So, the Diablo 3 launch has been an unmitigated disaster. The servers constantly down, or terribly overloaded when they’re actually up. And even better, the World of Warcraft and Starcraft 2 servers are going down as well, because it’s all Battle.net. It’s just terrible. And you can’t even play a single player game, because you can’t log in, because you have to log in to play a single player game, because it’s fucking bullshit.

But it’s all worth it, right? We’ve gone through all this nonsense to protect the game so that we can run the auction house! The glorious auction house! Sell your loots for real cash! And then Blizzard takes some of that money to pay to run the servers. Although, since it’s already been noted that these are the same servers that World of Warcraft is running on, and there’s already millions of people paying fifteen bucks a month to maintain the servers and since they’ve managed to run the Diablo 2 servers for over a decade without needing a damn auction house to pay for it, that argument seems a little specious. I guess you could argue that they need more servers to handle all the single player logins, but that’s circular logic. They need to pay more for servers to protect the auction house which helps them pay for more expensive servers.

Anyway, I’m off topic. Point is, all this bullshit has been because of this stupid auction house. So, of course, it’s been delayed. It was supposed to open it’s virtual doors on May 22nd. But thanks to the mess that was this damn week, they’ve decided to push that off. It’s like I dragged a heavy ass cooler across the beach, and then when we finally get there, you decide you don’t want to drink anything out of there, because some sand might have gotten in. I dragged this fucking thing all the way across the beach, you’re gonna have something to drink, Blizzard. Metaphorically speaking.

From Joystiq