Quote:You spend a while giving detailed accounts about just how far you are along the questline, generate a lot of interest in the event, and you completely fail to expect that someone is going to pop over and pinch the hit just as you're ready to bong the gong?Possibly, but it still ignores basic tenets of common decency and respect for other people. This guild (or rather, the one specific member of it) had absolutely none.
It's one thing to transfer onto a server with the intent of grabbing the title and the legendary mount. One can investigate to see where the server is progression-wise on opening the gates, find the frontrunner(s), and work out with them a date/time to ring the gong together - remember, ringing the gong gives credit to anyone doing so in the first 10 hours. This is the timeframe of the once-in-a-server invasion of all Kalimdor by the Silithid. It could simply be a matter of "hey there man, I'm going to ring the gong in a week, so get moving and we'll do it together" thing. Common courtesy.
It's another thing entirely to look at a server, think "haha, NINJA!" and pull the stunt these guys did. Inevitable? I guess, considering the preponderance of asshats on the Internet. But the amount of time and effort needed by an entire guild to get someone a Scepter should weed such people out. No person can ever assemble the Scepter alone, or even with a handful of friends, even at level 70. There are too many raid bosses/zones that need to be cleared to do it (read up on the questline if you've forgotten/are unfamiliar with it - link is in my original post). So for a gong ringing to be ninja'ed, it basically requires a whole guild of asshats who agree with the Scepter-owner's intent to essentially "ninja-loot" a whole server.
Remember, an entire server, both factions, have to hand in thousands upon thousands of materials to make ringing the gong possible. It's more than just having some guy with the scepter. Having the scepter alone won't let you ring the gong.
Impressive. And it's why that guild will be hated on that server for all time. The icing on the cake was doing it at 3:00 AM so that most everyone playing on that server missed it. That's just sand in the face. As a contrary example, Stormrage's gong-ringing guild did so in the early afternoon, so that the 10-hour timeframe extended (and ended) in primetime hours. In retrospect, maybe they should have done it at 3:00 AM anyway because the server died over and over and over again. They also tried to arrange a set time for summoning Eranikus, if I recall, and when half the server's population tried to cram into Moonglade, the server bombed a few times before they gave up. IIRC, they had to "ninja" it at a later unannounced time by necessity; nice job there, Blizzard.
Memories of two hundred characters charging a Colossi naked, with 8000 ping latency, corpse-running and whittling it down to 3%, when the server crashed and it came back at 100%...good times. :)
-Bolty
Quote:Considering the mods here are generally liberals who seem to have a soft spot for fascism and white supremacy (despite them saying otherwise), me being perma-banned at some point is probably not out of the question.