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All You Zombies Hide Your Faces, Because You’re Aggro In Ironforge
All zombie hell has broken loose in World of Warcraft.
Ever wanted to kill everyone on your faction? Guess what – you can.
To quote an f13 poster:
I only wish this event would never end.
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about 1 year ago
Wow, I had forgotten about that song. I’m not fond of the
event but damn it, I just downloaded “All You Zombies” from
iTunes.
about 1 year ago
almost makes me want to turn on my WoW sub… almost.
about 1 year ago
I also almost resubscribed but then I found out I had to pay for a month and the event ends in less than a week.
about 1 year ago
kinda sucks that the disease can be “cured” by players though … who the hell decided that it would be a good idea to make zombie disease CURABLE!?!
about 1 year ago
Someone thinking that there are players out there who might NOT enjoy the intrusion while they’re trying to level a noob or quest or do whatever.
I found it hilarious and fun. But I was also not prevented from riding a gryphon or turning in an item or anything like that because someone infected an NPC and then killed them…
In every respect Blizz gets an A here on execution and involvement of the playerbase. Unlike some of the previous world events you really can participate at *every* level.
about 1 year ago
I really like events like this and more MMOs should do them. Not enough to make resubscribe, but still fun.
about 1 year ago
A couple of days ago, I got the free trial thing with a friend of mine who’s new to MMOs. This event was absolute hell to work through… I saw new players in Bloodhoof Village just look mystified as to why they couldn’t turn in their quests, and why they were dying… and the person I was playing with was constantly asking me why she was getting killed repeatedly in what’s supposed to be a safe area.
It was extremely aggravating not being able to turn in my quests, having to play chase around the newbie area to keep from dying, and not being able to do my leatherworking thing because the zombies were camping out in that tent.
A really dumb idea to implement during a marketing push with Wrath and the new Recruit-A-Friend to get new players into the game.
-Sutro
about 1 year ago
I’m not sure that beats the Halloween event going on in City of Heroes, where you can play “trick or treat” with all the doors in the city that you normally can’t open. If it opens as a “Trick” you get zombies and witches and vampires and werewolves that come out to eat ur brainz.
about 1 year ago
Plus bonus Zombie Apocalypses in City of Heroes. Paragon City: where the apocalypse is a recurring event. Why would you live there?
about 1 year ago
Dude. Playable Zombies. That can asplode. Trumped. Trumped I say!
Sutro: Maybe they were thinking that even new players could enjoy being involved in a once-in-a-game event that will NEVER happen again instead of just bitching about how they can’t do any fun stuff at level 12? Dunno.
about 1 year ago
that is awesome
about 1 year ago
Hellfire:
The issue is that for new players, this happened without warning and without context. New players have no idea that this is part of the event lineup, they have no idea about the Argent Healer being able to explode the zombies and providing a safezone… all they know is that they go to where they were usually safe and get oneshotted randomly, they can’t sell their stuff and they can’t get quests.
How is that fun for them? How is that growing the MMO industry?
Provide a global announcement, a mail, a news blip on login, SOMETHING. It didn’t bother me, but watching my friend’s bewilderment really made me think about how ill-timed this is with the marketing push.
-Sutro
about 1 year ago
That’s reasonable, but would it have helped?
By nature the group of people you’re talking about wouldn’t even know to USE those resources to prepare themselves. I enjoyed not knowing what was going on. I enjoyed having no idea what would happen if I clicked the “zombie corpse explosion” button. I know what it does now!
Also – there are TONS of emotes/chatter from the NPCs. One just has to read it…
about 1 year ago
When I was on UO we did town attacks as part of an event. We quickly removed the attacks from the four starting cities for the exact reason Sutro describes. Participating in an event is fun as long as a) you understand it and b) your participation doesn’t involve just dying over and over again.
about 1 year ago
“Maybe they were thinking that even new players could enjoy being involved in a once-in-a-game event that will NEVER happen again instead of just bitching about how they can’t do any fun stuff at level 12? Dunno.”
Except they can’t. Your logic, like that of most WOW players, is pathetic.
about 1 year ago
Those monster invasion events in UO were awesome. Except for the horrendous lag when half the server showed up to fight off the invasion. In general I think server wide events are great because they give the illusion that you’re doing something that matters. Even an illusion is better than saving the foozle only to see it being killed 5 minutes later.
about 1 year ago
They can’t what, Kade? Are you saying a new player is incapable of enjoying the event? By what mechanic or malevolent force is this so?
If you’re not a complete gibbering buffoon the event IS self-explanatory. No special skills or effort are required to get involved or AVOID getting involved. The only part that’s not 100% in-your-face explained is how to get rid of the zombification without dying. But oh, hey, since every zombie speaks the same language a nub could, I dunno, ASK FOR HELP?
You don’t need to understand the lore or what significance it’s supposed to have. Beyond “Lich King” I certainly don’t know and I can’t say that have a reason to care! It’s just fun. It’s spice. It’s exactly what most people say they want in their games.
So far I’ve died once to the plague. That’s all it took for me to learn how not to get turned whilst still completing quests and such. It is NOT difficult.
about 1 year ago
I can’t wait to see how the event is going to unfold even further. I really hope for some fun stuff, like quests for zombies, or something cool to do.
On a side note, the disease can be cured by players, but it seems to get harder and harder to cleanse it the more you’re infected.
about 1 year ago
“If you’re not a complete gibbering buffoon the event IS self-explanatory. No special skills or effort are required to get involved or AVOID getting involved. The only part that’s not 100% in-your-face explained is how to get rid of the zombification without dying. But oh, hey, since every zombie speaks the same language a nub could, I dunno, ASK FOR HELP?”
translation:
lern2play nub!
about 1 year ago
Wisely, NCSoft/NCNC used the original ‘invasion’ code from the Rikti invasion events to run the zombie apocalypse attacks in CoH. So there’s plenty of warning, and if you can get into a group, it turns into a zombie mulchfest.
Yeah. CoH wins.
about 1 year ago
The zombies are a hugh annoyance and Blizzard has made a major blunder in their implementation. Really butt-stupid.