Queue Time Leading to Potential Lawsuit?

WoW Classic Mists of Pandaria Classic Discussion
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Considering that every user pays a subscription cost commonly referred to as game time, one can surmise the product being purchased in fact measured in time.

Advertised in an amount of days i.e. “30 days of game time”

Simply put any measurement of time of use of the service is subject to a “rate” at which a user is expected to pay for.

The current queue times on “mega-server realms” is 2 - 5 hours and an estimated population of 15-30,000 players on these realms.

The argument can be made that server selection is a choice, and that free character migration has been provided.

However, character migration directly affects the use of the end product, and results in an equivalent time-loss issue.

Mmo-rpg genre titles are designed specifically for long term social interactions as well as character growth and development in mind, and server migration is a significant set back to the point where it is simply not a viable solution.

The question I raise is at what point does the collective denial of service paid for allow action on behalf of the collective consumer.

Estimating the amount would lead anyone to assert that should a corporation occur such loses (one such as blizzard activision) a lawsuit would begin with immediate action and extreme prejudice.

A quick glance at the math,

30 days = $15
1 day = $2
1 hour = $0.08

Queue impact estimation:

30,000 players across mega-realm servers, a conservative estimate of queue participants.

an average queue wait time of 2.5 hours.

this comes to a total of $6,000/day of the average queue times experienced.

This does not account for personal consumer loss of Energy consumption to remain active in said queue’s, however this would vary and is hardly the responsibility of blizzard activision.

In short,

if Blizzard Activision were losing $6,000/day on average due to a paid service being unusable it wouldn’t re-occur for more than two days without swift repercussion.

Perhaps if any of you are lawyers you could weigh in on this, but I do believe there is at least a foundation for a class action case to be formed on the basis laid out before you in the above post.

As I’m certain their is a poster in Blizzard Activision’s break room that states:

Time Theft is Theft.

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Go ahead and file it, but I’m pretty sure it’s in the ToS that they don’t have to let you play.

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Its already covered in the EULA. Ultimately you still have access to the game via being able to play on other servers so your case holds no water.

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You have access to the game. Just not the servers of your choosing. Good luck with any lawsuit.

Also

1 day = .50c
1 hour = .02 c

If you want to say .10 c a day for a 5 hour queue is worth hiring a 150$ an hour lawyer please show me that math.

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Seems like an arguable point in a court that the experience is non-comparable

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Have fun with that

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Bobby wipes his hind end with 10k per day (in small bills) on his yacht. If you think they worry about $6k/day, you are quite mistaken.

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The subscription still lets you play retail.

Until you’re quite literaly unable to participate in every feature included in their bundled subscription, then you have no case.

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but i don’t, if I paid for a netflix account and netflix was down but they told me i could get on hulu i would not be receiving the product i am paying for despite it being the same product categorically

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LMAO!

Delete this.

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But it’s not.

I just noticed your name is “Justwipe”, check my previous post.

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No company period would ever simply accept that a service they pay for is inaccessible for them to the tune of losing 6k a day

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You dont pay for it.
You pay to play Retail and they throw in bonus material.

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You pay for access to blizzard servers. You don’t pay for access to feralina benediction or grobulus.

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You’d think MS buying Blizzard this BS would stop

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funny enough i only subbed for classic, which requires a sub and no box purchase, and they actually gifted me shadowlands and a 50 boost free because retail is so hurt. not entirely related, but i do directly pay a sub specifically for classic as its advertised, so for me, retail is the “bonus”

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When a game is built around a social experience and when you form friendships over years. You can’t just be expected to lose your guild, the ability to group with friends, and your server social structure because blizzard can’t fix this. That’s like forcing someone to move to a new state. You don’t know anyone and you don’t want to be there.

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Bobby and his yacht, Billy and his farmland…

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Are those blizzard servers? If I pay for my selection of 100 servers and then after i pay you tell me its only 50 servers that’s also actionable.

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So organize with your friends and guild and take a free transfer.