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[Eloraell-moon-guard]

Which would be a reason to introduce the F&F Alpha stage of testing in short order, as that would verify that it is working(at some degree of scale) as intended.

They don’t need friends and family to test deployment. They have a ton of pre-existing test capabilities for that.

Once they’re certain that the deployment issues are resolved, it can quickly transition into Beta. Given the amount of overlap between Retail and Classic WoW, I really do expect the Classic F&F Alpha and even the Beta Testing phases are going to be compressed time wise. They don’t need to test everything, they just need certain (very large) portions of the client and the game world put to the test. Because there are differences between the two.

I agree they’ll have a short beta, but testing that deployment works shows that deployment works. It doesn’t make any statements regarding the completeness of the client, the finalization of the server etc.

As yet I haven’t seen any in depth feedback from those people running up the client against the Sandbox server to say “All the zones look ready” etc. If someone comes back and says that the 1.12 world and the Classic client are basically identical, I’ll be a lot more confident that that part of the work is done.

[Modelcitizen-proudmoore (Modelcitizen)]

This week will bring no news.