[MUD-Dev] BIZ: Europe & Distrubution

[ceo]

Michael Hartman wrote:
> ceo wrote:

>> Probably everyone involved with Blizzard is aware of how
>> frequently and catastrophically the biggest games company in the
>> world has messed up MMOG's, yet Blizzard has had only one
>> disaster and has been plain sailing ever since with hundreds of
>> thousands of players online at once.

> What is Blizzard's one disaster?

Diablo 1. They made it impossible to attack people in the town - but
only on the client.

So, not only did griefers hack the client and attack people in town,
but the innocent victims could *not* fight back, nor even defend
themselves.

They had other fairly big problems in the years since, but nothing
as bad as that.

PS: loose definition of MMOG in order to include D1, but the point I
was making is that the nearest Blizzard has come to this genre they
had their one disaster a long time ago, and did NOT quit the market
but just did better next time.

Adam M
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