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More WoW Woes
[Jan 22, 2005, 11:41 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments

This WoW Gameplay Discussion (thanks Voodoo Extreme) offers a message from Blizzard Entertainment president Mike Morhaime on the ongoing difficulties being experienced in World of Warcraft, their MMORPG. The update describes why 20 realms had to be taken offline, and how players from the impacted realms will be receiving a total of seven free days added to their subscriptions due to this and another glitch earlier in the week. The update concludes with promises and apologies:

I want to take this opportunity to say that we will do everything possible to ensure that unexpected downtime like this does not occur in the future and that if it is necessary, we will do everything possible to give you better warning and keep you informed. In the future, we will avoid doing maintenance during peak hours, unless no other alternative presents itself. When complications occur that could impact your playing time, we will provide that information as well. We failed to do this last night, and I assure you that we are making changes to ensure that we do a better job of communicating with our players next time.

I want to extend my personal and heartfelt apology for the problems that some of you have been experiencing on our servers. We remain committed to delivering the best possible service for you and will continue to work around the clock to ensure that we provide an experience that you and I have to come to expect from Blizzard games.

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Jan 24, 2005, 03:27

Muscular Beaver

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Re: No subject Jan 24, 2005, 03:27

Jan 24, 2005, 03:27

Muscular Beaver

You're all acting like all this shit is new or something, that this is the first MMORPG to have massive downtime in its first few months, that it's new that quests are broken, shit is bugged etc.
EVERY MMORPG has these issues at the beginning. You all know this.
But here's what I don't get. YOU'RE ALL STILL BENDING OVER AND ALLOWING BLIZZARD TO SHOVE THAT 15 BUCKS A MONTH STRAIGHT BACK UP YOUR ASS.

Yes we all know that, but we are staying/stayed because of our chars. We believed "this is Blizzard, they will fix it in a matter of days or weeks, since even other, more shittier developers did it in a few weeks and days aswell, at least the lag and instability of servers", but they didnt and when we realized it, we already had a 40+ char on this game and didnt want to simply quit and make that 40+ feel like it was completely wasted time. Plus, the whole concept of this game is far more appealing than any other MMORPG. Im not quite sure what it is, I think the nice atmosphere and the quests.
This is the only reason why people stay. And you know what? MMORPG developers know this, but Blizzard is the first to exploit it that bad. I thought SOE would be bad already, but Blizzard is the king now.

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I'm not... gonna... cry... you... dumb... doo-doo brain!
This comment was edited on Jan 24, 03:28.

I have given up on waiting for BIS to come back to their senses and do a real ArmA 2 successor.