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Given how much people love Blizzard, I wonder if they really care /that/ much about launch day issues? They have massive amounts of experience in this field, I

by jalada 14y ago

Given how much people love Blizzard, I wonder if they really care /that/ much about launch day issues? They have massive amounts of experience in this field, I'm sure they had the capability to make launch day run much smoother, so why didn't it? Perhaps they thought 'unprecedented demand for new game forces it temporarily offline' sounds like a nice headline in the paper. It's just one day after all, and all the people who play on launch day have already spent their money, and probably aren't really the type to get a refund.

corin_ 14y ago
People's love of Blizzard makes it worse, not better, when there are problems. I was at the London launch event Monday night (working not buying), the first person in the queue had been camped there since Saturday lunchtime. He said that by the time he got his copy signed at 11pm he had time to get a train home, get to work with ten minutes to spare, work a twelve hour shift, then go home and spend the night playing the game. A lot of people care a lot about games like this, and that includes how soon they can play it.
sp332 14y ago
In an MMO, a day can make a big difference in who gets the best stuff first. So it can change the experience of hardcore players.
darklajid 14y ago
FWIW: I loved Blizzard in the past. I didn't buy into SC recently. I didn't like the decisions taken, stripping one good game into three, adding weird rules to the TOS that just cry out "I want to milk fans" (think: LAN games, tournaments). For WoW they were stoned for a while and considered a real name policy in their battle.net system.. Now Diablo comes along. Blizzard isn't special for me anymore and always online games get -100 points by default. For now I guess I'll pass (with SC I don't regret it one bit) and go back to Warcraft III again. Blizzard of today is to me what the 'new' Star Wars episodes were: Bringing joy to lots of people, but disappointing for me.

by jalada 14y ago

corin_ 14y ago

People's love of Blizzard makes it worse, not better, when there are problems. I was at the London launch event Monday night (working not buying), the first person in the queue had been camped there since Saturday lunchtime. He said that by the time he got his copy signed at 11pm he had time to get a train home, get to work with ten minutes to spare, work a twelve hour shift, then go home and spend the night playing the game. A lot of people care a lot about games like this, and that includes how soon they can play it.

sp332 14y ago

In an MMO, a day can make a big difference in who gets the best stuff first. So it can change the experience of hardcore players.

darklajid 14y ago

FWIW: I loved Blizzard in the past. I didn't buy into SC recently. I didn't like the decisions taken, stripping one good game into three, adding weird rules to the TOS that just cry out "I want to milk fans" (think: LAN games, tournaments). For WoW they were stoned for a while and considered a real name policy in their battle.net system.. Now Diablo comes along. Blizzard isn't special for me anymore and always online games get -100 points by default. For now I guess I'll pass (with SC I don't regret it one bit) and go back to Warcraft III again. Blizzard of today is to me what the 'new' Star Wars episodes were: Bringing joy to lots of people, but disappointing for me.