06-13-2011, 06:00 PM
Did I miss something?
I went to the D1 board.
I read that Blizzard is giving up the ghost on D1, as in.... No longer actively taking the time to sell the game. Now, Humor me here, because I'm making an assumption that this is what started the fracas, and I'm trying to understand.
Diablo was released november 30, 1996. 5 months, and 17 days short of 15 years ago. The game hasn't been produced on disc format in years. It was only available as a digital download. Now, I just checked my Battle.net account, and I can no longer purchase Diablo I.
I can't find a download size for Diablo, but DII comes in at a hefty 14.4 MB file size for the download. I would assume, since it is more "advanced" than Diablo, the original game couldn't be much bigger.
But for arguments sake, lets assume that it was bigger. Lets say that it was 20mb in size. That would make it 38.888% larger than DII. at 20mb, and based on the price point it was being offered at, It would mean that Blizzard is either:
a.) Paying an ridiculously high price for their hosting / storage / backup equipment, to the point where 20mb more of data was incurring huge, (and I do mean HUGE) price per MB of Host / storage / backup, meaning that the finite number of sales that they made per month on the game weren't covering the hosting costs,
OR (the more likely candidate)
b.) There REALLY isn't that much traffic for Diablo I.
20MB in size is so minuscule to my businesses hosting / storage / backup data plans, and I'm a small business with 30 total employees. I'm the only IT employee. I have a server with 50TB, I have 90gb of fully mirrored web space, 9tb bandwith for traffic each month, and I guarantee you my hosting costs are finite. They would have to be averaging 1.72 sales per 5 years digitally before I would even incur a LOSS of a single cent. And that's assuming that I just host it with everything else, back it up, have it mirrored, have it on my server, have it backed up on both removable media and my NAS box Capitalism.
Capitalism has nothing to do with this decision. This decision is based on the blip on the radar that is Diablo I traffic. That blip is too small. Remove it, and move on.
You want to know how "not news" this really is? I can't find a single other person commenting on Diablo / download / purchase in a current conversation using my best search practices.
I went to the D1 board.
I read that Blizzard is giving up the ghost on D1, as in.... No longer actively taking the time to sell the game. Now, Humor me here, because I'm making an assumption that this is what started the fracas, and I'm trying to understand.
Diablo was released november 30, 1996. 5 months, and 17 days short of 15 years ago. The game hasn't been produced on disc format in years. It was only available as a digital download. Now, I just checked my Battle.net account, and I can no longer purchase Diablo I.
I can't find a download size for Diablo, but DII comes in at a hefty 14.4 MB file size for the download. I would assume, since it is more "advanced" than Diablo, the original game couldn't be much bigger.
But for arguments sake, lets assume that it was bigger. Lets say that it was 20mb in size. That would make it 38.888% larger than DII. at 20mb, and based on the price point it was being offered at, It would mean that Blizzard is either:
a.) Paying an ridiculously high price for their hosting / storage / backup equipment, to the point where 20mb more of data was incurring huge, (and I do mean HUGE) price per MB of Host / storage / backup, meaning that the finite number of sales that they made per month on the game weren't covering the hosting costs,
OR (the more likely candidate)
b.) There REALLY isn't that much traffic for Diablo I.
20MB in size is so minuscule to my businesses hosting / storage / backup data plans, and I'm a small business with 30 total employees. I'm the only IT employee. I have a server with 50TB, I have 90gb of fully mirrored web space, 9tb bandwith for traffic each month, and I guarantee you my hosting costs are finite. They would have to be averaging 1.72 sales per 5 years digitally before I would even incur a LOSS of a single cent. And that's assuming that I just host it with everything else, back it up, have it mirrored, have it on my server, have it backed up on both removable media and my NAS box Capitalism.
Capitalism has nothing to do with this decision. This decision is based on the blip on the radar that is Diablo I traffic. That blip is too small. Remove it, and move on.
You want to know how "not news" this really is? I can't find a single other person commenting on Diablo / download / purchase in a current conversation using my best search practices.
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