Seeing this super drawn out release schedule makes me think they are more interested in timegating everything to keep players active in Classic than for any “authentic experience” reasons. Just my opinion.
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So? You want everything released at once and then everything can be knocked out in 3 months.
The release schedule is fine.
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Time gating is something akin to the content exists is in the game but we arent letting you get to it until you reach an arbitrary condition. The biggest actual time gate in the game is going to be AQ event. Which is an actual time gate to content.
A patch cycle isnt a time gate as much as its just letting you know when content is going to come. Its a road map to let people know the plans of how the game is going to roll out. Would you complain just as much should we not know when things were going to come out or would you prefer just being left in the dark?
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That “super drawn out” schedule is actually perfect and it’s a quicker content drop than vanilla actually was. Stop rat posting.
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It’s okay to be wrong sometimes.
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We don’t even know how long they’re going to wait between phases.
Plus, time gating isn’t inherently bad. It’s just bad in modern WoW because of poor implementation.
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Except no because this is what the community asked for.
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If others feel differently that’s fine. I am honestly just seeing a drawn out release schedule with no time frame and can only assume the worst intentions considering their recent history. I hope you guys are right though and everyone is happy with the plan and it works out great.
They specifically mentioned delaying more so gear progression actually makes sense. Like not releasing Zul’gurub and Blackwing Lair at the same time, and Green Dragons becoming available before AQ to work up Nature Resist.
Plus this forum has been filled daily, with posts talking about what happens to Classic once all the content has been played. If extending their content release plan isn’t number 1 priority I’d be pretty surprised. Everyone knows they want to stretch it out, but this seems like a responsible way to me, that will please everyone wanting to progress through content instead of just having it all available at launch.
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Looks like someone is fresh from retail. Yeah, that’s the state of the game currently. Did you play vanilla? If so, you’ll notice the downward spiral this game has taken over 14 years.
However, scheduling content releases for classic is exactly what should be done, despite which angle you’d like to view it at. This is nothing but a good thing for the vanilla “classic” community.
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Time gating isn’t exactly a bad thing though, but it all depends on how it’s done.
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…You Just Can’t Please Some People 
People want an authentic experience and this changed release schedule is a step towards that. If it comes at the cost of a bit of time gating I’m ok with that. For me the whole point of having classic servers is to make them as close to the original release as possible.
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This isn’t like current day WoW.
You won’t be able to rush through content in a single day and be bored waiting for the next patch to drop. You’ll be GRINDING exp for a couple levels here and there to level up, since grouping will be harder to do.
In my experience, time gating only annoys people who rush through content to camp out for end-game releases with nothing to do in the meantime. You’ll be WORKING to level up in Classic WoW. I don’t think many people will be sitting around after 1 day waiting for the next update to drop. You gotta level up and then you gotta gear up. And that gear requires resistances.
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Who gives a damn? They don’t make more money if I’m playing longer than they would otherwise. They get $15 a month whether I play 10 minutes or 10 days.
And how do you know how drawn out this is? You have no idea what the release schedule is.
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Buddy. They’re timegating everything because that IS the authentic experience.
We didnt have every ounce of content from Molten Core through Naxx available the day the servers opened back in 2004.
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It makes me think they have plans down the line of ‘Cycle’ type servers that mirror the release schedule. Eventually they’ll hit the final, static state of the game, which will exist for…10, 15, 20 years? Longer? As long as WoW exists. Are they going to go through all this just for a one-time thing?
Or I’m just reading way too much into this. ![:wink:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/wink.png?v=6" ":wink:")
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Is this the “authentic” experience though? Looking at the release schedule and what they mentioned they aren’t doing it how it actually happened. They are changing it. If everyone is fine with that change then ok, but I’d prefer some stuff a lot sooner (like BG’s).
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I am super happy. The content schedule mimics the original schedule timeline from 2004 to 2006 with patches combined into batches of two. It is pretty authentic. We are going to have a great time!
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I hope the time between phases is LONG…
I want to be able to relish every phase as much as possible.
It would suck if I can’t make it to endgame before phase 2 or 3.
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