After all the years and changes the world of warcraft has gone through over the years, maybe it’s time for you to move on.
Wrath-Classic seems to want to focus on the semi-faster but still slow community aspect of the days of yore. Where time was spent chatting with your group while you ran to a summoning stone or timing your rez to avoid the cap level ganking at said stone.
It’s not comparable to the fast-paced plug and play aspect of retail, the random dungeon finder spams, the easier professions leveling, the group up entire sections of dungeons for aoe, and the shorter and shorter mythic + clear times, or even the group finder for quest mechanic.
You’re upset about zombies killing your quest givers, locking you in combat so you can’t fly out of the city? Annoyed the zombie’s hit box can occasionally tag you through a wall, or players make a concerted effort to spread the plague? And this happens during your limited time to play the game? To not be able to enjoy it between chores, school, work, looking after the children?
Then I say again, maybe this isn’t the game for you.
Many, Many of us players enjoy this event. It’s one time, for a short period where the world is different. It’s rough at the best of times, but is it unplayable? No, no it is not unplayable. Because you aren’t playing the game.
World of Warcraft-Classic(s) isn’t a game that only takes place at cap. It’s about the grind, the meeting with others, coordinating and spending time to achieve things Together. It has time sinks be that in leveling, travel times, high cost for mounts that requires more grinding, and even the occasional world pvp encounter. These time sinks are not only integral to the gaming experience but to the vastness of the world. Many, if not all of which happen before cap level.
If you can’t maintain your real life obligations then you should re-evaluate what you want in a game, instead of forcing us to conform to our opinion of what the game should be. Stop trying to make the game conform to your personal or ’s aspirations just annoy everyone enjoying their time with the constant whinging.
It comes off like walking into an established shoe shop, and demanding they start selling you clown shoes. Go make your own clown shoe store and leave the rest of us with the advertised product that we willingly purchased and enjoy.
Personally, I think Blizzard’s low fresh server release was a bad idea. I think maximum player capping coupled with faction capping should have been implemented. And as the streamers go off to other ventures and their fans follow, Blizzard could slowly integrate servers together to balance the population. I think the queue times on the server coupled with the people who wish to avoid the plague event is a perfect storm.
I am tired of people logging on to afk in cities to share their unwanted nonsense opinion about blizzard, or the event. “Servers should have just gone down for 4 days, that’d be more fun.” Maybe for you. So log off. Play something else, come back after the event and let someone (who would enjoy the event) in the several hour queues join and actually play the game. Or don’t come back. Blizzard doesn’t need your subscription; nor do you owe them anything. If you aren’t having fun then keep your money and be entertained elsewhere.
There is a lot of other games to choose from and it is okay that World of Warcraft isn’t for you. But it is for the rest of us, and you logging on to complain is the Real cause of grief and strife in the player base. Just remember, for every time you log onto a game you claim to hate or an event you hate, or company policies or whatever reason to stand around and complain that it isn’t what you want; there is someone in the queue who just got off work and wants to come in, jump into conflict and have fun in this event.
You may think you want to play World of Warcraft, but you don’t. You have an idealized version in your mind that this game is not. I urge you to go find that idealized version on your own, away from us.
But aside from all of Blizzards perceived failures this is about you, the player.
You may have fond memories of World of Warcraft, you may have enjoyed certain aspects of it when you had more time. But now you don’t. And that’s okay. If you find yourself in trade chat or looking for group chat or others complaining about how the game isn’t what you want. Log off, find something that makes you happy, and let the rest of us enjoy what we want.
It’s time for you to move on and play a different game.