Addicts ask, Dealer supplies
Gabe and Tycho at Penny Arcade sent in a couple of questions to the Blizzard folks, and the neighborhood crack dealers had a set of answers for them. For some reason the guys were surprised…
I mentioned last week that we sent a fairly terse set of questions over to Blizzard. They’re a lot more direct than developers are used to receiving. The crazy thing is, the answers we got back were a lot more direct than the interviews out there usually receive. Funny, that.
Funny that, a site that reaches thousands of readers and has had such a massive hardon for the game revokes their “Game of the Year” award, getting such good responses. (And this is not to criticise Penny-Arcade, the addiction of this author is well documented. I am just pointing out that I’m not surprised they got these answers when the trolls on the forums don’t get shit.) What would be a better forum to address some of the issues that Blizzard is having?
A couple of things though. Blizzard addresses the prior planning that they did do, which was blown out of the water in regards to levels of subsrciptions over a given period of time. With the addition of servers, this is only partially addressed. I would be extremely curious as to the database seats/licenses and whether or not they are being increased. Simply having the new server hardware does nothing when they end up being connected to the same database as everything else.
And again with the databases, the question of moving characters and guilds around on the realms. It should be easy to migrate between realms on the same database, but you are left with the same problem of a kajillion people on the same databse they were before. Instead of moving indivudal cahracters, and therby forcing everyone to choose a new home, potentially breaking guilds and other friendships, why not move the entire realm? By this, I mean that the high population servers, which by all accounts are sharing a couple of the same databases, should be moved to share databases with low(er) population servers. It has the advantage of the GMs not having to deal with “I don’t/didn’t want to move” and “Please move me” requests.
But, I’m just a player and not a dev. So YMMV.
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