There have been other games at the complexity of WOW. Yes WOW has the largest userbase but to claim that makes it an order of complexity higher then other MMORPGs is silly.
The ex-Blizzard guys who left to from ArenaNET clearly took with them much of the talent that got Blizzard were it is today. Guild Wars runs a single server for the well over 1 million users they have. (I say users since they support this w/o resorting to subscription fees;P ).
On top of supporting those counts and players from all over the world on a single server they also manage to do so while streaming game content to players and patching the game while the servers are running with zero downtime. No 2 hour maintance windows, no big fiasco of 12-15 hours down due to patches. Nope, you get a little message in chat 'A new build of Guild Wars is availiable. Please log off and update.' You don't even have to logout and update, you can keep playing normally without issue. Compare that to WOW which seems to be barely able to patch without 12 hours of downtime.
Nice of Symantec to decide to catch up.
TrendMicro's House Call site offers an free online virus scan that is able to detect and remove any virus that can be removed with their other products. It's an ActiveX control based scanner though so it's not cross platform, though the biggest need for this service is by far windows.
Very useful site, has saved me a ton of headaches with remote users who have been infected by viruses that have taken down their local virus scanner (usually symantec) by killing it's process.
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There have been other games at the complexity of WOW. Yes WOW has the largest userbase but to claim that makes it an order of complexity higher then other MMORPGs is silly. The ex-Blizzard guys who left to from ArenaNET clearly took with them much of the talent that got Blizzard were it is today. Guild Wars runs a single server for the well over 1 million users they have. (I say users since they support this w/o resorting to subscription fees ;P ).
On top of supporting those counts and players from all over the world on a single server they also manage to do so while streaming game content to players and patching the game while the servers are running with zero downtime. No 2 hour maintance windows, no big fiasco of 12-15 hours down due to patches. Nope, you get a little message in chat 'A new build of Guild Wars is availiable. Please log off and update.' You don't even have to logout and update, you can keep playing normally without issue. Compare that to WOW which seems to be barely able to patch without 12 hours of downtime.
Last time I tried to Symantec's wouldn't disinfect though, it just pointed and the virus and went "OMG Go buy our product now!"
Nice of Symantec to decide to catch up. TrendMicro's House Call site offers an free online virus scan that is able to detect and remove any virus that can be removed with their other products. It's an ActiveX control based scanner though so it's not cross platform, though the biggest need for this service is by far windows. Very useful site, has saved me a ton of headaches with remote users who have been infected by viruses that have taken down their local virus scanner (usually symantec) by killing it's process.