Okay… but like I said, what is the difference between this and me making 2 accounts and organizing a raid against people on my main account’s faction and destroying their capital city’s banks, auctions, quest givers, flight masters etc?
Besides arbitrarily assigning one action a higher level of extremeness, how is turning into a zombie and killing a player on my faction any worse than me killing another player on the other faction?
I really see very little logical difference. Depending on how much people you have to join your cause or how devoted you are to annoying people you can make things for other players even worse than the zombies.
They are not. Both are wrong. Griefing others play time is your kind of fun then we know what type of person you.
Continuing to defend the bully behavior confirms it.
We can talk about the morality of World PvP all you want, but the point is that the actions I described are perfectly allowable, happen frequently and IMO should continue to be allowed in the game. That game being WoW Classic.
And since they are allowed in the game, then there isn’t much logical leeway to be had for suggesting that those who enjoy the zombie event are somehow in the wrong.
SCOURGE invasion. Not zombie plague. We’re talking about the zombie event. Nothing that happened in 1.11 had anything to do with players turning into zombies
One is forced and the other is a world event. I know it’s hard to comprehend, but forced fun isn’t the same as organic. I’m not a classic player at all, but i still remember the blast that was the zombie event to this day. Hands down their best event in the history of the game. While controversial because of the complainers this event transformed the whole landscape of the game. It actually brought life back into the world. Something retail lacks tremendously. I have screenshots still of towns decimated by usually less than 3 players with zombies and it’s sad to think they killed that magic.
I came back for classic wrath so excited to try the scourge event!!! I had heard about it for years on youtube. I didnt think blizz would rip the chance away from me. Ending the event early with no warning, long que times making it impossible for me to enter the game when the event WAS live. Now I’ll never have a chance to experience it. This makes me so sad in just a predictable fashion. I just wanted to be a zombie one time…
It actually is because if Classic discussion wasn’t allowed in the general forums there would be a statement saying so.
I’m sorry you never really got to experience it bro. I really am. The first time I did it back in Wrath, it was one of the most fun experiences I had, but I recall really long queue times back then and running WoW on a potato so even when I managed to get on, my computer was too crap to handle all the zombies on my screen so it would just freeze or crash.
This time, I left my computer queuing for a good 5 hours just so I could get in. But then 99% of the time I was just being a useless zombie infecting some guards that spawned just for me to infect them for 10 minutes and then they despawn before the infection timer runs out after they killed the few zombies i managed to generate. And then for ONE hour there was some real zombie invasion because the timer went down to 1 minute, but no one was really playing so I just went to sleep. And then I was still on vacation, so I was doing things with my family and missed the next day. Then when I finally got some time I log in to have my heartbroken once I noticed that all the crates and infected roaches were gone 1 whole day before maintenance.
It’s absolute BS and Blizzard is lucky that the original Wrath was such a good game or else I probably would quit over this stupidity.
Which is why now you have to turn PVP on. Blizzard realized there are too many immature folks playing who like to grief other players. Just because people don’t want to do your type of PVP does not make them any less of a paying player in the game.
I know many players who PVP and all of them PVP in battlegrounds and arenas. They are mature enough to not purposely hinder other players game time.
Thus was always the case on Normal and RP realms, the only change came to PvP realms.
If they did it for that reason, why then would they go on to effectively do nothing more than slap a bandaid on the reeking gash of War Mode faction imbalance? No increased sharding to alleviate per-shard population inequality, no stacking/otherwise ramping buff a la old Wintergrasp to lessen the severity of a population advantage, just, as far as I’m aware, a scaling bonus to gold rewards/rep/etc. and a bit of gear.
Seems rather a poor move if that was their original concern rather than, say, attempting to court positive publicity by alleviating the burden of players stuck on effectively dead realms that otherwise would have to transfer to play on their mains outside of the capital without facing immovable legions of opposition that, by blizzard’s own design, can essentially lock them out of being able to do most anything but hide in instances. Who knows, though, it could be both, I can’t read minds.
During phase 2 of original Classic, or whichever one it was that introduced PvP incentives, there were groups of people camping flight masters to snipe kills and farm honor. It was so bad that, as I recall, blizzard had to push forward their release schedule to get BGs out and stop it from destroying more server communities.
My point is, if you’re looking to condescend to someone about the immorality of their actions you shouldn’t bring up a community that is arguably as bad or worse in that same regard as a comparison to so do.
This is not the case in Classic. And it never should have been.
More like Blizzard decided they need to take the War out of World of Warcraft and cater to people who PvE only. Blizzard making stupid decisions that further lowered the playerbase wasn’t somehow a good idea because you made some sort of illogical false moral highground
I do both. However World PvP is far more enjoyable. Especially when I can corpse camp crybabies into logging off.
And this is all ignoring the fact that they changed it for PVP realms. WE ALREADY AGREED TO PVP… because we were on a PVP REALM… that we INTENTIONALLY joined. It’s ludicrous to suggest that that wasn’t already an opt-in. The system did not need to be changed.
If only Blizzard could do something smart like giving free transfers tailored to factions and actively monitoring where players can and can’t transfer too, and merging realms… but no. That’s too much effort for the poor, understaffed indie company
Its a general WoW forum which includes classic so yes it is. Stop your gatekeeping bully tactics. And you already knew we were talking about classic so idk why you pulled out this nonsense
They were added in the original WOTLK prepatch too because people complained about not being able to level. That’s not new at all. I play on Skyfury and the zombie event was thriving there.
