No sir. In no relevant or irrelevant Dictionary has the term “Maintenance Mode” been defined in any such capacity relating to the definition you have prescribed to it.
You sir, are lying. Please stop.
So it needs to be in the dictionary to have a defined definition that people already know? Okay seen it all now lol.
That’s the literal definition, of a definition, in regards to the definition of a word or phrase.
Definition
noun
- a book or electronic resource that lists the words of a language (typically in alphabetical order) and gives their meaning, or gives the equivalent words in a different language, often also providing information about pronunciation, origin, and usage.
I think the idea is that a lot of phrases, such as “maintenance mode,” aren’t in the dictionary because the dictionary doesn’t generally define phrases.
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She discussed Classic and referred to Shadowlands by relating it TO Classic (for example asking how talent systems in Classic affected the design changes in Shadowlands) . She also asked questions like “Can you explain how the team did such-and-such”. And she related her own play within WoW and reacted to the game as a player. It would be a bit stupid to have three senior Blizzard people sitting at the table and one of them never says a word on any topic except their area of control.
She is entitled to express an opinion on something other than her own area of work. Just as we all are. Do you think members of the Classic team never sit down to chat with their co-workers in the retail development area? I mean, they aren’t factions, they can actually talk to each other…
Perhaps you might want to go back and watch it again and check it out. 
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That’s literally the entire video. All the teams that did the things, talked about the things they did. Not one example of someone from like, the janitorial department, coming in like, hey, how did the team do that? Are you serious?
Holly Longdale is the Executive Producer over World of Warcraft. You keep telling yourself whatever you need to hear to some how formulate that all the evidence presented here is merely a coincidence.
Next time you get invited to jury duty, show them things like this post. You’ll probably get immediately dismissed! Lucky you…
Okay, it’s still not something you can formulate an opinion on. The phrase itself is defined by a game not getting ANY content at all, any further, no matter what. So until this happens with WoW, it’s not in maintenance mode.
Sounds like projection to me…but okay!
History and Math.
Legion is level 50
BFA is level 55
Shadowlands is level 60
Dragonflight is level ??
OMG HOW DO WE KNOW???
The phrase is defined by a dictionary. Words evolve, if you are not aware. Maintenance Mode was the original coined term for an actual press release after an mmorpg was cascaded, long ago.
Since then, the term maintenance mode has shifted, due to a large flux of mmorpg’s flooding the market, and most of them, dwindling somewhere into a maintenance mode of sorts, where you don’t see anything added but recolors, reskins, and recycled assets.
We see that already. We have seen it for years.
You can’t define something yourself, neither can someone who put out a press release or blog site review. That’s not how it works. Definitions come from a collegiate analysis of a society and it’s usage. Maintenance Mode has been a coin phrase for EQ and EQ2 players for going on 10 years now. Same with SWG before that.
Just because you have defined your understanding of what defines a definition, does not mean that you can define the definition of Maintenance Mode for everyone.
Producer is higher than director so she outranks Ion. John Hight held the position until now and before him it was J. Allen Brack. John Hight is now General Manager of Warcraft so I’m guessing Holly is focused on Classic and modern WoW and he oversees everything Warcraft related which would include WoW, the new mobile games, WC3 Reforged and anything else new they might come up with.
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You know the level cap is 70 in DF, right?
That told you the Dracthyr starting experience will last 15 levels? I think you need to go back to school then.
we’re saved!
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It was an estimated level range for the predicted leveling of the new Dracthyr class/race in the new zone they talked about…
I imagine they won’t be leveling in that one zone all the way to max level, do you?
Weird to make an estimated range when they already said they start 8 levels higher than your range does.
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Again, since people here are really keen on assuming the worst:
Also, I just want to say that this game has been small for quite a bit of time. Shadowlands was really small. The only reason why you think it wasn’t is because it had systems stacked on systems to make it seem like it was a large game. Nothing about Shadowlands was large.
Well… crap
haha is that weird? Which interview was that in? Is it weird to have watched every single interview with every random person or not?
My bad. I guess I’m weird lmao. Great “Community Council” choice to just insult people’s character. Classic.
It was literally in the same video the woman you are complaining about was in.
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This is also fearmongering at its finest.
WoW is still one of the most financially stable games Activision has. Anyone who thinks WoW is going into maintenance mode really needs a reality check lol
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