Interesting post from WoW general forum.

[Malakar]

You are accurate in that eventually the support costs for a system go down over time.  A typical timeline for complex systems of this nature would be 2-4 years of development during which your ability to cope with events is negligible because you have a moving target, followed by another 2-3 years of high end production support where you can actually hammer out as much automation of your support costs as possible.  After this period, overall support will be much lower.  This, of course, assumes that you never upgrade the software or the hardware.

And that's the only thing I was trying to get to be admitted, bad wording and timelines aside.

This is complete misdirection.  We were not talking about some distant far off eventuality.  Someone estimated Blizz's CURRENT COST for support and you chimed in on how that was ludicrous because hardware runs itself and needs no care or maintenance.

After reading this I went back to read my original post, which did not come off like I had remembered it. It now makes sense how the thread progressed, and why the argument I was trying to make was being ignored at times. Sorry for the miscommunication.

That being said, FWIW I did make some clarification on what I was trying to say in the post Lissa responded to, and I was irritated at the time (largely my own fault!), which is why I responded like that.