The Plague Event is Fine, but only if it's Opt-In

[Lingxiu-the-forgotten-coast]

@Briselody-lightnings-blade

Okay Karen.

The event is already opt in. You log in during it and you’ve opted in.

This game has so few remnants of a living RPG world left. Please just let this one happen and quit throwing a tantrum about it. It’s a video game, people. Just… just stop.

There’s a massive different between ‘living world’ and ‘gank-filled hell’, and I can tell you quite clearly which side of the spectrum this is going to fall on.

@Beatorisu-proudmoore

With all due respect to the OP and like minded folk… I don’t have a issue with this, I want to be a part of the world my character is in when it comes to this event.

Good, so you’d opt-in. If there were nice bonuses to it, I might consider popping my head in as well, but there aren’t, at least not enough to suffer an endless gank-train. So I’d just opt-out and not ruin your fun.

@Warpstone-norgannon

It is opt in only, don’t want to opt in, don’t log in. Works every time.

Not a great solution, but if I have to take a week or two off, it’ll let me dodge this nonsense. I’d rather play, but I guess I did something wrong and so have to be punished.

[Atulzan-thrall]

@Lingxiu-the-forgotten-coast

Not a great solution, but if I have to take a week or two off, it’ll let me dodge this nonsense. I’d rather play, but I guess I did something wrong and so have to be punished.

[Lingxiu-the-forgotten-coast]

@Källí-dalaran

@Lingxiu-the-forgotten-coast

Opt-in is fair and allows people that want to engage in the content to engage in that content. If anything, they should add bonuses to opt-in to encourage people like me to peek in and give it a look, but if it’s a never-ending grief-fest, then there’s nothing there worth looking at

The Opt-in already exists, you either do it or you don’t. Simple as that. This whole “incentive” garbage people continue to demand is ridiculous… the incentive is that it’s new content. Period. It has it’s rewards and it will be limited time. Stop trying to live in your safe bubble.

The game’s fundamental core is engagement and conflict. WARcraft. If you can’t handle that once in a while, this is NOT the game for you.

PvE servers existed because some people didn’t want to PvP. Shocker, right?

[Briselody-lightnings-blade (Briselody)]

@Lingxiu-the-forgotten-coast

There’s a massive different between ‘living world’ and ‘gank-filled hell’

It’s quite a thin line, actually.

@Lingxiu-the-forgotten-coast

I’d rather play, but I guess I did something wrong and so have to be punished.

Christ, the drama.

I can practically hear you asking for the manager.

Go on, tell me I ruined Christmas, I need more retail fever dreams to come back.

[Ithax-korialstrasz (Ithax)]

@Annastasi-proudmoore

no, because pandemics aren’t opt-in

This right here. Not only that, you don’t get to opt in when you’re the one being invaded.

[Lingxiu-the-forgotten-coast]

@Atulzan-thrall

@Lingxiu-the-forgotten-coast

Not a great solution, but if I have to take a week or two off, it’ll let me dodge this nonsense. I’d rather play, but I guess I did something wrong and so have to be punished.

Is there another word for it? The griefers are basically going to say ‘you don’t get to play this week’. So what’d I and other like-minded players do to deserve it?

[Ithax-korialstrasz (Ithax)]

Why? They already have the sub money.

[Atulzan-thrall]

Oh you get killed a couple of times. Over dramatic and overly sensitive. Either log in during the event or don’t.

This event should affect the entire world.

[Ithax-korialstrasz (Ithax)]

@Lingxiu-the-forgotten-coast

but I guess I did something wrong and so have to be punished.

So the new class in SL is drama queen? I knew we’d get a new class.

[Derka-wyrmrest-accord (Derka)]

Best bet is to just not log-in or put yourself in whatever rare safe space exists in-game if you choose not to participate. It’d be silly to see people running around in Org or Zuld just immune from everything.

Edit: People who use the word “punished” when discussing video games needed to be slapped harder in their childhoods.

[Ankleshot-aerie-peak]

I wish I knew that pandemics were optional.

[Källí-dalaran]

@Lingxiu-the-forgotten-coast

PvE servers existed because some people didn’t want to PvP. Shocker, right?

This isn’t PvP.
It’s a limited event. It’s supposed to be overwhelming, to stress the gravity of the events happening. There are already fail safes even on the PTR, namely the plague doesn’t go beyond the cities at the moment, so if you want to go about your day you can teleport to BfA or Dalaran and the debuff goes away and doesn’t follow you.

[Sarama-firetree]

@Lingxiu-the-forgotten-coast

I’m pretty sure Blizzard would prefer I play.

They probably are ok with it as long as you’ve already paid your sub for the month.

[Misbecky-argent-dawn (Misbecky)]

Just get out of the major cities. If you are just hanging around there you are not playing anyways.

[Ithax-korialstrasz (Ithax)]

@Lingxiu-the-forgotten-coast

PvE servers existed because some people didn’t want to PvP. Shocker, right?

Pre-patch is a PvE event. Shocker, right?

[Ojoverde-eldrethalas (Ojoverde)]

i want a meta achievement for 100k kills with a zombie blow!

[Ghorgo-dalaran]

Blizzard must ignore the crying people here, and go full ham with this event. This is the WORLD of Warcraft, it’s not a single player game where you just sit in a garrison and collect resources.

No compromises, full stop, give us the plague in its entirety.

[Ithax-korialstrasz (Ithax)]

They went full ham before Wrath and hopefully this is 2.0.

[Cartis-undermine (Cartis)]

Why do you have such a hard time embracing the chaos. It’s a limited time event. Get into the RPG of it. The Helm of Domination is broken … which was the only thing holding back the scourge. The scourge is loose now and hell is breaking loose.

You’re worried about “being ganked”? LOL, that is 100% the point of a scourge invasion. You’re supposed to be ganked. Relax, stop taking yourself so seriously and laugh it off. Embrace the RPG and go gank others. It will be over soon and you can back to normal play.

[Källí-dalaran]

@Ojoverde-eldrethalas

i want a meta achievement for 100k kills with a zombie blow!

And it should give the title: “Of the Scourge”!!!