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Anyone else hate the Scourge Invasion?
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Post by
pewpewmoo
Have to say, when the event first started, didn't like it much. I wasn't getting a feeling for the way people were 'abusing' the plague to just grief people. I was sick of the 'don't cleanse me n00b!' cries from people who thought that their idea of fun was the ony idea of fun.
Then, I don't know. Last night I hearthed into shattrath after doing kara. And it really WAS a plague of zombies. Hundreds running around, and if players were't zombies, they were either fighting valiantly or running for the hills. Horde and Alliance players were working together, defending key NPCS, guarding the flight master. It was wonderful to see.
It felt like this was what Blizzard had envisioned with this event. There really was a feeling of panic in the cities, people fighting hard to stay alive before joining the ranks of scourge themselves, then advancing on those they had been fighting alongside. A wonderful, changing, dynamic event.
On the flip side, I am a geared level 70, with no raiding going on, and enough gold to pay for repairs. I don't need to level, and the most annoyance I get is that my FM is dead, or the murlocs on QD are all zombies. Yes ALL OF THEM. ZOMBIE MURLOCS. QUAKE IN FEAR. Ahem. This must be spectacularly annoying for newer players who are just trying to get some levelling done, and can't actually play the game they want to, and are paying their hard earned money for.
Make this last few weeks of TBC free for anyone with an existing account. Sure, Blizzard will lose a chunk of money, but they would keep a lot of players happy. Right now we're not playing 'World of Warcraft' so much of 'World of ZOMGZOMBIES OMG RUN KILL KILL ARGH BRAINS!'.
Give all players a way to fight back effectively against the scourge- a trinket that can destroy them on contact, or massively up your damage against undead, for instance. Make all NPCs from opposing factions orange level neutral, non agressive, but unattackable by 'live' players- we're all in this together right now, and the attitude of the NPCs should reflect that. Or even (long shot) let players temporarily make a premade 70 zombie killer toon, who gets deleted at the end of the event.
I really am liking this event now, but it's really not lowbie friendly.
'You've got red on you.'
Post by
Aaris
i hate too because it is not fun anymore. we are still raiding, and for example our members have to get something from their bank -ta daaaa- they infected, and they dead when we raiding, they lose durability, they have to repair again and at that point they may be infected again.
or you are afk in auction house etc. for some minutes to get some coffee. and you dead.
it was fun at the beginning, but not anymore
i dont want to be in a rush to find a argent healer anymore.
Post by
elcheeso
I wasn't aware that the 3 minutes it takes NPCs to respawn was such a huge deal for people. Then again, I don't really care. This isn't meant to be the "plague that ignores people who don't want it and makes everything extremely convenient for people who are leveling because the Lich King cares about what players think". Can't handle 3 weeks of not being able to do the same thing you've been doing since TBC came out? Stop playing. My alt was able to handle leveling, despite being xroads-level when the invasion hit, but then, I'm not one of those people who thinks that everything in this game has to cater for them specifically, at all times.
People take this game far too seriously.
PS: If you want to afk in cities, go do it next to Thrall etc. That's what I do.
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Post by
Aaris
People take this game far too seriously.
PS: If you want to afk in cities, go do it next to Thrall etc. That's what I do.
hehe. i dont take this game too seriously. but i take my time too seriously.
24 men just waiting for 1 person,who is dead because of plague. this is so annoying.
why will i stop playing till wotlk? i came home from my work, and i am playing this for fun. i pay for this.
and why i have to go to Thrall's room,
if i afk for just 2 minutes
. lol.. :)
Post by
Aaris
If one jerk started spending all of his time trying to ruin the game for other players, then Blizzard would give him a warning, then a suspension, and in the end they'd ban his account. This is a good and fair thing for them to do - a necessary thing, because otherwise the scum and the bullies would ruin the game.
totally agree with that..
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Post by
Immaterial
So there's a couple of problems raised in this thread. Some suggestions that may help. Apologies for the wall of text.
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I want to play this MMO my way, the way I've been playing it forever and a day.
"
Maybe you'd be better off playing something likeThe Witcher or Neverwinter Nights for a week or two? Playing a game with lots of other people who might have different ways of enjoying themselves may be causing you some problems.
