you only have 10 hours to get the mount? damn am still leveling, was just hoping to get it later. oh well. good luck to the people that go for it. going to be a lot of griefers.
for any blizzard devs reading this you suck @ss lmao
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Welcome to the event everyone has been waiting for! (too bad everyone doesn’t get to participate)
So, expectations? Yeah, this is about what we expect from “blizzard” 
these days.
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Ah, missed that.
Then it’s probably because they don’t want to layer an entire realm based on just what’s going on in a single zone.
Wow, I should get you a personal cinema for all that projecting you’re doing, fam.
All I said is that it’s not unreasonable for people to expect quality service when they’re paying for a product, and suggest that if a competitor can achieve better results with less resources then why should people accept the status quo.
Your moral indignation does absolutely nothing to support your argument.
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Well since we don’t know what the caps are going to be it’s hard to say whether private servers were actually able to provide a better experience. Which I seriously question.
True. Though if this is coming from the company that expected to fit 50k+ people per server in Oceania upon release, I’m not optimistic.
Non sequitur but okay.
…that people demanding X quality from Blizzard is analogous to exceptionally disaffected citizens willing to overthrow their government. /giggle
Avoid hyperbole that is weighed down with hosts of baggage and say what you want forthrightly instead.
See above prior point about “stupid citizens”
At the end of the day, people want a delicious cup of hot coffee when they go to buy it. They know, generally speaking, that varying levels of effort go into the production of Starbucks, McDonald’s, 7/11, and some local coffee shop coffee, respectively. Prices vary, quality varies, the works. If you just want something hot, with caffeine, and somewhat sweet, then the 7/11 cheap-as-hell coffee is just fine for you. But don’t be a complete idiot and compare it to one of the coffee chains, let alone the local corner shop, as if Starbucks should sell you the same amount for the same cost.
I don’t have any indignation. I just find your entitlement hilariously silly, and your comparisons absurd. You speak like a student, untested, thinking by going for a grand analogy you suit your purposes better than just being direct. You also fail to differentiate legitimate businesses from folks who skip 99% of the overhead and upfront costs who only want to manufacture a superficial facsimile that can pass for the real thing.
You’re comparing the real Rolex to the junk you find on the street in NYC, and complaining that the junky one held up over a rock hitting it slightly better than a real Rolex, thanks to the cheap (but sturdy) material used to fake it.
/giggle
If even a fraction of the population are able to experience Silithus without lagging, and the rest of the population are able to go about their business as usual, then it will beat the pirated server experience without even trying. To jam-pack people into Silithus required them to more or less turn off, or cap capacity, on every other facet of their server to handle Silithus’ load.
And that’s not counting the accurate invasion occurrences in the other zones, something pirated servers either neglected to do at all, or horrendously missed the mark.
the gate event was poorly designed in 2006, this is the main issue at hand.
i laugh at the people who thought this version of blizzard would be able to deliver an experience that is closer to “perfect” than it is to “complete garbage”. Every private server I played on, the opening events were always horribly implemented. Its never been good because the original design was bad. Blizz is trying something relatively unique with their approach and I give them credit there. Up to this point, they have shown a complete unwillingness to get creative with some of these solutions. So, at least it shows they have people actually trying to work around the badly designed systems.
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Very unhappy with the cap on players and not allowing <60 players into the zone. This is not how it was in Vanilla, I come to classic for the vanilla experience, and this is not it. Back then we went to silithus, it lagged like all hell and it was hilarious. Now I can’t even experience anything because I get ported out. I would much rather have lag and server instability!
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I mean the fact that the private servers no longer exist actually has nothing to do with what we were talking about, but alright. The point was: There are servers capable of handling the numbers we have on current game during such an event. This is a multi-BILLION dollar company. They can afford them, I promise.
i dont understand why they strip the fun away from the game. they think we will have ourfun and quit? no we will always come back for more, we’ll never get tired of fun. why is blizzard being so toxic about the game that gave them a platform to rise up in history
The infrastructure of WoW is limited. It’s old AF and was built off WC3. You’re literally comparing games and servers of today to one created at least 2 decades prior.
God this thread has so many people who seem to be completely incapable of reading or any logical reasoning at all.
First off, we do not know how large the zone cap will be…
We do however know:
So if you were on that PTR event or would talk to someone who was, you would know that there were at least a few hundred people in Silithus before any serious lag became a problem. So with what we do know it will be able to handle a significant portion of the server, because despite what people say when the servers do not have anwhere close to 15k people online at one time, those numbers are census numbers showing unique players over weeks.
Also:
Now even if you are kicked out of Silithus, I find it odd that no one seems to be mentioning this little nugget:
They are making the event happen in multiple zones so that everyone can experience it.
TL:DR this is no where near the “worst” solution, pretty sure that would be letting everyone in and crashing the servers so no one could experience the event, better known as what happened in Vanilla.
The immense creativity of kicking people out of the zone. I’m in awe of the genius.
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I’ve always despised this event. One player on a server and everyone else is supposed to help them… whatever.
Reading comprehension is hard, I know.
Anyone who doesnt realize how low the bar has been set by this point, well, what game are you playing lol
How does ensuring that we don’t all lag to the point where it becomes unplayable, stripping away all the fun?
so in other words itll be a repeat of vanilla where only the first lvl 60 to sneak in and ring the gong will get the mount
Blizzard shouldve made this be an attunement and not simply a limited event because itll once again remove all motivation to quest that zone when you already know the best reward is going to stolen by organized groups and botters to ensure no one gets a fair chance at it
yeah and multiboxers and guild groups will get there first to lock down their position to ensure they get the better odds or worse yet people with a ton of gold will pay others to let them “skip the line” and be there effectively buying the mount
Blizzard should change this to an attunement and not simply a first come first served event after all Classic is supposed to never end so why not let all new players to that zone have a once per alt quest and get their own bug and title