Game Theory: How WoW Almost Prevented the Coronavirus Crisis! (World of Warcraft)
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Years ago now, World of Warcraft had an event that changed the landscape of the ENTIRE game for the players. Hundreds of thousands of skeletons littered the cities, all player characters who had perished to what was called the "corrupted blood plague". Now, some experts are saying that they could have used this event to better understand how viral pandemics spread in societies and how individuals react. What I want to know is, could this historic WoW moment have helped prevent the spread of our current pandemic? Let's find out!
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9:20 Wow. Hearing that, even in games, there is still people trying to help others is one of the best things I have heard in a while. That’s awesome. Maybe humanity isn’t doomed... yet
101TheBest i hate to admit it, but we are dead to global warming, pollution, lack of recourses and rising sea levels: Unless we do something, our selfishness will stop us until it’s too late, until we actually see it happening. But I have faith.
Yeah, but then I hear of those players intentionally getting people sick (e.g. coughing on food) and I think... well, it was a good run while it lasted.
@@TerraHv1 it was people going into raid (hunters) corrupting their pet dissmissing and then calling him back in a city :-D and well as a healer myself in wow... I can tell you it's almost a muscle memory like to heal people who are damaged... You see low health you are instantly hitting the buttons :-D
@@TerraHv1 : True, but the good news is that there were probably more players doing that sort of thing in game than idiots doing it in real life. At least I would _hope_ most of the jerks who decide to do that thing online where there are little to no real world consequences, while still bad people, aren't bad/insane enough to do it in real life. I would at least hope that most of them would have the common sense to not put _them selves_ at risk just so they can spread the virus.
@@RMan160 /y Bloodbomb !
HE SAID “CALL ME MOUSE-PAT”, COMPLETELY NEGLECTING “RATPAT.” What a missed opportunity.
It was, and it wasn't - either one sounds catchy
Someone copied your comment
That was my first thought I’m glad I’m not the only one who saw it
Ikr
Because rat and mouse is not the same animal?
Games: **can be used as a simulation to find a cure for real-life diseases and can also simulate the scenario and aftermath*
Media: *Perhaps i treated you too harshly*
Nah. Media will always try to put games in a negative light
Nah, somehow the media will link video games to the creation of the virus.
Nah. VidEo game CauSes ViOleNce
@@AlanCarlinoJr85 Reportedly, a thirty-five-year-old Chinese epidemiologist, _Name P. Holder,_ also going by his gamer tag xXElfSl4y3rXx, created a virus with the intent to "simulate what [World of Warcraft] did in 2005 in real life." His whereabouts are currently unknown, but officials all over the world are searching for him. Games are known to increase aggression and violent tendencies in players, especially children or young adults who are known to mimic what they see. Could this behavior now be seen in professionals? Could video games, movies, and social media be under a whole new wave of censorship and reformation? More at nine.
@@VenomQuill dear God you are dumb
The people that played WoW in 2005 now:
*"Just like in the simulations"*
You are strong and wise and I am very proud of you.
Obi-Wan Kenobi *KENOBAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!*
@@darthknightwingphoenix2081 nah bro, if you weren't there for the falador massacre dont @ me.
*gets clone wars flash backs*
Reymilo Cuevas wtf is a falador massacre?!
For those who doesn't know, as i lived that event myself, starting to play WoW in 2004, the Blood Plage was a debuff that "you needed to have" because Hakkar had a skill wich drained blood from players in order to heal himself, and if you had the debuff, he will drain *poisonous blood* and will hurt him instead of healing him. That's why that debuff intended, it wasn't just another boss mechanic, and yeah, cities would lag some PC's just because of the sheer amount of bones and corpses...
Theorists... if your still interested in 'how we can learn from Mistakes
and better the World', then try RUclipsr Second Thought,
maybe starting with his video on Food-WASTE: 'Is Capitalism even Efficient?'
"CDC turns to gamers as potential epidemiology lab rats" sounds like a Plague Inc. headline
Lmao
It do tho
I actually participated on a study in that you had to play a game about mining, to this day I still don´t know what was the study about
So true
@@geckoo9190 Perhaps they where trying to use players to help find efficient mining strategies?
Boss: What are you doing? Playing World of Warcraft during your work hours?
Employee: No I'm doing research.
Stfu idiot
@@wariop282 my man literally made a joke, why are you being an asshole?
lol
Wario :P why are you so mad ;-;
Wario :P why don’t you stfu. You ever heard of a joke?
I remember this! i was a druid with a group of healers outside a major city desperately trying to save people but there was always some jerk running around trying to infect them.
You sir/madam are a hero
My guild member and I was also trying to do the same, first we try to help guild members then we took the idea to help others, unfortunately we did all we could but it's too much to save.
IRL : DARN karen people and anti maskers!
