Winterflaw wrote:I may be completely wrong, but it seems to me there are two possibilities here.
1. Bliz have no intention of bringing back Vanilla and this whole thing has and is basically stalling tactics to confound and disperse user-base anger due to the massive bad PR that came with it.
2. Bliz really have been busy as all hell getting ready for BlizCon and new content and - which is reasonable - their existing game, with the existing millions of players, which is about half of their total revenue, has come first.
I'm curious to see what Mark Kern has to say about this.
My kinda view is Bliz don't really worry about Vanilla that much. I suspect they don't care and/or are rather oblivious to the PR (big companies are always extremely insulated and remote from their customers); they're just getting on with business as usual. We just don't matter very much. That means they'll get to their Vanilla decision in their own good time (and probably decide against it, I suspect - they basically don't want to do it).
Problem is, the Vanilla/Nost community is not in the same place and so there's a mismatch between Blizzard's behaviour and the expectations of the Vanilla/Nost community. It's been what, half a year now? I suspect there's only so much waiting around which can happen, because if Bliz really are going to say no, then we need to get on with Vanilla for ourselves, and the longer Bliz take, the longer we don't have Vanilla.
It doesn't matter or not if they have been busy as hell or not. Announcing it doesn't mean they need to work on it yet. They could do years later, but considering they aren't means they are simply trying to disperse the outrage, without actually doing anything. Blizzard must be run by hillary clinton or something.