This is bloody terrible, and Blizzard bloody knew it was going to be poorly recieved by those who do not pvp.
I couldnt even land anywhere, the bird just dive bombed me into a group of bots, and they just wailed on me while I could just “swing mah sword”. Didnt get ANY damn rewards. And yes, I used a bad word, thats how ticked off I am.
Yeah pretty much my thoughts. I was thinking it’d be something like some interesting quest chains or a bit higher gear…not worth the wait.
I’m a Plate wearing class 
I want a cosmetic/non-class locked eyepatch for this guy so badly.
Seriously. A letdown of this magnitude wouldn’t have bothered me really, but their obsessive secrecy about it really made me think that maybe, just maybe, it might not suck.
But no, it sucked. And in addition, anything else that they try to keep “secret” in the future will now come off as a bad joke. Not going to fool people twice.
Why, just why?
I just laughed so hard when I saw the map … Waste of time and a huge disappointment.
Nah, I just won’t play plunderstorm. I’m not quitting WoW.
I’m Plate 
a tension or clash resulting from the combination of two disharmonious or unsuitable elements
You have Google at your fingertips, yet you chose to display your idiocy for all to see. How embarrassing…
I don’t pvp in wow at all and PS is fun.
What you quoted/referred to wasn’t contradictory or disharmonious.
Again, I don’t think you understand what you’re typing big dawg, but good luck, sounds like you might’ve helped out with the whole “plummetstorm” idea. How embarrassing…
You know what’s really funny? The fact that all the rewards are cosmetic and the event is FOMO, basically proves that they know that the event would have completely fallen flat on its face without dangling that carrot in front of 90% of the player base and they know that that 90% are pve players only interested in cosmetics. Lmao.
PvPer here. We didn’t want this either.
Because, as they’ve done for years, they are using their PAYING player base to beta test and play an unfinished game. It’s a limited event so they can retool and retune it and bring it back later after we test it for them. We are not only unpaid testers, but we are paying them to test an unfinished game for a multi billion dollar company.
Think about that. They’ve been doing this for years.
Doesn’t provide any rewards yet the playerbase is forced to do it? That’s contradictory my friend. I’m sorry you’re short a processor in that noggin.
Dude, you eat pudding with a fork. Unreal. 
Please do!
Hopefully, Blizzard learns some value about messaging from this. I believe their lack of messaging and need for secrecy caused most of the problems with the release.
That was obviously hyped because “hehe secret!” making it seem like a big deal. Plus putting it on the road map.
And the messaging led us to expect a patch for retail, considering 10.2.6 was on the retail roadmap, and not on the classic roadmap.
What’s crazy is this late in an expansion / season, when player numbers drop, you’re going to want to add something to the game to keep people playing and logging in.
What they did was add a separate game with an anticipated 50 hour rep grind for mounts.
Great job Blizzard, you removed even more people from playing retail for the duration of this event.
Even fewer people are playing retail wow than there otherwise would have been.
GG well played.
What build up? They showed us a pirate flag, then the community assumed it was Pandaria challenge dungeons and stuff because people can’t help themselves from datamining and hyping themselves off their own theories.