It’s not because I talk about something that makes me interested or not. I can give my opinion regardless.
How old are you? 15?
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/shrug Don’t care about HC. Don’t care about streamer drama.
My only hope in all this is that Blizz is finally forced to spend some time/money into protecting their infrastructure from these kind of attacks.
You’re the one that has to bless everyone with the knowledge of what you don’t care about 
It’s literally BECAUSE most of them are high profile streamers, who bring #'s for Blizzard views and who are affiliated and employed BY Blizzard. Players in ONLYFANGS make up 0.00005% of the community while the rest of the 99.99995% of the WoW community get’s not even a SHRED of justice when these DDoS attacks happen. There were 1000’s of people affected by the DDoS attacks on Saturday, mid M+ keys, mid-Heroic clears for AOTC and Mythic Raiders progressing in Undermine(d). A LOT of people were affected, not just ONLYFANGS. So, are these sub playing players going to get their turn with the special treatment getting their chance at killing their Mythic boss or AOTC since they were on the last boss while the DDoS attack happened? Nope. Why? Because they’re not Hardcore which they can “bite the bullet” and do it all over again. All of their prog doesn’t matter to them because they’re not Hardcore characters. It’s gone just like a Hardcore character the only difference is, that non-HC raid can just do it again without losing their character but they’ve lost all of that progression on that specific boss.
The main reason why this is a rollback it’s because it’s Hardcore, once you die, your character is deleted forever. It only takes the power of Blizzard to reinstate these characters. This is 100% a BUISNESS move for Blizzard. It’s not “Oh, we feel bad because you were part of a DDoS attack!!”. There’s been high end WoW streamers who’ve DIED in Hardcore due to blatant bugs, put in a ticket due to the bug, provided video proof of the unintended bug and not even get their “just due” to be reinstated.
I get it, not everyone in that raid we’re ONLYFANGS, the fact that MOST of them are high profile WoW streamers, part of Blizzards high profile eSport teams and affiliated/employed by Blizzard makes a HUGE difference on their decision.
If this was a casual guild no one ever heard of or none of them ever streamed or even as prolific as ONLYFANGS, do you think they would receive the SAME treatment even if they weren’t targeted but still affected by the DDoS attack? Nope. Blizzard would go about business as usual because that no name HC guild doesn’t bring promotion to their business model in the likes of most of the people from ONLYFANGS. Why do you think Blizzard is taking actions NOW since that guild was affected? Why didn’t they take any action from the numerous DDoS attacks PRIOR to Saturday? Ever wonder about that?
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Right here.
"In the future, Blizzard may elect – at our sole discretion – to revive Hardcore characters that perish in a mass event which we deem inconsistent with the integrity of the game, such as a DDoS attack.
Our broader stance on character restorations or death appeals has not changed. To be clear, we do not intend to revive characters which have died due to server disconnects, lag spikes, gameplay bugs, or any other reasons. Blizzard Customer Support cannot assist with issues related to characters who have died on Hardcore realms."
I’m not sure how one could think otherwise. PR talk doesn’t directly state things, it says them without directly saying them.
I really don’t care what happens on classic, let alone hardcore (this game was never intended to be played as a hardcore game) but in the end I think it was the correct move. These deaths were not due to the players screwing up a mechanic or something, it was an outside force that was screwing with the servers that caused their deaths. Rules need to have exceptions, now the “no resurrection” rule has one as well.
It takes way more effort to pull that off then your average WoW guild is going to be able to muster.
I think the stance they should take is that if its an outside force out of their control that caused them to loose the toon, their account is in good standing and it can be proven without causing an opportunity for some kind of exploit then people who loose hardcore toons should get their characters back. And it would also be wise to be empathic about this rather then having an attitude of “Well. Only if we really really care, which we may or may not then well do it”. It doesn’t really instill confidence in people who want to do hardcore mod that if something out of their control messes up their character blizzard will do nothing about it.
They should have just let hardcore be its own thing with the add-on that was being used in era servers and let players govern themselves when it comes to hardcore.
Now blizzard is stuck having to deal with making these decisions for their game that was not built to support hardcore to begin with.
As for their decision to resurrect characters who died in these DDoS attack, it’s a good decision that makes sense financially for them and which is an exception to the rule that can be deemed acceptable. Nothing more, nothing less.
Streamers get privileges, the sky is blue what’s new?
Why waste them on such an insignificant subject?
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Blizztard chooses twitch streamers over regular paying customers. Regular Joe/Jane are just simps giving up their money for nothing. To be treated like an abused spouse. Hit’em again!! The simps will take it… They love it.
Hardcore is no longer hardcore. Rename the server to “We have no integrity and hate our customers”
One day these gaming companies will realize twitch streamers don’t actually provide a benefit like people are dumb enough to think they do. They are a parasite that uses the game company for their own benefit. Streamers don’t pay the game company. They collect money and take away control of the game from the company. You thought Microsoft owned Blizzard but you were decieved. Sodapoppin the Twitch streamer does. All hail King Sodapoppin! So when he isn’t happy he organizes a streamer boycott until you bend the knee to the king. You WILL bend the knee because you already have.
Private server owners are laughing themselves silly right now in glee. They will scoop up all the people that hate Blizzard.
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found the guy who paid for the ddos
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Guess the DDoS attacks will continue until the offender(s) get bored.
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Bold of you to assume he has the money for it.
They are not just doing this for Only Fangs, they are doing it for everyone who died as a result of the ongoing attacks. People need to get over this irrational hatred of streamers. Hell to be fair, the hardcore servers probably wouldn’t even have a player base or any exposure if it wasn’t for them.
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Honestly the best part of this whole situation is how upset it’s making some people.
/popcorn
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You’re complaining about two different things.
Blizz stepping in and rezzing people due to malicious actions.
And Blizz stepping in due to a “high profile” target was affected.
Would it be better if they acted before this? Yes.
That does make it a bad thing that they are now though and going onward. It also doesn’t mean only OF guildies are getting rezzed.
The tin foil is cutting off the oxygen to your brain. They said they would revive people lost to the DDoS.
They did not imply they would only revive streamers.
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Streamers throwing a tantrum and Blizzard caving is actually embarrassing but not unexpected.
Almost as embarrassing as having a no death mode that is liable to be ruined by server side issues and calling it good. Blizzard is right to do the rollback for this kind of thing.
I don’t know why people are advocating for letting the ddos fufill its purpose, as if the people who ddos won’t just get bolder when they see that it works and start targeting smaller targets.
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Not many really. It is good for the affected players I guess. This means they are more likely to purchase again next month.