Due to an issue earlier today, players were briefly able to encounter World Bosses in Mists of Pandaria Classic ahead of their originally scheduled release. We quickly returned the game to its intended state, and we’re now going to release World Bosses early for everyone. Sha of Anger and Galleon will become available again starting today when the Mogu’shan Vaults raid opens properly at 3:00 p.m. PDT.
Please note: The World Bosses did not have the ability to drop Tier 14 raid gear when they were briefly available earlier today, and they will not drop Tier 14 gear until after the first weekly content reset following the release of the Heart of Fear raid. We advise players to not use bonus rolls on Sha of Anger unless you’re hoping for PvP gear. Again, Sha of Anger will not drop any PvE gear until the first weekly content reset following the Heart of Fear raid.
Mogu’Shan Vaults
Due to the same bug earlier today, the Mogu’shan Vaults raid was briefly accessible to players before being closed, and a very small group of players were able to kill bosses inside. To address this, we’ve identified all of the accounts that gained early access to the raid and were found to have killed a boss, and all have been temporarily suspended. The suspensions are long enough to keep them out for a few hours—a timeframe that will include the first clears of Mogu’shan Vaults.
We take fair play seriously. We believe that this is a case where the open raid was clearly unintended, and those who exploit such situations should gain no advantage from doing so.
Suspending people for playing the game is ridiculous. It’s your guys fault for letting it be open early. All you had to do was remove loot and achieves. Any punishment after that is cruel.
I think the logic is that for world bosses, any random person that logged in at server start would have heard them spawn and gone to them.
For the raid opening, the guilds that care about doing it right away knew the specific time it was meant to open, but apparently some camped outside the entrance for server restart just in case something went wrong and demonstrated an intention to exploit a mistake (which is why it was a very small number of people that apparently did this).
I agree suspending them is a bit excessive, but it’s not like they’re being suspended for a week, just a couple of hours. Plus unlike world bosses we’ve known for weeks what time MSV was going to open so there’s no excuse for going in early
Kind of find it unfair to suspend them for accessing it the day of release… 6 hours before it came out. Hell, you should have borked their IDs and made them unable to access the raid for the remaining week. It was Blizzard’s fault, and to be honest I hope you’re temporarily suspending the employee or employees for the same time frame.
I don’t even think removing the ID’s and making it so they can’t raid for the week is what they should do. Just remove the gear and achievements.
Suspending players who accessed content regardless of if it was intentional or not it inevitably falls on Blizzard for messing up. While i’m sure there were people who intentionally went in, it was only capable of happening because Blizzard’s fault.
If they suspended people for killing the world bosses, then yeah you’d have a point. But they’re not. They’re suspending the people who knowingly saw that the raid was accidentally released early and deliberately rushed to get in there and kill things before Blizzard noticed in an attempt to get world first.
I actually disagree with this, and I’m not someone affected by it.
If the raid opens early, and people intending to compete for an early clear notice that, the logical thing to do is to get there and start clearing. Frankly the communication from Blizzard lately has not been good. So it’s unclear whether the raid will stay open. What if someone wanted to clear raid early, noticed it was open early, figured it was a mistake and didn’t go in, and you guys didn’t end up closing it so those that went in early won the race? That’s a perfectly plausible scenario and people can’t know the future.
You should just remove their achievements and loot and reset their lockout. Then there is no advantage from “exploiting”.
There is an excuse. People can’t tell the future and for all they knew Blizzard could have just decided to do nothing and leave the raid open, meaning holding back results in losing a server first.
