This may come as a shock to you but not everybody is out to get you. You’re blowing this WAAAAAAY out of proportion. All I see is whining.
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Back then we didn’t have ways to access banks and such without going to the big cities. We also had no flight outside of Outlands. We do now. As far as I’m concerned, this is a bunch of people making mountains out of molehills.
I gave a great option to your perceived problem.
Give you and the like that do not want to engage in the event a trainer that makes you immune to all the shenanigans. The trainer would be non target-able.
Easy peasy!
Imagine being such a low born casual that you want to opt out of a zombie invasion, a whole pre-patch event, instead of playing the game LMAO.
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In the same way, their lives doesn’t revolve around you either.
Why are you telling me that as if it holds any relevancy at all? Nobody bought up life revolving around until you did.
You become a bad guy, whether it be a demon or ghoul and you get to kill people, whether it be guards or players. That’s the idea behind both of those events.
Maybe you’re referring to the numbers here on what makes it unique, where Legion’s dark whisper’s demon does essentially make you a raid boss of sorts and are not very plentiful. Meanwhile the Scourge allows you to play one of the weak ghouls but at a mass amount of numbers. But that just goes back to the themes (the visual side) of the idea.
Scourge and Legion invade cities/zones with the intent of turning players into ghouls/demons to just cause chaos. The only difference is one is a bit more subtle with a player giving into the dark whispers (a debuff at random), and the other is a player gets bitten and get infected and turned into a ghoul in a more direct and obvious way. (a debuff not at random, but from random attacks).
On that issue, unless they changed some things since the last zombie event:
For any new players who did not experience the pre-WOTLK zombie event, best not to venture near any capital cities on any low level characters. Even if you want to participate in the event and be a zombie, you’ll still be the same level and you will get one-shotted by the guards. Not much fun when you can neither play the game normally, nor enjoy even being a zombie because you keep dying two seconds after you rez. So any low level characters you have, park them away from the capital cities before the event goes live or they essentially won’t be playable.
If Blizzard addressed this issue and all zombified characters are automatically level-capped and will thus stand a better chance against city guards, then disregard this reply. On a side note, one interesting thing about the previous event was the ability to talk to players of the opposite faction if both were zombies.
You were clearly expecting a response right away and implying I’m "refusing to acknowledge:
The only difference is the legion event was contained in a bottle, behind a wall, that most people didn’t even know what was going on. The scourge invasion was an actual invasion that had a visible effect on the world.
Massive difference.
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Look. I’m not anticipating enjoying this after the first day. But I do know that many, many, many… whole bunches of players are jumping up and down in their seats with anticipation.
So I’m gonna put on my hard hat, and log in, and play the part of the besieged for them for two weeks. It’s my gift to them. I will feed off their joy.
How often do you get a chance to give something to the other players that make up this (overall, comparitive) wonderful game?!?
This is your moment! Grab it with both hands and don’t let go of the zombie arm! 
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So - like the dude that stops your experience gain? Not that I’m saying you’d have to pay to do this but that seems pretty neat. So if you decided at a later point during the event that you now want to partake, you could go back to the same npc?
Not a bad idea.
Oh this is an excellent suggestion as well!
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Why on earth would they care if you play for a week? You pay for a month play one day and screw off for all they care.
The problem with what I assume you think is an argument is that YOUR fun hinges on me and yet I’m given no recourse other than “deal with it”.
Let’s use an easy example. You and I are the only 2 players in the game. I want to login and do mog runs. You want to play zombies.
I can do my mog run without you. My fun doesn’t depend on you. You can’t have fun without me. You need me to be a
I disagree. One of my fondest memory of WoW was that event. I both ran around as a zombie and helped set up sections of dispels and healing for those who fought back.
Which ones again? Honestly. Most that I can see were locked to at most 8 zones (legion) and even then there were times that it happened and times when it didn’t.
Which the Wrath event didn’t get everywhere. It had potential but it just didn’t. Org and SW were hit hard, sure but TB was pretty empty most times. You could dispel it, and kill the many of the zombies.
