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Blizzard Talks About WoW Stability and Service
Via 1up, information from Producer Shane Dabiri on the future of the World of Warcraft service. He offers up details on the new server setups, new server sites, and the much-anticipated character transfer service. From the article: "Scheduled to go live this summer, this feature will allow players to move their characters, within certain restrictions, to a realm of their choosing. This means that player's will now be able to join their friends on other realms without the need to wait for a pre-set mass realm transfer. In addition, this will also contribute to a balancing of the player load from realm to realm, which again is a specific way for us to reduce realm queues and lag. We know that many player's are eager for this service to be implemented, so we'll share further details as soon as more information becomes available. "
They killed the Blizzard warcraft forums. They're all up in arms about their class talent review, which has had the trees posted over at ign or somewhere.
Mages, start your whineing...
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If you had bothered to read, yes they are closing servers but no this won't be happening.
Apparently a server can handle up to 40 realms so entire realms will be copied in whole from one server to another. Its more of a consolidation issue. Sure theoretically if they lost a lot of player they might want to close up some realms if they become underpopulated. But people would leave unpopulated realms pretty much voluntarily.
Do not even compare a MMORPG with a telco/financial institution on levels of complexity.
Right because if you think Blizzard's system is even remotely as complex or robust you are either totally ignorant of real financial systems or being obtuse on purpose. If there's a transaction error on a Blizzard database (and yes these do happen somewhat frequently) a person might complain via in game mail. An error with a financial transaction and laws may have been broken.
Blizzard is doing nothing special, the fact that they are having the same growing pains issues as every MMORPG simply shows their arrogance.
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