so they're selling these in Europe for an American charity

or did I miss something

well I guess I did miss something

so if we plug these in can we play WoW offline?

I'm sure they wiped the server before selling it.

you would need a blade server to plug it in.

I would love to know more about the technical backbone of WoW. I'd guess that each "realm" is composed of dozens of blades. If there are 10,000 players online at any given time, distributed throughout 50+ "zones," it would take dozens of cores and quite a large quantity of RAM to keep things running smoothly.

The sad thing is if Blizzard decided to add a bonus code that unlocked some sort of unique one-of-a-kind mount for the buyer, these server parts would be selling for MUCH MORE.

Originally posted by 77lolmac77

so they're selling these in Europe for an American charity

or did I miss something

 

well I guess I did miss something

Why would even matter where the kids are that it was helping?

Originally posted by KingofHartz

Yup you missed something. This is totally sweet, when you say world class you say blizzard, when you say blizzard you say world class, they both mean the same thing.

 

lol. So a multimillion dollar company auctioning off their garbage for charity makes them world class? They are no more noble then your average politician, kissing babies just so someone can take a picture of them doing it.

I think if you could plug your ethernet adapter into one of these and run a special version of WoW offline or with friends it would be cool.  As merely a decoration they are sort of interesting, but kind of a waste of cash.  I may yet bid on one just for charity sake.

Good for the kids :)

Originally posted by eyelolled

Originally posted by KingofHartz

Yup you missed something. This is totally sweet, when you say world class you say blizzard, when you say blizzard you say world class, they both mean the same thing.

 

lol. So a multimillion dollar company auctioning off their garbage for charity makes them world class? They are no more noble then your average politician, kissing babies just so someone can take a picture of them doing it.

More noble than someone sitting on butt saying how unnoble others for doing something.

Originally posted by Ausare

Originally posted by eyelolled

Originally posted by KingofHartz



Yup you missed something. This is totally sweet, when you say world class you say blizzard, when you say blizzard you say world class, they both mean the same thing.

 

lol. So a multimillion dollar company auctioning off their garbage for charity makes them world class? They are no more noble then your average politician, kissing babies just so someone can take a picture of them doing it.

More noble than someone sitting on butt saying how unnoble others for doing something.

 

OK. So I have an old computer that you can buy off me, then I'll donate all the money to the charity of your choice. Afterwards, everyone can thank me for being so generous.

Don't get me wrong, I think the auction is fine, but the real kudos goes to the people that buy the parts, not Blizzard. The company could donate 10 million without the blink of an eye, instead they donate old abandoned parts.

Originally posted by eyelolled

lol. So a multimillion dollar company auctioning off their garbage for charity makes them world class? They are no more noble then your average politician, kissing babies just so someone can take a picture of them doing it.

 

 While I feel that what Blizzard is doing is commendable at some level, I also agree with this guy in the way that sure the outcome is a good thing but for Blizzard itself it's mostly good PR.  But again I don't want to totally Bash Blizzard, let me just say that I'd put any big name company with lots of money to burn in the same boat if they did the same thing.  In the end though the kids matter and if Blizz wants to get some free PR and have the means to do so, better this way than without doing anything good right? 

Anyone who has anything negative to say about this is just a weak minded fool looking for attention.

Kids in need benefit, and collectors get a nice piece of gaming history. There is nothing bad happening here, no secret agendas.. just win win for everyone. Deal with it.

More noble than someone sitting on butt saying how unnoble others for doing something.

 

OK. So I have an old computer that you can buy off me, then I'll donate all the money to the charity of your choice. Afterwards, everyone can thank me for being so generous.

That sums it up in a nutshell.   

As an active supporter of St. Judes, I am glad that there are fans of the game that will buy these items.

St. Judes will get funding and Blizzard will get 2 million dollars worth of publicity for stuff that should have been thrown out years ago.

Win/Win

Originally posted by s4ndm4n2006

... better this way than without doing anything good right? 

Absolutely, I think it's great that there is money being put to a good cause and I will never sneer at that.  I just didn't think blizzard was "world class" because of it. It makes it sound like they cut off a leg so starving kids could use it for stew.

Donate them to Bioware so they dont have to make multiple instances of a single server lol.

Originally posted by clankyasp

Donate them to Bioware so they dont have to make multiple instances of a single server lol.

I see what you did there! I like it ;D

So, WOW of the new Call of Duty Elite?

Would be a nice gift to leave the server software in by mistake.