Barrens was hit, but 1k needles didn’t much or at all of any zombies. There were plenty of zones that if you logged in you’d never know something was going on.
It didn’t change or effect many players day to day. Neither this one will. The biggest complaint was not being able to use AH, which honestly two weeks of not being able to post some items isn’t going to kill or ruin the game.
It will be over sooner than anyone can tell. Plus there are tons of new AH vendors you can go to now unlike Org/SW where you had the one area. It will be a non-issue.
I have no doubt that there were new players that had no idea what was going on and might have not liked it. But at least they could have participated. The other world events if you can call locked to phased versions of limited of a few zones for max levels a world events.
Honestly the only actual thing WOW has gotten to a real world event was the opening of the AQ gates. Any level could participate, several different citites were attacked not just major ones. Close second was wrath.
Everything else as just been quests for max level characters in a tiny amount of zones. Which honestly leads to many players missing out on content which while I agree being killed by a zombie might be annoying, missing out on content just because you’re a low level during the time is worse.
Sorry, you don’t get to opt into an epidemic. You will be a part of the invasion, or you won’t play.
Ghoul them all! Let the argents sort them out!
What a wholesome post. You’re awesome!
I think you anti-event people need to get a handle on the reality that it’s only going to be a month, for something that many many many people will enjoy and have fun with as a break from the norm.
If it bothers you that much, there are other things you can do with your time. You can avoid it all-together by playing another game until SL releases. Since there’s nothing else left to do in game progression wise for most people.
If you want to continue playing WoW, instanced content is still there, however I would suggest broadening your gaming experience by playing games that aren’t WoW or candy crush. There are a lot of really great single player games. I suggest this because being against this event is proof that you just want WoW to be your personal solo game, and maybe finding one you enjoy will help quell your self-entitlement to this sort of gaming environment.
There is a difference between changing the entire game forever and creating very rare, unique, and LIMITED TIME game play experiences that most people enjoy and would love to take part in, opt-in to events like this will kill events like this. Your own example of War Mode is exactly WHY it wouldn’t work, and I have no idea how you think it’s an example of a system that works. War Mode is ONLY used for Alliance leveling for 25% exp buffs at this point, no actual pvp comes of it which is the intention.
So, to end this thread -
No, you don’t get to opt in. WoW is an MMO, not a single player RPG. A limited time event wont kill you, and you can do something else if you don’t want to participate. You are not entitled to demands.
I wasn’t, and falsely assuming the thoughts i never had is uncalled for.
You quoted a part of my comment where i’ve explicitly said that. How’s that implying if i’m being explicit with it?
I mean if you want implications, here ya go. 
Based on how you described the shadowland’s as this “Actual invasion” and having a “Visible effect on the world” and didn’t give the same treatment on Legion, infact, adding on that some people don’t even know at the time, you’re implying what legion is doing isn’t better or lesser then Shadowlands. (If you have explicitly said that somewhere, then mea culpa for my ignorance. )
Both are, mind you, scripted events. One is just more minimalistic and open ended and the other is has a bit more too it, plus structure. Neither of these are good and bad mind you. These are the bones of each event and how to make them move if you will.
Both of those event’s purpose is to cause chaos, as well either as a side option or main part, turn you into a bad guy for a bit to infect/kill other players/npcs.
Well that depends on what you mean by" visible effect on the world" there. Do you mean NPCs and players dying, does that equate to visible effect on the world there?
But apparently you can opt into/out a war.
I never understand this argument being only used here, but never for Warmode/PvP servers. Pretty inconsistent to use the “You can’t opt out of X in real life” if your not gonna 100% apply it to everywhere.
100%
The dark whispers part of the legion invasion was so forgettable you need a video of it just to remind people it happened. On the flip side people STILL remember the scourge invasion fondly.
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…Well fair enough if you think that’s what gives the visible effect to the word, but wouldn’t the NPC’s and Players just spawn back after?