I wansnt playing when this happened (still dont) but I read it in a barbor shop once
I remember, I was a lowbie at the time, and I was in a low level area, being told not to go into cities, so i didnt, but I would find high level players mounting up, and running around chasing lowbies, and getting them infected.
A matter of weeks.
A Matter Of Weeks.
A MATTER OF WEEKS.
*ITS BEEN A YEAR*
Because enough people didn't listen to the scientists.
this proves that some people are really either dicks or they just don't care about other's safety
@@Karak971 you mean the one you like....there are 100s on both sides of how to deal with this. The ones that said masks a quarantine have a year and failed. Lets listen to what the others say maybe.
@@Karak971 in fact those states that finally decided to stop listening to those scientist you speak of are back to "normal" with fewer infections and death rate than those still listening to them.
Sounds like a bunch of zhonerists tbh
"Humanity will shine at it's finest upon the worst times"
2020 : *S I K E*
"Humanity will shine at it's finest upon the worst times"
Just don't get too close to the flames or they might burn you
Shouldn't that word be spelled "psych" or "psyche", since it's based on the root of "psychology"?
@@darreljones8645 I doubt he means psych as in the human psyche but "Sike" as in "haha jokes on you" correct me if I'm wrong people
@@jerusha4jesus well, while the original "sike" was "psych" from "we psyched them out"
Warm Tea Actually “Sike” isn’t a real word. It’s just a misspelling of “Psych” that became popular.
“Just call me mouse pat”
Me an intellectual: Mat Rat
Or ratpat
@@snobdogg5095 ratpat ratpat ratpat
ratpat
RatPat
Copied?
As someone who experienced this event and has played wow for 16 years, I approve of this message. The explanation is at times insanely over simplified but it gets the point across
I would have this happen again just because I could.
social simulator /add in Corona (I think it has an H but I am not sure)
Normal People: "Oh god, the horror! We have to stay indoors and not socialize!"
Gamers: "Hey bro, get on discord. We are gonna do that Raid again. Yeah, same as last week."
Hah, thank you for explaining my life
Karen’s: *Are you saying we aren’t normal?*
@@marinaforova3644 stop
Nah nah nah, same as 4 hours ago
yooo everybody on? lets go we are joining my world
I was a healer struggling to keep a small group alive during the crisis
thank you for your service.
Thank you for your service.
cool
Thank you for your service.
You are a hero
WoW players: Hey, I've seen this one, its a classic.
Everyone: What do you mean you've seen it, its brand new
TRUE! LMAO
Good ol' BTTF references
Ha back to the future reference.
The game developers: I COULD HAVE PREVENTED WHAT?
Activision-blizzard doesn't care about it's fans
Have you heard about a joke
@@Chris_Husk yeah I'm just trying to get the "do you know what a joke is" reply
@@Justaguy852 ok
@@Justaguy852 "Activision-blizzard"? "China essentially owns us"? now that i think about it. it they knew they would definetly accept the offers since it started in china, unless the pandemic got more people playing their games.
For most of us...
Life before quarantine: Staying at home and playing video games
Life after quarantine: Staying at home and playing video games
Or watching anime
Of course your here
your are everywhere
Everyone: *Oh its you again*
Me: yeah, *true*
but with quarantine we have 500 hours of homework to do
Level 1 character: that's instant death!
Level 60 above character: this is fine. *gets infected again*
Imagine being that one guy whos dog killed millions of people because it got a little sick.
Corona didn't come from a dog
@@idontgetthejoke4393 he's talking about WoW
@@idontgetthejoke4393 wait your channel name....
@@toastvy lol
@@idontgetthejoke4393 ayy
I remember the extra credits video about this I found just after lockdown started. It was made pre-covid and the narrator concluded with "luckily something like this would never happen in real life."
Theorists,
this video here is a Prime-Example for Something,
so if your still interested in 'how we can learn from Mistakes
and better the World', then try RUclipsr Second Thought,
maybe starting with his video on Food-WASTE: 'Is Capitalism even Efficient?'
Its Prime-Example for the evolution of channel like game-theorist.
When this happened, I wrote off people studying it. "you're crazy! People in real life wouldn't go out and *spread a plague on purpose!* " Oh how naive I was. Humanity is awful.
Humanity just does what is imputed sometimes. Even if it does not make any sensible or logical sense.
Yeah, I'm beginning to think all those horror and disaster movies were right.
I think our curiosity is our greatest strength and our biggest weakness. (Wow. Reminds me of a writing advice.)
they spread the virus to make the whole plague thing a problem bigger that humans cannot ingore and work on a cure to save their sorry asses
@@mahmutyordamli4912 Nope, they were just purely evil.
"We can't restart the server in reality"
I mean we could but it wouldn't be morally acceptable
Beanie Boys hol’ up...
It would just result in a real life fallout 76
@@ArteMarie56 depends on how you reset the server.
