The zombie event did not go far enough!!

Well, the zombie event seems like it's over before it even began, all because of a bunch of whining idiots with no imagination who WAH CAN'T LEVELZ MAH LV26 NIGHT ELF HUNTAR WITHOUT GETING PLAG AN DYENG OMG and are too dull to get involved with such a cool event, and I think that sucks. Well, screw them. This is what I'd have done, right:

I'd have made the zombie plague get worse and worse and worse until just WotLK launched. I'd have made it last for weeks and have a real impact on every player.

I'd have forced everyone out of the capital cities altogether, I'd have had them as overrun and infested as Stratholme is. I'd have made it a real state of emergency.

To offset this (because obviously it'd get annoying on a practical level), I'd have set up a bunch of small temporary "survivor" camps in isolated places outside the capitals, so that people could still get to vendors/NPCs/bank/AH etc, but they'd need to hide out in the hills to avoid the Scourge infestation.

I'd have made it a full-on Zombie Apocalypse, to give everyone a real reason to hate the Scourge, and to want to eliminate them (instead of just doing it because we're told to by NPCs), and a real reason to retaliate, invade Northrend and kick Arthas' ass.

I'd have *then* made a bunch of cool quests (for all level ranges) to re-conquer your faction's capital city via a combined war-effort + quests style mechanic similar to (but nowhere near as long as) the opening of Ahn'Quiraj or the Sunwell gates. This could easily be tied in to the Necrotic Runes we currently earn from the Scourge Invasion event, for example, and could reward rep with the city you save/a title/some neat epix/whatever.

I'd have made it that nobody got their cities back for WotLK until they got off their asses and the Scourge had been cleansed!

And it would have been like Dawn of the Dead or 28 Days Later, WoW style.

And it would have ruled. So there.