Warning: Monsters can enter town

[Archon_Wing]

I have a headache right now. Why aren't towns safe zones again? What kind of geniuses thought that maybe your start location shouldn't have you get instagibbed?

In WoW, with very few exceptions, towns are not safe zones.

Well, it's kind of a failure to forget what they were programming for. Did they allow you to be instantly killed as the level started? If so, that's trash design, and goes beyond programming errors.

No situation in Diablo 1 or 2 would have allowed for this.

Yeah, WoW and SC2 have shown them that no public test server, no beta, and no internal test team can come up with all the different things multiple millions of users will. Some things, like the multiple-turn-in in one session quest exploits, are stuff no testing team would have thought about.

For example, there was no real way to test the gold AH in full scale. They built it for the projected sales, and the projected sales were wrong. They're scrambling to get a handle on it, and they will. The game has not yet been released for three weeks, and people are already proclaiming its failure and/or death? Really? I expected better of the Lounge.

I understand that but this is a rather huge oversight that breaks the game. I don't care about balance issues. They can be ironed out later. This though is a bit worse than your average skill being underpowered. And certainly, everyone being aware of the past... 17 years of griefing would have had no idea? And please, some of us may proclaim certain things are failures such as the current state of hardcore, but I or nobody else has declared the entire game a failure. I gave them praise for when they deserved it over features like the AH and booed when they didn't. Simple as that. And yes we understand stuff is going to be fixed.