WoW Insider interview: You Play or We Pay founders

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1-16-2009 @ 9:56AM

Jon said...

This is not insurance. The most you can stand to gain is a few dollars. When your server goes down, and you want to play, you don't want a few dollars... you want to play, dammit!

This is a sucker bet, and nothing more. Casinos have been making money from games like three card poker and keno for decades. Why should the internet be any different?

Case in point - payday loan stores. If the average American had basic math skills these places would be out of business.

1-17-2009 @ 3:55AM

vexis58 said...

"When your server goes down, and you want to play, you don't want a few dollars... you want to play, dammit! "

Out of all the comments, I agree with this one the most. I don't see how a few dollars a month is supposed to compensate me for my lost time. The subscription cost of WoW is so low already that in my eyes, it's as good as free. A few dollars over the course of a month is a meaningless amount of money.

Now maybe if they offered some other kind of compensation -- like prizes! Say your downtime got you credits and they'd raffle off new PCs or PC hardware, or WoW TCG loot cards etc.

All in all, regardless of whether it's a scam or whether it's worth it or whatever, I won't be using this service at all, because my server is very stable. I can't remember the last time I had to wait in a queue. No wait, I think there was one the day after WotLK came out -- but it was only a hundred people or so. It took like ten minutes to wait through.

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