The Omnivangelist

gamefiend 15 August 2006 Games, Uncategorized, essays/articles One Comment

It’s easy to vent at the big players in any industry: the Microsofts, Apples, Dells and Blizzards of the world are large targets, and even though they do quite a bit right (they got large for a reason) they will have flaws that you can’t help but notice.  This consideration is not going to stop me from venting my spleen for a moment.
Chuck finally got into the game (which he maintains he hates, but has been putting in workman-like hours on), so I got pulled off a few month hiatus and decided to play.  There have been a lot of updates since I last played, so first I had to download them all.  2 hours later, I can finally log on.  But my account doesn’t work?  At first I thought my account had gotten deleted, but I had to wait until the next day during customer support’s business hours to figure out what happened.  I give a call, and wait for a half-hour to hear that the account is under my wife’s name, but he can’t give it to me because I’m not her.

So I wait until my wife is out of work, and give her the lowdown.  She calls, waits a half-hour then tells me what the account name actually is.  When I get home, I login to start up a new character.  ten minutes in, the server announces that it’s restarting in fifteen minutes.

Since last night, I’ve played 30 minutes of WoW.

If I had known I was going to do this much waiting, I would have just gone to Disneyland.