I'm all on board for a good ol fashioned culling of the sick just like the good ol days... Seriously that was something that happened during past pandemics they just killed everyone that was sick. It was messed up... welp that's my concerning comment of the day.
reset like noah's ark or fallout?
Everyday you stay home you save 41 lives
Me who's been staying inside even before quarantine: *you know, I consider myself something of a hero*
What’s an outside?
@@SimplyAnExistence I know right, over never heard of that game
@@krisbeagles7045 good thing we're not in it.
Dude I’m pretty sure that means by the official time of the start of quarantine minus 20 I’ve saved 2000+ people
I AM BATMAN
This comment thread is way too relatable. However, if anyone finds what ‘outside’ is, please let me know.
I'd be okay with a Corrupted Blood 2.0 in game. It would be fascinating to see how people react to such a scenario in 202x as opposed to 2005.
Finally someone I can agree with
Watch it be the same
Matpat: we've been living like this for years
Every gamer ever: SHHHHH they don't know that yet
One thing he didn't know is that Epic Games has been giving away free games every week since Christmas... 2018
"Those gamers are up to something"
Ethan Battermann subnautica and Celeste are highlights for me
@@Not-the-Pope I was dreaming about Subnautica and then they gave it away for free 😱 I also really enjoyed Celeste and Darksiders
I just got a notification saying that mat pat liked mully comment. I just got 5 bucks.
From the background: James you owe me 5 bucks
Matpat , do you know they finished the petscop series and they’vet released a soundtrack for it too
!
They released the soundtrack months ago...
WA
We should get pyrocynical to make petscop 2 then
Ikkkkkk I need more petscop theoriesssss
' Error: Reality is Unpatchable '
Tierzoo would like to talk to you.
That was the play test and stress test for the servers I believe
Previous month I was able to pull my first five figure paycheck ever!!! I've been working for this company over the internet for 2 yrs now and I never been happier... They are paying me $95 per hour, and the most important thing about it is the fact I am not that tech-savvy, they just asked for basic awareness of internet and simple typing skill...Amazing thing about this is the more time I got for my kids. I am in a position to devote quality time with my family and friends and look after my babies and also going on holiday vacation together with them very often. Don't skip this chance and make sure to respond quick. Here is what I do *discuss84.com*
Helen G. Pitts ok
@Helen G. Pitts *silence, bot.*
Maruki has entered the chat
“two weeks to slow the spread”
me in january: 👁👄👁
@Sarah Morey yup. Unfortunately this is probably gonna go into 2021. And I live in the state of ny. Which was getting hit hard before and we're getting hit hard again soooo.
If you Americans just wore masks...
@Sarah Morey Well, _make_ them.
Oh yeah, 'muh freedumb.' Ya can't.
Socialism and communism now get fewer cases in a month than you do in a _day._
Haha yeah right . . .
its been almost a year since I’ve been able to go outside without being paranoid
I mean, the "developer" can do a "server reset" by throwing the moon into the planet
Can't spread a virus if there are no people
Am pretty sure they did reset the server but didn't fix the bug and soon as server reopened, some player just do it purposely to get everyone infected again
We've met with a terrible fate, haven't we?
No need.Just do a Matrix reset.Just have to survive the unplug and talk to the machines .
Yeah btw I found a legit cure for the virus
It's called MR KNIFE
Or ya know not being an idiot and staying in quarnteen
Funny enough, the event was so big that Blizzard canonized the plague into their game lore and they SORT OF brought it back for their first expansion pack in a new form that's not deadly
So they finally decided to help, & realized that they could get research money.
Healthy People: Don’t you dare DON’T YOU DARE
People with covid-19: Traveling is fun!
Traveling isn't even that fun!
Carly Crays that’s because you don’t have covid-19
Delusional Sexy Pants Lol
Deepucks getting sick isn’t fun and it kinda harms the economy a lot
Ugh
gamers ''we have to stop the spread of this blood plague by quarantining the major city areas''
*some players proceed to spread it to old and new players on purpose*
....sensing some dejavu right there *goes into a second lockdown* ahh now i remember
Oh yes.
matpat: just call me mousepat
me: okay, i'm gonna call you ratpat as long as i can remember to do so
rats rats we're the rats...
@@intelligencecube6752 *We prey at night, we stalk at night. WE'RE THE RATS!*
@@SilentGlaceon94 Lol, not quite what I had in mind. Was talking about this: ruclips.net/video/1_mZggt6aUg/видео.html
ratthew ratrick is his full name.
rats are really smart compared to mice so that's accurate
Plague inc: *They called me a madman.*
yes, and i think deranged president will be added to one of the mutations .... soon ...
@@zzav2345 There actually are a certain series random of events which in Plague Inc which, if you evolve the correct symptoms at the correct times, you can get the US President to nuke Russia or China.
