"You have been dropped" - discuss - Page 13

On May 24 2010 00:07 StewKer wrote:
To the guy that approximately said, "It's Sunday, we are going to have to wait." Blizzard is not located in Europe where in many countries it is illegal to have people work weekends/holidays. The US is the land of opportunity but to quote a communist saying, it is not "a worker's paradise". Which for the majority of the few communist countries left, that is definitely an oxymoron.

Blizzard is really ruining the hype level with this latest patch and it's RIGHT BEFORE they go offline for "several weeks". This is not a taste you want to leave in people's mouths for weeks at at time and let it fester and grow. Blizzard up until now, as far as I know, has had a fairly well run beta. Sure there have been loads of balance changes and additions to bnet and etc. Things that we all know people LOOOOVE to bitch about, but when it came to being able to actually play the game, as far as I know there has never been a problem of this magnitude. Blizzard NEEDS to be working today if they want to show to the industry and especially the consumer that they are really serious about this game and are not just in it for the money but that they actually CARE about the Starcraft franchise.

If it was my company and I had this huge game on the line and there was an issue this big, where 2/3 of every game is a drop/freeze for the majority of people, everyone involved in that part of the game would be working today. And yeah, it's a beta these things happen, but c'mon let's be frank here, everyone expects this beta to run perfectly, with the amount of money and manpower they are surely throwing at this game I would expect it too, especially at this late stage. This is not some independent developer we are talking about here that has limited funds and people, we are talking about Activision Blizzard, arguably one of the biggest entities in the industry, along with EA. If I worked for Blizzard, as an employee, I would offer to work today to straighten this out. It's called being responsible to the consumer/user.

I hope they are working today, cause shit needs to get done asap.

On May 23 2010 23:29 HubertFelix wrote:
I'm amazed by all those post like "I GOT DROP 10 TIMES !!" ...
Seriously you continued playing after 2-3 decos? Wait for blizzard to fix the problem in a couple of days and stop playing/whining it's a beta.

Of course it's SUNDAY, the problem won't be instant fixed.

On May 24 2010 02:29 graphene wrote:
blizzard is gaining crappy reputation, mainstream gamers new to the game will hate blizzard.

On May 24 2010 02:37 IceCube wrote:

+1 just hope most of new players didn't start off with Blizz & with this beta (but I bet they actually did)

The rest of us "oldtimers" just got sour taste after this beta patch, but thats only becouse we know how good can actually Blizz be, when they want to.

On May 24 2010 01:29 cHaNg-sTa wrote:



And just because it's Sunday doesn't mean anything. Do you think Blizzard would just take the weekend off if suddenly all the WoW servers crashed? Imagine all the uproar from the community and Blizzard panicking to fix everything. It's so important that they fix everything ASAP so we don't have to deal with more problems later when the actual game comes out.

On May 24 2010 03:08 kajeus wrote:

You people just baffle me... This beta is pristine compared to your average beta phase.

Games don't just get pumped out in perfect technical shape. They gotta be tested first. :D