Quote Originally Posted by 'valkry',index.php?page=Thread&postID=172862#post1 72862
Don't mean to raid on your parade, but it's a very effective way to get your message accross as a consumer.
Canceling a service is. Threatening to cancel, then not canceling? Not so effective. Threatening to cancel, and still playing the game you swore you'd stop playing? Months after you threatened to quit? Not effective, except at making me LOL.

For about 2 months the Oceanic servers were highly unstable and raiding was almost impossible, 4 days of the week it was. Many, many players including myself cancelled our accounts due to the unplayability and lack of compensation, yet I'd say 95% of us still play today.
That is different, those servers were all but unplayable, and players were quitting because they could not play. Blizzard was aware of this problem and had at least a couple of threads going where they were asking for input and feedback and trying to keep players informed, because they were concerned about losing them to a legitimate issue. Once that issue was properly addressed, it doesn't surprise me that players came back. They wanted to play, and were having their play experience ruined.

That's not the same as saying "this issue that has little or no effect on me offends my delicate sensibilities, so I am going to threaten to quit. NOW WHAT, BLIZZARD?!?!?" Coming back (or never even leaving, he claims he had canceled because he was traveling for a month anyway, but who knows?) after making such a feeble and childish threat makes him look like a whiny baby who was just throwing a tantrum.