I think you need to wait for the random event "US President Taken Ill", then evolve Insanity.
After that I believe there's another event, after which you need to evolve Paralysis (Don't really get why).
Then finally you can evolve either Cold Resistance II or Birds II to nuke either Russia or China respectively.
Good times!
Plague inc was ahead of the times, thankfully it was my childhood. I also regret all the times I joked about a good old fashioned plague wiping out humanity. And naming a virus USSR and starting it in Russia.
I guess Corona virus spend all it's point on transmission section
@@lordofspaghetti5454 plague inc wasn't ahead of it's time, earth had many pandemics before , it's dumb to see how many people see this as a new thing
Matpat- " World of Warcraft could've stop covid 19"
Literally everyone- "interesting"
Carlos Gouyonnet Sanchez “half as-“
Carlos Gouyonnet Sanchez VERY INTERESTING
Who new a "bug" would hit so close to home. Literaly!
@@vintolio yeah
I just sent this to my dad who played WoW three months after release
Speaking from the “ if you stay at home you’re saving an entire football team of people” you might actually be saving your favorite football team
I consider football to be quite boring.
Jake The Hyena who asked
When some random accident almost saved the real world.
*almost* being the key word, unfortunately
@@tmthedragonslayer9203 really unfortunate
@@tmthedragonslayer9203 aye
@@TheBluePhoenix008 aye
Seems like WoW predicted the [redacted]virus
Parents: Gaming is useless go outside
Coronavirus: You sure about that?
Parents: Your Right. Alright Least Favorite Child, Go Outside And Stop Being Useless.
Parents: kids, stay away from strangers...we trained you for this
My parents actually said they were wrong to do that to us kids and said he should've encouraged us when we were young. I just looked at him and said. Yup.
Please consider subbing to BBBnose road to 300
Make a meme
MatPat: Just call me MousePat!
Me, an intellectual: RatPat
VerminPat
@Arimus Adcock packrat
yes
thought the exact same thing
MatRat
God: “hey angel remember that world of Warcraft viruses let’s do that”
Memes aside, the revisiting of one of WoW's most notorious moments is actually really nice to see, especially with the impact it may bring to current Worldwide studies, and with the release of the same raid back in this month's 15th for WoW Classic, we may actually have more studies to it. And also, regarding the youtube ad revenue, thank you and your team for spending such time bringing this theme to light without even being able to regain the money from it, and not only are you helping us, with the entertainment of your videos, but you're helping against the current pandemic.
/salute
The plague is just a setback hogger, go back to the stockades
"/salute" AAAAAAAHAHHAA
The only negative thing about the video revisiting this is I knew what was gonna be pretty much the whole video. It was nice to see though.
I did however forgot that the CDC wanted the data.
"Helpful Matpat is helpful."
Someone has been brushing up on their CinemaSins.
DING
*ding*
Random fact:
Nearly 30,000 rubber ducks were lost a sea in 1992 and are still being discovered today.
How were they lost
Ship accident maybe?
That is random
@@codyweaver2508 i think the boat they where stored in crashed and the containers fell into the sea, that was actually really usefull, scientists used the path the ducks made to study oncean currents
@@naltlan7651 ✔
50 YEARS LATER
Teacher: Okay class theirs this guy called uhm, MatPat & his going to talk about the coronavirus....
😂
No.
Matpat: *says coronavirus*
RUclips: *DEMONITIZE*
Well, it’s not like he’s making money in the first place.
Why is youtube so sensitive about word corona virus
Matpat,you said you do videos for maintaining the channel,you will get demonitized
@@hotnopgames I think they try to appease the Chinese people who ban all things that seem like they could "corrupt" their people.
Or it's just to stop fake news to spread like wildfire, or someone abusing the algorithm and making it trending, so that anyone with a vid that uses it will end up on front pages.
Who knows :I
@@hotnopgames Because there are a lot of missinformation being spread.
“at home activities”
*teachers: angry noises*
Lmao
@Randombirdwhogoeschripchrip dude i see your profile picture e v e r y w h e r e
@@JJTR_Arcy eat your cereal oh yeah yeah SSSSSSSSSSSSS
Hey at least it's true
@Randombirdwhogoeschripchrip @Randombirdwhogoeschripchrip @Randombirdwhogoeschripchrip pretty catchy name
normal people: - losing their minds because they haven't been able to leave the house for a month -
me, someone who's disabled, immunocompromised, unemployed, and has been housebound for the past three years: *pathetic*
but also I feel ya bro, it really really sucks. thank you for helping save my life, it means so much to me
Oh yeah I've been in social isolation for 3 years too! it will hit the 4th year this august. So I feel your pain man.
Me a gamer: I’m just doing what I’ve been doing for years
Oh and oof
Same. Disabled, immunocompromised, mostly house-bound and on occasion bed-bound. Approaching a decade of this, for me.
