Blizzard has been around for a long time. When they say summer release, they don’t mean earlier than summer. If anything they mean deep deep into summer.
Im 90% sure that Activision said themselves that the cuts were to non-developmental staff, meaning with or without the layoffs the same team is still working on classic.
Wait what?
Yeah I don’t get it either. It’s already been semi-confirmed to be a separate client altogether, with the designation of Patch 1.13.
It’s not a patch for retail.
I am necroing this thread for the record in case I really was right about May 14th.
If you’re not can we report you for spamming?
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So you are betting on Classic WoW launch tomorrow?
I can believe that Blizzard might announce a release date of 16 July on 14 May…and also admit that development of Classic has gone much smoother than Blizzard thought.
Well apparently people have reasons to believe we will be getting at least some type of news tomorrow. Supposedly something big.
Love the hype even if it doesn’t happen tomorrow.
I can’t imagine it will be too much longer regardless, if they are looking at a summer release.
One thing that I still couldn’t get it clear whether they announced or not:
The classes had some big additions and changes through the whole lifecycle of Vanilla… For example, bears didn’t have Frenzied Regen or Dire Bear form at first… Or mass buff spells weren’t a thing until some point later…
The balancing part of Vanilla will be delivered whole in its release or we’ll have to deal with broken specs until they drop the fixes with their scheduled “patches”?
They said they are going with 1.12 as it is the most complete version of vanilla. We are not getting older talents or abilities.
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Ah, okay! Didn’t see that in specific, thanks.
This Blue post covers the plan.
My prediction’s have pretty much stayed the same. Only exception being the bonus tinfoil hat one I threw out about June 1st.
I agree with Caltheon that we will be getting a release a much sooner than a lot of the forum dwellers with game development knowledge seem to suggest. For example in my post I was told that anyone who guesses a release date before June 30 is wrong. Lol I wonder how many people still believe that. xD
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Well you got MrGM tweeting i pic of a vanilla coke with the caption, “I think I will drink this on Wednesday.”
So theres that
Just gimme a date!!!
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August is nearly Fall June July and August is summer. June would be great.
August is hardly nearly fall. 2/3rds of September is summer. And only the last week of June is summer.
I could see them doing a surprise release of the actual game if for no other reason than it will help them alleviate pressure on servers as many people won’t be around to be online, so that will get the initial rush split up a lot more.
Surprise launches may be the new thing anyway after Apex Legends.
They also don’t have to care about letting everyone start at the same time for racing/world first nonsense because it’s a 15 year old game and you’re not first even when you are.
Scientifically. But in popular culture, Summer is largely defined as June-August. And the scientific argument won’t stop Blizzard from getting internet-murdered if it comes out in September. With Blizzard’s stock price plummeting over the last year and shareholders wondering wtf, I would think that they would want to avoid releasing it that late and getting internet-murdered.