A few people in greens, or hell a few people sub 60, shouldn’t change your MC runs from 1:45 to 3 hours… if you are as 1337 as you claim…
The primary purpose of the changes were as part of the anti-botting campaign. However, saying that it isn’t explotive is an opinion. Blizzard may disagree since it appears to be much more common in Classic than it was in Vanilla. It may well fall within the not intended design category like many of the changes they’ve made to BGs.
How often it happened in vanilla compared to how often it happens now is not relevant. Of course with the information out there today things are going to be done differently than they were back then, that is to be expected and I’d hope that Blizzard isn’t dumb enough to not foresee that.
Resetting instances is not exploitative in anyway. This also does nothing against bots. It accomplishes nothing.
The problem here is that there aren’t enough Game Masters willing to work for 7 dollars an hour and live in Blizzard’s parking lot to deal with the botting problem.
Activision won’t let them spend a dime on quality control anymore; y’all should’ve realized this sometime shortly after July 2008. If you haven’t caught on to that yet, you might actually have learning disabilities. They won’t waste a dime to have their senior developer replacement interns address the botting/exploiting issues at their core, and based on this decision, they don’t have enough brain cells to go around to even attempt to do so.
“Guys! Guys! Botters are ruining the game!”
“NOT IF WE RUIN IT FIRST!”
This is Warcraft III: Refunded decision making at play.
This is, “What, you don’t have cell phones? lmao”
This is Activision-Blizzard.
Blizzard Entertainment
1991 - 2008 
It’s entirely relevant. Especially since in vanilla they specifically added restrictions to prevent dungeon spamming. If people are being more aggressive about it now… well the restrictions just got updated.
Last thing I’ll say on this subject.
- Ooops, what’s a threat meter?
- I need to be in Discord?
- What’s this DBM you guys talk about?
- What does the skull mark mean?
- What is decursing?
All questions we’ve been asked by people in greens, DURING RAID.
Answering those questions takes time and slows the run down.
Getting people raid ready, learning their class, and getting gear are ALL hand in hand and done at the same time.
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Its not relevant.
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Apparently blizzard disagrees 
Got a source where they say that?
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Again, that is just your opinion, and Blizzard may (and apparenty does) disagree. They’ve already been making changes to curb behavior in BGs and elsewhere to things that existed in Vanilla but weren’t changed then. Probably specificially because people are playing differently now than they did in Vanilla.
And? I’ve seen people in full dungeon BiS that fail at the same things.
You mean other than the change they just made?
Yes, link me the quote where they say that this change is because of that.
You have zero clue what you’re talking about. Use some common sense here.
One year and four months ago is not a few years. They cut positions mostly from redundant departments and immediately began a massive hiring surge. You can’t even be bothered to check when the layoff actually happened, don’t pretend to know how Blizzard operates.
Honestly, if NC Soft hadn’t canceled Wildstar, I’d still be playing that. You couldn’t be a bad in that game. If you were, you couldn’t hit level cap.
I miss Wildstar. 
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You’ve said it yourself plenty of times, it’s targetting exploitative behavior and(that means in addition to) botting.
If you think blizzard didn’t realize exactly what impact this would have on people speed running dungeons, trolling for jed id’s etc… and that they were somehow inadvertently impacted I think you are sadly mistaken.
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I apologize but this doesn’t appear to be a quote from a blue.
Oh sorry there’s the quote from the blue.
It was not just targetting botting.
Thats not a quote regarding whether they find relevance between back then and now with this change at all. Sorry, please try again.
P.S. This change does nothing to aid in their “ongoing efforts” either.
Seems to have been quite effective based on the number of people complaining.