And all these people are complaining about months of time? *Pathetic* is truly the word for it.
You should be vocal about this. As vocal as you can be, because some people just don't think about the conesquences. Out of sight, out of mind, so get in people's faces with this. Someone like you who is so at risk needs to be seen- not in person, obviously, but it's a lot harder to ignore a person who's name you know vs a hundred faceless people...
"I'll keep it lighthearted." [begins unintentionally showing proof that we're living in the Matrix]
“RATPAT” WAS RIGHT THERE DUDE
I was gonna say that too!
SAME
Wait, Blizzard got a call from the CDC saying 'this information could potentially help us save lives', and they just said 'no'?
And observing gamers in their natural habitat is better than experimenting on animals. #RatPat
So we can blame Blizzard for not allowing us preparation for the coronavirus?
Blizzard didn't want the bad PR since it was actually still a new game and the success we know now wasn't cemented yet.
@@Ontarianmm The CDC said that this could save lives, though.
@@totallynameless8861 This was less a case of pr, everyone already knew about this thing, and more a matter of lots of old people failing to see how peoples actions in a game could connect with real life. Blizzard probably thought it would be a waste of time and give false data that could cost lives rather then save.
@@FastForwardPlans Which is not really their call to make. They're a games company. The CDC is literally the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. If they say something is useful, then it's best to treat it as useful.
For me, plague inc is basically exactly what happened in real life
-you’re supposed to keep your symptoms low
-you’re supposed to spread it quickly
-you’re supposed to delay a cure
That's.. Horribly funny
How do you delay the cure IRL?
@@Speed001 by listening to someone that thinks less testing will mean the virus will go away
@@Speed001 by infecting the ones making the cure
@@Speed001 spreading mass misinformation. Or defund research labs and scientists.
It hit hard when you talked about the healers getting infected. My dad is a fireman and contracted COVID around Christmas time. It’s just so amazing how these people risk their lives every day to save other people’s lives.
Society: "It's just a game!"
Meanwhile in 2020...
CDC: "It's just a few days indoors!"
*a few days?*
Jared James Ramos “Just kidding, it’ll be a few weeks, maybe months but *definitely* no more than a *year* hahaha”
The cdc even studied this
Extended spring break guys! 😅
WHO (in Dec 2019): "There's no human to human transmission."
"Just call me mouse Pat"
How did you miss the opportunity to say RatPat!
THANK YOU!
I was just about to make this comment!
Because Mickey Mouse
@@Light_novel_reader Or LABRATPAT!
IKR I was just gonna say that
I can't believe he called himself "mousepat" instead of "ratpat" smh
"matrat"
Copied smh
Alternated X What you have typed is also a stolen comment because chances are, someone else has said that.
@@A3W462 that ratpat jokes comes from pokemon honest trailer anyway lol
Because it won’t make sense with him talking about mice smh
Just watched the PSA and boy after a two years of this illness, I realized how desensitized we are to Covid now, p.s hope you and the team are back on track and are making money to support yourself again 😁
Theorists,
this video here is a Prime-Example for Something, so if your still interested in 'how we can learn from Mistakes and better the World', then try RUclipsr Second Thought, maybe starting with his video on Food-WASTE: 'Is Capitalism even Efficient?'
13:24
“Then you had the Griefers...”
Now that’s a word I’ve not heard in a long time...
Griefers the PG version of a word we use frequently now days. That word is "Assholes"
@@baronluke8065 assholes covers a range of douche-like behavior, griefer communicates the specific species of asshole.
Last time i heard that is from minecraft tho. Really old
Achu 03 for the first time in 2b2t history, slave labor
"This episode will cost more to make then we'll get back in ad rev"
Oof. Stay strong. Thank you.
Don't say oof
@@asapANTy Oof
@@JohnDoe-bk2hg you're genuinely unfunny
@@asapANTy oof. You're genuinely unlikeable.
@@hyperion9793 you don't even know me, tf
Next on game theory: How Minecraft would’ve stopped World War One
Lol
My reaction if this actually happened:sorry what
LMQO
Don't give him ideas!
How assassin's creed would have stopped earth's creating and the big bang
Matpat 10 moths ago saying that there are two million diagnosed cases
Corona:laughs in 2021
Laughs in 2022
@@pizzapatrica7044 it's 100 seconds to midnight
I never played wow...but I remember watching friends play when we had “lan” parties and this virus was happening. It was kinda cool watching them plan routes to avoid others people and just get into towns was such a risk all the time. I played cs source🤷♂️. It’s all they talked about forever!
I'm a Ark player. We have like two contagious disease, and a stat who can make you less likely to catch it. Like, 60% instead of 100% with all the level in it.
If we compare the two games, I'm pretty sure we can have field for
1) How poeple deal with know deadly diseases
2) Player Base action
3) Reaction to disease with and without a cure, since you have one in Ark.
