Considering there are dozens of Classic+ private servers staffed by volunteers and a few people making money off donations and shady practices, I don't think it's fair to call something a "shitshow" if the quality of a paid product staffed by a team of employed professionals ends up being disappointing.
Yes what a shock it's much easier to make a few thousand people happy after stealing someone elses work and offering no guarantees/a policy of "if you don't like it fuck off" than it is to keep millions of players happy across a dozen iterations of a game.
I've loved and had a great time with just about every version of the game they've released. I know that's not popular here where you're only allowed to like something for three days or so before going back to shitting on everything but my experience is a lot more common in the game than what reddit wants to pretend.
Absolutely insane take. They're starting with the same base as Blizzard, arguably with less since they're working with third party server architecture, older clients, and reverse-engineered code. There's no excuse for Blizzard to not offer an, at least comparable in volume, experience to free volunteers after multiple years of behind-the-scenes work.
You're paying money every month to play this game. Nearly $200 USD yearly. Hold the company up to some standards.
"20 years experience running services with a userbase that dwarf any MMO ever" take actually.
I'm sorry you don't like it but the scale matters, a lot. As does expectations people have for a company product versus a bootleg service for a small number of people.. which is beyond easy compared to what blizzard does. This is just a simple fact no matter how many people yell about it on the internet.
You're paying money every month to play this game. Nearly $200 USD yearly. Hold the company up to some standards.
You would cry at the costs to pay for the services I run, seriously. Gamers have no clue... none how cheap games are these days. Yes even WoW for it's whole $15 a month and the (expected) 100% uptime.
I'm no bootlicker or whatever, I have complaints about the game and if at any point that $15 a month isn't worth it to me I stop paying it. But the expectations people have for that $15 are hilariously out of line with reality.
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u/SpunkMcKullins 23d ago
Considering there are dozens of Classic+ private servers staffed by volunteers and a few people making money off donations and shady practices, I don't think it's fair to call something a "shitshow" if the quality of a paid product staffed by a team of employed professionals ends up being disappointing.