The difficulty of trying to get one without the other is why we pay the developers the big bucks.

Of course, it just underlines the disconnect between the parties: the importance of a distinction of in-game and out-of-game norms and the developers need to respect them. This is the “problem of evil” in RPGs – you want High-Fantasy Evil, not the banality of corpse camping and newb squashing.

I’m glad I canceled my WoW account over a year ago (over queues), and the mismanaged crap like this event re-inforces that decision.

Handle events like Turbine. Asherons Call had world changing events, but you didn’t have to deal with mouth breathing misanthropes who got their jollies from ruining other peoples nights to participate. And for the most part, you weren’t forced to at all.