.

But the hardcore gamer wich several alts where the ones pissed since relogging and selfmailing was difficult due to zombie infection. BOOHOOO whiners. The "normal" mmo players in wow love the event.

[StarsCream]

Nooooo, it was the COMPLETE opposite, ya dope.

The 70's loved it cause it gave them something new to do, and being 70 they were able to grief, and/or be powerful enough to STOP the griefers.

The sub-70's were the ones who hated it, they couldnt quest, level, grind, use the AH, port, fly, etc etc without getting killed FAST.

Also, recruit a friend was pretty much null and void through this whole "event", thus reducing the allready small time limit they get to use the RAF....

[Zhit]

Have to agree it was a very cool event. Sucks that the folks that got their panties in a wad were so vocal. I'm trying to level a new toon to 70 before WotLK, so I experienced 1st hand the annoyances. Easy to get around, and what are a few more corpse runs while leveling?!

[Enigma_2099]

Shyeah... SUUUUUUURE it did.

[Elly]

Great event! Hope they do it again next year and more like it. It's boring plodding along expecting the expected all the time. Don't listen to the vocal blouses, lots of them complained for the sake of it. They're drawn to jumping on bandwagons and complaining about anything and everything.

I'm glad Blizzard let the event run its coarse and didn't pander to them.

[Medievaldragon]

I know it is hard to believe the zombie invasion came to an end naturally without influence from whinners. However, [us] beta testers know for a fact it ended the way it was meant to at the time it was meant to.

How? The introduction of Grand Apothecary Putress a day before the invasion ended was the key. Wrath of the Lich King beta testers already played the quests and experienced at lvl 80 (meant to be 74) the Wrathgate: The Hour of the Forsaken in-game cinematic.

In short, Grand Apothecary Putress betrays Sylvanas and the Horde with a new and more devastating plague. If you get to play the quest: Herald of War, Thrall himself says:

Thrall: Yes, the same Putress responsible for discovering the cure for the recent Scourge plague outbreak.

That sentence right there is a reference to what happened in the past --- which is now our current present status quo in live-servers. Putress put an end to the Scourge plague. Blizzard meant all along to end the plague right on schedule after the introduction of Putress into live servers. You sent the dual-infested brain into the major cities as the cure to the plague.