Seriously guys? You are on the road to becoming laughingstocks. I read that, and I wept for the future of Mankind.
Note how the ‘outrage’ correlates to player frustration. There was no ‘outrage’ until Patch 13 (Patch 13 was Blizzard doing too much in one patch causing disconnections and lag across all games) and now with the beta unavailable, players unable to get their Starcraft 2 fix are again frustrated. And since they have so much time on their hands now that they aren’t playing Starcraft 2 games, they get to write ‘essays’ on ‘message forums’. God help us!
I always see a younger, much foolishly arrogant, version of myself in these hardcore. For all you people speaking of the ‘wonders’ of BNET 1.0, have you stopped to consider how BNET 1.0 was initially received? BNET 0.0 was called Kali, and it was a million times better than Bnet 1.0. Bnet 1.0 was so absurd that by adding ‘wins’ and ‘losses’ to every profile, strange results were occurring with players such as 7 Human players ganging up against a poor easy CPU just to get their ‘win’ counter up (in a way, a precursor to WoW). Bnet 1.0, when loading a new screen, did not even have a cancel button. So if it didn’t load, you were screwed! Bnet 1.0 was not well received at the time. I expect fifteen years from now, the young generation will be complaining about Bnet 3.0 that heralds in Starcraft 3 and how “it isn’t as good as Bnet 2.0”.