Sunday, August 2, 2026

2008: When Zombies Invaded WOW

Basically, Blizzard thought it would be cute to add a zombie outbreak to the game just before The Wrath of the Lich King expansion came out, to keep folks playing instead of just waiting for the expansion to hit.  

This website explains it, but it doesn't really explain the chaos when the outbreak infected the entire game, making it unplayable as griefers ran around infecting everyone and killing NPCs.  There were attempts to heal, but the griefers just infected or killed everything again and again.  The Solo MMO Player finally stopped playing for 3-4 days until Blizzard got everything under control.

You can get more explanations of the various phases and a few photos at these links.



This site lists zombie abilities and goes into further detail as to how the event unfolded and ended.

Apparently Blizzard tried several hot fixes that failed.  They had to do a hard reset and a patch to put an end to the whole thing.

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The Caverns of Time (WOW)

The Solo MMO Player just reminded me of The Caverns of Time, a way for players to access older versions of WOW to get to areas destroyed by later version of the game before Classic was re-released.  If you are bored, you might enjoy exploring here.  The Solo MMO Player thought there were some unique and interesting quests and items found here.

Blizzard has begun reintroducing items that were removed or destroyed.  Here is information about some of the new old stuff.

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