Classic Beta is up on the Blizzard CDN

[Mcwhisky-moon-guard]

OH god I need it

[Matcauthon-steamwheedle-cartel (Matcauthon)]

It is Tuesday. Perfect time for someone to make a blue post and bring up the PTR.

Wednesday…

[Eloraell-moon-guard]

Just here to remind you July 16th is the CONCRETE date they gave to us. 3 month beta inc

If by concrete you mean “Nerf Strength” foundation.

[Eloraell-moon-guard]

Wednesday…

Man, I lose track of days when working from home.

[Shimy-khadgar]

August 13th Classic will release, on my birthday, on a Tuesday.

[Yinjing-tichondrius]

TinFoil Hat out in the rain foundation

[Backstabs-madoran (Backstabs)]

How long does it take for them to normally act on this?

[Eloraell-moon-guard]

When it’s ready.

[Shimy-khadgar]

So now that there is beta hype… I’m assuming we will all be playing?!? And naming our characters our forum names!!!

[Yinjing-tichondrius]

But its still unfortunate we have been driven to the point of looking into when some random rogue killed patchwork to just try to speculate on a release when we are officially in spring of a game that has a ‘summer’ release.

[Shimy-khadgar]

“Summer” could be September

[Vharaz-kelthuzad (Vharaz)]

It’s not a new game tho.
It’s nothing blizz has done before, hence, we can’t really use previously used stuff to determine how long it will last.

However, the classic summer, july 16th thing and releasing on Q3, conveniently about a month after 8.2, makes mid july the most likely release date.

[Mogar-stormrage (Mogar)]

I keep changing my first response to this. First it was confusion, then suspicion, now dancing.

[Zenetta-proudmoore (Zenetta)]

“PTR” and “Beta” are similar, but not quite the same.

• PTR is used for patch updates. Blizzard PTRs last typically 1 to 3 months.
• Beta is used for new games and expansions. Blizzard betas typically last 4-6 months.

Classic is a new game, not a patch. It is having a beta, not a PTR. I’d expect at least 4 months for the Classic beta.

It’s a re-master of a 15 year old game made in an existing client that’s already had quite a bit of testing though, so there really isn’t an equivalent release you can compare it to to really know how long a beta might be.

It might only have a short test that’s mostly just an attempt to see how many servers they’re going to need or to see if players spot some glaring inconsistency from vanilla that they missed.

[Yinjing-tichondrius]

We all know we dont count september as summer

[Eloraell-moon-guard]

But we do count the entirety of June! Earlier please!

[Shimy-khadgar]

We don’t… but I wouldn’t consider the statement “get ready for a classic summer!” Anything more than a tease that the game will come out at some point in the summer… not that “you will be able to play this game for the entirety of the summer”

[Yinjing-tichondrius]

But we do count the entirety of June! Earlier please!

This ^ is what we need more of.

[Érathar-sargeras]

It won’t be September. That’s why the guy from the job said “Classic Summer” implying that summer will have the quality of classic not the tail end of it

[Morehwine-wyrmrest-accord (Morehwine)]

And its disappointing that blizzard cannot be more transparent about these things.

IMO a blue post should have come out about this long before adding an entry to the CDN

This came out via datamining. Blizzard almost never comments on datamining.