they can still pre-patch on the 11th
would be 3 weeks
https: //imgur. com/3YOSPZ7
doubtful since they need to perform the clones. They need to load code on the 11th and clone on the 18th
they can clone on the 10th if they can clone on the 17th imo
its not like they can’t do it now and hope to have it ready by the 18th
Not if the code hasn’t been loaded. And it has to be done during downtime since they will have to lock the database so things aren’t changing as they do it.
a truly insurmountable task
kinda the reason they have extended maintenance when ever they have needed to
I have no doubt they could flip off the switch, and get everything in order in 1 day of maintenance. I would bet they have everything ready to press the button and launch it.
TBC has crap for balance as well honestly, it’s only slightly better than classic in that most of the specs at least function.
Every class can be taken into end-game content. Also, the debuff counter on bosses going from 16-40(42?) is HUGE.
I did say balance was functional, but doesn’t mean it’s good.
There is nothing wrong with saying something bad about vanilla wow, it’s not a perfect game. Vanilla did not have good class balance, anyone who argues it did is wrong. All hybrid classes being taken as healers 95% of the time is not good balance!
The reason is that TBC changes classes and the leveling experience by quite a bit. If a person dislikes classic but wants to play TBC they may want to level with the TBC changes in place.
Regardless of an individual’s motivations for wanting an extended prepatch, the bottom line is that Blizz told us we would get something that we aren’t getting.
If you understand how app dev and releases work they are NOT going to load the code and flip the switch on the spot and then have to clone the database. They are going to load the code, verify it, make sure everything is running as expected, and then the next maintenance window perform the clone and flip the switch. It is simply too much to do in the time they would have to pull it off without a multi-day outage. It is NOT going to happen.
Developers wanted to. Business people decided it wasn’t going to happen.
My character transfer took 15 min last week
PTR has character cloning already and has for a long time
Its the same process
They should give TBC servers a 100%+ XP buff during the pre-patch.
It had fine class balance. And that’s not ‘wrong’ to say that. It was just balanced differently. And raiding isn’t the entire game, btw. That’s you placing your preferred content type as the entirety of the game.
But some people are incapable of accepting that it was simply a different type of game back then. So it is what it is. I’m not going to waste my time arguing how ‘different’ doesn’t mean better or worse.
It is NOT the same process. The way the process will work is that TBC servers will come up with the same names and the existing server will be renamed to something like faerlina_clone and you will no longer have access to that server. At the point you make your selection and your character is either copied and updated for tbc to the new image of your server, copied to the new classic forever server, or both. There will be new code implemented to the existing servers to get these api’s working. Those api’s then need to be tested and verified before they can actually make the connections. It’s a one way street. Once that switch is flipped it’s done otherwise you are highly prone to having issues with people duplicating items and so on. If anything breaks on the production implementation and people lose stuff could you even imagine the backlash? This isn’t happening in a single maintenance window and they have their course charted and the ship has sailed. Done deal, you aren’t getting what you want.
And now make sure its all working on every single server since they all have to go at the same time. You are asking for something very unrealistic.
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You people that think TBC somehow fixes everything are morons.
Your game has just as many problems and when TBC comes out everyone will be complaining about TBC same as they did with Classic.
The lack of respect from TBC fans is what annoys me the most, you can like TBC and discuss it without telling everyone you hate classic and think it’s bad and that TBC is better.
Like yeah, “I’m hyped to TBC” is a great opinion to have, “I’m hyped for TBC because I hate Classic so much!” yeah not so much, so unnecessary, I don’t understand why Classic triggers so many people who don’t even play it.
It certainly fixes a lot. Wrath finishes the fixes.