Originally Posted by
SirRaven
Well, I've been saying pretty much this for a very long time now.. 2-3 times I've quit WoW for a few months, up to a year, pissed off by such terrible decisions (well, I've called them incompetence deeds).
It's much more cynical than that, I'm afraid, and we see this in the real world: you do and finish your job perfectly, you get paid A amount. But if you don't, you get paid A amount + you make an additional contract for "repairs" for B amount + you make an additional contract for "repairs" for C amount + ... Do you get the idea? If they get it right with everything, they could close the development divisions down and let only the servers techies on payroll.
Oh, more on the cynical part: how do they keep millions of subscribers glued to this game? Well, while other games march on "fun and whatever-the-player-likes", Blizzard falsely considers to be fun the tons of frustration they pour into said subscribers (dailies, reputation grind, currency caps, shitty rolls on gear drops etc etc). You know what? Their business model works, because humans apparently like to be lied, carrot-ridden, abused and, hell, they even like it !