Yes, please check your facts before publishing. I was running around Howling Fjord at Blizzcon 2007.

So the Altar of Tides quest is going to be left bugged? Shoveltusk Steaks are still going to have the bogus Mana gain in the tooltip?

Seriously Blizz, way to prioritize. ;-)

Can't wait to get back to popping my wings without Forebearance.

The content. Love the content: the lore, the art direction, the attention to detail.

The Panda Cub, paws down.

One thing they *were* all over was deleting threads. Seriously, have thousands of pages of replies ever been posted so quickly and then deleted so quickly?

I agree. Although Mike gets quite a few facts wrong, this is a pretty good summation of what happened.

I'm generally in the quite QQing camp for commenters and forum dwellers, but in this case it's all fully justified. Blizzard made some bad decisions and this definitely a black mark against them. There's nothing wrong with selling out a show, or even holding a show that should rightfully be much larger. There is something wrong with putting up a purchasing system that was downright hostile towards those using it and then not communicating about what was really going on.

Given that this is a fanfest-type event, Blizzard owes its fans an apology for their cock-up.

I was at the confirm page 24 times over the last two days and got nothing but errors. I honestly don't understand how anyone got through.

As much as I hate to praise Ticketmaster for anything, at least they know how to do this kind of thing. If you can put something in your cart and get to confirming your purchase, it's not unreasonable to assume that you're going to be able to complete your purchase.

A pre-sale lottery would have been far more fair and not resulted in Blizzard's IT looking like idiots.

If everyone is your target market, you've got problems. Craig Sherman isn't very bright to claim WoW isn't a success because there are more people who aren't playing it that who are, which is essentially his argument.

Blizzard has done extremely well to have as many subscribers as they do, considering they are producing a fantasy role-playing game. Last time I checked, 100% of people are not fantasy role-playing fans. Therefore, their target audience is somewhere south of 100% of any population.

Further, the claim above by Dave about BMW and Apple being failures is equally ridiculous. Last time I checked, profit was the most understood measure of success. Losses are a measure of failure. BMW does quite well in their market. Apple does *very* well in their market. Neither company targets 100% of people who buy cars or use computers. Blizzard doesn't target 100% of people who play games at every level.

Know your market, deliver something your market wants and do it well and you'll be rewarded. Silly arguments that not having 100% of a market are just that. Silly.

I want the l00tz! :-)

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