A funny counterpoint is when an apocalypse occurs in a video game world <i>accidentally</i>. Take, for example, World of Warcraft&#x27;s Corrupted Blood Incident: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Corrupted_Blood_incident" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Corrupted_Blood_incident</a><p>Through an exploit, a viral debuff can escape and infect any player or NPC in the world. Cue entire <i>cities</i> dying with no way to stop it. It was interesting enough that the CDC investigated.<p>Blizzard ended up repeating this event intentionally as a promo for the second expansion (a zombie apocalypse) and ironically, people <i>hated</i> it because it made the game unplayable!<p>Another funny accidental apocalypse in early WoW was kiting raid bosses to cities, letting them wreak havoc until a GM despawns them: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Jl0VWJdE01M" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Jl0VWJdE01M</a>