![The Digital Plague: When World of Warcraft Accidentally Simulated a Pandemic [article]](https://www.fpshub.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/1773692445_b5xwsie7abpg1-scaled.png "The Digital Plague: When World of Warcraft Accidentally Simulated a Pandemic [article]")
An article I saw that I found pretty interesting. Apparently a bug in a game event took over in the WoW world and turned into a literal pandemic in there:
In 2005, a bug in World of Warcraft turned Azeroth into a virtual pandemic, and gave scientists a rare glimpse into human behavior during an outbreak.
This was a great read, I'd never heard this happened. Some people helped, some people went evil and helped spread the chaos. Thought it was a good one to share here for anyone else who didn't know this story: