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On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 09:33:35 +0200, "hayman"
<holman_kevin@hotmail.com> wrote:

>>
>> You are all going about this 'questioning of blizzard' the wrong way,
>> none of you seem to have the slightest clue as to how the current
>> Battle.net servers work (by the way, they are not owned nor are paid
>> for by Blizzard Entertainment whatsoever).
>>
>> WoW will be (once released) will be Blizzard's newest cash-cow, and if
>> they were to allow WoW users on the freebased Battle.net it would
>> possiblely crash the whole network. Think about it right now there are
>> more than 150,000 people using all 6 realms, put another 250,000 on
>> top of that and you have yourself one hell of a bill of bandwidth for
>> AT&T, Tesila and the other companys that provide the servers for
>> Battle.net.
>>
>> As for this :
>>
>> >>So what does everyone else think? Do
>> >> think WoW should be free and possibly ask for donations to play online
>or
>> >> should they have a flat monthly fee whether you play the game once a
>month
>> >> or 24-7?
>> >
>> > Who cares what we think. Blizzard is a company. They want cash. They'll
>go
>> >for the best way of getting it.
>>
>> Donations ?  Right, and how many people do you think have that kind of
>> cash to 'donate' ? Most people (average wage earners) can only just
>> get away with buying 1 PC game every couple of months add that to the
>> cost of average internet access and your already down the tubes.
>>
>> Also, Blizzard is a company, it doesn't 'want cash', they get all the
>> money they need from Vivendi Universal (their parent company).
>>
>> Some people have gotten it easy up to here, however that time will
>> soon run out.
><SNIP>
>
>don't toppost :)
>

top post ?  bah! how else would I of gotten their attention ? By
letting it waste away at the bottom ? That's good logic right there in
the making.


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