I don't mind the maintenence time, but...
My God, Blizzard...
Their Patching system SUCKS.
How many users is it going to take for them to realize their "file patching" system does NOT work?
When I was FINALLY able to get into their Tech Support forum, I saw NUMEROUS "I can't patch!" posts by LOTS of users.
Their. File. Patching. System. Does. Not. Work. Period.
They NEED a new patching system.
This is just ridiculous. This is like, every freaking patch except for the main patches, when they aren't lazy and release ENTIRE FILES instead of File Segments to be patched. Their Repair program does NOT work, it claims all files are OK, yet their patchers say "BAD CRC!! WE HAVE TO CRASH NOW INSTEAD OF DOWNLOADING THE FILE FROM A MASTER SERVER!!"
Idiots.
If it wasn't for my GF asking me to go back to WoW for her, I would have cancelled my account by now. I have never, EVER seen such an inept dev team such as this. Every Patch has MAJOR problems, half of their users can't even get the patch downloaded, and many who do get lucky with the download, come down with this bad CRC.
Their Solution?
REINSTALL THE GAME!
YAAAY. Becuase of ONE file that is bad, instead of downloading/replacing that ONE file, you want me to reinstall all 6+ GB of it!? Oh yeah, THAT's the way to fix a problem. Ask me to use a chainsaw when a scalpel would have done JUST fine.
[Edit: Oh yeah, I've seen people post on the Tech Support Forum, who have REINSTALLED THE ENTIRE GAME AND STILL GOT THE FREAKING ERROR. So a lesson folks. Reinstalling the game does -not- work in many cases. I have also read posts about people who downloaded the patch again, still does not work.]
--Xylia
Edited, Jan 9th 2007 3:12pm by Xylia