Comment Blizzard Fanboism (Score 1) 407
I'm a Blizzard fanboy I'll tell you straight out, and yeah they've had poor uptime since release, at first from usual mmorpg release headaches... and then what?
I have a conspiracy theory though. I have always respected Blizzard and felt they were very receptive and communicative to their fanbase, and feel that has been somewhat demonstrated even facing the apparently overwhelming popularity 'problems' of WoW, and so them seemed somewhat tight lipped about things in general makes me think it part of their contracts.
Aren't they using IBM's database for WoW, for example? The DB backend is involved in every aspect of the game, and say there was an undocumented flaw or heck even documented flaw with their DB backend they are grappling with. I would imagine they way they are implementing things isn't exactly old hat either, we haven't had massively popular mmorpgs for aeons in the computer world. If IBM's DBAs and programmers are even having problems resolving the issues, Blizzard can't turn around and say 'Yeah we're doing all we can but our IBM DB sucks, buy IBM.' If it's instead a network issue with AT&T, again I'm sure part of their corporate contracts involve 'not talking about how much their internet sucks ass'
I have a conspiracy theory though. I have always respected Blizzard and felt they were very receptive and communicative to their fanbase, and feel that has been somewhat demonstrated even facing the apparently overwhelming popularity 'problems' of WoW, and so them seemed somewhat tight lipped about things in general makes me think it part of their contracts.
Aren't they using IBM's database for WoW, for example? The DB backend is involved in every aspect of the game, and say there was an undocumented flaw or heck even documented flaw with their DB backend they are grappling with. I would imagine they way they are implementing things isn't exactly old hat either, we haven't had massively popular mmorpgs for aeons in the computer world. If IBM's DBAs and programmers are even having problems resolving the issues, Blizzard can't turn around and say 'Yeah we're doing all we can but our IBM DB sucks, buy IBM.' If it's instead a network issue with AT&T, again I'm sure part of their corporate contracts involve 'not talking about how much their internet sucks ass'
