about getting my "pillar of the ancients" rune on my monk. It sounded pretty badass, like a holy pillar of light was going to come down from the heavens and smite my foes. So as soon as I dinged, I tossed it on my right mouse and clicked and well... some lazy ass pillar comes out of the ground. Not some vengefull glowing pillar with a mean face, but like something your neighbor would have on his porch. I was so dissapointed. My buddy the witch doctor has a skill where 4 zombies come out of the ground on each others shoulders like they are engaged in some life or death chicken fight, and my pillar just erupts from the ground like "hey. any terraces need supporting?"
Anyone else got any skills they were really dissapointed in when they unlocked them?
I might be missing something, but why is it thst video games are the only product that its acceptable to release with issues like this. When apple released the iphone 3g, the activation servers couldnt handle the load and people were unable to use their phones for days. Why was that unacceptable, but people are defending blizzard. You can say all you want about people knowing there was no offline mode, or how difficult it is to plan ahead for server load, but at the end of the day, you have several million people who paid for a product that they are unable to use.
If you bought a new car, that you could only sit and look at for the first 2 or 3 days you owned it because the manfacturer didn't account for the amount of keys they would have to produce, you would be pretty upset. Why should blizzard be any different? Ive built data centers for double click and goldmann sachs which were turned on and open to millions of connections, and worked right from the get go, because low and behold, they had to. In most bussiness downtime is completely unacceptable, why do we tolerate it here, and why do people feel the need to defend it?
If you're preparing for a release like this, and you dont make sure that you are prepared for every contingency, despite the cost, well thats just a poor bussiness model and you should be ashamed.
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Anyone else got any skills they were really dissapointed in when they unlocked them?
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If you bought a new car, that you could only sit and look at for the first 2 or 3 days you owned it because the manfacturer didn't account for the amount of keys they would have to produce, you would be pretty upset. Why should blizzard be any different? Ive built data centers for double click and goldmann sachs which were turned on and open to millions of connections, and worked right from the get go, because low and behold, they had to. In most bussiness downtime is completely unacceptable, why do we tolerate it here, and why do people feel the need to defend it?
If you're preparing for a release like this, and you dont make sure that you are prepared for every contingency, despite the cost, well thats just a poor bussiness model and you should be ashamed.