Blizzard gives out free time for the slighest outage, because they can afford to and it is good customer service.  How many other games give out free time for the slightest interruption?  That doesn't mean the servers were down for a month. 

Saying they are the worst servers is pure hyperbole.  93% uptime, care to share your source?  I've heard some whoppers before, but come on.

Wow has about 25 times the number of servers as the next biggest game.  If the problem was as bad as you put it, it would be front page news all the time. 

Originally posted by Daffid011

Blizzard gives out free time for the slighest outage, because they can afford to and it is good customer service...

Saying they are the worst servers is pure hyperbole.  93% uptime, care to share your source?  I've heard some whoppers before, but come on.

For a slight outage, Blizzard wouldn't credit anything.  For a few hours during prime time, they'd credit you a day of free time.  They did once credit me three days and once five days, but those were each more than a full day of downtime.  Even when the servers were up, they often lagged quite a bit.

Does WoW have the worst servers ever?  Probably not, but they do have, by far, the worst I've seen for downtime.  In terms of lag while servers are up, they probably weren't as bad as Chain of Command was before the turn of the millennium.  For lag, WoW only has the second worst game servers I've ever seen.

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Inability to run servers properly isn't the only problem with the game.  In most places, there aren't many bugs, but an escort quest had perhaps a 50/50 chance of being bugged in one way or another.  Some were things you could work around, but some were issues like having to escort an NPC from point A to point B, and the NPC won't move.  That's small potatoes, I guess.

Perhaps a bigger problem was that the UI was a disaster.  The game shipped with a UI that was basically non-functional, making it so that in order to play well, going elsewhere and downloading UI mods was all but mandatory.  Once you'd get the right UI mods, it would work pretty nicely, of course--until the next patch came.  That was pretty much guaranteed to break all the UI mods, so you'd have to go get updated versions of them.  Or at least you'd have to get updated versions of the ones that had updated versions, as some weren't maintained, so you'd have to abandon those and find something else.  If you could get the UI working again within an hour or so after a patch, that was doing reasonably well.  I've never seen any other game break the UI every patch like that, and expect players to fix it themselves.

Speaking of patches, WoW has the worst patching system I've ever seen, for any online game.  The servers go down for several hours to apply the patch, which isn't terribly remarkable, although most games do apply patches to their servers quite a bit faster.  At least it's during off-peak times, though it doesn't necessarily finish during off-peak times if the patch takes longer than expected.  Then when the servers come back up, players can theoretically download the patch from the servers.  But perhaps it's only theoretical, because it's really, really, really slow--slow enough that someone on dialup would have good reason to complain that it's unusually slow.

Instead, players who want to get a decent download rate (or for that matter, one tenth of a decent download rate) have to go elsewhere to get the patches.  Players are thus pushed to go to external sites to download and run executable files on their computers.  That's remarkably horrible from a security perspective, as it practically invites malware.

Hands down Barry Bonds.

Holds all the records but is hated

Originally posted by Daffid011

Blizzard gives out free time for the slighest outage, because they can afford to and it is good customer service.  How many other games give out free time for the slightest interruption?  That doesn't mean the servers were down for a month. 

Saying they are the worst servers is pure hyperbole.  93% uptime, care to share your source?  I've heard some whoppers before, but come on.

 

Wow has about 25 times the number of servers as the next biggest game.  If the problem was as bad as you put it, it would be front page news all the time. 

 

 

Blizzard never once gave out free time for outages.  What are you talking about?

Originally posted by Malvolentia

Originally posted by Daffid011

Blizzard gives out free time for the slighest outage, because they can afford to and it is good customer service.  How many other games give out free time for the slightest interruption?  That doesn't mean the servers were down for a month. 

Saying they are the worst servers is pure hyperbole.  93% uptime, care to share your source?  I've heard some whoppers before, but come on.

 

Wow has about 25 times the number of servers as the next biggest game.  If the problem was as bad as you put it, it would be front page news all the time. 

 

 

Blizzard never once gave out free time for outages.  What are you talking about?

Try this.
 

1)  Go into your account.

2)  Check the billing history.

3)  Come back and report on your findings.

Originally posted by SaintViktor

if WOW was an athlete he would be on trial for using performance enhancing subscriptions ?

Too true.  Wish I would have thought of this. LOL

Originally posted by Malvolentia

Originally posted by Daffid011

Blizzard gives out free time for the slighest outage, because they can afford to and it is good customer service.  How many other games give out free time for the slightest interruption?  That doesn't mean the servers were down for a month. 

Saying they are the worst servers is pure hyperbole.  93% uptime, care to share your source?  I've heard some whoppers before, but come on.

 

Wow has about 25 times the number of servers as the next biggest game.  If the problem was as bad as you put it, it would be front page news all the time. 

 

 

Blizzard never once gave out free time for outages.  What are you talking about?

Seriously, just stop wasting everyone else's time with your misinfomation.  Fine if you don't like the game, but don't resort to being a liar in order to feel justified.  Let alone try to call someone else out on a subject you once again haven't the slightest clue about. 

I realize this is a far cry from people who claim to have 30 free days, but here is some proof for you.

Originally posted by Daffid011

Seriously, just stop wasting everyone else's time with your misinfomation.  Fine if you don't like the game, but don't resort to being a liar in order to feel justified.  Let alone try to call someone else out on a subject you once again haven't the slightest clue about. 

I realize this is a far cry from people who claim to have 30 free days, but here is some proof for you.

 

Nice on the scroll of resurrection rewards.  How'd you manage that?  I've gotten a couple and thought I was doing good. :)
 

 If WoW was a runner in running competition:

-EQ2 would be just generally worse runner

-Vanguard would have missed the start due to lag, then tripped to a bug and broken one of its legs. It would now be limping on the race track with the aid of SOE sponsored walking stick.

-Lotro would do quite well in some other running competition. Most of the people wouldn't notice.

-One of Age of Conan's running shoes wouldn't work due to system requirements, and the other one was promised on start but it's not yet finished. That makes running a bit hard

-WAR would be quite good runner, but since watching WoW is more fun than watching WAR not many people would notice

-And WoW would have already won the running competition 3 years ago. It's been doing laps of honor since then, still running much faster than any of its competitors.

Originally posted by Pappy13 

Nice on the scroll of resurrection rewards.  How'd you manage that?  I've gotten a couple and thought I was doing good. :)
 

That is actually my wifes account, but mine look similar.  I've gotten a few, but she has some serious scroll mojo.

WoW = Shaq. Biggest, but dumb and ugly.

Originally posted by Vrika

 If WoW was a runner in running competition:

-EQ2 would be just generally worse runner

-Vanguard would have missed the start due to lag, then tripped to a bug and broken one of its legs. It would now be limping on the race track with the aid of SOE sponsored walking stick.

-Lotro would do quite well in some other running competition. Most of the people wouldn't notice.

-One of Age of Conan's running shoes wouldn't work due to system requirements, and the other one was promised on start but it's not yet finished. That makes running a bit hard

-WAR would be quite good runner, but since watching WoW is more fun than watching WAR not many people would notice

-And WoW would have already won the running competition 3 years ago. It's been doing laps of honor since then, still running much faster than any of its competitors.

And TR and Hellgate London would not get their license for not having the proper sponsor money requirements.