This loot bug is just another glaring reason Blizzard shouldn’t have fired their QA staff /u/cloudysocks World of Warcraft

Right now, looting the first boss of any Timewalking dungeon (or even rares out in the world according to other reports) will disconnect you from the game.

Worse, it KEEPS your character locked inside the instance of that dungeon, so when your group mates try to requeue to replace you, nobody can join because it tells them the instance is already full.

So then FIVE PLAYERS are forced to either sit on their hands and do nothing or get saddled with the bullshit Deserter debuff that automatically applies when you leave or get kicked from a dungeon, preventing you from requeueing, or doing any other queued content which comprises a good majority of the endgame content.

Issues this glaringly bad and impossible to work around should never see the light of day. They never used to years ago, before Activision and years of layoffs. It’s downright embarrassing of Blizzard to let these problems regularly pop up, and it just highlights how broken and ineffective the Deserter debuff system is on top of it, not to mention compounding the annoyance of the issue by inflicting a time out penalty to players who have done nothing wrong.

Please hire back your QA staff. Please adequately test issues and stress test features you plan on implementing. Please stop cutting corners you vitally need to maintain the quality you expect your players to pay for.

Right now, looting the first boss of any Timewalking dungeon (or even rares out in the world according to other reports) will disconnect you from the game.

Worse, it KEEPS your character locked inside the instance of that dungeon, so when your group mates try to requeue to replace you, nobody can join because it tells them the instance is already full.

So then FIVE PLAYERS are forced to either sit on their hands and do nothing or get saddled with the bullshit Deserter debuff that automatically applies when you leave or get kicked from a dungeon, preventing you from requeueing, or doing any other queued content which comprises a good majority of the endgame content.

Issues this glaringly bad and impossible to work around should never see the light of day. They never used to years ago, before Activision and years of layoffs. It’s downright embarrassing of Blizzard to let these problems regularly pop up, and it just highlights how broken and ineffective the Deserter debuff system is on top of it, not to mention compounding the annoyance of the issue by inflicting a time out penalty to players who have done nothing wrong.

Please hire back your QA staff. Please adequately test issues and stress test features you plan on implementing. Please stop cutting corners you vitally need to maintain the quality you expect your players to pay for.