4) Reaction to pet transmission.
I remember when the virus was in wow it was scary
I didn’t read any of this I just saw the emoji
Gamer: Stays inside
Corona: Exists
Gamer: **Insideness intensifies**
Jeez we need the laugh reaction in RUclips too
Socialites: socializes
Corona: Exists
Socialites: **socializationness intensifies**
@@iciebear
Corona: Exists
Every sane person who doesn't have athsma or lung cancer: Everything's fine here, we're all fine here, thank you...
How are you?
You mean Fortnite streamers
“Wait.. you guys are getting paid!?”
“Just call me mousepat”
You could’ve said ratpat and you didn’t!
You took those words out of my mouth, bravo.
Maybe it's to connect how many Disney related videos he has done over the years. XD
I was thinking more of patrat like the pokemon.
i like your icon
Mr Nub Bones yes
A plague spread in an MMO completely by accident? That's incredibly fascinating, and it spread nearly in the same way as real life.
Honestly, WoW shows that people could create an MMO, set up like the real world, and with real players. Make it fun like WoW or ESO, and then set up these kinds of situations. That would make some fascinating studies
Me: Playing animal crossing while listening to the video.
MatPat: Roasts everyone for playing animal crossing
DESERVED
Me playing doom eternal and predator hunting grounds in the background
@@hata6290 i love you
and nice name
Me: *has been surviving on WoW for the whole quarantine* oh what?
I’m playing animal crossing rn at 2 am waiting for shooting stars
"Just call me MousePat"
How about RatPat?
Eyyyyyy
Maybe even CatPat
Matmouse
Puppat
@@astriaredacted9571 catpat is skip
If covid was called “fear of despair” or “wrath of a wraith” staying home will not be a problem.
people would be shaking in fear because of that name
unless your a danganronpa player, specifically the crazy junko stans(not the normal junko stans)
@@moonlightcreasant natural selection right?
PrincesRoyalCan And fries well this is ultimate Despair
They genuinely fucked up the naming. Call it something intimidating not "generic virus name disease 2019"
Watching this video over a year into quarantine is like. Man.
Funny timing on this one, they just brought back this raid recently for WoW Classic. So having not heard about the debuff going viral again, means that the patch is still in place.
they should have let it go loose
they need to unpach it deliberately.
@@jhonshephard921 I believe there's actually a dev press release somewhere briefly before the release of the raid where they considered making one or two of the servers 'test' areas with the original bugged debuff, but realized it would still be spread very quickly out of test areas.
@@vaellietheangel Well they cen nerf the 'debuff' then let it loose. making it a constant trouble for players; also they can add potions to grant timed 'immunity' but only after you beat the raid ''if you beat the raid''.
I remember reading about that incident. It was one of the craziest and coolest moments in videogame history, and was a study for several health studies and the way players handled it was praised and even considered the ideal cooperation levels hoped to be seen in a real life pandemic... with less healing magic unfortunately.
The funny thing is that in the game lore, gnome priests are technically doctors
@Martin J wasn't What? Wasn't cool or wasn't an object of study?
Gamers before corona: **introverted hermits**
Gamers during corona: **introverted hermits**
Gamers after corona: **introverted hermits**
_Perfectly balanced, as all things should be_
No.*legalized* introverted gamers
Y e s
I would like to disagre
agreed
A virus in game that you need to be carful of or you will get sick and die actually sounds like a really cool game mechanic.
Bioarmer
“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Blaise Pascal
I don't know if some people want the Corona virus or don't
Christopher Farley, sure! I will even support your channel by disliking every video on it!
@@trutyatces8699 thanks for the idea, I've just been reporting him
@@trutyatces8699 that's what I do to these people too. They need to learn that false subscribers will not be beneficial to them in the long run
@@rudrasingh6354 what happened?
2019: GAMING IS BAD FOR CHILDREN! THEY NEED TO STAY ACTIVE
2020: are you sure about that?
2019: * angry Karen noises *
Me: *Happy K4R3N Noises*
well gaming isn't bad for you (and it's never been), but if you do NOTHING but game i'm pretty sure it's bad for you. So maybe game and try stay active to a degree?
Who is karen
@@kassandrajohnson8224 karen is the stereotypical, middle aged, antivaxxer, soccer mum
Karens are evil
Honestly, I remember hearing about this before, but hearing it again it sounds like some creepypasta lol
Now instead of siren head chasing you you got a virus chasing you and it's because of world of Warcraft jkjk
Reality is stranger than fiction.
I lived it... I was there....
Try searching the falador massacre
Ok yeah. I agree.
Lol that one slide with “Over 11,000 confirmed cases”. Ha we pumped those numbers way up sadly
I remember this, man this was crazy. It was my first time visiting Iron Forge. I traveled from Teldrasil, went to Darnassus where I found a Dwarf who told me a place where I could find someone to craft a noob level 5 green item I "needed". So I made my journey through the Wetlands and past the snow tunneled tundra. There I....got lost. I originally thought Iron Forge was a dungeon or cave.
