AQ-gates, slap in the face -.-

#0 - March 22, 2009, 10:53 a.m.
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Hi!
First of all I appologice if this topic doesnt belong in the general forum. Couldn't figure out a better place.
Second of all I hope some of you, maybe even Blizzard vould come up with some nice answers and not just post !#!@ty comments.

In a little over a month, say about 39 days from now the migration to the new servers Saurfang(EU), Ulduar(DE) and Ткач Смерти(RU) will open. There are lots of people all over europe who has planned on migrating to any of these servers just to get to be a part of the gong-banging and get the Legendary mount and the Scarab Lord title from opening the AQ-gates.

Now Blizzard figured out something that doesn't make sence to me. Instead of letting people who never had the chanse, people who started to play when TBC was released, poeple who wasn't so lucky to be in an exceptional top guild when the AQ patch was released, have a chance on this really fancy mount and title, Blizzard started to auto-complete the war-efforts. And they aren't doing it in a slow mode either.
As it looks now the auto-complete system on all of these servers will be completed before the PCT for these realms will open.

Yeah, I know, this might be a major QQ post according to many people, especially those who claim that its their server and no one should migrate and steal our mounts and titles. Well newsflash, it's not your server, it's Blizzards server and without Blizzard not even you would get the mount or the title because you don't have the enthusiasm to even complete the war-effort on your own.

Recently I talked to a GM about migrating to any of these servers and he wished me good luck and hoped I would be one to get the mount and the title. Seriously what is that. They know that the auto-complete probarbly will complete the war-effort before PCT opens and still they wont talk about it and just give you a good luck?

The reason I have (can't speak for everyone else migrating) to migrate and get the mount and the title is simple. Since I started playing WoW around the time TBC was relesed and I saw this ûbercool mount on a screenshot, I wanted it. I could have leveled a new character on these realms and try to get it with that character but then it would have felt that I have to change my main, gear up (not so hard) and get all of the achievements i already have on my main char. I really didnt want to do all of that once again :(

Thats why I personally get a bit frustrated on Blizzard since they have decided that after these realms, all new realms will already have the AQ-gates opened. And yes it's confirmed on a US-server. And since they apparently dont want any other than the players on these three servers to get the mount and the title, by auto-completing the war effort, I say this is a major face-slap by Blizzard. Have you guys any idea how many people you dissapoint by doing this?

And finally I read someplace that Blizzard was removing this event on all new servers after 6 of february 2009 because they wanted players to focus on new raid-content instead of players spending 1 month to get this mount and title. But why then, dont they open the whole Sunwell event to. Cause on these new servers, you still have to make the same thing to open Sunwell that you needed to do when it was first released. Once again just a slap in the face.

This mount and this title is the most rare thing in all of WoW and its a shame Blizzard decided to remove it. Just as much a shame as they remove many other things in the game, like the Glory of the Raider proto-drake and such. Remember Blizzard. Not everybody is in superduper top notch guild.
You say you want to benefit all players of WoW and not just the top-guilds. Well please do that then.

Thanks!
#47 - March 22, 2009, 11:04 p.m.
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Just one clarification...
Q u o t e:
Blizzard started to auto-complete the war-efforts. And they aren't doing it in a slow mode either.
As it looks now the auto-complete system on all of these servers will be completed before the PCT for these realms will open.

The war effort auto-complete, starting 30 days after the war effort is triggered and completing in no more than 30 days after that (if I remember the numbers correctly right now), has been in since AQ launched. It's not something new, nor something we activate manually. It's part of the game system for opening the gates, and always has been.
#77 - March 23, 2009, 9:59 a.m.
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Q u o t e:
not true..

Hm, maybe it was added slightly later. Anyway, that's beside the point, which is that this isn't something done specifically and deliberately for the realms mentioned in the first post, but part of the regular game system.