WoW: Battle Reports

[Professor S]

Oh yeah, I've definitely started another character. As I mentioned earlier, I like having a lot of characters so that I have a lot of play options depending on my mood. In fact I've started three new characters, including a new hunter to replace my higher level one.

I have to disagree with your high tolerance level for gaming problems when the game itself costs $180 a year just for subscription. Add the cost of the game and you paid $230 for one game for a year, which is more than the cost of any of the major consoles right now. Add the inevitable expansions and the costs will keep going. For this much investment I expect the servers to stay up. For this much money I expect my characters to not dissappear. For this much money I expect them to reply to my inquiry within the time that they say they will. Hell, for that much money I expect them to say "how high" when I say "jump".

MMORPGs are not a new thing. They've been around for years and considering the amount of hype they recieved and their loyal fanbase, they should have been prepared for the number of subscriptions they had to handle. Bottom line.

If Sony can do it, why can't Blizzard? Thats the beauty of a free economy. You can choose a company that knows what its doing. If I have any more major problems, just one more, Sony will be rewarded for their ability to maintain the integrity of their MMO.

[DeathsHand]

Originally Posted by The Strangler

If Sony can do it, why can't Blizzard? Thats the beauty of a free economy. You can choose a company that knows what its doing. If I have any more major problems, just one more, Sony will be rewarded for their ability to maintain the integrity of their MMO.

Like I said: Missing characters must be a very rare occurence...

Server downtime happens, nothing's perfect, I'm sure the EQ servers go down too... You can go ahead and tell blizzard to jump and have them reply "How high", but if a server starts acting up blizzard can't simply yell "Work" at it and expect a response...

Yes blizzard has a big fanbase, but MMO's are not for everyone... It's not a RTS game, it's not diablo, and (as you point out) it's much more expensive than most games, putting it out of some people's price range... Plus it came out around the same time as EQ2... They simply underestimated it's success, I s'pose...

And yes it costs a couple hundred bucks overall for a year's play... But it ends up costing something like 50 cents a day (the max monthly subscription, not counting any discounted 3/6 month plans, but not counting the price of the game itself either)...

My point of view is, I play the game so damn much anyways, if it's down for a few hours every once in awhile and I miss out on a whole, I dunno, 15 cents worth of gameplay, well boo hoo... Sure it can be irritating when I want to play and first find out the server is down, but I just find something else to do and try back later...

Oh yeah and one last thing which I highly doubt applies to you:

You didn't happen to stumble into any strange areas in the game world did you? Places with a bunch of high level monsters that just sit there taking abuse, not fighting back?

[Canyarion]

You haven't been using a bot to speed up leveling (such as an auto-fishing bot)?? Cause then your characters got deleted on purpose.

Deathshand, how long have you played so far?

[DeathsHand]

Originally Posted by Canyarion

Deathshand, how long have you played so far?

You mean like total hours among characters?

about 10 and a half days on my 44, 6 and a half days on my 37...

But I have had a couple other characters (level 29 and one that got to 20) that I'm not sure about...

[DarkMaster]

I didn't think there were fishing bots for WoW. The way fishing is done kind of makes it impossible, Blizzard really took note of FFXI's fishing disater. I'm already recognizing some chinese money farmers though, the idiots have the same names as they did in FFXI (they run FFXI now, the economy is a complete joke). I report them to GMs, but nothing happens, just like in FFXI. I really don't understand how a site like IGE can exist with every single MMORPG player and developer knowing about their illegal activities. Sue the bastards for Christ's sake, they ruin games.

[Canyarion]

Wow, I've never heard of that site..... that's truly amazing... why aren't they sued yet?

And what kind of moron would pay real money for digital money?

[GameMaster]

A couple days ago, I started a new identity as a Grunt. Seems to be going better than the Troll Shaman.

How's everyone else doing?