The consumer hardly hear that they are complaining.
The consumer probably was affected WAY BEFORE. or do you think no one ever was without cable one rainy day and decided "ah, let's play some street fighter instead of browsing reddit... dammit! i can't play?!"?
90% of the consumers that were affected by that outage were already affected before. The outage is just the cherry on top of the cake.
But people will continue to buy the game.
Way back I bought star craft from Blizzard. just to find out that battle.net servers were uselesely slow in Brazil at the beginning. A few weeks later i was playing on some bootlegged server.
Blizzard still got the money. But since now I was having so much trouble to play my original game on a 'pirate' server and talking with 'pirates' they never got my money for the broodwar expansion. It was easier to log into an FTP than to go to a store (i'm talking about pre-download age for games here)
The consumer probably was affected WAY BEFORE. or do you think no one ever was without cable one rainy day and decided "ah, let's play some street fighter instead of browsing reddit... dammit! i can't play?!"?
90% of the consumers that were affected by that outage were already affected before. The outage is just the cherry on top of the cake.
But people will continue to buy the game.
Way back I bought star craft from Blizzard. just to find out that battle.net servers were uselesely slow in Brazil at the beginning. A few weeks later i was playing on some bootlegged server.
Blizzard still got the money. But since now I was having so much trouble to play my original game on a 'pirate' server and talking with 'pirates' they never got my money for the broodwar expansion. It was easier to log into an FTP than to go to a store (i'm talking about pre-download age for games here)