Is Blizz the root of all evil?

[Bolty]

Some thoughts on why Blizz "is the root of all evil".

1.  False Promises--At the risk of oversimplification, i honestly have never bought a game where the game manual you get in the box is not usable for the game you play.  There are so many differences between the game manual and the game itself its remarkable people are not using the word "fraud".

2.  Missing Battlegrounds and Honor System (as described in their game manual)--Again, i can't remember a game that i have bought in the last 5 years where such major components of a game were left out.  I would like somebody to try to give me examples from other major MMO's where this has occured.  This is terrible mistake and its costing them big time.  The funny thing is, the major content patches we are going to get in the future, will be content we were supposed to have on Nov. 23, 2004.  Blizzard will try to pass it off as new content.

3.  Realm instability--I have played other major MMO's (namely Everquest) and have never ever experienced realm instability like i have for WoW.  The frequent Sunday crashes, followed by Monday, Tuesday, WEdnesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday brought a few of us here at the Lurker Lounge to our knees.  It was only 3 weeks ago where our realm (Stormrage) was brought down for 24 hours that it seemed to clear up the frequent crash problems.  We have experience realm stability until this most recent patch.[right][snapback]74806[/snapback][/right]

Okay, you WERE warned, though, about all three of these issues. Not just from me, who kept shouting it from the rooftops in November about how the game probably wouldn't be truly ready for release until March/April, but from quite a few others as well.

That March/April estimation by me turned out to be pretty accurate, actually. Stormrage finally became a stable server in late March, and just now we finally got the REAL PvP ruleset that should have been IN PLACE BEFORE THE GAME WAS RELEASED. *cough*

Now all the level 60's on PvP servers can crow because they got there in "easy mode" and can lord it over all the others who have to struggle heavily against the player hunts, which encourage ganking.

I consider the latest patch we just had to be the true release version (since I never expected Battlegrounds at release; just a working, viable PvP system). All money you and I have paid to Blizzard before then has been money paid to help them beta test.

And if you enjoyed it anyhow, then there's not much you can complain about. :) You had fun. Isn't that what you were paying for? I know that's what I was paying for.

Fun is the final arbiter. :P

-Bolty