01-23-2009, 03:21 PM
Quote:I think it is way too easy to sit back and complain that Blizzard are a bunch of incompetent idiots with zero knowledge as to what is really going on. Like most WoW forum threads, we seem to be debating heatedly based on pure conjecture that has no grounding in what may really have happened.
I agree. This thread is starting to look like it belongs on the WoW forums. If you want to do that, go there, not here, please.
I can remember worse patches, and worse instances of the Law of Unintended Consequences biting Blizzard in the ass. It happens. You can pay your $15 next month, or you can unsub. Those are really the only choices you have.
I'm absolutely sure that Blizzard would have done almost anything to avoid having to take the servers down on a Friday morning to fix arenas, but, it didn't work out that way, so here we are. Someone in the PTR/patch process screwed something up, and is probably in for a good ass-chewing when it's all fixed, but, that doesn't change the fact that Blizzard is stuck with the fallout from the screwup at this point, and is taking what they feel is the best choice to get things back in service and running right again. Whining about something like this after the train is already off the tracks really doesn't make much sense. Life, and WoW, will go on.
--Mav