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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күнү жарыяланды 8 ай мурун
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
@Hudde ik I'm just hammering it in that humanity is already in ruins
@Justin y. ya i think he got it by now and this was like 8 months ago
13:39
13:40 yes but actually no
you got pin good job
The 80% mask rate thing....i live in japan. I am sure we have about 80% of mask wearers in Tokyo. But if people start to feel comfortable with their friends and coworkers they will still take of the mask at least a short time once a day. People will infect their families because they feel save in their homes and are letting down theirs guards
ratpat not mouse pat
That me
So China copied WoW without giving them credits? Look what this world became
11:09 I'm from Israel and it's really cool to find a KGupr like you talking about it
Fun fact:World of Warcraft spells WoW
So being an introvert saves 41 lives God 2020 was very strange
Sheesh.They did knew about Co19
so basically people care more about in game avatars then real people, nice.
MatPat have you ever even played WoW before
EXCUSE NME MATPAT AT APPROCIZAMTELY 4:51 YOU SHOW A PALADIN WITH CORRUPTED BLOOD WIELDING THE ASHBERINGER!!! THIS IS A OUTRIGFGE YOU CANT HAVE ASHBRINGER IN VANNIALLA WOW I AM REPORTING THIS VIFEO FOR MISKLEADING CONTENT >:(
Me: corona has only been here for a few months! The video: posted *8 months ago* Me: aw shiz😭
10:30 Damn those loading speeds tho.
What is your 4th channel going to be because of the 4 lines around your logo
Honestly I think book theroy is a good idea to fill out the last bar
Ratpat
"2 million people have the virus" Oh- Oh wait- It got way worse-
Yep lol, estimated that the US alone has had 100 million cases of covid per the CDC.
Does every MMORPG need one gigantic glitch/oversight that affects players in terrible ways? I mean WoW had this, RuneScape had the Falador Massacre, seriously this is fascinating.
I cant believe its been 8 months
ha lol rat pat
oh mat pat I really want to stay at home but my mom she want me to get out
"Helpful Matpat is helpful" -Matpat 2020
You wasted three minutes of my time in the beginning talking about Covid 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡 also masks don’t work at all and people said staying inside quarantine is killing more people and the virus is not the most spreading or the fast killing the flu is actually worse
How dumb can you be
4:00 starts
THEY EVEN HAVE KARENs
A matter of weeks. A Matter Of Weeks. A MATTER OF WEEKS. *ITS BEEN A YEAR*
Me watching the beginning looks how old the vid is oh that makes sense
Wait, only 80% to have this over in three weeks?! How many people haven't been wearing their masks then?!
Recent studies have come out showing that just weating masks isnt enough to stop covid, it does reduce it, but the infections will still grow since the R value is still above 1 even with masks.
My dad and my brother always play WoW we are always playing
me clicks video to just go to another one of your video's Meanwhile me looking at the vid: a video game preventing a irl crisis??? :Mind explosion:
Who us here in 2021 when the vacation is here
Bearded Matpat scares me
I from Israel
Dude...you don’t need to wear a mask if you’re simply outside...you also don’t need to wear a mask if you’re outside and keep respectful distance... if staying home a day saves 41 lives, then schools are responsible for killing millions every day..
Plague doctor boi
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...
It’s 2021 so boring
I DONT PLAY Animal crossing!
I am all for the idea of using games for scientific models and building effective parallels of how diseases can spread as well as other fields of study. and while I would highly encourage game studio's to comply with opening their systems up to scientific experimentation especially MMO's that are wildly popular. I have to also hope and encourage that if any of these companies did actually agree, that they would run this as a side server with clear disclaimers that there is content that may mirror issues in the real world and that players should be acutely aware that it may even relate to current events and that they should understand that they should be mentally healthy before playing in that particular server, as many gamers play games to escape the real world or to de-stress. I can only imagine the mental and emotional health effects this would have on an unsuspecting group of depressive WOW players and how it could exacerbate depressive symptoms. obviously playing on a scientific data collection server that potentially could affect your mental and emotional well being there should be some incentive but that incentive also needs to be within a certain level of reasonable attainment for nonunique server players, as if something can only be achieved via the special server then many people will ignore that aforementioned warning.
It's nearly been a year since this all started and barely anything has changed, no one is listening no one is wearing a face covering and everyone is just out and about like none of this matters, no one cares and it's scary i hate people nowadays.
True
I wonder if MatPat still gets a revenue for this video?
