The way the opening event for the AQ gates were handled have been nothing short of a disaster.
A once in a server life-time event and instead of adding layers to the over populated servers, you instead get teleported at random to a different zone, forcing far too many people to miss the event entirely. One of the biggest hypes of the “vanilla experience” down the drain - and why?
Personally I stood in front of the gate for 3 hours waiting to experience this only to be teleported out half an hour before the opening and not allowed back in. This is not what I’ve payed for to be my experience and I think we deserve an explanation as to why there’s been such a lack of effort from Blizzards side to actually make an event like this enjoyable for all the players, not just the lucky few who randomly rolled a spot at the event.
This is absolutely shameful and I expect better from you - You have all the experience from the past, from other servers, from launches and everything there’s absolutely no reason for this to turn in to a fiasco of this caliber.
/Fupi
So they teleported a level 60 away? What realm?
Pyrewood-Village EU, and not just a lvl 60, the majority of the realm I’d say
6600 realm, it must have went really crazy if they resorted to teleporting lvl 60 (was supposed to be toons below). Nethergarde (4010) opens tomorrow mid day and I expect it will be way less stressed - due to time of day and population.
There were hundreds of people waiting at the edge of unguro for the last minutes to try and make it and everyone just got teleported away again, truely sad to not get to experience it.
Best advice I can give you, log out by the gong and log back in a few minutes before they open it, seems to have worked best, the longer you’re online just a bigger chance to get teleported.
It was suppossed to be a guild event for us and we were really hyped. Apparrently Fupi was waiting 3 hours prior without going afk yet again he got teleported out, same with the rest of our guild, raid was only made of level 60’s. Only two people got to see the event through 3 fps. Shame on you Blizzard. You have to refund for this mess. It is not a free game yet it feels like one with zero improvement. Pyrewood Village population went insane now, game experience is ruined and farming high level nodes became impossible, and now for that one time event people kept getting teleported to middle of nowhere, I kid you not teleport zone was not even next to a flight master. Did you think of it too much? Are you actually mocking your players, cause it feels like that. I can’t believe how Blizzard can get away each time with this level of incompetence, spitting on their customer’s face. They deserve neither love nor loyality.
Dunno what you expected tbh
Can you cite a single thing that Blizzard has done well with Classic?
Not sure what you think you have missed, to be honest. I frankly found it so underwhelming that I left after about 15 or so minutes after the gong was banged.
Many of us helped for the War Effort and shards farming for days yet none got to see the gong bang. How is this fair?
#refundforAQopeningmess
I’m so bummed out… i really looked forward to be part of this whole epic event, cause i never got to play vanilla, so i was so happy to get a chance to experience it myself now with Classic. Well… i keep getting ported out of Silithus. Figured i’d try again late at night… nope. Still getting ported.
I know i’m not 60, but even so, why can’t i get a chance to be part of this? Even lvl 60s apparently get ported out. I guess i won’t get to see this event in it’s full force even now…what a shame…at least there’s youtube i guess
You guys got to hand in stuff? consider yourself lucky you got some cheap reputation.
They said from the beginning that they’d START with players below lvl 60 but not that being 60 would not get you kicked out of the zone.
I do agree tho that this was very poorly handled.
The whole AQ was a disaster on Pyrewood. There should have been layers since the patch day.
Layers? Silithus was camped pretty hard the first week, the 2nd week it was just a few raids there with plenty of mobs left alive.
We got 30+ players who completed the quest, which is a lot. My guild got two, and after the first, we only had like 5-10 people who actively farmed.
Only thing layers would have done outside of the 10h war, was to let every nobody to complete it. And thats not what this quest is all about
As a person who was teleported out from Silithus 5 times with about 100 or more players each time I have to agree that this was a bad way to handle AQ gates opening (Ungoro east side near GY, Tanaris near GY close to city, Thousand Needles near lift) . Even tho after reading every comment here I saw who rang gong first, i saw mobs spawning, I was fighting near crystals and after 30 min - 60 min game was getting a lot less lag than before the gong was used. Server didn’t crush, had one disconnect and no login problems. This was better than ZG opening but far from perfect. Most of the people left the zone right after Colosus bugs in hives were killed and there were no teleports out of Silithus anymore. We made a raid to fight near crystals and keep doing this for hours, later this night we moved to gates of AQ and fight big Anubs. After staying alive from 20:36 when gong was rung till 6:40 when event was finished I have to admit it was epic experience.
To people who spoke before I will share my vanilla experience from 15 years ago. We had Burning Legion PvP EU server wide lag not only in one or two zones, people could not login back for hours…
This was a huge improvement over vanilla but FAR FROM PERFECTION.
#tenhourwarisover
Absolutely agree. You work towards this event for weeks only to sit in Tanaris and see some serverwide spam come by. Seriously, after 15 years of practise you’d think you could do better.
Absolutely agree. You work towards this event for weeks only to sit in Tanaris and see some serverwide spam come by. Seriously, after 15 years of practise you’d think you could do better.
It was fine on Earthshaker and we have no layers and a lot of people. Maybe it was a bug on your server?
I missed the opening too.
But then again in not 60 yet.
Blizzard’s handling of this has been awful
They teleported many lvl 60s away. Pyrewood Village EU.
So Blizzard when is the refund?