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If anyone could achieve a decent launch, it's blizzard. They have a lot of money and talent, and a real attention to detail. They're willing to wait to ship gam
by jfoutz 14y ago
If anyone could achieve a decent launch, it's blizzard. They have a lot of money and talent, and a real attention to detail. They're willing to wait to ship games "till they're ready"
But launch still eludes them. I've purchased every game through Diablo 3, but that put me off the whole thing. Heart of the swarm will be the first Blizzard game i just don't bother with. The launch will be a disaster. Since they've taken away any reason for me to get excited about the launch, i've found that really leaks over into my excitement about the game.
Good luck to EA, good luck to Blizzard, you've committed your businesses to a technical infrastructure you're just not competent to build or manage. Seems like a risky strategy to me. Especially because games aren't really that important. It's not critical like food. There are a bunch of other offerings available.
- Fauntleroy 14y agoI don't recall the Starcraft 2 launch being hindered in any large way, so I can't imagine the Heart of the Swarm launch being any worse. Guess we'll all find out in a few days...
- toki5 14y ago> But launch still eludes them. I've purchased every game through Diablo 3, but that put me off the whole thing. Heart of the swarm will be the first Blizzard game i just don't bother with. The launch will be a disaster. This seems to me a bold claim to make. Diablo III's launch was, in many ways, a huge new service for them, a new infrastructure to test and maintain, and they were quick to fix issues with it. Compare this to the launch of The Burning Crusade expansion pack -- it was a rough launch! -- but over time, they managed to smooth their systems out such that now, even a content launch as huge as Mists of Pandaria went smoothly. WoW is a different game, but it illustrates their iterative healing process. Since the Wings of Liberty launch went smoothly, I wouldn't expect anything less of Heart of the Swarm, as it's being released on a system that's here, ready, polished, and tested. We might see a few hiccups, but nothing close to Diablo III. I'd hardly call Battle.net an infrastructure that Blizzard is "just not competent to build or manage."
- jfoutz 14y agoAlthough you'll never see this, aside from a few achievement issues, HotS launch went well. Mea culpa.
- nemothekid 14y agoWhen Diablo was released people complained about the same exact thing. Its amazing how these issues completely blow over once the product is stable. http://www.neoseeker.com/news/19169-diablo-3-launch-marred-by-bugs-lag-and-server-disruption/ http://www.neoseeker.com/news/19169-diablo-3-launch-marred-b... Reddit's /r/gaming was filled with Diablo launch problems.
- jfoutz 14y agoI had a bit of nerd rage over the d3 release. I never could convince anyone there to delete my battle.net account, so I had to settle for an authenticator. Then, of course, I deleted the authenticator from the phone. Blizzard makes great stuff. I, however, have limited time. I wound up paying more that a dollar a minute for the time I got to played d3. I have no interest in buying another blizzard game, ever.