I think the staff are full aware that this 'fix' doesn't remove the feature from the table completely. It may seem targeted at min/max raiding and no one's stupid enough to deny it'll affect the power shift on world bosses. Of course there will be some growing pains in the raiding community, that's what the bulk of us are here to do. Its a short term hit in raid efficiency, at least until people level to 45.
BUT WITH THAT SAID there are many other areas of play that are affected by this easy way around, and a handful affect auction house lopsidedness which as I understand is an equally complained-about issue. The problem isn't really so exclusive to one particular usage as much as it is addressing the ease-of-access to ubiquity or omnipresence on the world scale. This directly affects the quality of life regarding cross-zone resource collection, PvP force projection in both scouting and response, PvP contested zone control, and (god forbid) world buff griefing. Hordies here love to catch a raid group off-guard or troll around to see who's careless enough to wander from the raid. This is a PvP server and PvP is a reality. Lets not forget those who play to piss us off! Must be pretty boring when your organized effort in intercepting a fully buffed raid was thwarted by an hour's worth of time investment.
Poopsockers gonna poopsock, they always have and they always will. People with high octane give-a-shit levels are also the same type of folks who likely forked over additional bucks IRL to have alt accounts for the same function (By the way that dude was the real MVP back in the day). The intention of the hotfix was to bring the number of participants in said activity back down towards that metric. The hardcore will still do their thing and those who CBA will let their level 20 warlock alts rot.
TLDR :
It's a five-toed 90-degree swift kick in the scrotum in the short term but when it's all said and done warlock summoning alts haven't been removed and their functionality will persist. @the staff : thank you for not touching/restricting on the account level!
BUT WITH THAT SAID there are many other areas of play that are affected by this easy way around, and a handful affect auction house lopsidedness which as I understand is an equally complained-about issue. The problem isn't really so exclusive to one particular usage as much as it is addressing the ease-of-access to ubiquity or omnipresence on the world scale. This directly affects the quality of life regarding cross-zone resource collection, PvP force projection in both scouting and response, PvP contested zone control, and (god forbid) world buff griefing. Hordies here love to catch a raid group off-guard or troll around to see who's careless enough to wander from the raid. This is a PvP server and PvP is a reality. Lets not forget those who play to piss us off! Must be pretty boring when your organized effort in intercepting a fully buffed raid was thwarted by an hour's worth of time investment.
Poopsockers gonna poopsock, they always have and they always will. People with high octane give-a-shit levels are also the same type of folks who likely forked over additional bucks IRL to have alt accounts for the same function (By the way that dude was the real MVP back in the day). The intention of the hotfix was to bring the number of participants in said activity back down towards that metric. The hardcore will still do their thing and those who CBA will let their level 20 warlock alts rot.
TLDR :
It's a five-toed 90-degree swift kick in the scrotum in the short term but when it's all said and done warlock summoning alts haven't been removed and their functionality will persist. @the staff : thank you for not touching/restricting on the account level!