So that Pre-Launch-Event comes up every 90 minutes. Why? Why are so many things around WoW designed in a way seemingly to annoy players?
Why not have the event at the top of every hour? Way easier to remember, this is the same nonsense that whole “Siege on Dragonbane Keep” was in Dragonflight, which had zero helpful indication on the World Map and one had to go WoWhead to figure out when it actually starts.
I waited over an hour for the event only for my screen to freeze and get kicked out as soon as the boss spawned. I don’t know what they were thinking, but fun (and possibly even logic) sure didn’t have any part of it.
See that is the thing I don’t understand. In that Siege of Dragon Keep event I keep see people AFKing at the spot where it starts, because in-game the event isn’t explained at all. When I came in 5 months ago, I was so confused, especially when other events pop up once a hour.
Siege of Dragon Keep has a two hour rotation, with one hour gathering forces and then when it starts it is over in 5 minutes. But then the Siege lasts for another 55 minutes. What stupid design is this? They could not make it, that when the Siege starts another siege starts 15 minutes after the last ended, basically within that 1 hour window have 2 to 3 more starting up or something?
Are they actively making game Design to spite players?
The exact same way does this Pre-Event feel like. You log out in that room in Dalaran and then logging out for 90 minutes, where then you log in for 5 minutes to complete one event and log out for the rest. Or you stay logged, and watch some movies on any streaming platform, because you can’t play the game and have to wait? Could not make the boss spawn repeat every 60 minutes, a strait number that people can memorize.
Where is this good game design?
Could not make it that one zone is active for 3 hours and a boss spawns every 15 or 30 minutes? No we have to have a uneven number like 90 minutes,
It is pretty amusing Blizzard tried a number of event styles in Dragonflight, and they picked the worst one to model the prepatch event on.
Actually not amusing, embarrassing. But I am amused.
I would do a prepatch event modeled after the soup event. Making soup for a sick Azeroth would be cute.
I really dislike the timers. They don’t make me stick around and play more. They irritate me enough that I just log out and play less.
Siege of Dragonbane Keep, Feasts, Grand Hunts, Time Rifts, Big Dig, that senile tree in Emerald Dream - whatever that event was called? And the thing that turns the zone green, I also forget it’s name… and now onto the prepatch event as well…
Why is this everywhere now? I really hate it. 
The events themselves are not that bad… if you do them the first couple times. But after a while the “you have to be right there at right this time” gets old and annoys.
I liked the Legion Invasion or the similar events in Battle for Azeroth where a faction attacks allot more. One pops up and stays up for 3 hours which gives you plenty of time to do the handful quests that pop up with it. And you can do the quests whenever you like and on however many toons… as long as the event is up.
Those waiting games here are trash. The developer that came up with this should be ashamed for rather coming up with a bad design instead of simply reusing a good design.
I waited for the last event and decided to go downstairs to get a coffee, came back up 4 minutes after the event started, zoned in 5 minutes after, and it was already over. Now I wait another 90 min. This is fun?
Another time, I finished the last of the events before the boss and then got a message that “ground mounts aren’t allowed here” and couldn’t mount or get to the boss at all. I could mount after they killed it though. Good times. Wait another 90 mins.