World of Warcraft

I have to agree with Olereaper why on earth would I want to donate so blizzard so they can give money to a American charities. I don't want to sound like a heartless baster I know there are children in the States that need new kidney, hearts, lungs and what not, but same thing is true for Europe and all of the world relay if the donation was to a global charity organisation I would be more inclined to help.

@Clom: and where the darkmoon faire blade

@Iamfluffy: Its just a reverse way to hype their "new server upgrades" by exploiting some "good will charity" PR bull!@#$.
Effectively their got rid of their age old server for some cheap new ones because it looks like the hardware would die soon. As usual they wont even think of donating their own money but abuse the "good will" donations of others in exchange for near worthless goods like pets or garbage server as theirs.

Not just are these server dusted old moths.
WoW server have always have been some of the worst (outdated) in the whole genre with barely any upgrades to the server them self since launch. They just make big fuzz that make it sound like massive updates have been done but

Some traffic is limited, so everyone simply gets worse performance more equally -> PR machine spins it into "performance upgrades"

Capacity of instance server is limited/lowered and everyone left out cant enter instances, covered up as some "unkown error". Instead of providing required performance or compensate with higher number of server BLizzard just waits till playeractivity dies down on server after the overyhped expansion -> PR machine hypes it up as "performance upgrades for instance server! lags and crashes have been solved!" excuses limitations as "unknown error"

A few instance server are replaced with a bit less outdated cheap ones, maybe the old ones just broke down -> PR machine hypes it up as"massive server hardware upgrades"

Decade old weak server are replaced with some new, but doubtfully much better server. -> PR machine spins the recycling of old trash into donation event for PR at zero cost. "hey what the topic of forced and artificially overhyped news next week? how about a donation again? but we just released another pet and we never actually donate our own money!? why not just sell some worthless garbage and make big fuzz about it?! we didn't do that for weeks!"

@Jauhmor: It amazes me that people like you actually play WoW when you seem to have every single criticism in the world for Blizzard...

@Danielle: agreed.

@Jauhmor: Whydo you even play this game then ????

Go stand in the corner and cry there.......

Indeed, stupid americans.

@Nekroskope: So because your european, you don't care about americans? This is a rough turn, but i really looks like that. Besides, Blizzard is american?

@Kirathi: i never said that! read what i put! and blizzard is a californian based company owned by a french company!

@Kaskar: No the god's must be crazy.

Seriously i do think donation is great but i don't really find it in my best interrest to buy outdated hardware even if it's of sentimental value.

If it was something like a mount, pet, tabard or even a rare feat of strength with a title then i'd be more than happy to donate.

Wil nou nie skinder en myself in die kak laat beland nie maar daar is geen manier wat ek a paar jaar oue server blade koop nie, selfs al het ek die geld daarvoor.

@Acog: you keep them as an extremely rare collectable and a piece of history of the game. not to mention the money going to charity and all that...

@Dotti: You know these things weigh a fair amount (around 8kg) and are pretty dam big right? And it was like double that before due to a mistake.

@Andypoo: The fee is still enormous.

I just ordered 4 18" rims from UK the other day, and the fee equated to 15EUR, to deliver them to Slovenia.

@Taeryn: dont think so after that server deathwing was one of the first serveres too.

@Nexie: There are multiple "waves" of auctions. Check the info pages.

@Theralic: A blade server is a cluster that can contain multiple hardware servers. The cluster holds multiple "blades", these are servers that are called this way, because they have a smaller size then regular 19" rack model servers. The blades usualy share power and other features like network etc. which makes them cheaper in the long run, but more expensive to buy. Another benefit is that you van easily move blades from one cluster to another.