Stormrage Server upgrades

[Sword_of_Doom]

MMOPRG's are a busniess. I am trying to figure out why that infuriates you. Did you just uncover that mystery?

"Greedy corporation." What a useless throwaway, a substitute for a fully formed thought.

Occhi

Since you called me out haha i am going to respond to your troll post.

Greedy
immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; "they are avaricious and will do anything for money";

I have played Blizzard games for over 8+ years and i would have to say WoW has been by far the most annoying and irritating of the games i have played. This will probably be my last Blizzard game i will buy and support.

Here are the greedy moves they have foisted upon its player bases:
1. Retail launch had inadequate server resources
*Blizzard response was to sell more games. They only suspended the sale of games when most of the damage had been done. Who can forget loot lag, disconnects and server crashes for the first few weeks of WoW.

2. Constant lag on the "Terrible 20"
*Blizzard's main solution has been to open to new realms with new hardware. Blizzard's offer was if you wanted to escape your laggy realm reroll on new hardware servers. All your troubles will be taken care of when you do. Funny thing is some of the new realms got overloaded and experienced same laggy problems as old servers.

3. Character transfers
*Blizzard's solution to laggy realms was to offer them a $25 U.S. per character transfer to new hardware. On my server, Stormrage, hundreds of characters took this offer up because after 10 months of terrible stability on the realm that was the best alternative out there. Ethically they should have fixed ALL servers first and then offered character transfers. But a GREEDY business move is offer Character transfers first, swim in the money, and then fix things.

This is a company that constantly has expanded its subscription base and has constantly added new realms. This is not about MONEY and its AVAILABILITY to fix things. They have it and they can fix things. It is about CORPORATE GREED and Vivendi's ability to milk every available profit from WoW. We are the lemmings that suport this and i don't see that ending. Blizzard makes very addictive games and people will play them even if the servers were up 1 hour a day.

I worked in IT for 4 years. We had a subscriber base of 100k maybe 1/20 of the size of Blizzards NA subscriber base. Those customers paid a monthly fee much the same as Blizzard's except ours was $50 a month. We had performance standards contractually built in that made our network available during 5 AM PST to 7 PM PST. If we went down as much as 15 minutes our subscribers got refunds. 100% uptime was expected and pretty well maintained. We even had expensive back up power options if the power went out. We did lose customers to competitors if we had any downtime.

Yes Blizzard's terms of service negates them from having to provide a good service. But good luck to them on their next MMO if they continue to have stability and lag problems on their server. They are the present day SOE that everyone likes to hate.

/spit on Blizzard