Blizzard deserves the demonization they get... (Score 1)

There have been other games at the complexity of WOW. Yes WOW has the largest userbase but to claim that makes it an order of complexity higher then other MMORPGs is silly. The ex-Blizzard guys who left to from ArenaNET clearly took with them much of the talent that got Blizzard were it is today. Guild Wars runs a single server for the well over 1 million users they have. (I say users since they support this w/o resorting to subscription fees ;P ). On top of supporting those counts and players from all over the world on a single server they also manage to do so while streaming game content to players and patching the game while the servers are running with zero downtime. No 2 hour maintance windows, no big fiasco of 12-15 hours down due to patches. Nope, you get a little message in chat 'A new build of Guild Wars is availiable. Please log off and update.' You don't even have to logout and update, you can keep playing normally without issue. Compare that to WOW which seems to be barely able to patch without 12 hours of downtime.