A friend asked me last night. “So, you don’t like emo do you?” My answer was, “No, is it to much to want people to learn how to adjust to real life and not expect everything on a plate?” And it got me thinking. Right now is an example of lots of over privileged people crying that the world is ending because something they “CHOOSE” to do is being impacted by REAL WORLD issues beyond the control of the programmers.
For those of my readers who do not know what is happening, well, World of Warcraft is launching its second major expansion tonight. In the process of getting ready a lot of changes have been made to the game system, a system that I think far to many people take for granted. You know, the same people who have no idea the work that goes into that Hot Mocha they just ordered at Starbucks. The same people that if you ask them where milk comes from they will answer, “the store.”
In a game with over 11 million subscribers it becomes a hotbed of whiners and QQers (For those not up on the lingo, just isolate the QQ and tell me what you see. *smile* ) Not only does Blizzard have to balance the customer support nightmare but they have to make sure things go smooth tonight with the launch.
Ok, so some hiccups nailed them when they applied whatever implantations of the software server side yesterday. Ok they spent all day, and even part of today with the servers down to make sure people end up happy. I would HATE to be in the shoes of the technician who are trying to get things back up. Especially when EMO kids are complaining.
I had a little spar with someone on the official forums. I made a simple comment about how I would rather have the down time when it happen than come home from Gamestop tonight, load the game and not be able to enter Northrend. The reply I got was, and I paraphrase:
“OMG Blizzard SUCKS!. I pay $14.95 a month to play this game. I expect my cell phone, cable TV . . . blah blah blah. to work. . .Blizzard is the worst!”
I would have laughed but this attitude just struck a raw nerve. Here is a person, who thinks the world owes them something, complaining because their life is impacted for a short time. The feeling is that his “INTITLEMENT” gives them the right to make over reaching over generalizations. And we wont even talk about the laps of common sense. Ok maybe a little.. . Just that morning our Comcast Cable went out. Had no Internet for the first 6 hours of the day O.o IT WAS THE END OF THE WORLD /slit
But I digress.
The issue is not that Blizzard has failed. heh, I dare anyone to show us that they could run things any better. . . . *still waiting*
The issue is that people need to relax, enjoy life, go outside some times, and enjoy what is around them. Realize that things happen and we just have to deal. Do we always like it when a storm comes through and knocks out power for 2 days? Heck no. . But do we look back at the quality time we had with our family when we could not hide in a corner with a T.V. or computer or . . . Oh yea.
So, to all the emo QQ’ers who are going to quit the game over this. I have one thing to say.
There’s the door.
*smile* I know. . mean. . But serious!
And now for those expecting something about the church, after all, I did put it in the title. Well, just reread the article, replace the word Blizzard with your churches name and wala. . . .
Let’s not be emo QQing noobs anymore!
/rant
Grr, I lied, Turning Rant back on after talking to a guild mate in Gtalk Dori, before posting this.
One thing that REALY disappoints me is that some of the very same people who where yelling the sky was falling and they where going to quit took advantage of a glitch when the servers did come up.
Once servers rolled online apparently you could purchase select PvP gear that used to require a high personal rating. The price was messed up, most likely from a careless oversight in the rush to restore databases. So when people found out they did they told Blizzard about it so it could be fixed. WRONG
The took a virtual ROCK and tossed it through the window of the department store and walked off with the item, all the time justifying it by saying Blizzard sucked and made them wait to get back online.
ARGGG. Ok. . I’m going to finish now before this becomes a novel on the social ills of idiots.
Love you all. . .its going to be a good day no matter what 
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