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Originally Posted by Utnayan But a nice launch doesn't mean going out of your way to become unethical. So what you are saying is we will have to wait to see if Blizzard becomes unethical with this latest expansion and as time goes on? |
Don't get me wrong, i'm not saying we can't judge the company. I'm just saying in it's still far to early to compare it legitimately with SoE and the other MMO veterans. I'm thinking from the company standpoint here.
We can still determine whether or not the expansion was released properly from a moral standpoint, but to claim whether or not the expansion will have a successful launch based on a prior 'failure' of SoE's isn't fair. It's too premature a thing to do at the moment. Blizzard has quite an advantage over SoE in not being the forerunner for the MMO world. They can easily see what went wrong in the past, and can do things to prevent it from happening now. (Thus the 6+ million subscribers and the biggest MMO fanbase in history.)
In my mind, Blizzard is still in the 'lets wait and see phase'. No one really claims SoE or anyone did truly anything unethical (Other than that pile SWG, but we won't even go there, heh) unless it relates to an
expansion. Sleepers Tomb, Vex Thal, etc. Seeing as how this will be Blizzard's first MMO expansion, this is their chance to really set the pace even moreso than now, and to show that they can release a fully functional expansion, with none of the unethical qualities attached to it.
I'm not saying to wait forever; this expansion and the success/failure that comes behind it will be a good time to start really making the comparisons tho.
