As glad as I am that they are willing to delay the expansion launch, I am sad that the time I requested off at work will not be doing one of the things that I love so much. I work in retail, so November and December is just a no-go for time off, and the store I work in has remodel/reconstruction going on in January, so I will not be able to take any of the time that I wanted to in order to play the new Expansion.
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Incredible news. Excellent to see they want to release a better product than adhere to arbitrary due dates.
kinda of sheeatty, when you get a committed date, then they change and your ultimatum is to take a sheeeat game on launch because most of our staff gquit for another company or be mad because they dropped the ball and all your plans go to sheeeat.
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Thank You Thank You Thank You please take all the time you need to make it as balanced as you can .
Are you actually serious about this? I booked time off work so I could play the expansion when it launched. I was so excited.
Are you really giving in to âinfluencer pressureâ?
How about trusting in your team and just release the product. This kind of thing happens every expansion. People complain about a system they donât like, and want the game delayed so you can âmake it perfectâ.
Games launch with tweaks and changes needing to be done, and you end up patching them out.
This is pathetic.
First you wait way too long to give us a release date, and then when you do, you say âOh, sorry. Not doing that now.â
Come on dudes⌠This isnât even cool.
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I think its for the best. I for one want a finished high quality product. T
For all those that are stuck into a vacation block because of this, I feel your pain. This is effectively a big middle finger to all those that work and took time off for this launch. Delaying because of polish after the travesty that was BFA and WoD is not acceptable. Donât commit if you canât deliver, pretty simple Blizzard.
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I am so happy to hear this. Honestly this is such a good step forward for Blizzard. This was honestly unexpected but I could not be happier that they would rather release a polished game and listen to feedback then just push out the game because that was the date they set! Good job BLIZZ!!
Good call, rather have a good expansion than a fast expansion.
Blizzard and the Video Game industry is neither a college student turning in a paper nor a concert. While Iâll agree that knowing sooner would have been more ideal, throwing a fit about it and demanding things like refunds donât make sense.
And you know whatâll happen right? You might be able to demand a refund for pre-ordering Shadowlands. But then youâll lose access to Shadowlands. And then when you want to play it, when it does come out, youâll have to buy it again, minus the Pre-Order bonuses of course.
If thatâs what you want, then go for it. But buy and large, they told us it would be ready by December 2020 first and, while itâs inconvenient that it has moved, itâs not some doomsday event that requires immediate compensation.
Donât get sue happy, just relax and realize that the global climate and a modified business model produces far from typical results.
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it is not a big middle finger. It would be a big middle finger if they released an unfinished game
Iâm all for taking more time to polish the end game (their words from the article, not mine). Also their words from the article:
Weâre at a point where the zones, the campaign, the level-up questing experience, and the story we have to tell are essentially ready to share.
Why not then release the expansion as planned on the 26th and delay the raid/mythic+/pvp season, heck, until January if they want, I wouldnât mind that at all. They are still committing to release this year, so that doesnât give them much time at all to polish stuff, they have to release early-mid December at the latest so that gives them not even 2 months, as opposed to 1 month if they commit to the 26th.
Upsides are we get a ton of time to level alts, explore the zones, do achievements, advance the covenant sanctum, make a final choice on a class for raids for those who didnât get beta, do Torghast runs, enjoy the story instead of rush through it to be ready for raids, and oh, we donât waste the vacation we held off all year and locked in for the launch.
Downsides are⌠well⌠hmmmâŚ
We will be a teeny bit stronger when raid is released? They can just tune up the raid a little bit to account for it if itâs a problem, which I donât think it would be as we will all have a legendary by raid time anyway and thereâs no scaling power like the artifact weapons or the necks. People will get bored? If we get bored in just a few weeks then we have bigger concerns than the release date. You will pick a covenant and they will nerf it under you? So what, swapping to another for the first time is free. If they wanted they could even give us an exceptional one time covenant swap that transfers the progress to account for the delayed raid launch.
I donât know, I feel like that would have worked out better for everyone. Nobody is arguing that they shouldnât take the time they need to make the expansion good, but changing the date like that so close to launch without even giving a new date to reschedule vacation for those who can just makes me sad. I would literally have preferred if they said âAlright guys, we are not ready, we will release it on March 12th 2021â. Oh well, it is what it is. Have to give credit where credit is due however, it took stones to announce that and itâs certainly a good thing for the game.
Thanks for the update and hopefully youâll all get it to us in a not to far off date from the original release date.
I did the same because Iâm responsible and Iâm not happy. Iâm driving for a refund and Iâll be with done with this game.
SL needed more time I agree but they known that for a while and they still told us the wrong release date. It fall in false advertisement. Blizz know that players will resuscribe when they annonce the xpac release date and that will boost their revenue. We cant expect a compensation but we should.
The game industry is getting away with lots of shady things that other industries wouldnt.
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I dont want a delay. I didnt expect this, and I am disappointed. If nothing else, why have the prepatch on the 13th, since youve delayed it, why not have the prepatch on the 6th instead? I dont see that logic in making it the 13th. shakes head
At least I still got The Mandalorian to watch, and Watch Dogz Legion to play.
Not much you can do except ask for a refund and/or donât pay them to play anymore.
It sucks but not really many other options.
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Better to release a finished product but pretty scummy to announce a release date, get people to sub up in the hype and then cancel the release date a month later. Your more, enthusiastic, players would have organized around release as well, be it time off work etc. You probably just lost a lot of the players who stuck around even through BFA.
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I was wondering why I got beta today. Good job. No shame.
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I had already booked off time, to put out this information the month of the release date is infuriating. Even the pre-patch being pushed back another week makes me upset.
To know that Blizzard is delaying this due to pressure from Streamers and or Youtubers whose opinions I would usually never share and typically disagree with is disheartening. This expansion would have been the last straw with me, and I was already having second thoughts about pre-purchasing. So to hear that after all this time Blizzard admits the expansion is not up to snuff, is not exactly reinforcing my decision to continue purchasing WoW expansions.
The expectations will only be higher moving forward Blizzard, If you screw this up after taking extra time, in such an unprofessional way⌠you will see consequences, and the backlash will be even greater than it would have if you simply just released according to plan.
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