Since i saw a lot of people complaining about rampaging scourge and say cities will be a nightmare to deal with if it goes live and is constant i have a suggestion for it:
Instead of happening in every city have it happen in like 1 or 2 cities of each faction constantly rotating so that there is always scourge invasion happening. And have it be timed for like half hour and then scourge leaves/disappears from that city. Have people know what city is gonna be hit by having a flying Necropolis over city for like 10 to 30 mins before invasion begins. And maybe add some simple quests to clear the scourge or defeat miniboss while also having players turn into zombies. That way some people will try to do quests and some people can just go nuts on them as zombies. Would be kinda interesting.
Mind you i have not experienced wotlk invasion so i have no idea how it went.
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Your suggestion goes against the reason the event is happening. Second and I’ll provide a video.
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Or they could just let people opt-out/in by talking to an NPC (like how you would see pre-8.3 Uldum, for example). Like you could go to a phase where no zombies are generated and keep RPing/questing.
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Also against the spirit of the event, one doesn’t just opt out of a plague, or invasion. We are suppose to be experiencing this as a way to bring us together in our misery. Pretty sure something a long those lines was said at blizzcon when this was announced.
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I don’t really care about it because it’s only a week and I don’t go to SW often anyway, but I don’t think it has to be a 1-1 function. WoW is just a video game - fake.
There is no plague. Only pixels.
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The game is fake but the connection we make are real. When we share an experience rather it’s good or bad it gives us something to band together and bond over. Friendships and rivalries are made.
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I’m glad that you are excited about it, and I still think you could make those friendships and rivalries with the others who’ve opted in to the event.
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Thanks to you posting that I just realized the souls swirling around in that video look exactly like the ones from the soul lantern cinematic…
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Allowing people to opt out of the event diminishs the event as a community building affair. I understand your point of view, however its more important now then ever to have things in this game that brings people together. Allowing a way to opt out would be another thing done in the long list of things done that helps damage the community. We don’t need to have choice over everything.
Pretty sure that is Anima.
Out of curiosity, how far does your “lore trumps all” stance go? Do you believe warmode should be disabled now that the factions aren’t at war canonically?
I appreciate that you want to build the community - I think that’s awesome! Still, I think that giving people the option to opt-out would benefit everybody. You could enjoy the event without people complaining about it the whole time and other people could continue doing their RP/questing/whatever they like! 
I’m going to bed, but I hope you’ll have a great night!
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I don’t think it trumps all, but I do think it trumps most things. There needs to be a hefty benefit to lore being trumped, one that goes beyond just feelers being hurt.
Yes i do know lore… Scourge will run rampant without a lich king. But if every city is being overrun, every quest hub is being overtaken, every npc is dead a lot of people will just quit for the time being since they cant play the game.
Yes it can be fun for first half hour, maybe a few hours but to experience it entire week constantly would make people quit.
That is why i suggested sort of a compromise between those 2 options. People that wanna see it can still see it and play it people that want to avoid it can avoid it and do some other work while waiting for their zone to clear out in half hour which is not a long time.
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But I like people complaining about it, those people become my Rivals, many people on the forums combat me on my views and I like those people as my rivals.
I think your taking the game too seriously my dude.
Either that, or your using that to judge’s people’s character based on their desire to participate and claiming their your enemies because of that. Because apparently we must have rivalries for some silly reason. Yet your saying we need to be a community.
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It builds community, as does friendships. Without it nobody communicates. That communication makes things fun. Even gives reason to add people as your friend to group with in the future. Its a way to make connections.
Had a dude on the PTR whisper me asking me if I could leave them alone so they could complete the quest, I stopped and we talked a bit. Had this encountered happened in game I would of likely added them to my friends list and did content with them in the future. If not sooner on a alt.
The problem isn’t the scourge invasion, the problem is players griefing others and stopping them from doing whatever it is they are trying to do. Mark my words, you will have people in SW/ORG purposely infecting everything/everyone and making it impossible to follow the story line. It will spread to every other city and the game will become near unplayable for most people. It’s the same thing people do at the start of an expansion. They find the bottleneck where everyone has to go to progress and they park their huge mounts over quest givers, etc. It’s inevitable.
That “community” vision goes out the window if people log out and don’t log back in.
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That isn’t likely to happen and those that do are the extreme minority and are the caliber of player this game really doesn’t need. Karens like that are the type of people ruining this game.
Most who choose to log out, will only log out for the event and come back.
