They don’t have an A-Team.
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The original event brought out the very worst in players. How Blizzard did not realize how ugly the event could be is astounding.
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You HAVE to be trolling me. LMAO 
I asked you several times to stop responding to my thread with your derailment and gatekeeping but you keep going rofl. You’re basically the one harassing me at this point.
I don’t really see how PvPing (but in a different way and on a 3rd faction) on a PvP server is “bringing out the worst in players.” I can already go into capital cities and kill players and disrupt their lives if I want to. I can even form a raid group and kill all the auction houses and banks. Same difference.
Not every one is on PVP servers, I’m actually in PVE/RP servers, and this event still forces me into pvp and flags me so I’ve logged out of classic until it’s over.
That’s the problem, it’s not just forced on PvP servers, and those servers tend to be the minority of the affected population by this event.
Leveling a new character? Get Griefed by people
Want to work professions? Get Griefed by people
Want to rp? Get Griefed by people
Legit, this event shouldn’t have been brought back in this way and should have been an opt in type thing, not a forced to participate thing.
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Posting in a Classic thread in GD.
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Oh boy, I remember back in 2008 how Blizzard denied with every fiber of its being that the event wasn’t cancelled early and it just ran its natural course. They assured everyone that they wouldn’t cave to people whinning.
Now, 14 years later we have official confirmation they cancelled the zombie plague due to “how disruptive it was”.
Blizzard always lied to the consumers, they just got better at it over the years.
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Or we got dumber. Either is just as likely as the other.
Thought I took a wrong turn on the forums for a minute there.
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It was done for the experience. Classic is a solved thing. I think everyone got a chance to experience this event, and that’s enough. I think the bigger issue for classic wow players is the fact that the game is clearly operated on a tight budget with no room for bells and whistles.
Edit: I like bells and whistles. The statement. It means so little but says even less. 
Forced PVP has never worked in PVE centric games. Blizz should have left this on Classic PVP servers only or added an opt in. There is a reason why the PVP servers went the way of the dodo in retail. Open world PVP is never anything more than a gank fest won by whichever side has the most players.
“Oh I’m losing? Let me transfer to a server where my side has the advantage”
Before you know it you have PVP servers dominated by one side and then PVP dies. Glad that garbage is no longer in retail. But it is funny to watch the same mistakes being made all over again on Classic.
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I vaguely recall the first zombie invasion was before the original naxxramas. I still have some of this stuff on alts.
It was reintroduced in BC for the wrath prelaunch. I still have stuff from this on alts.
I presume they did it again in classic for Naxx though maybe not.
3?
Then they did it for Shadowlands.
Now they did it again for classic wrath.
This would be theoretically the fifth time doing the event which some players love and others hate.
I’m surprised they did it at all for Shadowlands. I’m not surprised that they took steps to make it slightly less annoying to people who just want to play the game.
Well, like I said before, they could have made it PvP realms only.
Amazing. Idk if that’s true or not but that sounds exactly like something Blizzard would do.
Because Blizzard is full of idiots? PvP is the only reason I started playing WoW, and there’s millions of players who also prioritize PvP. Deciding that WoW should be PvE only and that PvP was going to be relegated to that of a minigame like battle pets was a tremendously unintelligent decision.
What are you talking about? The first zombie invasion is the one in BC during the pre-patch before WoW. There’s no naxxramas in Classic rn and this is the first zombie event. There was never another zombie event, at least nothing to the scale that I’m thinking of.
Same.
By “slightly less annoying” did you mean “completely unplayable and pointless for anyone who wants to do zombies and then way too easy for one day, that it’s, once again, pointless, for anyone who wanted to participate in the zombie event” If that’s what you meant then I agree, Blizzard did do that.
Based. Keep them accountable. Blizzard doesn’t care about honesty or transparency and will lie to and trick the playerbase in order to keep up appearances.
Let me dig up a few things.
I managed to find a really old post from Oct. 27, 2008 from a certain player complaining about how the event ended abruptly:
Q u o t e:
Out of no where it was said the event was ending today. CM’s responded by saying of course it was going to end today. So where is my proof you ask that it was going to end today?
…There is none. Blizz listened to all the QQ and ended it early. Just like they listened to all the QQ about RETardins and re-nerfed us back into oblivion. GG bliz…
Soon after, we had a response from one of the blues, Zarhym one of the CMs back in the day.
