It’s pretty embarrassing, but they’ve admitted as much and it is what it is at this point. I’m thoroughly enjoying the overactions tonight almost as much as playing the game
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Here’s the thing. We are all suffering from this game-time wise. A lot of people can be annoyed as all heck. But Blizzard is not losing any money over this. To corporate this is another success as long as it comes out timely enough to say it came out period.
Corporate, shareholders and the like, they don’t care if we are happy or like this game or what, so long as we pay for it.
Most developers want us to be happy and sometimes have bad design choices. Ion has made some terrible choices in my opinion. But they want the game to be good, problem is a lot of the time their hands get tied to short time frames and they are forced to skip various things they want to do.
Actually kind of funny since Blizzard just announced another two hour delay tonight.
If you want to assume I am attempting to take down or own their entire argument, go ahead. I’m just bored waiting for the servers to come back online, but at this rate, I’m just gonna accept that I won’t experience prepatch until the morning (one can hope, at least).
And just to clarify, I’m not defending it. I’m directing it to the true problem here.
Of course this should not have happened. Blizzard has had nearly 20 years of working with this kind of stuff. In vanilla it happened all the time but that was expected. Now? No.
But people being angry at the blues and devs are directing the anger improperly.
I’d call a “significant delay” a 24 hour delay, bare minimum.
Yes, they did, by the way. Has it been extended to 3AM PDT? No? Then it’s not even 12 hours.
It hasn’t been extended 12 hours… yet.
Extended to 12AM pacific
Your definition of “significant delay” is irrelevant. lol
I already clarified that I wouldn’t call it significant until 24 hours.
The fact that we’re not even at 12 hours is… what? What do you want? “Yet” is not useful here.
Time spent working is relative. What of they make 2 or 3 times the amount of money you make and don’t need to work more hours? And 30 hours is still being productive for 30 hours. You working 49-53 hours does not invalidate someone else’s time spent lol.
Its not useful here… yet.
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That’s totally fine.
I’m just saying that the people who are gnashing their teeth and screaming about injustices are, realistically, behaving like first world white girls in a Starbucks that run out of almond milk.
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It is relevant because “significant” is kind of ephemeral.
Some people call a 3 hour delay unacceptable. Not just significant, but completely beyond reason.
We need some decorum here. Anger and screaming won’t help.
lol’d irl.
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maybe when people cant get their payment on time blizzard will understand and let you be 10 min late much less 7 to 12 to 24 hours late. I mean I’m sure people who cant pay their sub on time have a good excuse and they will get around to it. I’m playing devils advocate of course I expected this to be honest and ques will be the same thing . they should just kick this thing till next day and save people the head ache but building anticipation is a benefit regardless to the company so they expect the complaining.
Unless the Casual missed out on the last year of Classic due to Reasons, but still want(s) to experience the game going forward as if they had been able to invest the typically required amount of time (which was FAR less than the missing year+).
And for the record, WoW is in no way a ‘Whaler’ game. Try RIFT (c. 5-7 years ago), mobile games like Disney Heroes, and anything else still allowed to sell loot boxes and ‘premium’ currency. I’m not sure what to call the ability to spend real world food paper for reskinned mounts and ‘same-as’ Pokemon.
Somebody reply, I’m falling asleep here!
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Sadly this is apples and oranges. You don’t pay for hours of time. You pay for a single block of unlimited time.
If they need to halt the game to do something, that’s part of the contract you signed. Because you paid in a block, you don’t get to carry it over. You paid for a block not for a number of hours.
This might sound arbitrarily specific, but if you challenged it in law and won, it would change everything about how we charge people subscriptions and fees. So, for now, basically impossible. Every major company, ever major player, even the law itself, would get in the way. It’s just not worth trying to change “30 day block” to “this many hours.”
You chose my trivial quip to be the launching pad for your argument, and with a lack of prepatch to occupy me, I’m now out for BLOOD. lol jk
Not gunna lie I just poured my fourth glass of wine and I grew tired of this. Glad we can joke and just go “byyyyeee.”
Loong night. Stay good friend.
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You can’t just have your characters announce how they feel!! That makes me feel angry!!