What is the purpose of this emergency maintenance that is occurring? Is it to remove the extremely poorly received 30 instance cap lockout?
Anybody know specifics?
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it’s probably to fix it as players were saying they were getting locked out long before hitting 30. /shrug
either way, cool beans.
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You mean that Blizzard was shocked when 40 or 50 players (out of 800,000) didn’t like the new rule, so they rushed to remove it?
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No, it’s way more than that.
Social Media, You-Tube, MMO-champion, this forum, and I’ve never seen this many people confused to flat out angry at Blizzard since the realID fiasco.
So I guess everyone’s observations on this differ.
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They announced this random update during the PTR stresstest. idky but it was announced by one of the Devs there. so it may be they are updating servers do to how scuffed the ST went yesterday
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If by “40 or 50 players” you mean basically every classic wow social media platform and YouTube content creators then sure
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Poor child actually thinks the community manager would manage his community.
Don’t worry. No blue will respond to you. Their too scared.
You bring up a really good point, I remember that Real ID fiasco too.
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They were going to go through it despite the entire community being against it, until one of their CMs was doxxed from just their name. It’s ridiculous, but that’s how much they care about us.
And we don’t even really know why they were so adamant about it. It’s likely so players could sort of self-moderate…?
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It would have saved them a couple bucks from not having to look at so many flagged posts.
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More like the 40-50 people who like the change. The people who are vocal in support of the change are a minority from what I’ve seen.
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Ah, you mean all those content creators that showed people just HOW to exploit pathing and free-farm the game for gold? 
To be fair, a large number of them have also shown how bad the bot situation is on the Classic servers, so more power to them. Still, when push comes to shove they are after numbers on YouTube more than anything else. Not really my choice for a moral compass of any type.
Ah, one of the great unfettered sources of truth on the Internet!! Well done! Everyone knows how accurate all the information on social media is.
While I have no idea the exact numbers of people this change has affected, I am willing to bet dollars to donuts that Blizzard does. While you have all that information from your “bastions of truth and accuracy”, Blizzard actually has these things called “logs” that factually log information from their systems. I would imagine they also have analysts to go over that data . (data being hard fact as opposed the information you choose to make your conclusions from)
If it turns out to be harmful or disastrous for the game, I am sure Blizzard will do something about it. For all we know, it is just a temporary measure while they address the huge issue of bots. At the end of the day though, I am willing to bet they know more about the game (and its player base) than you do.
No offense. 
Thanks.
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Keeping it secret is actually the suspicious thing. Most of them strictly said that at the time of the video, Blizzard had never expressed any dislike towards the farm or any rules making it against the rule. This is the first time they’ve explicitly targeted it - and even then it doesn’t impact average farmers, only the more hardcore farmers.
Plus a lot of the farms don’t have anything to do with pathing. Mara farm is totally legit for example.
Yeah, it’s definitely one of the most overreacted to and blown out of proportion game tweaks that I can remember.
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That’s debatable. To many, it’s Blizzard trying to tell players how they should play - in Classic, which is supposed to be a known entity. And many who say, “30 instances is a lot and you have to no-life to ever see it” are wrong.
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Every video game tells people how they should play. There are boundaries and limits that steer people toward playstyles that the developer thinks is best. This is nothing new. That’s why it’s a huge overreaction, IMO. I think it’s a great example of people making a mountain out of a molehill.
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No, not really. There’s intended design, then there’s retroactively changing things because you don’t like how players were playing the game - they weren’t breaking any rules, or doing anything wrong, they just didn’t like it.
It’s like how flying was never an issue until they made it one, and they tried to get rid of flying and only finally begrudgingly added it as a chore to get - and that’s the new standard. They delay it as long as they can and the compromise is that it eventually is a thing.
But then you would have to make the argument that some of these things were actually intended design vs things that were merely possible by accident.
Yes blizzard is all knowing and doesn’t make mistakes ever
Yikes simp
