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6.14.2001
- Blizzard announces unbelievably good things
On
the Battle.net website today there were extremely good headlines. I
don't believe about half of the crap that Blizzard says these days,
but if Blizzard is actually telling the truth this time, they will be
about 73.42% redeemed in my eyes. They claim to have increased the US
realms' capacity by over 50%, increased the bandwidth, and will be
tripling Europe's capacity and adding another Asia realm:
Asia3. Now those are some seriously nice things for Blizzard to say,
and it would be even nicer if they were true!
But
that is yet to be seen, of course. Ideally, with the increases in
bandwidth and capacity across the board, I may be enticed into
actually playing more than once every few weeks again. I might even
be able to... <...drumroll...> play a non-hostile game with
some Koreans! (OH MY!) But they are more fun to kill than Diablo, anyway...
6.11.2001
- Adding Contact Page
A
Contact Page has been added to the KPK Inc website. The link will
always be on the front page. If ever you need to get in touch with
one of us via email, we will be listed there.
If
you want to be listed on the contact page, please drop me a note or
leave a message in the forums.
6.10.2001
- Blizzard Continues to Snow Us
In
case you haven't noticed, since Blizzard was acquired, a few things
have changed. One such change has been their attempt to play down any
BattleNet connectivity issues. Another has been falsification of
patch adjustment info (1.06b is a good example). Just take a quick
spin around the official Battle.net website and you will find
numerous examples of them trying to keep us complacent through
twisting the truth. While this may have been good business for Ford
during their Wilderness AT problem, the majority of Blizzard
customers are not appreciating it none too much.
6.7.2001
- Blizzard Engages in Obtuse Marketing Scheme
Go
check out the entry on the Battle.net website for 6/7/2001. They
claim to have been cleaning out their warehouse when they just
stumbled upon a few old unsold copies of their Diablo II Collectors'
Edition. Yeah right... if you needed an example of the differences
between pre-acquisition Blizzard and post-acquisition Blizzard, just
take a good look at that.
5.29.2001
- Bizzaar-O Battle.net behaviour
Apparently,
Battle.net doesn't just suck on the weekends anymore, it sucks all
of the time! We're not really sure if this has much to do with the
Koreans or not (so far, it looks completely unrelated), but it is
certainly annoying! There have been reports of recent item
dissapearances, disconnects, drop-outs, lock-ups, server-splits, etc.
and even one report that the 1.06b patch screwed a guy's computer display!
What's
going on, Blizzard???
5.21.2001
- KPK Inc.: The KPK's Guide is postponed!
Due
to some unexpected RL entanglements, the release of KPK Inc.: The
KPK's Guide is postponed for approximately one week.
KPK
Inc.: The KPK's Guide Ver 1.0 revised release date: 6.1.2001
5.19.2001
- At 00:54 all Battle.net Realms crashed
Having
problems connecting recently? In the last two days, to be exact?
Just look to the ver1.06b patch that was released yesterday for the
reason. The 1.06b patch, while designed to protect Korean players
from the "..." bug, has completely backfired and protected
the 200,000+ Korean pirates instead, and on this day - the first day
in Korea since the release - the whole system crashed from overload
(Oddly, when it is 01:00 B.net time, it is 18:00 Seoul time, which
means the beginning of the 18:00 - 02:00 internet rushhour. Funny how
this crash coincided with everybody getting online in Korea...).
Thanks Blizzard!!!
5.17.2001
- Blizzard releases Diablo II ver1.06b patch
The
1.06b patch is designed to eliminate the "..." bug (the
letterbomb attack) which boots Korean players from games. It is the
opinion of KPK Inc. that this patch will protect the pirates,
alienate the legitimate players, and anger the general population
that doesn't have any clue about the massive Korean piracy problem,
but will feel the impact quite a bit when they can't join/create
games on Battle.net beginning in a few hours.
5.12.2001
- "A
Day in the Life of a Western Realm Character"
Published
$h@v3Y0ur$n@+cH,
while not a person with any lack of things to do, was bored and
decided to give the outsiders a little peek into the mind and sad
lives of our pitifully be-lagged Western Realms characters.
5.11.2001
- Blizzard announces new servers
Blizzard
announced that they will be adding a few new servers to the array
alreading supporting the US West, US East and Europe realms in
anticipation of extra load due to the Expansion Pack. |
