I'm Not Asking For The Moon, Or Am I?

I pay for a service.  Ha ha!  That sounds almost dirty!  Let me rephrase that.  I pay for the "privilege" of playing an on-line massive multi-player blah blah blah (World of Warcraft).  I do this, for the opportunity to slay beasts with complete strangers, some of them being incredibly immature and obnoxious youth, and some of them being people I enjoy knowing on a pixel-basis.  I like being able to log in and either run around by myself, leveling a toon to the mighty level of 80 so I can do whatever level 80's do in their spare time, or with a group of pixel approved friends for a greater purpose.  This might be running instances for loots and fun, or doing dailies for to make money for all those most-have items.   Where am I going with this (besides sharing what an geek I can be)?

Well, for about the last maybe month, the game has been barely playable.  The lag has been intolerable.  When I kill a big fat ogre (I affectionately call them "fatties") I want to be able to immediately loot my treasure and move on to the next fattie.  That is the way of the game, and the way it normally is.  For the last few weeks things have not been like that.  For example, today it took me 40 minutes to log in.  I spent 20 minutes waiting for the character screen to come up, and then another 20 minutes at the loading screen.  Once I finally made it in, the game was still not playable.  There was a huge delay in interacting with the characters in the game-which made turning in quests, picking up quests or selling garbage in my bag impossible.  It's been like this every night I've tried to play for the last month.  Some nights you can patiently play through the lag.  Might I suggest a drinking game?  Every time you have to wait to loot take a drink.  Every time you have to wait to talk to an npc, take two drinks, etc. You get to the point where you really don't care about the lag, or playing for that matter.

But now to my point.  This is not the service I am paying for.  I am not paying to wait 40 minutes to log in. I'm not paying to sit and drink with my lap top while I attempt to play.  What completely blows my mind is that even though others complain, many many others, Blizzard Entertainment can't seem to be bothered with such trifle problems.  They blame my internet connection.  Yeah, nice try.  Try again.  I would be way less frustrated if they would acknowledge the instability of our server, and would even say that they are working on improving play-ability.  Oh, and it would be nice if they would credit my account at least a month of play time, for the month of un-play-ability.  Grrr.

~Emily