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BoozeCube said:
So I don't play Faggot Fantasy and have no plans to gobble their nutsack like many of the bandwagon tards have been doing, but look at how simple this was. Logins are fucked players can't log in. So they apologize for the issue and give out 7 days of game time.

Imagine how many times Blizzard has face fucked themselves with massive queues or release issues. Just think of how something so fucking simple as an apology and a few free game days would have gone to not make them seem like total cuntrags. Oh well fuck em.

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Blizzard always has login queues, whatever they launch.

I used to troll people by saying "its a small company guys, give them some time", and that was in 2013 or something.
 
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Ukerric

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BoozeCube said:
So I don't play Faggot Fantasy and have no plans to gobble their nutsack like many of the bandwagon tards have been doing, but look at how simple this was. Logins are fucked players can't log in. So they apologize for the issue and give out 7 days of game time.

Imagine how many times Blizzard has face fucked themselves with massive queues or release issues. Just think of how something so fucking simple as an apology and a few free game days would have gone to not make them seem like total cuntrags. Oh well fuck em.
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Blizzard repeatedly gave a day, sometimes three or more of free time when stuff happened. At least, that was the case early on. My sub history would include those free days, so they were easy to spot. But that was always for downtime, not queues.

Of course, they almost never had those problems recently, even with DDOS, since their remaining datacenters are oversized for the playing population.
 
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Ukerric said:
Blizzard repeatedly gave a day, sometimes three or more of free time when stuff happened. At least, that was the case early on. My sub history would include those free days, so they were easy to spot. But that was always for downtime, not queues.

Of course, they almost never had those problems recently, even with DDOS, since their remaining datacenters are oversized for the playing population.
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Ukerric said:
Blizzard repeatedly gave a day, sometimes three or more of free time when stuff happened. At least, that was the case early on. My sub history would include those free days, so they were easy to spot. But that was always for downtime, not queues.

Of course, they almost never had those problems recently, even with DDOS, since their remaining datacenters are oversized for the playing population.
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Yep, I just looked at my sub history for it but I remember back when they launched in 2014 everyone got what amounted to pretty much a week of free days due to all the server issues.

It's so easy to build up goodwill by doing that, they are such idiots for not recognizing its a problem and continuing the practice
 
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Blizzard always has login queues, whatever they launch.
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Maybe on Classic? I've not had queues on retail for years. This FF14 launch makes me miss Blizzard queues. This queue system is some of the worst shit I've ever seen.
 
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since their remaining datacenters are oversized for the playing population.
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Yeah, but the Blizzard servers are now cloud-based, and start to lag as soon as more than 50 people are in the same area.
 
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BoozeCube said:
So I don't play Faggot Fantasy and have no plans to gobble their nutsack like many of the bandwagon tards have been doing, but look at how simple this was. Logins are fucked players can't log in. So they apologize for the issue and give out 7 days of game time.

Imagine how many times Blizzard has face fucked themselves with massive queues or release issues. Just think of how something so fucking simple as an apology and a few free game days would have gone to not make them seem like total cuntrags. Oh well fuck em.

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9.1 was a failed launch and nothing was offered.

Vote em out. Unsub.
 
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Ukerric said:
Of course, they almost never had those problems recently, even with DDOS, since their remaining datacenters are oversized for the playing population.
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Incorrect. 9.1 was a launch failure. No days were offered.

Server instability killed 9.1 on day one. Weekly chest was also incorrect and people got fucked out of loot.
 
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Ukerric

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jayrebb said:
Incorrect. 9.1 was a launch failure. No days were offered.

Server instability killed 9.1 on day one. Weekly chest was also incorrect and people got fucked out of loot.
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I wouldn't know, since I no longer even have the Battle.net app on my computer.
 
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xmod2

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More like the Ship of Theseus. If, over time, you replace every staff member, is it still Blizzard? :emoji_thinking:
 
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Neranja said:
There was this rumor floating around that Blizzard had emergency meetings, lots of emergency meetings, basically all hands on deck. The managers/leaders asked: "Why do people play FFXIV?"
And the developers answered "because of this, this and that." And the confused question from the managers was: "but we did all that?" - "Yeah, but not anymore."

This is the punchline to many of Blizzard's current problems: They used to do this, but not anymore.
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Yeah but the blizz devs who were alienating their most popular twitch streamers and shoehorning mythic+ into an esport must have not been invited to that meeting.

Instead they stayed in their cubicles actively poisoning the company's relationship with their gamers.
 
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Blizz really fell on their dicks trying to ramrod Esports into all of their games. Somehow forgetting that the big Esports all grew mostly organically. Even League of Legends. While it was designed as an online multiplayer MOBA game, over time it became a massively popular league esport and brought in all the money that came with it.

Failed blizzard Esports
  1. WOW Arena -> This was always shit because the balance was always shit.
  2. Mythic+ -> This has potential until they banned stuff like using invis pots to skip unnecessary mobs and create interesting routes. It instead became using optimal setups to pump the most DPS possible because you had to brute force everything.
  3. Overwatch -> Started out okay but certain formats like GOAT made it boring as fuck to watch.
  4. Starcraft II -> They sure did try but it just fizzled out.
  5. Hearthstone -> Still fumbling a long due to its massive casual appeal.
  6. Heart of the Storm -> Game sucked, league sucked, they eventually canned it.
Successful
  1. SC1 and Brood War -> They had almost nothing to do with it. But it took Korea by storm sure as fuck.
 
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Chris

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  1. Mythic+ -> This has potential until they banned stuff like using invis pots to skip unnecessary mobs and create interesting routes.
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Haha yeah that actually sounds fun to watch, did they not realise that they were creating a speedrunning format and that speedrunnning is all about crazy exploits? I don't want to watch packs explode in a flurry of the same spell animations every other pack explodes in.

Having that stuff in professions too is ideal as then you don't limit people to playing mage or rogue for invis skips.

As long as it remains skill based, who cares if skill+time is spent skipping a pack instead of time+time with brute force?

I did some rogue trinket farming groups in BRD Classic and it was really fun too, devs need to catch emergent player behaviour and polish it into a feature, not remove it.
 
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The leadership for growing anything organically just isn't there. I'm sure if they hadn't been constantly distracted by whatever internal cultural back-biting poisoned Titan and turned WoW into shit they could've cultivated any and all of those games into good and even great e-sports.

But the rot that killed Titan in the womb had already set in and the leadership had already decided they weren't interested in being caretakers to Blizzard's decline. So they left.
 
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xmod2 said:
More like the Ship of Theseus. If, over time, you replace every staff member, is it still Blizzard? :emoji_thinking:
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Shame they can replace everyone there yet the direction of the company remains the same regardless. Glacial content release schedule along with a leadership which does not care about its customers.

But of course none of that matters when the vast majority of your customers left are whales that eat up whatever shit cosmetics you put out.
 
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