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Originally Posted by Killed u man
My point was that Anet is a company trying to make money. And unless a company is non-profit organized, it "only" cares about profit.
If Anet is moving their servers, it's not because they want to provide a better service for us, it's because they can save more money.
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Right, I could write a huge, argumented wall of text here on Business Economics and whatnot, but that would derail the thread completely.
All I'm going to say is, have a go at definining the words 'company' and 'profit' for yourself. Think about them, write them down on a piece of paper, so you are absolutely certain on your definition on them. Only then are you allowed to go to Wikipedia and to compare the difference. I'll give you a hint already: 'companies'
have to make a 'profit', in order for them to still exist in next 5-10 years. That's why the people in the company work for their cause, because otherwise they are going to lose their jobs. This also goes for ArenaNET, who just doesn't have the luxury of being handed a big fat government cheque every month. As a result, they have every reason to be as efficient as possible, hence why they are probably moving to a new data center.
If you wish that things would be different, that Anet could afford the luxury of blowing loads of money on expensive data centers and skill updates that don't see any form of return, then you should be the one writing that cheque for them.
As a player and a GW fan, sure, it's frustrating that the game you love gets less and less care. As a customer, I call 1500+ hours of gaming pleasure for around 100 euros a great deal, with no reason to complain. As a Business Economics student, I call it sensible business management.
Companies aren't evil by definition you know. Unless they deal in like, biochemical weapons to Saddam Hussein or something lol
