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Dhruin
Stranger In A Strange Land
Joined: 20 May 2002
Posts: 1825
Location: Sydney, Australia |
| WoW Event Crashes 27 Servers @ The Inquirer |
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I'll let this snip from <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28910" target="_blank">The Inquirer</a> on the Euro WoW realms do the talking...:<blockquote><em>It seems the revenue of around 150 million Euros a quarter from its millions of subscribers is just not enough for the company to start resolving technical issues that are growing as the number of gamers continues to rise.
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<br>Being a WoW player myself, I emailed Blizzard Europe's spinolatas on more than one occasion about real issues gamers like me are suffering. I never yet got an answer.
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<br>WoW players will be familiar with the fiasco surrounding opening the gates of Ahn'Qiraj, a realm that was added in latest patch.
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<br>While servers filled with gamers that gathered on the place of event, some 27 crashed, leaving thousands of gamers stuck in their own realms.</em></blockquote> |
Fri Jan 13, 2006 2:47 pm |
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slak
Keeper of the Gates
Joined: 13 Jan 2005
Posts: 122
Location: Sweden |
That's what you get for playing crappy games like WoW xD |
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Fri Jan 13, 2006 2:48 pm |
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Snoekie
Baron of the Court
Joined: 09 Jul 2001
Posts: 335
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
I read the entire article and think the author has too high expectations of a MMO.
Having played this genre of games for about 6 years now I have experienced quite the opposite of Blizzard's Euro Tech support myself.
Granted, I haven't asked for much tech- or GM help but the few times I did I got an answer in a timely manner. And that's a lot more then what most other MMO companies have been or are doing.
A lot of bugs get fixed, or at least reckognized, relativly quick in my opinion.
And Blizzard frequently give extra game days when there is serious downtime.
In my experience most other companies simply ignore downtime and the hassle it gives their clients alltogether.
Yes, I've had times that I couldn't log in, servers were down longer then announced, I ran into bugs, had lag, etc etc, but all MMO's have that.
In that respect WoW is no exception.
The waiting queue's on some servers are annoying but it keeps the realms from crashing so that's probably a good thing. (eventhough it really sucks if you have to wait 10 minutes before you can play...)
The great number of players also seems to be overwhelming Blizzard, that indeed is a good point, but it's also a sign that they simply made a great game that is fun to play.
And that's the bottom line of any game I play: Fun.
And I find that in WoW the majority of the time. |
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Sat Jan 14, 2006 11:06 pm |
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