Interesting post from WoW general forum.

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Yes, I think blizzard has plenty of money to do whatever's necessary.

And quality has everything to do with it. Without quality, they'll lose their subscriptions in time. Lower cost isn't exactly that great at the expense of revenue.

As far as the cost thing goes, what exactly makes it cheaper to outsource anyway? Ultimately the bottom-line cost must be paid somewhere along the line, and an additional company has its own overhead.
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Well think of it this way, if they did it themselves they'd have to increase their employee load signifigantly for the people to run the servers, then support people, managers etc, paying there wages, benifits.

thats nothing to say about buying all the hardware and building facitlities, spread over who knows how many seperate physical locations across the us.

How much would it costs them to actualy just do the start up costs of that magnitude? you'd prob need a corporation 4x the size of blizzard(i'm just guessing here) to start that sort of nation wide infrastructre lonewolf