The event was quite terrifying for many new players.
Terrifying yet memorable.
There are rumors of a similar event inevitably releasing before the release of Shadowlands.
It was chaos, because it allowed any player to attack any other player of any level anywhere. If people played with the intent of it, that they should avoid becoming infected and if you then lost control of your character until you died it would have been great. As it is, it allowed a number of people to grief others.
The specific example where this went too far was in the starting areas. People got infected, and went to a starting area and killed new players as they appeared. No chance to defend themselves, just create your character and die. This is not great, this is just allowing people to grief others in a way that should have never been allowed.
If they attempted this again, they would need to fix issues like that which lead to the outrage caused by people abusing the event.
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Wish i still had the gear and haunted momento. I have always been in the habit of purging my bank and bags. So many things i want back.
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I remember teh Haunted Momento led to so many rogue and feral kills with it following teh stealthed toon.
I loved teh Wrath event, so much.
It had the potential to be remembered as the greatest launch event ever but instead it will always be remembered as the worst due to griefing
Blizzard couldve made the PC zombies folle the ruleset of their respective servers but no lets throw the rulebook out the window and let the players police themselves
It was a poorly executed event since the sanctuary zones allowed zombies to attack anyone but normal players were still bound to the rules preventing attacking back coupled with the fact campers were constantly telling others you dont wanna fight then grab a taxi and fly to another zone which was impossible since they kept the flightmasters dead
Bottom line is Blizzard put too much power in the wrong hands then acted shocked that so many people complained
In fact the negative backlash from it was second only to the real id fiasco so many players logged out until the event ended and a lot of them didnt come back and due to so much negative feedback from the event Blizzard officially pulled the plug a week earlier than planned
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I liked the Legion prepatch quite a bit, but I kind of agree - more player-driven events would do a lot to keep this game fresh.
I wasnât playing during WotLK pre-patch, but Iâd really like to experience it. I understand people saying it caused griefing, but maybe Blizzard could disable it in starting zones? And you canât kill NPCs or players if youâre not on Warmode? Thatâs a way to opt out, just turn Warmode off. Itâll be for just a couple of weeks and it seems so fun! I hope Blizzard does it.
It wouldntve been such an issue if they had left the choice to participate be made by each player but no Blizzard decided to just turn the entire game world into a FFA PvP zone and if people got inconvenienced big deal
Its this kind of thinking that turned fun and engaging events into a trainwreck
Dont get wrong it was fun when cross faction communications were possible but it quickly turned into a griefers paradise
They put too much power in the hands of all the wrong type of players thinking theyd never abuse it and that is why any other launch event will never be as great due to some players ruining the event just for kicks
yeah i remember doing this, we had a ghoul march up into ashenvale but were stopped at that little nelf town, was neat you could talk to ghouls from the other faction in /say.
At the end of the day, it was two weeks. The only truly aggrieved party would be new players that had no choice but to spawn in and be killed immediately without any other options and for that they should be given immunity⌠For everyone else, I hope you didnât need to go to any major cities for a few weeks or you have a longboy for all of your AH needsâŚ
The entire conflict of Shadowlands is that when you die your soul is sucked into the Maw. We the player characters are a bit of an anomaly in this situation, as we are actually alive when we enter, and our connection to Azeroth allows us to pass through the Maw and go straight to Oribos.
Point is: We donât die.
Iâd like to see us have to defend major cities from massive herds of undead. Even have siege engines, glaive tossers, iron stars, and such available for us to hop in. Iâm talking some WWZ or Walking Dead sized herds, with some Frost Giants or Frost Worms tossed in for some Fel Reaver excitement.
And the event doesnât end until the players wipe out the entire herd.
Maybe set up portals for the lowbies to GTFO, like they did in Cata.
But max levels have to either stay and fight, or run away using normal means of escape (flightpath, mage portal, vanish and hide, etc)
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Couple of lvl 120 only servers (all new chars are 120) for a couple of days with the event would be cool.
I love that you lump those 3 things together, as if they are the same people
I meanâŚ
you mean what?
Corrupted blood plague was better.
It would be better now. It was good in the pre-Wrath event if you were max level. What went wrong was the game was expanding fast and there were a lot of new players who pretty much couldnât play for a few days.
I loved the Legion event, personally.
That is quite the number of straws you are grasping at.
As wellâŚ
Naaru forbid people want to play the game to have fun⌠and not be griefed by living trashbags whose sole purpose is to ruin everybody elseâs day.
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