I’d still like some word from Blizzard on this.
It’s a planned event, they could have fixed it to help prevent/resolve some of those issues rather than completely shutting it down.
You don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. There are players like myself not abusing it to grief others but who were thoroughly enjoying it especially having waited so many years for another event like this again.
It actually lasted the full 7 days on Bloodsail Buccaneers and Mankrik (and maybe several other servers), though it never got past phase 3. It was originally scheduled for 7 days but ended early accidentally due to their coding (admitted by them) on most servers, but those servers got the full blown event with the 2 and 1 minute incubation times, plagued rats, etc.
It lasted five days, because that’s what is in the “source code”. On some realms the mileage may vary. They explain the chaos very good in this posting:
The event literally lasted all 7 days on Bloodsail Buccaneers and Mankrik. It went all the way through server shutdown for maintenance yesterday. No idea why but several servers had a watered-down Phase 3 version go all the way until Maintenance yesterday, likely due to the bugs. No joke or lie, friend.
sorry to hear that you’re no longer able to have fun because the life butchers you, and that’s your problem! there are millions over 30years who’s still find those events fun, because this playground called wow is a place to have fun unless you consider wow a Job where you’re forced to do daily work activity.