Then a level 60 Paladin guided me into Iron Forge with the exchange I'd sign his petition to join his guild, his name was Xandran. As we went in I lagged terribly. Then as my game came in I seen tons of skeletons everywhere. Then I seen Xandrun run up to me and yell "run!". So I ran...in circles not knowing what to do. Before I knew it Xan's healt started ticked, then my health, and I died. I respawned and died again, and again, and again. Xandran tried to bubble me to get out but it was no use. I kid you not I ended up getting a res timer of 40 minutes before I was far away enough to not die.
And that's how I discovered the Gnome starting area.
This story needs a Netflix adaptation
I think i remember xandran somewhere
That's honestly an amazing story lol
God bless Xandran
Xandran is the real homie
Government: Stay inside, avoid human contact.
Me: Oh so do my usual thing then huh?
Kurosu Tachibana same
Oof
The only thing that changed, it is no longer your choice to make.
Otaku coming out of apartment in 2021:there was a virus out there? :0
Well, considering that the government (although this could just be my opinion) is based on money, I really wouldn’t want to believe the government...
One of my fondest memories in WoW is establishing a quasi-triage center with about 15 other Priests outside the gates of Orgrimmar to try and contain this thing as best as we could.
You can imagine how well that went.
I imagine that it went poorly...?
I was there to but on the roof of a building trying to keep myself safe lol
Hazy it would have been a great idea from the programmers to at least (while they couldn’t figure out how to get rid of the thing) to program a piece of equipment that helped either make you immune or at least not contagious when you wear it.
That could have been something you could buy for the dungeon and then the healers could actually do their job and would have still proven a challenge since it would have taken off a high level gear slot.
But hey, hind sight is twenty twenty.
If they did that it would have been like you had antibodies and could treat patients effectively
@@justindman00 so you quarantined yourself! Good job!😂
BRO MY DAD LITERALLY TOLD ME STORYS OF THAT AS IF IT WAS A REAL LIFE EVENT, he was the most epic gamer
WoW player afters covid starts : just like the simulations
I remember trying to heal people through that pandemic on my resto druid way back in the day.
You get major respect from me 💪👏
A man of honor I see
I respect you
o7 Mad respect.
Insane respect my man
knowing how everyone's like "you have no life" "get a life" "why you so into this? it's just a game"
.. it's been awhile since i felt proud to be a gamer.
thank you for this at 15:10
means a lot to me
Gamers unite!
Me: Am i late........
gamers together strong .
I feel that way about Rick May, may he RIP
Momoshi I know how you feel
Extroverts: Ugh, I need to see my friends right now, I can’t keep staying inside like this. Don’t you agree?
Introverts: *Nervous sweating*
i am a extrovert so i miss my friends so ya
@@nanithefox2691 Ew...
Extroverts: *Catches the virus and spreads it* FRIEEEEEEENND SHIIIIIIIP :P
@@bastion8804 whaaaaaat
@@tormentorchick1755 lol
I vaguely remember strolling up to one of the towns on my horse after hearing about this raid so I came to get supplies, this was a bit after the raid launched and I had already heard of the corrupted blood effect but not how it would rid itself. I saw one person start taking damage, then the next and the next. I just got back on my horse went as far as possible, and left the game and waited for the raid to end.
Matpat: "why would a game developer make something contagious"
DE: "shoves nidus into closet"....
Hello, fellow Quarantenno.
Heh. Space AIDS.
@Moral Relativism it's a warframe joke
@Moral Relativism To explain the joke; when Nidus was released, anything a Nidus touched would gain a disease that would grow as a postule over a week. The gameplay concept was to use that postule to get something (which so far is a combat pet you can take but we're still dreaming for some more stuff). Thing is; that is a pink, glowing, pulsating postule with a TENTACLE coming out of it. And you can't recolor or hide it. And anyone who has that disease, even if it doesn't show, ALSO transmits it. Now imagine a social space, when a new warframe/cosmetic is released... people walking around, showing off... and then just ONE person can run in and give everyone 'The Space AIDS'. Screams of 'NOO MY FASHIONFRAME!' ensue.
Nickolas Ganadakis but it has a cure
This is one of the coolest stories about a game I've ever heard
Well type 2b2t on reddit
@@yousefalrajhi4713 such rich history
@@tagreedibrahim9978 the oldest anarchy server on minecraft
@@marcy1949 you had to say it haven't you?
This is a major classic. Its legendary
You know you're lonely when social distancing doesn't effect your daily life
It's called "solitude" and I quite enjoy it thank you very much.
I like the quiet.
And all my friends live literal miles away so it doesn't make much difference.
