Faction Transfer. The one thing that irks me.

#0 - Sept. 3, 2009, 3:35 a.m.

I am not at all upset about the cost of the faction transfer. I am not upset at all about the server down time that has been going on the past few days. What does upset me is that once again I feel like Blizzard is rushing something to production to meet a deadline and straying even further away from their old mantra "when it is done."

I could be 100% wrong about this but... I feel like Blizz rushed the faction transfer to production to buff Activision's quarter end reporting. There is little doubt that the first month that this is active Blizzard will see a boost in income from the first flood of faction transfers. I think that they had a deadline to try and have it ready by September 1st but it wasn't quite ready to go. In response someone said, "our numbers are down and we need this income for our quarter end statement make it work." This resulted in unstable servers for the past few days. Even though 99.9% of the people that came to these forums and said, "I quit" didn't I am sure that some have esp. those people on servers that have had the instance issue.

Blizzard has never been a company that trades short term gains for long term losses. Well, never until the merger with Activision. Since this merger I continue to feel like Blizzard is rushing things to production at the cost of the quality of their product.

Crygil

#8 - Sept. 3, 2009, 3:49 a.m.

Q u o t e:
I am not at all upset about the cost of the faction transfer. I am not upset at all about the server down time that has been going on the past few days. What does upset me is that once again I feel like Blizzard is rushing something to production to meet a deadline and straying even further away from their old mantra "when it is done."

I could be 100% wrong about this but... I feel like Blizz rushed the faction transfer to production to buff Activision's quarter end reporting. There is little doubt that the first month that this is active Blizzard will see a boost in income from the first flood of faction transfers. I think that they had a deadline to try and have it ready by September 1st but it wasn't quite ready to go. In response someone said, "our numbers are down and we need this income for our quarter end statement make it work." This resulted in unstable servers for the past few days. Even though 99.9% of the people that came to these forums and said, "I quit" didn't I am sure that some have esp. those people on servers that have had the instance issue.

Blizzard has never been a company that trades short term gains for long term losses. Well, never until the merger with Activision. Since this merger I continue to feel like Blizzard is rushing things to production at the cost of the quality of their product.

Allow me to address some of your concerns. The downtime was not related, in any way, to the Faction Change Service. That time was used to address an ongoing issue with instance creation.