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I’m sad because I felt Blizzard was special, that it would not buckle under outside pressure or fall into the trap the other companies seem to fall into when it comes to making money.

So to answer your question, I would prefer the game to be delayed until it is truly ready.

also, what happened to your blog? It is down???

But here’s the thing. Blizz had practically zero in the way of marketing and sales chops, while Activision had it in industrial sized containers. So they get to use Activision’s marketing and distribution acumen; it comes at a price. When you make certain announcements, you’re expected to keep them. Hundreds of thousands of dollars are committed when you do this. Materials ordered, venues booked, tons and tons of stuff. It’s isn’t a matter of “pride” or “honor” or anything else, it’s a matter of if they don’t meet that deadline, the bottom line will suffer immediately.

Observation: they did not CUT PvP per se, they are delaying it. Big difference and one I would have mentioned. Whether they live up to that … welllll … two words. “dance studio.” We’ll see.

At any rate, one gets two choices here: something like STWOR full of bugs that you hate and hope they will fix … someday. Or something delayed until it’s working right, then it gets patched in, and at which point they can hate it because it doesn’t do PvP the way they expect / demand / want.

(come on, you know PvPers as well as I)

I think Blizz gets fuxxored either way, so might as well go the route of “kill all the bugs first” because, heck, solid software buys a lot of forgiveness.