Is Blizz the root of all evil?

[Darian]

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.[right][snapback]74806[/snapback][/right]

I'm thinking you didn't play EQ when it launched. The stability on Stormrage prior to the last patch was better than the stability on, say, Prexus 6 full months after EQ launched.

4.  Maintenance days--Realistically, there hasn't been to many other companies out there that have struggled to the extent Blizzard has had with maintenance days.

Maintenance days for EQ were horrible for the first six months or so.

5.  Patching--Disaster after disaster.  This most recent patch was horrible.

Same was true of EQ for a lot longer than six months.

I don't disagree with the existence of the problems we've been having, but for heavily-played MMOs, crappy technology during the first few months is almost part and parcel of the experience. As for promised content not being in place, that's not Blizzard's fault so much as it is Vivendi's.