So because there’s no proof it was intended that the event end today you can claim otherwise without proof? Logic doesn’t work that way.
I did say last week that the event would only last days, not weeks. To me that means 2-6 days. The event ran exactly as we planned with the most severe day being the last: Sunday.
I’ve provided you with the truth in the hopes you don’t have to come up with a version of it on your own anymore.
And on his post he said, clear as day, that the zombie event ran “exactly as they planned”. 14 years later, we know that was a lie. I’m not going senile yet, Blizzard! I still remember your shenenigans.
It also seems like Blizzard used to be way more snarky back in the day.
Based. Keep them accountable. Blizzard doesn’t care about honesty or transparency and will lie to and trick the playerbase in order to keep up appearances.
Yeah… and now you’ll get muted from the forums or banned from the game for talking the way they used to talk.
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Just one last old post to cement what they used to say. This is one is even more official and was posted by the CM Wryxian on Oct. 27, 2008.
We’d like to thank players for participating so zealously (and valiantly!) during the Great Zombie Plague of '08. Our intention with this event was to create something memorable and to literally change the face of Azeroth for a few days. This event is just one of many leading up to Wrath of the Lich King. As you know, the Scourge Invasion is now live as well and there is some other cool stuff coming up before all is said and done. Also, Hallow’s End continues on!
While we recognise that the event could prove to be disruptive at times, we hope you made the most out of it while it lasted. Part of playing in a “living and breathing world” means that things are going to change from time to time. We meant no harm but only wanted to create a lasting impression on players as they head to Northrend to defeat the Lich King. The Lich King’s goals (as you will soon learn) are to turn the Horde and Alliance not only on one another, but on their own kind as well. I think the plague truly demonstrated this firsthand.
So it looks like a cure has finally been found… for now.
Thank you for participating in our most memorable event to date… for better or for…. brrrrrrraaaaaains…
Couple of other important notes:
The scourge invasion will continue for a few more days.
The end of the plague has come as scheduled, and has not been prematurely ended.
The prologue event is not over! More to come!!
The Karazhan boss will be up for approximately another week still
We increased the respawn rate of the Necropoli
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LOL! PVP is not a minigame like battlepets. There is an entire progression system built around it. The only thing that changed was players can now opt in or out of open world PVP. Real PVP players aren’t interested in griefing low level players who can’t fight back. They prefer arenas or battlegrounds where the odds are actually even and can test their skill. Your griefing system was taken away, but it was for the good of the game.
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Same with battle pets.
So everyone opts out… meaning it no longer happens. Meaning it’s a mini-game. You and I both know that World PvP never happens because no one turns it on. The very idea that you could “opt-out” completely destroys the very concept of World PvP. That is why it is not “opt-out”-able in classic. And it should never have been an option in retail either. You keep playing your carebear game and I’ll play the real World of WARcraft where war happens whether you want it to or not. Cuz you know… ITS WAR
This is ignoring the fact that your entire argument is destroyed by the simple fact that we’re talking about Classic where world PvP is NOT opt-in. Therefore any arguments about the zombie event being “forced” is completely irrelevant and illogical
They must have forgot that they said any of that, or else they wouldn’t have made the blue post saying how it was cancelled early. Hilarious.
LOL! You don’t get high level gear from pet battles. Just stop already. You’re embarassing yourself.
Please. Carebear is refusing to test yourself against other players who can actually fight back. I dare you to waltz onto an arena or bg because you would most likely get owned. So you keep playing your griefing game because we both know you can’t hang in real PVP fight.
You seem to be under the impression that everyone plays on PVP servers. This event also affected players on PVE servers, hence the problem. You’ve been told this multiple times in this thread. You’re either too dense to see that or just ignoring it.
I literally had the best arena gear b4 the season ended in BC classic about a month or so ago. I used to do arenas all the time in retail. But part of the reason I quit is that there isn’t any point because all my gear is good for is doing instanced PvP and getting more gear. Why bother?
If you want to make a post talking about how the zombie event should have only been on PvP servers (surprised this didn’t happen tbh) then go ahead. That’s not what my post is talking about and I’ve already acknowledged several times that they should have made it on PvP servers only. Or made a different version of it for PvE servers.
Because it was not just the other faction but players were griefing their own faction.
You may have found the event fun griefing and interfering with others game play time but I can assure you not everyone wanted their play time interrupted by your need for “fun”. That is why it was cut short the first time and probably this time too.
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