Lol, I have been working in the games industry for 10 years man, not worth arguing if you can’t accept a different, more informed opinion as valid just because you disagree with it.
Enjoy your echo-chamber.
What you dont get is that is always comes down to money. Blizzard is not making $X from Y users in a month. They aren’t going to be making a deal that makes X shrink.
This alone means that even if they announced this today they would have to start by charging the private servers at least $15 per user per month. Which in turn would mean that either the servers would have to operate on a loss or charge the players more to keep the servers running.
What games have you worked on?
Where do you get those numbers? Do you get that the only thing they would provide is the game and the servers would be a problem of server owners? The only problem for blizzard would be answering questions to servers holder “Hello blizzard, could we please make this change to your client because of A, B, C reasons?” And Blizzard would be spamming the same server holders “Hello, would you like to make this changes to your server because of A, B, C?”
Edit: If server holder don’t have their own programmers then Blizzard would also be answering questions looking like “Hello Blizzard, could you please change A, B, C into D, E, F in your client because of G, H, I?”
Both subscription-based MMOs and F2P games as well as retail games. You are coming from a wrong point of view into all of this, seriously.
But you don’t even need to look into industry specific knowledge to see how wrong you are.
Hotel prices are usually more expensive in their own website than in Trivago or other search engines.
According to your flawed logic, they should be charging AT LEAST the same through 3rd parties…
Same with any company that sells their product in their own website and in ebay, amazon and physical stores… According to you, their own store should always be the cheaper of them all, but that doesn’t happen.
Which games though?
Usually when person straight up ignores everything you have told and keeps asking the same question he’s biased against you and naturally ignores everything you tell before you answer his question.
He’s biased against this topic, it will be hard to deny him because he was denying and twisting my own words around.
Somehow he managed to think that I’m asking Blizzard to release their game clients for free when everywhere I have told completely opposite thing - to release their client for $ in order to create franchise and start receiving profit cuts + franchise fees.
Given that you are not even trying to argue… I think I’m gonna pass on giving private personal information online.
As I said, feel free to continue in your echo-chamber, I don’t really care.
Yep.
And just back to original topic, I don’t think your suggestion is workable though. Brand image is extremely important and for a 3rd party to take over this, it would require a lot of work from Blizz to keep an eye on quality and so, to the point that I don’t think it would be worth it.
Just for reference, that is kinda how WoW works in China, it is not run by Blizz but by NetEase, but in that case is worth the hassle for Blizz because the size of the China market.
You just proved that they already released franchise.
So it’s workable. As it’s workable for Nike, Addidas, MCdonals, Burgerking, Samsung and thousands of another companies but somehow not workable for Blizzard?
What brand imagine and quality are we talking about? That’s the reason I raised this topic in here because the quality isn’t good. Also all those repeatable buggy patches in retail. It’s not a secret all bugs with new patches were reported in test servers and somehow they made it into live servers.
But you missed the point that the China market is incredibly huge… And that it is either that way, or no entry into that market, so is a very special case.
In the rest of the world, the size pool of “people who would play WOW if it were run differently” is simply not big enough (imo) for them to justify that.
What brand imagine and quality are we talking about? That’s the reason I raised this topic in here because the quality isn’t good. Also all those repeatable buggy patches in retail. It’s not a secret all bugs with new patches were reported in test servers and somehow they made it into live servers.
Just because you (and some other people) disagree with their moves, it doesn’t mean from their point of view they are not doing what they consider best, so, they would want to keep their view of brand quality, regardless of what we think of it.
Yeah, it was a silly thing to lie about wasn’t it. Only way giving out the name of the game would be giving out private info would be if the game was made by just one or two guys, which would kind a be pointless as an argument.
Far more likely is that you just wrote random stuff that you thought would support your case.
Yeah I forgot about China internet/market policies.
Well, you should check private servers online numbers. I think if we would sum up the whole online of those servers we would get something similar to what we have across EU classic and if we would sum up profits, they might be very similar because a lot of them have in-game items/services shops and they don’t have to pay enormous amounts of salary to CEOs, CFOs and the rest.
The market is huge, but because Blizzard is actively banning streamers, youtubers or any other kind of publicity of those servers, we don’t see them, but they exist and community is big.
Edit: Thinking of bans, it’s funny how they have real people checking streams, youtubes and stuff in order to vanish evidence of private servers while they have no real GMs to check on bots and use automated report system.
^This.
And more characters to get to 10.
Also this https://www.change.org/p/mike-morhaime-legacy-server-among-world-of-warcraft-community Look at the numbers. All will be back soon because blizzard is fking up really hard right now.
legalize private servers mang
To be fair it stopped being a monopoly the second private servers startes appearing
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Officially it’s monopoly, unofficially I agree it isn’t.
Can you clarify what you mean by ‘balance’ ?
And then:
Priceless 
This entire post is cringe and you should stop being cringe