03-10-2003, 06:51 PM
Well, it would be big money to Blizz, the parent company isn't doing too well. They have bigger fish to fry like releasing new games. Placing much needed manpower to maintain the integrity of a past release is just not good business. This is coming from a small business owner. I know that in my company, I squeeze every bit of manpower out of my people to look towards future revenue producing methods and machines. Blizz probably has the same type of brass in charge who cannot see expending valuable resources on something that is not producing revenue at present. Onward and Upward, a favorite management saying of mine.
Managerial practices would tell you that they definitely should NOT put someone in charge of doing what has been talked about. For most people working at Blizzard (and most companies), 95% of the people working there do not care could care about anything except that their paycheck is issued on Friday and that it actually cashes at the bank. They aren't in love with the game like we are (some maybe), and to them, it's a job, and volunteering would be beyond them. I would dare say that the programmers on the staff care about one thing - working code that is free from bugs and will make them look good for possible recruitment to future projects. If you were force fed Diablo 2 for a year or two, and it was your job, you would care about your mortgage payments more than what some kid thinks of a ruined Diablo economy. Sure, it's an embarassment to them that their code is leaky, but not a priority.
But from a gamer's perspective, I would appreciate their acknowledgment that they have a problem, and I would like to see some type of action. I have not seen either out of them except for some random posts by Blizz reps, but nothing official has been said.
Deletion? Well, 1.10 will make these hacks go through what we call Extinction. Realistically, this is true, and management knows this to be true, so why waste any more money than is necessary? They know a new economy is about to emerge, and it's one where all of us start at square 1. And once it's released, we'll all forget about the fact that Blizz let us down. They are fixing it, but in the form of a new patch.
But at present, I'm exceptionally bored because I enjoy my cubing. But does anyone disagree with me that once 1.10 comes out we will all start to label softcores as hack users and laddercores as the true players? Ahhh, no more "I cAn PwN U n()()B!" in games for at least a month or two.
Managerial practices would tell you that they definitely should NOT put someone in charge of doing what has been talked about. For most people working at Blizzard (and most companies), 95% of the people working there do not care could care about anything except that their paycheck is issued on Friday and that it actually cashes at the bank. They aren't in love with the game like we are (some maybe), and to them, it's a job, and volunteering would be beyond them. I would dare say that the programmers on the staff care about one thing - working code that is free from bugs and will make them look good for possible recruitment to future projects. If you were force fed Diablo 2 for a year or two, and it was your job, you would care about your mortgage payments more than what some kid thinks of a ruined Diablo economy. Sure, it's an embarassment to them that their code is leaky, but not a priority.
But from a gamer's perspective, I would appreciate their acknowledgment that they have a problem, and I would like to see some type of action. I have not seen either out of them except for some random posts by Blizz reps, but nothing official has been said.
Deletion? Well, 1.10 will make these hacks go through what we call Extinction. Realistically, this is true, and management knows this to be true, so why waste any more money than is necessary? They know a new economy is about to emerge, and it's one where all of us start at square 1. And once it's released, we'll all forget about the fact that Blizz let us down. They are fixing it, but in the form of a new patch.
But at present, I'm exceptionally bored because I enjoy my cubing. But does anyone disagree with me that once 1.10 comes out we will all start to label softcores as hack users and laddercores as the true players? Ahhh, no more "I cAn PwN U n()()B!" in games for at least a month or two.