People feel important when they stick themselves into a situation they can complain all day about. You can see it when people click on threads of something they knowingly don’t like, and act like the thread was a personal letter that arrived on their table.
(i wonder why these people keep rubbing it in our face if they wanted to be left alone)
This is their form of entertainment and griefing. Maybe some don’t even know it.
Being able to solo and self-curate was the key to WoW’s initial success because people were tired of the ‘group ALL the time or DIE’ mentality that other MMOs like EQ had at the time. Forcing people back into that pen didn’t feel great, so they logged off. They ‘left the kitchen’ as you said.
Then Blizzard realized they were short a lot of cooks.
who said I’m surprised?
There’s ALWAYS a drop off. Attributing that to whatever you want isn’t proof, it’s simple mathematics. It was going to happen regardless of this event
Yeah but remove the ghouls and you don’t get thread after thread of anger and vitriol over overwhelming zombie numbers that are unkillable and one-shotting every toon in sight.
nice story
wow was a hardcore game for hardcore gamers and the group all the time or die was something that promoted being social and meeting groups of people. and no those people WHINED and got their way.
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OK, somebody didn’t play EQ here.
Hardcore game eh? With no XP loss on death? No dropping gear on death? No corpse decay?
Come ON with that.
EDIT: Oh yeah, I forgot. LEVEL DOWNS. Even FF11 had that.
Then why you saying you mad? just play the event and stop being mad. 
Not wanting to play one event is not refusing to playing the game. They are still playing the game. They are just not participating in the one thing you want them to participate in. If they want to not participate in it, that should their be choice, they should’ve have to left the game in entirety because they dislike this one thing.
I mean, should i use the same exact argument here and sayi “If you don’t like raiding to get the PvP gear in order to say competitive in PvP, then you should leave”? Because i don’t agree with that either, i think it’s bullhonkity that you need to do that.
What do mean “The event was objectively a normal thing?” Pre-Patch Events are and still is a normal occurrence every 2 years when an expansion about to launch. Of coarse it’s normal, but what are you trying to imply here? That because it’s part of the world, players shouldn’t have a choice here?
Well, now we’re dealing with vitriol and thread after thread over a lame and garbage event.
So nothing changed.
Just log off if you don’t like it.
that needs to come back things would be so much more fun
You can at least complete the objectives in this version of the event. Day 1 of PTR was literally ‘Log On to Get Infected’.
Yeah,Eq was like that.
Well if you actually believe that, i only advise you practice what you preach. Because i still see you here complaining about an event you dislike. 
nothing about the event would have prevented anyone from auctioning stuff. 
The lack of the aforementioned things is what shot WoW above-and-beyond its competition at the time, because casuals weren’t punished for not knowing arcane mechanics and didn’t have to dedicate time and servitude to guilds to make progress. Nevermind the simpler interface, more system transparency, and the fact that mobs weren’t NEARLY as strong 1v1 as EQ’s mobs (seriously, Fippy was a very unwelcome surprise for anyone under level 5, and could even give you a scrap up to 7, I think) made it the go-to game for casual MMO players.
Which, surprise surprise, there were tons of.
Ok.
But why do I want to do that? It’s not fun and it gives nothing worthwhile.
So you can do it now, but it’s not worth the time.
Acceptable trade-off?
No, I’m going to keep providing feedback until the possibility of them changing it closes. You are here for a reason however, what is that? Don’t you want to be left alone? I have a legitimate reason, you seem to be satisfied with the terms and your presence is unnecessary.
Unless like I said, your passive attitude is a facade just to be a karen.
I mean, I dunno. Why complete any objectives at all?
At least players interested in the objectives now have a chance to complete them. With super-zombies, the only thing you get to do is die.
What fun.
cough shattrath cough dalaran cough Garrison. cough sorry.
Oh boy, those 5 players get to have a blast clicking the question marks.
You know what? Good for them. Now let’s work on everyone else.