So you are saying you are not willing to let players have two weeks of enjoyment, and avoid the areas that are hotspots for said event?
Ok I learned enough. Yes that is pretty selfish, but hey Blizzard listen to players like you…and now all pay the price.
It was a blast on Suramar, i took the tainted grain gave me a 15 min debuff till i turned, to fp to arathi highlands. Ran from the camp just as i was about to turn and slowly shambled my way to southshore.
Infecting bears and raptors to heal me from losing health due to lack of biting flesh, made it to southshore with a small zombie horde shambling beside me.
Infected the FP master and her gryphons no one would survive for the scourge ravaged across the land. Infected guards, players, even seen a few horde players see what some ally were running from.
My ghoul army took the curious horde down they became zombies, all of southshore fell, you could speak “zombie” so i could talk to freshly made horde zombies.
We shambled to tarren mill taking it over easily the scourge were relentless, we slowly shambled to silverpine infecting everything we could to saye the hunger.
We were met hy a horde raid and a small raid of ally, they killed us, and we turned them against one another steadily, until only a few zombies survived.
Horde priests and ally priest casted cleanse to slow the infection, i came back to get infected the few survivors clawed and bit me, the other players who were ghouls that died, horde and ally piled on top of me.
The priests couldn’t cleanse me if they couldn’t target me, i turned and quickly detonated causing everyone piled on me to quickly turn and once more march onward.
This was my personal experience playing since launch till that pre-patch, to today.
This pre-patch event couldn’t hold a candle to the wave of death that swept across northern Eastern Kingdom.
TLDR old event was a blast, least for my server, only about 1 out of 90 didn’t like the event.
Just put all the rewards in warmode. That way the casuals can enjoy their casual fun time safely, but no reward. You want something? Come brave the zombies and your enemies.
I don’t think pre-patch content is enough to show that they don’t listen to feedback…
…BUT I don’t disagree. They are currently making the new cloaks forcibly HIDES YOUR WEAPONS that were sheathed on your back! That is definitely listening to the wrong feedback. Check it out: https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/covenant-cloaks-automatically-hiding-weapons-choice/692126
Says the person who want’s necromancers lol.
You know what’s boring? Getting ganked all the time. People hate that crap. So it’s gone.
If you want to play a game that’s all about annoying other players, go play one of the thousands of identical shooters on the market.
Eh I figure you would have this bad take. Since you always talking about a class that noone really wants.
If two weeks is enough to make you quit over something you don’t like. You deserve to leave.
Tbh, in the start of Pre-Patch SL beta. We did have the most entertaining source invasion 2.0 like in Wotlk but after a few updates blizz decided to revert it back due to forum or community outcry…
Thus, as a result we have what the crybabies always wanted. WoW for kindergarden adults!
And you’re talking about a class we already have. 
I think you should leave if the only thing you find fun is griefing players…
Lmao acting like we already have that class. Ok.
Look, dying to game systems in a way that is design for a story reason to be disruptive is not grief. Just because you don’t like it does not mean you are a victim.
Honestly, the threat of being ganked constantly can be super fun (for the right kind of player), but WoW’s always been a terrible game for it.
What makes those situations fun is the possibility of overcoming overwhelming odds, coming out on top and pushing forward. It’s that sort of dopamine kick that made Battle Royale and Survival style games so popular for years.
The zombie event in Wrath was cool, I enjoyed it, but there’s really no point to force it on people who don’t want to participate. I was a little salty, at the time, that the event was cut short prematurely - but given what a harbor this game can be, especially if you’re working a crap job, I can understand why people were upset.
That said? I wouldn’t mind if the nerf were reversed purely for warmode, either. This sort of thing really should be opt-in, even if it’s not the best fit for World of WarCraft.
At the moment, the sense of risk, and overcoming overwhelming odds just isn’t there - in fact, I feel like I’m clowning on the undead. 
That said, there are ways to create a feeling of unease, dread, and a greater threat that don’t give players an avenue to make each other abjectly miserable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIOHLNFTvIg&t=15s
This was the original scourge invasion.
Does the current invasion look like it’s bigger and better then this?
It’s more like scourge invasion 0.5
Make Death Knight.
One of the First abilities I get. “Raise dead”
Checks out.
Got another called apocalypse. Summons an Army. Got skeletal mages, skeleton archers, and gargoyles too.
Feels Necromancer man.
I’m not a victim of it. because it was a bad idea and didn’t get put in game.
That looks hilariously fun and I’m sad I came in late into the xpac.
I’m the kind of person who usually runs with no warmode, doesn’t pvp much, kind of sensitive in general (artist IRL) and… I LOVED the original Scourge Event. LOVED it. I had so much fun. Everyone I knew did. It was so immersive and so much drama- in a good way! I loved healing people on my priest and fighting back the zombies and all of the anxiety over the plague suddenly gripping you and you knew everything you had planned was about to be shaken up. You know, like you expect a zombie plague to be…
Considering how different the game is now, I’m not really even sure how it would have played out. I guess we won’t really know. But I’m not really disappointed that we didn’t get the same event again. I am disappointed that we didn’t get something just as cool- or even better.
You have control issues if you have problems with needing other people’s consent.
Sounds like you’re a disciple of NXIVM. You might not be aware but the leader of that cult just got sentenced to 120 years in prison.
Your consent “problem” is a YOU problem that could very possibly not work out well for you because forcing your “way” on others without their consent is not only bad for business, which is why Blizzard got rid of it, but in some instances highly illegal.
Most folks had fun with the Dreadlord event of Legion’s prepatch and they would have this too. I think they would have here too.
Most. Definitely not all.
The issue isn’t with folks being able to opt in and out it’s that they added that in addition to nefing the zombie invasion to the point of irrelevance because of these folks.
Unless it has changed, no more than 14 or so zombies can be up at once. They can’t infect NPCs anymore, and they die to being breathed on.
The player zombies die to falling 10 yards and likewise die by being breathed on.
An opt in with warmode would have been awesome as it supplies the best of both worlds but if the last seen state of the zombie event on the PTR is what we’re getting next week, it’s nerfed to irrelevance even in warmode. 
Agreed, got few pieces of the transmog, trying for bag and that’s it. Most boring prepatch so far, need to find something else to play until Shadowlands is out.
Warmode allows for the opt-in for the infectious ghoul invasion. The complete lack of a ghoul invasion, even in Warmode, is the main problem. I am hoping that it’s just supposed to be a slow ramp up, but this is like trying to pour crystalized honey in Antarctic winter.
What a dumb take to have.
You don’t need consent in a video game for certain events. You might not like said events to happen, but that is what makes a mmo.
It is ok to have choices, but some times things should happen out of your control. So no it is not a me problem. This event is dull because any inconvienience at all, is the end of the world. Even if it is for a few weeks. And we all pay the price for people like this, and it makes the game worse as we now see even more proof of.
Except for the people who are upset that it’s not about being gankers and taking out their proclivities on unwilling participants.