Eidal
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Dood, they did learn. They learned that it doesn't fucking matter how bad launch is, people will just get over it and continue on. Sure -- they could have engineered an expansion with 12 different level 90-92 zones to mitigate launch day woes... but after a few weeks any game design to mitigate launch day woes would look stupid.I didn't play WOTLK or Cata or MoP at launch, but TBC was just as bad at launch; for about 2 days. Once people got out of Hellfire things smoothed out tremendously.
Now granted that was a long time ago and they should have learned...
I guarantee you that internal assessments said A) there will be forseen and unforseen launch day issues and a lot of people will be really cranky... and B) it doesn't matter one bit; our players are always cranky about something and they definitely won't quit over it.
Every single one of you guys are assuming this caught Bliz off guard and that's patently ridiculous. Bliz knows WoW players will take this abuse and keep buying their shit, because on the grand scheme of things, there isn't anything else out there and their shitty competitors sure as fuck aren't deploying bug/lag free international expansions either.