I'm not sure I'd buy into PWC having paper copies of tax returns laying around. I'd imagine everything has been scanned/digitized...which would actually require "hacking" and not "burglarizing".
You make some valid valuation points, but try and scale things fairly. Imagine if two minutes of the movie you were watching weren't there, or if the sound went out for 10 minutes at the concert you were seeing. Sure the game is cheap and per minute costs are extremely low, but that's one of the main reasons Blizzard should have been on top of things from the start. It's not like they didn't do the math ahead of time to realize they would need X thousand users to keep their books in the black (and if they didn't expect to progress to X million users, they should all be beaten with sticks)
It's really not the consumer's fault that Blizz set the price point at $15. Sure, my $15 wouldn't buy a sysadmin's time for 10 minutes, but 6 million times $15 sure would and I think that's where the frustration comes from.
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I'm not sure I'd buy into PWC having paper copies of tax returns laying around. I'd imagine everything has been scanned/digitized...which would actually require "hacking" and not "burglarizing".
The fortune cookie from my sweet & sour chicken says, "The will of the people is the best law." Best is apparently a relative term.
So all you're really saying is you applied there too late?
April 28th 2006 - March 30th 2006 = 11 months? :-)
You make some valid valuation points, but try and scale things fairly. Imagine if two minutes of the movie you were watching weren't there, or if the sound went out for 10 minutes at the concert you were seeing. Sure the game is cheap and per minute costs are extremely low, but that's one of the main reasons Blizzard should have been on top of things from the start. It's not like they didn't do the math ahead of time to realize they would need X thousand users to keep their books in the black (and if they didn't expect to progress to X million users, they should all be beaten with sticks) It's really not the consumer's fault that Blizz set the price point at $15. Sure, my $15 wouldn't buy a sysadmin's time for 10 minutes, but 6 million times $15 sure would and I think that's where the frustration comes from.