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I can't level!
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Use your head and experience, and find another area to level- be it Ghostlands (on my server,only zombies that I saw there are the ones you'd see during any other week), Bloodmyst Isle(ditto), anywhere far from civilisation (Desolace, I'm looking at you)- you know, the kind of low population density places people would flee to in a time of plague.
Similarly, if you need to use a bank or AH alt, then go the trouble of moving them to a more out of the way capital city. SIlvermoon and the Exodar seem to be fine (again, this is on the EU servers I use)
So there's 2 options for you- avoid your game and survive, or adapt your game and survive. Of course, you could try option 3- enjoy the ride and survive, but I guess that some people want to have thngs set up to specifically enjoy their idea of what the game is, and won't be happy until they get it.
Cheers
edited for rubbish spelling
Post by
elcheeso
hehe. i dont take this game too seriously. but i take my time too seriously.
24 men just waiting for 1 person,who is dead because of plague. this is so annoying.
why will i stop playing till wotlk? i came home from my work, and i am playing this for fun. i pay for this.
and why i have to go to Thrall's room,
if i afk for just 2 minutes
. lol.. :)
Because you don't want to be attacked by zombies? What you're saying is that you shouldn't have to avoid zombies because it's inconvenient/annoying. I'm not a RPer, but do you really think that zombies and the Lich King himself really care whether having to move a few hundred yards in order to stay safe is inconvenient? This invasion is the very reason there is any in-game justification for going to Northrend. Would you prefer it if this entire game was about killing shiny blobs for no reason who drop epics and assorted phats?
This is ridiculous. You're not the only person paying for this game, many people
are
enjoying the event and there are more than enough places to go if you desperately
NEED
to avoid zombies. See Immaterial's post for information. A few main cities (TB and Silvermoon mostly) are more or less completely lacking in the plague, even on my high pop PvP server. I'm really sorry that most of the people in this thread hate the idea of new events that make it
inconvenient
(but no where near impossible) for people to do the same quest hand-ins/AHing/idling they've been doing repeatedly for the past 2 years or more (just counting BC here), but you guys really just need to suck it up.
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224157
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Post by
cms2k
Blizzard
+
Zombie Scourge event
=
going Full Retard
All it really does is up my repair bills and it is completely annoying. I do enjoy a good story line though many on my server have expressed the sheer idiocy of logging on and before you have a chance to do anything, get turned into a zombie. Certainly gives pause to consider whether or not the expansion is worth even renewing the subscription.
Prior to the scourge event I would not have a problem getting the expansion. Now, since it is clear that causing players' the zombie hassle will be the norm now and in the future, what again is the point of buying the expansion? It becomes difficult to justify a monthly expense when the designers of the software go out of their way to frustrate those that are responsible for paying that fee.
Serious, who is the lame brainchild that in the staff meeting said "let's have zombies attack so no one can get any raiding, business, transactions, etc., done". More importantly, which even lamer department head said "Gee, that's a good idea."
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Post by
Gumog
it's a PLAGUE! You scrubs gotta realise that it's a PLAGUE!
First of all, stop using that as an excuse to justify your deliberate and disrupting behaviour. It is not a valid excuse. Second, by resorting to calling us 'scrubs', your "argument" just lost any validity it may have had.
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Post by
Aaris
to
elcheeso
:
i dont want to get disease if i dont want
. i dont care about how many people enjoy it. but it is wasting my
fun
time. over 20 people go to Black Temple and waiting for disease people die, and recover his/her body and repair -if they can find repair guy alive ofc-.
C'mon! those events are for casuals i understand. and ofc if no casuals means no money. but, this is really annoying when you try to get your raiding activity high.
i dont want to stop playing till wotlk up. because i am social member of my guild. i have friends. We have aims. we having fun. why should we run away from plague, why should we try to find clear area, and hide ourselves from zombies.
i am sorry but blizzard makes wrong. there is no world event like this. if you dont want to kill "headless horseman" , you wont kill it. or if you dont want to kiss all guardians of your city, you wont kiss them.
Why blizzard forces people to involve that terrible event?
and why so many people defends that event?
i told my opinion, i hate this event. because i have no choice to involve in it, or not......
edit: some grammer
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