Well, their intention, stated in the S19 blog is for seasons to last roughly three months. That means, as S19 started on 22nd November, the end date should be around Sunday 23rd of February. That’s four weeks away. They also stated that they wanted to have a two week long PTR, which they haven’t announced the start date for yet. Even if they announce the PTR today, and patch it in on maintenance Tuesday tomorrow, that means it would run until 11th February.
Now, they also say that they’ll give at least a fortnight’s notice of the end date of a season. If they were going to stick to 23rd February (three month season duration) that means they’d have to confirm the end date by 9th February, i.e. they’d have to confirm the end date whilst they’re still in the middle of the PTR without knowing if something major might be found in testing that would have to push back the season end date.
TL;DR - if PTR isn’t announced today, S19’s very likely to be extended. That’s the timeline.
When you have to put a qualifier on it that means it’s not a rule. Seasons have lasted as little as ten weeks and as long as 22 weeks. This season may be longer than 12 weeks. None of us know.
And yet, as I presented in another thread, the average length of the first 18 seasons was just over 13 and a half weeks per season, i.e. pretty much three months.
I never said they weren’t, and I nver said this season wouldn’t be 12 weeks . All I’ve ever said is that there is no hard and fast rule that seasons MUST be 12 weeks, sand that this season may be longer.
As I already said, unless stated otherwise, one can expect the season to last 3 months as Blizzard has stated that being the target. That doesn’t mean it must last exactly 3 months. It’s just an expected duration, an estimation, it has the room for a small variation.
In that sense it is a rule that one can expect a season to last certain duration. It is not a rule that a season must last a specific duration. Note the difference in wording and understand the meaning of it.
What part of ‘roughly three months…’ or ‘pretty much three months’ are you having trouble with? Would you be happier with ‘approximately three months’? Or perhaps ‘somewhere in the ball park of three months.’
We are no longer providing anticipated end dates for Seasons. However, we are committed to keeping Seasons roughly three months in length (give or take a few weeks based on development needs) and will continue to provide a minimum of two weeks advance notice for when the Season will be ending.
We are no longer providing anticipated end dates for Seasons. However, we are committed to keeping Seasons roughly three months in length (give or take a few weeks based on development needs) and will continue to provide a minimum of two weeks advance notice for when the Season will be ending.
We are no longer providing anticipated end dates for Seasons. However, we are committed to keeping Seasons roughly three months in length (give or take a few weeks based on development needs) and will continue to provide a minimum of two weeks advance notice for when the Season will be ending.
Don’t you see Blizzard’s own announcement blogs as an authoritative source?
Im hoping its soon so we can know or have a idea on which way sets /classes are going. Also wanting to do some type of dPS (Been doing zmonk for the past few months) hopefully i can get something going
This season buff is terribly unbalanced and not very interesting. For high level players it’s a free RGK, for lower level players it means almost nothing. It requires a ton of tedious micromanaging to avoid losing stacks between levels and it’s just not very fun
I’m so tired of S19, I mean i know theres other players still enjoying it but i’ve been playing till the start and its just boring now. I want something new! S20?!
Got a few more tweaks to go. Remember, the balance blog will be coming out first (in part because that will let me handle all the other PTR preparations, but also because the context of that blog is important for the 2.6.8 PTR and beyond), so you’ll have that to look forward to… let’s say this week.
