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Best Diablo 3 Announcement reaction gifs ever...
Malenko:
yet I still love it. Beat normal on saturday, almost done nightmare. The drops are getting epic. PIcked up a 3 sockets armor last night, weut!
shmokes:
Epic.
kahlid74:
--- Quote from: Malenko on May 23, 2012, 10:01:09 am ---
yet I still love it. Beat normal on saturday, almost done nightmare. The drops are getting epic. PIcked up a 3 sockets armor last night, weut!
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Yeah, it can certainly be repetitive. I beat Nightmare last night and it's getting tougher each time as a wizard. Not looking forward to every mob having the ability to one shot me. The difficulty isn't scaling as nicely as I would have hoped after all their talk.
--- Quote from: shmokes on May 22, 2012, 01:53:58 pm ---Terms of service are irrelevant. You can't EULA your way around statutory rights (Uniform Commercial Code). When you put a product on the market it comes, by law, with a warranty of merchantability requiring, among other things, that the goods reasonably conform to an ordinary buyer's expectations. It's silly to speak of "even the biggest data centers need maintenance." This isn't maintenance. It's failing to provide proper capacity. And contrary to what you said, this is nothing like a DDoS attack. DDoS traffic is unanticipated. Diablo 3 is a game made by the company with more experience than any other company in the world in MMO games. Their sales predictions weren't off (and preorders can't be off). Plus, it was extensively beta tested. They can't argue they were caught with their pants down. You said yourself that servers to handle the level of traffic generated by Diablo 3 requires, " . . . a chunk of capital that exectives can never seem to wrap their heads around . . . it's a risk vs reward thing that has clearly paid off for them . . . ." In other words, they simply cut a corner to make more money and in the process they shipped a literally defective product. That's not something you can put in a TOS.
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I get your point, but you won't ever get a judge to agree with you and you'd never get into a Blizzard data center to prove they didn't spec out properly. The wave of a DDoS is identical to the wave of players connecting to a new MMO. You're right that they should have planned for it and that a DDoS would be unanticipated but what I'm telling you is that in my network chair, the traffic looks the same.
Either way the games fun, good coop fun and MWO started closed beta yesterday, so I'm hoping to get an invite to that soon.
shmokes:
--- Quote from: kahlid74 on May 24, 2012, 09:37:53 am ---I get your point, but you won't ever get a judge to agree with you and you'd never get into a Blizzard data center to prove they didn't spec out properly.
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You'd never get a judge to agree with you about what? And why? Are judges being bribed by videogame publishers? Are they rabid Diablo/WoW fans? That statement makes no sense. The only thing the judge has to agree on is that there is a legitimate breach of warranty claim, which there obviously is (not that Activision breached it's implied warranty, but merely that they might have--that the claim has merit, that it isn't frivolous). The judge doesn't decide the outcome of the case before there's even been a trial. Once the case goes forward, the jury decides whether there was any malfeasance on Blizzard/Activision's part.
As for "getting into a Blizzard data center", of course you'd get into it. All that data, as well as corporate emails, etc., would be provided as a matter of course during the discovery/disclosure phase of the trial. Moreover, Blizzard employees would have to testify in the case.
kahlid74:
--- Quote from: shmokes on May 24, 2012, 10:03:15 am ---
--- Quote from: kahlid74 on May 24, 2012, 09:37:53 am ---I get your point, but you won't ever get a judge to agree with you and you'd never get into a Blizzard data center to prove they didn't spec out properly.
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You'd never get a judge to agree with you about what? And why? Are judges being bribed by videogame publishers? Are they rabid Diablo/WoW fans? That statement makes no sense. The only thing the judge has to agree on is that there is a legitimate breach of warranty claim, which there obviously is (not that Activision breached it's implied warranty, but merely that they might have--that the claim has merit, that it isn't frivolous). The judge doesn't decide the outcome of the case before there's even been a trial. Once the case goes forward, the jury decides whether there was any malfeasance on Blizzard/Activision's part.
As for "getting into a Blizzard data center", of course you'd get into it. All that data, as well as corporate emails, etc., would be provided as a matter of course during the discovery/disclosure phase of the trial. Moreover, Blizzard employees would have to testify in the case.
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So why haven't we seen cases then against UO/EQ/WOW for this "Obvious" breach of warranty claim? Where are the cases and what were there outcomes? EQ has been doing your exact definition of "breach of warranty" since 1998 and I can't recall a single court case against it. If it were that obvious I'd think there would be loads of cases and class action lawsuits and lots of settlements right?
My judge comment deals more towards the idea that in your mind your case is bullet proof and yet in the court of law a judge may side against you because he/she doesn't see it the same way. There have been many court cases where people felt confident only to be blown away by the decision in the end. The law is not as cut and dry as it appears.