| theshrike said: @Ail As far as knowing WoW, I dont know it. I have never bothered with it because I have never felt the need to continue paying money after I buy a product. anyways as I had said earlier this is becoming a discussion of customer rights vs. companies defense against pirates. Either way regular paying customers are the ones who get caught in the middle (most of the motivation for this post was to get it past 90 posts) |
A MMORPG isn't a product, really, it's a service. Just like Cable or the Internet. It's 100x more content than any game, with ever expanding content and events. That's why you continue to pay for it.
As for customer rights vs corporate rights, I think that's not even the issue. LAN isn't what it was 10 years ago. There was a time when multiplayer involved dialing another friend and connecting directly via modem. At some point, companies decided that form of multiplayer was in the past because the majority of players were using LANs or the internet. Nowadays Blizzard has decided that LAN is no longer a necessary feature due to the proliferation of high speed internet.
In short, some are viewing this as a loss of a feature, whereas I, and most, would consider it a natural step.
