It’s not this single thing. Just go look at battle net forums or Reddit. It’s nothing but complaining about departures from D2/D3 systems.

I was completely unaware that anybody was unhappy with the game until I went to report a bug on the D4 battle net forum and I was met with 50 different threads complaining about this, that, or the other.

Because apparently people were complaining. I just wish they would rip off the band-aid and turn this game into D3 since that’s apparently what people really want after doing nothing but complaining about it for 11 years.

The gotcha for this is that you have to actually use the resources on your free instance or they will reclaim it. I use my instance as a Minecraft server so it utilizes about half of the 24GB RAM you get. For a very light compute task like a chat bot, it might be difficult to keep the instance from being reclaimed.

From this page:

Idle Always Free compute instances may be reclaimed by Oracle. Oracle will deem virtual machine and bare metal compute instances as idle if, during a 7-day period, the following are true:

CPU utilization for the 95th percentile is less than 15% Network utilization is less than 15% Memory utilization is less than 15% (applies to A1 shapes only)

Pretty rich coming from the guys who overly moderate players’ private Minecraft servers up to and including banning players for saying a no-no word…

Note that these are just quotes from the disastrous AMA he held last week, not new comments that have been made.