Well, it could be a co-incidence.
I am reminded however of Gandi's (purported) comment; "First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they attack you. Then you win."
However, it may also be in the end we simply need to write off Blizzard. If they really are that stupid, it won't be possible to reach them at all, and so then we simply have to make our own independent solution. This is possible, so Bliz being unreachable is not the end of the world. What would be ironic is that if in time it ended up with a higher pop count than the retail servers. At that point senior Bliz management should all resign on the basis of incompetence, but incompetent senior staff rarely resign
