Mark Kern (@Grummz) to print 11,000 pages of the Petition

[Hydra9268]

i dont get their attitude or why they feel the need to do it, are they feeling threatned? adding legacy support wont really affect them, considering the ammount of content they are getting now and they seem ok with it lol.... Or are they just doing it to hurt others? Says a lot about the "community" that is left playing retail...

There are a myriad of reasons. However, the psychological underpinning can be distilled to tribalism, zealotry and ignorance.

- tribalism - the behavior and attitudes that stem from strong loyalty to one's own tribe or social group.
- zealotry - excessive and single-minded zeal coupled with an uncompromising pursuit of religious, political, or other ideals.
- ignorance - lack of knowledge or information.

If you look at virtually every comment against legacy servers you'll see one, two, or all three of these ingredients. The bottom line is their collective egos won't allow themselves to admit that they feel completely threatened by the legacy movement and genuinely fear a vanilla server or legacy servers would destroy their community; which is ironic considering they have none.

[Arx_1]

IMO the explanation is much simpler than that. Ppl in the opposition "movement" to WoW:Vanilla servers are either Blizzard employees (who fear about their jobs), or ppl on the payroll of Blizzard (who fear stop receiving subsidies by Blizzard to promote WoW Retail) or simply, trolls (4Chan style) and retarded kids.

"Tribalism" and "Zealotry" are best left to be applied by the likes of Hochheimer to studying the history of the Jewish people.

[Forcerius]

i dont get their attitude or why they feel the need to do it, are they feeling threatned? adding legacy support wont really affect them, considering the ammount of content they are getting now and they seem ok with it lol.... Or are they just doing it to hurt others? Says a lot about the "community" that is left playing retail...

There are a myriad of reasons. However, the psychological underpinning can be distilled to tribalism, zealotry and ignorance.

- tribalism - the behavior and attitudes that stem from strong loyalty to one's own tribe or social group.
- zealotry - excessive and single-minded zeal coupled with an uncompromising pursuit of religious, political, or other ideals.
- ignorance - lack of knowledge or information.

If you look at virtually every comment against legacy servers you'll see one, two, or all three of these ingredients. The bottom line is their collective egos won't allow themselves to admit that they feel completely threatened by the legacy movement and genuinely fear a vanilla server or legacy servers would destroy their community; which is ironic considering they have none.

Lol. Indeed. You're a smart man (grill?)

[Arx_1]

Mark Kern has just twitted that he has prepared the letter to Mike Morhaime and he is setting up for filming.

[Arx_1]

[Tebeda]

Wow, that's really good news, I can't believe he's actually putting in the effort for/with us. Maybe they will release legacy by Christmas (assuming Legion content will be finished by then). I call dibs on inviting Mark to the Guild.

[kiraito75]

i dont get their attitude or why they feel the need to do it, are they feeling threatned? adding legacy support wont really affect them, considering the ammount of content they are getting now and they seem ok with it lol.... Or are they just doing it to hurt others? Says a lot about the "community" that is left playing retail...

There are a myriad of reasons. However, the psychological underpinning can be distilled to tribalism, zealotry and ignorance.

- tribalism - the behavior and attitudes that stem from strong loyalty to one's own tribe or social group.
- zealotry - excessive and single-minded zeal coupled with an uncompromising pursuit of religious, political, or other ideals.
- ignorance - lack of knowledge or information.

If you look at virtually every comment against legacy servers you'll see one, two, or all three of these ingredients. The bottom line is their collective egos won't allow themselves to admit that they feel completely threatened by the legacy movement and genuinely fear a vanilla server or legacy servers would destroy their community; which is ironic considering they have none.

I love that post. So true.

[moodirun123]

Kinda stupid to waste all that money and paper when could just put on a flash drive ..especially since blizzard has already released the statement that though there is obviously a want for legacy servers they still not make one that they are only focused on modern wow and the path it's going... Chris metzens exact words

[EyeOfTruth]

In this case petition is not handled to a faceless corporation - Instead a lot more personal level. Mark Kern knows exactly what he is doing and why he does it like this. After all he is former inside man of the blizzard.

Physical petition is most traditional way to handle any corporate or legal petition documents - You really expect blizzard to do the printing? 400$ wasted money and office workers time? - It's our case, not theirs

If you want to have any meaningful presentation face to face with someone - have something physical to back up your points. Driving all your way to Blizzard HQ to just give 1 flash drive and then leave is like saying: "I don't really give a flying fuck about this petition."

Mark is doing great job for us and even spending his own money to do it correctly. I don't know why people still whine about it.

[Arx_1]

Petition Update:



Mark Kern has handed the Petition over to Fedex for printing.

The video he is preparing will be ready on Monday. In the video, Mark Kern will be reading an open letter to Blizzard.