The only annoying thing is that the gym is closed and we have no weights. But then again, that gives me time to write my music, so its not too bad.
Or you're an introvert
That's the way us introverts like to do.
*crying in the bathroom*
Dear DemonGuysaysHi,
Reading your comment was like a roller coaster. I truly could not expect what the next word was going to be. Although like you, I don’t have weights at home, so therefore I ordered some. About a month ago. I don’t live in a big country, you can drive across it in two days. So either the delivery guy is an idiot or he’s just delivering it on a bike
I remember this happening in vanilla.. and I find it horribly ironic that after WoW Classic got ZG it wasnt long till Corona became a thing.. x,x It wasnt till much later i heard they did a study on it and thought "hey, thats super cool. It sucks that the data might of been a bit skewed by the trolls that purposely carried it out or logged to keep the debuff for later"
Me in ‘05: *am baby*
WoW: wanna learn how to prevent a disease you’ll see when you’re 15
Omg same
Lol
Im born on 2005 but im 14
Me in '05: "Maybe I should try that college thing again."
Me 14 years later: "That college thing was okay... the career I got had to stop... Maybe I'll stay home all day and work online."
Me 1 year later: "Wow... that worked out!"
Also: I was older than you are now in '05... hooo I feel old. -_- 36 in *checks* 6 days.
Private Account same
MatPat: Uses C-Word on title
RUclips: *Welcome to the shadow realm, Jimbo*
is youtube zork necrophades
@Christopher Farley stfu
@Vega Thank You! The same message is smeared *all over* this comment section!
I give many claps to this joke.
@@karenbonds264 The guy deleted his comment but my reply was to somebody promoting his shitty channel
"The phrase "It's just a game" is such a weak mindset."
-Doctors trying to study in-game viruses
@Kyle Vernon but people are actually doing this, they go out on purpose, because they believe it's thier right to have fun. Not realizing they aren't going out to have fun, they are going out to perpetuate the spread. Then there is people like in the video who are going around licking food in stores, touching places and people, coughing and sneezing on people on purpose for a joke (who might actually be asymptomatic and don't know it, because they may have before, or they got it when doing their prank). We don't need to worry about biological warfare, the war is with our own society's ignorance and stupidity.
When a gamer says "It's just a game" For me at least it's a protective way to resurface when tensions and negativity overweigh the actual purpose of playing.
"At the end of the day, I'm not gonna let it stop me from partying"
A true inspiration, absolute king, role model for the future generations
When you play WoW hoping to avoid the virus, you get infected in-game XD
back in the day me and my guildies saved up gold so i could respec because i was a shadow preist and they wanetd me to be the guild healer lol
they would station me in ironforge and tell me to help people with the virus, i didnt wanna do it back then, but now it makes me happy that i probably saved a lot of people from rage quitting
Honestly I had covid. For the first two weeks I was asymptomatic. Only when it hit finally I had every symptom. It was really awful. I was able to recover. Doing a lot better these days. Still it was really scary. While I had to stay home to recover your videos really helped me get through it besides my videos games. So thank you matpat for making your theories. They meant so much to me and still do.
Thank god you survived and recovered. Hope you're well. And if I may pry, what did you experience/had hidden symptoms? I honestly dont know the true symptoms all I know is the first one is a fever.
@@OverlordMalarkey I never had it but I think it's vomiting, difficulty breathing, and diarrhea to name a few. I don't know if this counts but feeling weak might be in the mix.
@KiraNarza I di too but it wasn’t as bad for me since I’m a kid . Hope you feel better soon . ❤️🩹
Me too, every other year since I was 4 or 5. A week or more of vomiting and feeling ill. Of course I have many other underlying conditions.
You had to stay home, to recover matpat's videos?!? Some are lost in deep woods or something(this was meant to be joke to tell the importance is commas and punctuations or else misunderstandings like this can happen...... I might sound like an english teacher but I am 7th grader doing some timepass)
"Just call me MousePat!"
No, I think i'll call you RatPat.
Dang. I was too late
StarStruck140 :D same
I think we should have more disease events like this in video games, just as long as it’s controlled. It’s such a cool concept and if it’s executed well it can be a fantastic social experiment.
2:51
Me: * does nothing and stays at home like usual *
Also Me: "no need to thank me"
i have not seen outside in 3 months
@@rjdedios330 windows
Michael Gary Productions blackout blinds
I should show this to people who are like “Games increase Violence and don’t benefit to the world!”
they'll ignore it for sure, pessimistic people are usually stubborn
Theory about the intro: the free games aren’t aimed at established gamers, they’re meant to lure in new gamers who now have nothing “better” to do.
interesting, it is smart, get non-gamers hooked on games they have never heard of, games with microtransactions, games with online play. games with in-game voice chat
"You save 41 people by staying home"
Me looking at my right hand 😳.
Him seems a little sus