Add in-game Calendar

WoW Classic Season of Discovery
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Please add an in-game calendar so we can see when an event starts and ends. (Winter Veil, Darkmoon Faire, etc.)

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They don’t get it right half the time anyway, a calendar won’t help.

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Nova world buffs tracks dmf

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I know, but it would be more convenient for the players if there was a built-in calendar.
Especially for the Holiday events.

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I’m not opposed to this per se, but I also don’t think it matters enough as a QoL feature to devote development resources towards.

As Kira notes:

If you care about keeping track. This is classic after all, and while things like not having guild banks, not having calendars, 1-hour mail, etc. may be inconveniences, it’s all part of the flavor (imo).

:woman_shrugging:

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God, I hate this excuse every time someone says it. It is the most irrelevant excuse out there. Also it is a calendar. It would not even take long to make.

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“Spending time and money on something that not only isn’t needed, isn’t even wanted is a waste.” is an excuse?

It doesn’t matter how long it would or wouldn’t take to make. It would be an additional feature that requires an amount of time/effort/attention, and then ongoing maintenance.

The fact that you can use an addon, and that it simply isn’t a feature that was part of the original game means it would have to be explicitly, intentionally added. And that would require management and design meetings, feature requests and definitions, and a whole bunch of work that would have to be prioritized over other things for something that doesn’t matter.

You’re right to champion the ideas and features that you personally want, so more power to you, and of course you’re not going to like opposing opinions and ideas, but hey…

:woman_shrugging:

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This wasn’t even my idea. But its a very easy feature to make. You are acting like it would stop a raid from coming out when it would take 1/500th of the time to make. There is not many evergreen features that benefits the game that also has 0 way of negatively impacting the game. This is one of those few.

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Technically they could just “copy paste” the WotLK version and modify it for the SoD events.

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Is it? (I mean, sure it’s probably not that big of a deal, unless/until it becomes one, which who knows? It might!).

So, let’s say you’re a decision-maker, and here’s a scenario:

you: “Hey development team, what are you working on?”

Dev1: “I’m working on a bug fix for calculating scorpid damage.”

Dev2: “I’m working on the UI bug that makes the SoD quest giver screen unresponsive, requiring players to have to /reload.”

you: “OK, stop doing those things, and devote your time instead to adding an in-game calendar.”

QA1: “Hi. I’ve noticed a lot of reports coming in around Scorpid Damage and Quest Giver UI bugs lately. Any update on that?”

you: “Nah, but don’t worry, we’ll have this calendar feature out in a few days!”

QA1: “I don’t have a calendar feature scheduled for qa anytime soon. What’s this feature?”

Your Manager: “What’s this about a calendar? Is this something important enough to be focused on right now?”

You: “I hate that excuse. This is such a simple feature.”

Everyone:

:woman_shrugging:

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Yes, blizzard has 2 devs. They have no time to do anything.

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Oh, would you like to add more examples?

Dev3: “I’m working on the one of the many bugs that we have from using the same client for Era, HC, and SoD.”

Dev4: “me too”
Dev5: “me too”
Dev6: “me too”
Dev7: “me too”

Dev8: “I’m working on features for next phase.”
Dev9: “me too”
Dev10: “me too”
Dev11: “me too”
Dev12: “me too”
Dev13: “me too”
Dev14: “me too”

etc…

They most likely have a lot of stuff on their plate right now as well as a fairly long backlog.

Who is going to bring up in the meeting,

“Hey guys, we need an ingame calendar for SoD.”

“Oh, is it part of Classic?”

“No, it’d be a new feature that we would need to maintain separately from the same Era and HC client, only for SoD.”

“Is this an often requested feature?”

“No, but someone on the forums didn’t want to use an addon, because ‘Holidays’.”

Everyone:

:woman_shrugging:

EDIT:

For what it’s worth, I’m not trying to shut down the idea. As I said intially:

I just personally don’t care, and wouldn’t put my vote in towards bumping its priority in development resource allocation.

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Again, you are making an exaggerating excuse. No one stated “THIS MUST BE DONE NOW!” Putting something in a list to be done as there will ALWAYS be something to do. That is how a business works. If your employees aren’t working you are losing money. You make time to take care of the little things. Acting like that can’t be done is stupid. Someone finishes a task then someone starts it.

Also who says they can’t add it to Era lol. This add is universal. I would like to see the thread on why someone can’t have a calendar in game because it would break the sanctity of the game!

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Well, you sure won me over here!

Anyway, I’m not even sure what the conversation is about anymore. Someone wants an in-game calendar. Great. Champion that opinion if you want it.

It isn’t a given that just because someone thinks of a feature that it should be added to the game, or placed in a backlog.

If the disagreement that we are having is related to whether the development team should prioritize adding a Calendar to the SoD client, then let it be known that I don’t know. My personal opinion is it isn’t needed, and as such doesn’t belong on a backlog, but it’s not up to me to decide, it is up to them!

Good luck to the OP on having their opinion heard, and maybe even implemented.

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Done, lookup “Classic Calendar” on your favorite addon website. It’s the Wrath calendar ported over to Season of Discovery, with all functionality in place.

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An in game calendar you can add events to would be great.

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I believe the Classic client is built off the 7.3.5 client infrastructure, right? If so, the functionality for an in-game calendar should be present, just disabled.

If I’m not mistaken about the client, and if they could enable it by essentially changing a boolean to “true” and it was fully functional like it was in 7.3.5, I’d be fine with that switch being flipped.
If this isn’t the case - be it about the client or whether or not a calendar would be more than a simple flag - and an in-game calendar would have to be developed for Classic from scratch - even if it was a rather simple task - then yeah, I’m good with just an add-on.

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It’s classic we can’t have QoL in this version did you forget

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I’m less opposed to QoL changes when there are add-ons that require absolutely no input from the end-user(other than making sure it’s enabled in the add-on menu) to more or less perfectly replicate part of the client that is already fully functional on other versions of the game.

If you were being sarcastic: Sorry for it flying over my head. This board is often a dumpster fire of trolls, selfish brats, and entitled numbskulls; sarcasm can easily get lost.

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Deff being sarcastic lol but I get it!

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