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by Eliah Hecht 
Oct 30th 2008 at 7:00PM
Blizzard knows about the realm problems as well as anybody, and as is their tendency, they're compensating for it by giving us all playtime credits. This time it's a full three days, for anyone with an active account on US, Oceanic, Latin American, European, and Russian realms (so basically everyone except Asia; the Asian realms have a different payment structure).
That's one thing I really like about Blizzard. They may mess up, but at least they try to fix it. Now can I have a Squashling, please?
Filed under: Realm News, Blizzard
Reader Comments (Page 2 of 3)
Differentiate Oct 30th 2008 8:18PM
I can appreciate the free time, but I really don't think this is a major loss for Blizzard. The majority of players pay on a monthly basis, using a credit card, and this free time really donates no benefit to those people.
Zrob Oct 30th 2008 10:08PM
Actually it does benefit us. If they were gonna charge the card on tuesday, they would charge it on friday instead.
shrimp Oct 30th 2008 9:13PM
My account was frozen on the 15th of October (I pay for each month individually). Do I get my free 3 days?
Leandar Oct 30th 2008 9:43PM
"This time it's a full three days, for anyone with an active account..."
No free days for you Shrimp.
Also, lol @ futurama quotes.
Robert Oct 30th 2008 10:34PM
I personally didn't think it was bad enough for free game time, and certainly not three days, but this is a great thing for them to do. It buys back the cynics.
That B Guy Oct 30th 2008 10:57PM
My room mate was playing during the time the servers were crappy and he didn't get the credit because his account died like a day or two ago...
Gabe Oct 31st 2008 1:11PM
3 days.. who cares? Illidan has been unraidable for six weeks.
Amaxe Oct 30th 2008 11:19PM
3 days seems reasonable for the most part. There were a couple of raids we had to abort when the instances all crapped out during that period, but there is a limit to what is reasonable to want in compensation.
That they made the offer is a positive thing in my view
Chris Oct 31st 2008 12:34AM
I checked my account but it doesn't look like I have it yet.
Anyone know when were getting this?
Nocte Oct 31st 2008 5:48AM
Dunno, I haven't got it yet.
Someshta Oct 31st 2008 7:56AM
They screw up, making the game unavailable for a lot of people, and you're *cheering* and praising them for giving us back the days we payed for? :P Of course it's nice but it should be expected.
Dez Oct 31st 2008 8:43AM
Erm wait, 3 days of gametime which doesn't make any difference is supposed to make up for all the recent issues? It's not that I want a refund in the first place, but Blizzard if you're gonna make up for your lackings, do it well. Even if 3 days for each player equals a lot of money, how does that benefit the individual player? Ohh thanks Blizzard you used a lot of money, that shows how much you care! That doesn't change the fact that 3 days gametime makes no difference. The monthly fee is drawn from my Visa every month, like I even notice or check that, how does a free 3 days make any difference? That just means 3 more days before my Visa gets drawn, for the small insignificant monthly fee that it is. Wow what a gift, thanks Blizzard.
It's not that the fee itself matters much, or that I want any sort of "refund" for World of Brokencraft, I just think it's lame of Blizzard to think that if they give us some gametime everything's suddenly okey."Sorry for the broken game, but here's a free 3 days to play in the broken game!"
To put it bluntly; I don't want my money back, I want my game to work.
D.O.T. Oct 31st 2008 10:15AM
3 days difference is the day they take that next amount out. So if you were being billed on the 4th of each month, it would be pushed back 3 days on the next. Meaning instead of the 4th, it would be the 7th. Not much in your opinion, but some people might not mind it.
Aubaine Oct 31st 2008 2:06PM
I was thinking exactly the same. What do i care if it's billed three days later?
My creditcard withdraws money from my bankaccount every end of the month, doesn't matter which day of the month I pay Blizzard...
So it doesn't matter if Blizzard bills my creditcard on the 4th or 7th.
Not that I care about the downtime, there are more things in life :)
Mike Oct 31st 2008 10:01AM
To be honest I feel like I'd rather them save the 7.5 million and use it in development rather than save me $1.50 individually. The problem we encountered are expected, imo, with a game of this size when you make massive changes in one fell swoop. I don't hold any negative feelings towards them and if you wan't to get realistic, perhaps a few minutes off the comp was a great thing for a lot of the player base (before you argue "thats my decision, not theirs", I get it). I appreciate the effort blizz but I feel like you could do a lot more good with that money than splitting it up amongst us.
D.O.T. Oct 31st 2008 10:12AM
Free time is always appreciated. But I would gladly skip the free time if the Hallowe'en event were extended instead. (Gotta make up that time that got stolen by the Griefers).
zombie Oct 31st 2008 12:44PM
Again with the griefers, GIVE IT A REST fer fucks sake
Doujhe Oct 31st 2008 11:28AM
I personally don't want it. I want to give mine to someone that suffered downtime and didn't complain more than 3 times about it, or those that merely (calmly) inquired (as many times as they saw fit) as to a timeline for the fix. Although, this is partially why I have toons on 3 realms, I know some devote their lives to their mains, and count on it a hundred times more than I do the armory.
PeeWee Oct 31st 2008 1:18PM
Since I never had any problems with the server updating, I'll count these days as compensation for the zombie event instead.
crazymarc Nov 1st 2008 11:51AM
ugh, my account ended the prepaid time today, but i didnt get 3 free days =/