Nearly everyone approved of appeals in concept. What they didn’t approve of is one guild running the appeals system and corruptly approving internal appeals that people knew weren’t legitimate. This isn’t the same as Blizzard is a largely neutral arbiter.
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Depends. Are you a streamer? If not, sorry, your character is done.
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Doing the right thing is crazy?
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Honestly wouldn’t be surprised if someone like “konsequences” was involved in the DDOS network. The name is on the nose and whoever it was is obviously obsessed with the WoW community.
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Huge W for all reasons in the blue post.
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Meanwhile we’re still waiting for a follow up response about the Black Lotus problem from 5 weeks ago…
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It’s crazy that they are doing this after their previous response to mass disconnects or server instance crashes was to basically insult the players for asking.
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It only makes sense to do this. If they don’t make this move then it shows a serious flaw and allows the bad actors to win. The DDoS attacks would only increase because they would be proven effective. Now… what’s the point? They’ll just get their characters back anyway. Great move.
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Could always count on at least someone to have this take xD
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Ah the alt army is here to cry and nake things up
What about all of the people playing retail who lost high level M+ keys due to this?
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Yeah naw. DDoS or not, they shouldn’t get special treatment just because they were streaming. Not to mention the whole AT OUR DISCRETION just leads many to believe who only read the article and none of the comments, that all you need to do is be a streamer and in the cool kids club in order to get special treatment. Yeah it sucks, but thats the point of hardcore, you are playing against the odds and one mistake it all it takes to mess up and go back to square one.
If people can understand this in other games, why not here? is there no stakes at all now if you’re a streamer?
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“but its the risk you take when you play HC.”
No it isn’t.
There is no expectation whatsoever that you should just have to deal with the game randomly disconnecting hundreds of people and killing them, targeted specifically during raids.
You are just salty that you died due your own misplays.
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To be honest its the streamers dying that makes Blizzard take action and I am fine with it. They are definitely valuable to the company and they realize that in the future we won’t be able to have amazing events like this. I died on Doomhowl on March 8th due to a ddos attack also. It would be lovely to get my account transferred and ressurected but I wouldn’t be mad either ways. I’m grateful for at least the free character transfer.
Massive W, glad Blizzard could see reason here.
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It would also reduce the chance of any future onlyfangs 3.0. Why bother running an event like this again when it can be wiped out with limited effort by some malicious actors? Like it or not Onlyfangs drives a huge number of players and social media attention to classic hardcore, which is good for the server community, auction house availability, etc. This event even brought people from other games like T1 and Grubby and had people crossing over into WC3 and other Blizzard games. Just good for Blizzard in general. They had to do something.
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Just teleport everyone to town when the server gets overloaded on HC. It’s such a simple solution. I’m trying to be patient. I’m trying to understand. But when the solution is so simple and obvious and has successfully been used by private servers, and yet you completely refuse to implement it… it just makes you seem incompetant. You have to better than this. You just have to be. There’s no other way to put it. Be better.
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Or just have auto-logout on dc/alt-f4 like many other hardcore games. It really doesn’t matter that much. People can already bail on bad situations with petris. People die from misplays, overconfidence, and one shots much more often than drawn out deaths.
But if the actually police DDOS and restore characters for that specific type of event alone that goes a long way to providing confidence in the game mode.
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All the folks lurking and trolling the forums over the weekend saying they wouldn’t revive the characters lost are looking pretty stupid right about now. 
W Blizzard fix.
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Many attacks have taken place since the opening of the undermine raid in retail. Excluding the characters lost in each of those periods will be taken in offense. I hope your message here is inclusive of all recent ddos incidents.
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