Commenting on WoW beta forum the reaction of the community.
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They just assume that a vague “solution” months after release is enough to calm everyone’s problems with this.
Everyone aside those that say “who cares?”
Players complain about what happens to them directly. They don’t see far away (like the problems with off-peak times and other gameplay-related issues).
Blizzard told them that they can choose freely which coast they can pick up, and that was enough to stop the rants from the biggest side of the community. Instead I would have liked to see what could have happened if even the american were included in this retared policy and were forced into west or east coast servers based on the billing address.
From there Blizzard did the best they could do about fooling the players and reduce the bad mouthing. The start of the European beta is a cookie to shut up most of the complaints, players will be happy if they are in beta and playing, even if the release is pushed away.
No, the number of players answering on this thread doesn’t mean anything. This is a policy that will surely have a negative impact but it’s still relatively small. Yes, if you look on every server discussing mmorpg and this game, you’ll see that nearly noone accept this policy as “good” but most of them simply don’t care.
What Blizzard (and the players) doesn’t see is the impact that this decision has on the long-term. Local servers will kill the possibility to build an healthy community that keeps its grip along the years. But this is worth zero again. WoW will be successful no matter what, sadly. Even if it will be badly flawed as a mmorpg and as a community, it will still be valid as a simple game.
The enormous mistakes they are making, unfortunately, won’t have a strong impact. Everyone in this thread is just wasting time on an issue that won’t change.
Personally I removed the client and cancelled my preorder. I won’t buy this game now, nor when it’s released in Europe because it failed on what I feel important (and search) in these kinds of games.
The fact that Blizzard won’t receive my money won’t change the world, but I learnt that this is simply what I can do. Go on with what I like and avoid to get involved in other situations.
What I hate is all these seven months I’ve wasted around here writing articles, bugs and suggestions.
Stop wasting time on polls or petitions. Their weight is zero and you can use that time in a better way.