Please keep the beard
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Have you ever just gone back, like WAY back, when you get bored and decide “I’m gonna go watch videos from years ago, maybe one, two or even three years” and when you do that it just makes you happy, it’s heavily raining outside and I’m watching this on 10/12/2021, it’s nice, I like this, its fun, it makes me happy...
Yeahhhhhh, Blizzard never patched the Corrupted Blood update into WoW. Would’ve been helpful, but y’know, Global Pandemics in the “real” world couldn’t be that serious, right?
Laughs in 2021*
Starts at 4:05
The Intro Never Get Old Never Get Old
We can all blame WoW for rejecting the CDC from researching the CB debuff because we could have just killed the virus pretty fast if WoW didn’t reject them
Hey, at least we don't have to tunnel our way through dead orcs and elfs to get down the street
Ratpat
Wow
I actually want some online rpg games or similar to have a plague but not as contagious but just to see how people would react and people would learn aswell and then people would be more knowledgeable on how to react or well at least gamers would be smarter
In the intro before it goes in the computer there is a small springtrap doll/funko pop there
Me watching this in january 2021: Yeah, um it's 40,000 cases now
Project Zorgo is watching...
12:10 ratpat sounds more catchy
Remember when there was corrupted blood OTK? Good times..
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'm just wondering how this happened. When the weather was perfect, the world was beautiful, when we had the best opportunity to enjoy life. We stayed home. And now when all we had to so was sit on our couch, watch some TV and go to the toilet for a couple of weeks everyone decided they're exploring the world. Like what is this toddler logic????
No one says gg or gratz in dg anymore though
oh boi were we wrong
Mousepat? Come on you had Ratpat right there
Who disliked this though
mouse pat? more like a mousePAD
I remember logging on during this in game pandemic. I was a paladin so I was able to heal myself, and guide lower levels to exit cities alive
Who's watching in 2021?
My parents: YOU NEED TO GO OUTSIDE MORE OFTEN INSTEAD OF PLAYING GAMES ALL DAY! Me: So yall want me to be a murderer!
WoW player after covid starts : just like the simulations
Me: *reads title* Also me: i guess World Of Warcraft isnt going anywhere Also me after watching the video: ooh that yeah
Well that blizzard guy that say no is should be responsible
WOW should’ve helped the scientists
... is this a coincidence from WoW or they just predict the future?
We have max stupid
Not everybody
😆😆
Wow a game almost stop covid crisis
"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
10:21 #tierzoo would not approve
Oops
Why do I get the feeling that in an alternate universe where the movie was an extreme success that a third film was going to be filmed with this plague being a central focus but was canceled because of COVID-19
#MousePatt
I tried to heal them with my Druid. 🤣
Welp not my fault i wasn't even born in 2005 feel old?
WoW sitting in their seats wondering where they went so wrong; :/ Ok who was the idiot who said no to those scientists back in 2005?
Pandemic mobile games- Am I a joke to you...
ITS JUST A GAME, the idiots said. Wow. How embrassing.
What
At least in WOW, there was no CCP to murdure people who exposes them for there cover ups of carona.
I just realized my sis is younger that world of warcraft by 1 day🤣
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
Beardpat
Matpat: they don't know we are in our house. Game companies: we know your in there
Speaking of viruses the glitchtrap/vanny cult could be considered a virus because those effected could expose other people to the game kinda like super hot.exe Btw I had to pause video
honestly if it ever comes back people might treat it differently if they know if its a test lol
Or rat pat
Austin in 2021:I should make a sports theorists
12:07 Rat Pat was a missed opportunity
fun fact: mat pat was born on his birthday
USING GAMES TO SIMULATE REAL LIFE EVENTS WITH LEARNING OBJECTIVES IN MIND IS AN OLD IDEA The Prussian Army adopted war-games in 1824, to allow officers real practice in the intricacies of battle According to the wikipedia article on the subject, General von Muffling (who, 9 years previous was Prussian Liaison to Wellington at a little place called Waterloo), the Prussian Generalstabschef at the time, said "this is no ordinary sort of game, this is schooling for war. I must and will recommend it most warmly to the army." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kriegsspiel The idea expressed above by von Muffling can be extended to World of Warcraft and Corrupted Blood, or any other simulation game out there
That is actually so cool that this happened
Andy slavitt : wear a mask to save lives Schools and karens : covid? Whats that? A joke or something? Thats stupid