But this thread didn’t begin with one of those “kinds of posts”. As I pointed out to the poster to whom you’re replying…
This is a better example of the kinds of posts I think you’re complaining about.
And I replied to it in a sensible manner.
Posts like this are fundamentally misunderstanding the challenge Blizzard is facing.
But, posts like this are not as helpful as they could be.
To be clear, this statement is a lie:
And it’s a lie you have implicitly acknowledged:
Their refusal to take responsibility and all of their talk about comparisons to 2008 realms and other irrelevancies only distract from what I believe is the primary cause of this crisis: they have failed to properly manage realm populations. They know what the limits of their services are. They have had all the data they needed to have reasonably predicted this result. They were warned many times by players who only had much less quality population data from which to make projections.
If I can go into full cynical mode for just a moment… It is beginning to look like despite having more than enough ability to anticipate this they did not act sooner only because restricting player movements in time to prevent this would have caused unrealized gains in revenue from automated paid realm transfers and they surmised that players would take their incompetence with regard to population control at face value and eat the consequences.
This thread is here to state that this is not something they will get away with completely. They have been caught in their inaction, to twist a metaphor. If they want players to solve the problem for them, they need to give the players the tools to do it:
a free way to go to some other realm with their friends while the heat dies down
a free way to go to some other realm with their friends when the evacuation spot has died, as it absolutely will
Many of us are willing to work with them in whatever way they wish provided those criteria are met. But they can’t keep getting all of the money and none of the blame.