Originally Posted by Tekkub
The timing was actually very well planned. The intent was not to drive demand for their own updaters...
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That's it right there. Everyone whining about WM aren't understanding the intent. We (both wowi and curse) ***know*** that our updaters aren't finished and aren't as nice as wowmatrix. But, guess what? It wasn't about that.
The timing was planned for the patch. I don't know how much it costs to foot the bill on about 10TB of data these days, but we'll say $5000. I'm probably way off on my estimate, but that would be $5000 THIS WEEK (not this month). Combine that cost with continual site crashes, crawling load speeds, and time outs, and you will see that we did plan the timing very well.