World of Warcraft

I havn't played WOW since Battlegrounds... for logn anyways and I'm just wondering why everyone was complaining baout this event. I mean it's a once in a life time event that seemed like it would have been lots of fun. In the old days when we had events like these you'd have guilds teaming up and trying to defeat the invasion or whatever and protecting people, even if it offered no reward, playing the game and doing the event was the fun and people liked to group up.

Everyone complainging about a fun Halloween event just seems weird IMO. It's like sposed to be abit of fun, the end game in WOW gets repetitive as it is and back when I was playing I woulda given anything for something else to do. Do people just complain about it because they can?

Because WOW is dominated by whiny little kids.

Zombie attacks interrupt the steady stream of epix lewtz.

Originally posted by Bonemane

Because WOW is dominated by whiny little kids.

Either that, or some got tired of Blizzard allowing 'whiny little kids' to kill off NPC's stopping you from questing and joining battlegrounds...and just the general grief it produced. MMO's are full of jerks...giving them more power to grief is down right scarry. 

I liked it too.  But it seems I was in the mionority...

On one hand- Stormwind (and other cities, I'm sure)  was shut down several times for about 15 minutes at a time:

No Auction House- all dead

No Bank- all dead

Few merchants except the out of the way ones- all dead

No Battleground masters - all dead

I didn't really mind, but some people were pissed off, it seems.

I actually think it was an interesting hint of a possible direction that MMOs should go...

...I think it's the first time players felt like they could have an effect on the world.  Of course, some took it to the extreme and tried to disrupt the normal flow as much as possible.  But the fact that they could do it was pretty awesome, actually.

Originally posted by Krasher

Originally posted by Bonemane

Because WOW is dominated by whiny little kids.

Either that, or some got tired of Blizzard allowing 'whiny little kids' to kill off NPC's stopping you from questing and joining battlegrounds...and just the general grief it produced. MMO's are full of jerks...giving them more power to grief is down right scarry. 

Yeah, all important NPCs gone, most of the time.

No questgivers, no auctioneers, no battlemasters, no flightmasters, etc. And at least on my server (EU: Anachronos), most of the dungeons/instances were bugged during the event, meaning you couldn't even do that.

Everyone didn't complain.  But even if %.01 of WoW's subscribers did complain/quit, that's a lot of people.

Personally, I think it was the worst event imaginable - there was almost no way to fight the zombies without becoming one and griefing tools were spread to the newbie zones - but I didn't care because I knew it would be over in a week or two no matter what.  Unfortunately, too many people don't have perspective.

Sure it was different.  But what it amounted to was a license to grief.  Also those who were getting the raw end of the deal were the new players as being lower in level meant they had much less ability to survive what was going on.  I don't think that giving entertainment to the bored alpha players at the expensive of the newer players is a good decision.  I'm not saying that they shouldn't try new things or that they should have never bothered with this, I'm just saying it wasn't all that great.  I wouldn't have had a problem with it if you didn't incure equipment damage from dying as a zombie.  There was more than one way to do this.

Originally posted by Bonemane

Because WOW is dominated by whiny little kids.

Exactly.

I have not played WoW since first two months after release because it's an easy mode game and I want to be challenged, but I remember Horizons aka Istaria had a plague that was passed between NPC and PC thru personal contact until all infected persons both PC and NPC were cured. It was a lot of fun and added immersive realism to the gameworld. That is where Blizzard got the idea btw.

Originally posted by Bonemane

Because WOW is dominated by whiny little kids.

Not just kids - whiny adults who got mad that it interrupted their daily rep/gear grind. I delighted in watching these types get ever more frustrated until they threatened to quit.

I only hope they did.