Anyone who has playedWorld of Warcraftwith a serious raiding guild knows that there’s nothing more frustrating than waiting around for the whole team to show up before the adventure can get started. This isn’t as much of a pain intheLegioneraas it used to be in the vanillaWoWdays thanks to dungeon and raid finder tools, but it is still an issue for some guilds. When aWorld of Warcraftplayer was going to be late to raid night due to server problems recently, he turned to Blizzard Customer Service for an excuse and good guy Blizz didn’t let down…
The twitter exchange began when BlizzardCS acknowledged some login issues and explained that the team was working on a fix. At that point, aWoWplayer jokingly reached out and asked for an official excuse to provide his raid leader.Blizzardreplied with a throwback to a classicWoWmeme and the old days of earning loot drops by building up ‘dragon kill points’ with good attendance and performance in raids.
Here’s a look at how the exchange played out…
For those who missed the classic days ofWoW, the 50 DKP minus is a reference to theOnyxia Wipe videothat perfectly captures the insanity of trying to organize large group raids in the early era of the MMO. Although there are some players who long for legacy servers and miss the early days of the game, there’s no denying that things (including loot distribution and grouping) are much more user friendly at this point.
BlizzardCS definitely earned some cool points withWoWplayers with this reply and even seemed to take the heat off after announcing unplanned downtime, which is certainly no easy feat.
What do you think of Blizzard’s throwback to the old 50 DKP meme? Let us know in the comments.
World of Warcraft: Legionis currently available for PC and Mac.
