Yah it all depends on what part of Summer it releases, if it is early summer, 8.2.5 or what the middle patch would be called if there is even one like this, would be the only one.
I have zero care whatsoever about the total number of players playing the game. Hell, even blizzard said as much. My concern is individual server health. I want the server I choose to have the highest % of those most likely to remain.
A slight inconvenience on launch day? I would rather inconvenience those who are not sure they even want to play the game. If one cannot choose between such vastly different games (and hopefully there will be an open beta so they will no full well what vanilla/classic is about) then why should I care about their convenience?
The game was crowded at launch. Amazingly we lived through it and left if anything a fond memory.
Not everyone who walked away from WoW are playing on PSs. I would wager only a small % of those people do. And why should I as an individual player care how many servers exist beyond my own?
Classic will succeed as long as blizzard reins in the non-vanilla changes. Judging by the majority attitude of GD posters toward the project, classic would do fine without them onboard.
If Classic was released early summer, that would not require “pushing back” 8.2 for “tow or three months”. 8.2 might get pushed back a month, but since we have no release date for 8.2, how can one say that it is/was “pushed back”?
it might not be released as soon as some might like, but we do not know what their timetable is. We can take a guess based on past history, but that is all it would be–a guess.
He was responding to my comment about me not being surprised if Classic came out a month after the mythic version of the last raid is released.
Does that negate the possibility of Classic and a major BFA patch being released concurrently? No, it does not.
Are you talking about in my example? Or just from a general pov? Cause if they released it a month after the last mythic raid is released that does negate it being released in a major BfA patch.
I was talking about your example.
Hmm do you play retail? Cause currently in retail a patch drops about a month later the raid is released and 2-3 weeks later mythic and lfr are released. A month after the mythic raid tier is released is pretty much the end of the content for that patch.
Blizz could release Classic a few weeks before a major content update in retail. That way if “tourists” from retail or anywhere for that matter come check out Classic and do not enjoy the experience, Blizz can hope entice these players to stay subbed by major content updated in retail. Just a thought.
8.2 is not going to take 6 months to come out, if there is an 8.2.5 that would be it, and that could contain the Azhara raid.
How does that help classic release exactly?
LOL, depends on whether they do something like the Legion patch that took 13 weeks, or three months, from release of the patch until the raid could even be opened. (The forum tears over 1-3 quests a week, some as droll as Khadgar wants 2000 shards so he can take one and give you back the rest, it was glorious.)
Also, BfA isn’t exactly consuming hours weekly even when it’s at the peak of available content. Aside from players with limited time, getting M+ keys done, getting the single relevant raid done, and doing daily chores isn’t filling that much.