Words of Replicant Jesus

In response to this post.

Players do not like change as much as they clamor for it, as much as they make long diatribes about a more dynamic and changing world with actual consequences; players want a routine and reliability. If they log in to do a quest today they should be able to do the same tomorrow with little if any barriers.

So how do you then create a live event that is primarily player driven and make it fun and interactive. Well I think Blizzard did a very solid job of doing that they took the zombie infestation concept and ran with it; I have some people complain that there should be a quest or an objective for the zombies and I agree perhaps a few PvE objectives may have added some flair but by and large the populace is well aware of what zombies in pop culture do, they eat the flesh of the living, brains, and generally make a mess of things. To their credit the event does this very well, the zombies have created chaos, they have made things very inconvenient at times and probably made some, many players very angry at the changes going on in their world.

But if anything this event is a success, those of us that are playing this game right now will always remember the great zombie invasion of 2008 right before the expansion launched. The chaos that it brought, the fun to be had with zombies, and the frustration of dealing with the fallout; but to date this is the best event they have done for World of Warcraft that was very player driven, even if there are some obvious flaws.

I think that some protection for starting areas should have been made, but in the end this event will not last forever in fact it probably won’t even go on for another week. We are nearing the end of the invasion/plague and soon we can take out our vengeance/frustration on the Scourge and plunge right into the heart of the evil that ails us.

See you in Northrend.

Edit: Looks like the event, the zombies anyway, end today.