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It's one thing to waste my money, another thing to waste my time!
This is by far one of the most dishonest, shiesty things I have ever seen a company pull...and they are going to get away with it, and the vast majority of people arent even going to see through it all.
Blizz is a buisness, and they have to make money. I cant argue with that, I like to my money in my business too. But I dont resort to lying. And I dont resort to making customers go out of their way to justify my lying.
According to blizz:
"Blizzard is not charging a fee to play the final stress test or the open beta. However, to help defray the costs associated with distributing a large number of files and to keep our focus on finalizing World of Warcraft, we have partnered with FilePlanet for the distribution of the final stress test client, which is only available to FilePlanet subscribers. Subscription to FilePlanet carries with it a nominal fee."
Bullsh*t. As any idiot could tell you, and according to blizz themselves:
"Also note that the client that you download will NOT be noticeably different from the last version of the beta that you played."
Because the VAST VAST MAJORITY of what youre downloading is textures, art, music etc, that HASNT CHANGED. There is absolutely NO TECHNICAL REASON why they couldnt patch the game.
But there is a very good reason why they wont....because if you could just patch the game, there would be absolutely no justification for fileplanet, and therefore, they dont get their cut.
I would rather have had blizz flat out charged for the damn stress test.
What could have happened:
I pay blizz and get key
I patch game
I play
5 minutes tops. I'm a little irked that I had to pay, but at least I get to play.
What really did happen:
I sign up for fileplanet's 17 quarterly, because that was the only option.
The server crashes after the payment page.
I check my account, and I get double charged, and fileplanet's site doesnt recognize my subscription.
I try to go through it again, and THEN I find out that if I deny the quarterly sub, I get offered a monthly sub. THANKS FOR TELLING ME THAT BEFORE YOU F&CKS.
An hour later, I finally get recognized, and think finally, I can DL and play.
I sign up, and then find out that I now have to wait for my key. THE ENTIRE POINT IS FILEPLANET IS THAT YOU DONT HAVE TO WAIT!!!!
Two hours later, I FINALLY get my key. Mind you, by this time, the bitorrent download is almost 33% done. I start to download, and because of the massive size, it is going to take 2 hours to download....BT had only 3 hours left on it anyway.
And now my roomates are complaining that the connection is going to be basically dead for the next two hours.
I'm still double charged, and I'm still not playing. You got my money. Now youre wasting my time. Why the hell do we all have to redownload everything again just to justify your BS?
Just be honest, come out and say we want to make some money, and let people play. I have a fast connection...for many people, they wont be able to finish downloading until tomorrow. If they even get their key by tomorrow. Plus they hide the cheap option they they know the vast majority of people would opt for because they dont need POS fileplanet!
I wonder how many people signed up for this forum today just so they could make a thread about how they hate this fileplanet thing. Do we have a stat page or something? :p
I havent seen this forum so full of whine since ... well since the last stress test. :lol:
There is another greak addition to this story! I got home from work and read about fileplanet. Not knowing how much it would actually cost me or anything, I went through their links until I got some prices. $60 for a year, $15.99 for a quarter, and a tiny hidden link for monthly for $7.90. I laughed at the high prices and went to take a shower. Showered for 7 minutes, came back and hit reload for fun. Oh my, now the quarterly costs $16.90. Yearly hadn't changed yet, and the link to monthly was completely missing. Fileplanet knows how to profiteer with the best of them! Everyone who said the greedy goblins weren't playable characters in WoW has been proven wrong! They're the guys over at Fileplanet and Blizzard who conjured this scheme. :clap:
Er, I just hope you got double charged at the lower price, so that you weren't COMPLETELY shafted.
Anyone dumb enough to pay to play a stress test a week early, deserves to be screwed over. Dont be dumb people, if NO ONE signed up early for the stress test, they would just cancel the payment option and give it to everyone free.
Anyone dumb enough to pay to play a stress test a week early, deserves to be screwed over. Dont be dumb people, if NO ONE signed up early for the stress test, they would just cancel the payment option and give it to everyone free.
Sorry pal, I would gladly pay 7 bucks to play WoW for a week.
Id pay $7 too for instant access.... but THIS is bull$hit.
Im waiting for a key now, but you can bet your sweet arse that I will be calling FP tomorrow to set this crap straight.
You can also be that me along with thousands of others will be extra critical of WOW as we play for the first time. I have such a bad taste in my mouth over this $hit, Ill be VERY trigger happy to cancel my subscription if it doesnt meet/exceed my expectations.
I was excited by the idea of paying Blizzard monthly to play this game...now I have this negative, pissed off feeling.
Now...
for god's sake tens of thousands of people have screwed FP over incredibly and they have been overloaded. The more ppl push accept the more it becomes even more messed up. Just wait.
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