Blizzard's Response to Classic Hardcore DDoS Attacks

This is gonna get some mixed responses

they dont care anyways,dying for content is part if the fun,i wouldnt be surprised if they ddosed themselves

Deaths from disconnects, lag spikes, and server issues should be reversed anyway. The only reason they don't want to do that is sheer laziness.

Imagine caring about Hardcore.

Un-RIP Hubert o7

I don't play hardcore, it doesn't affect me - I don't care.

TO me - the fact that they got a team of hard core players to max level and were raiding is an amazing achievement in itself - being penalised for malicious activities would only encourage it.

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Originally Posted by korijenkins

Deaths from disconnects, lag spikes, and server issues should be reversed anyway. The only reason they don't want to do that is sheer laziness.

If you come up with some mechanism to detect involuntary disconnects, lag spikes and the like - please come forth - Blizzard would like to hire you.

Originally Posted by korijenkins

Deaths from disconnects, lag spikes, and server issues should be reversed anyway. The only reason they don't want to do that is sheer laziness.

You do realise that once they'll start doing that,people will abuse it. You see you're dying, you just turn your connection off. And no one will ever die this way unless the death is instant.

Blizzard couldn't let go of their free advertising and caved in to break their most strict rule.

Don't ever let them tell you streamer privileges don't exist.

I hope Blizzard have a FULL list of EVERY DDOS HC death EVER, thats alot of revives to do, fair is fair

I also lost a level 1 HC character I insist it is revived with its 999999999999999999999999 gold

It's good that they reverse these deaths. Even people who get paid for playing can't keep leveling up and getting DDoS'd each time they try to raid. People will fall off quickly. Like it or not, this guild has contributed massive hype to classic again.

Originally Posted by schwarzkopf

I don't play hardcore, it doesn't affect me - I don't care.

TO me - the fact that they got a team of hard core players to max level and were raiding is an amazing achievement in itself - being penalised for malicious activities would only encourage it.

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If you come up with some mechanism to detect involuntary disconnects, lag spikes and the like - please come forth - Blizzard would like to hire you.

Before official hardcore, video evidence was enough. So many people recorded their playing.

Blizzard ban me when they detect me "learning" botting, but they then break their very own TOS and thats ok, I want Microsoft to permoban Blizzard from WoW.

Originally Posted by korijenkins

Deaths from disconnects, lag spikes, and server issues should be reversed anyway. The only reason they don't want to do that is sheer laziness.

Disconnects and lag are not always the game's fault. If I have shitty internet or insist on gaming in a storm, how is that their problem?

And frankly playing a permadeath mode in a game where you can die from a battery of issues not related to skill is fairly dumb to begin with unless you don't care about dying.

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Originally Posted by WiNiFiX

Blizzard ban me when they detect me "learning" botting, but they then break their very own TOS and thats ok, I want Microsoft to permoban Blizzard from WoW.

Might as well ask a shark to walk out of the ocean and have a conversation with you.

Originally Posted by WiNiFiX

Blizzard ban me when they detect me "learning" botting, but they then break their very own TOS and thats ok, I want Microsoft to permoban Blizzard from WoW.

The people that make the rules...make the rules.

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Even if i enjoyed watching some of these raids and streams it is really bad and hypocritic decision showing again how only $$ is important for that shitty company.
Can't wait for ressed streamers redo the BWL... and are dead again due same problems.

Good to see blizzard fight the griefers for once.

Yeah they HAD to do something, because HC streamers are a major marketing asset to them. These streamers would surely not run HC raids again if there would not be some kind of protection promised against this.

Yeah this will totally deter whoever did this...

The real question is.. if a 40 player man raid of a guild filled to the brim with almost all the WOW streamer hadn't died during the DDOS.. sure others did too.. but you got to wonder right?

I'm playing HC ,and my characters are alive.

I understand some people are mad or jealous if they revive some players.

But, this group deserved to be revived. It was an attack agaisnt them.

We cannot let DDOS win.

Originally Posted by javierdsv

Blizzard couldn't let go of their free advertising and caved in to break their most strict rule.

Don't ever let them tell you streamer privileges don't exist.

I don't think this is a case of streamer privilege. This is Blizzard protecting their business. Because of the popularity of the OnlyFangs event and the subsequent publicity generated by the DDOS attack against them Blizzard had to be seen acting to maintain the integrity of their game services. If one nerd with a grudge can grief thousands of players by repeatedly carrying out attacks that are likely to cause the permanent deletion of their characters then it renders the Hardcore servers effectively unplayable.