We all understand the Soon™ memes and what not with Blizzard withholding information until it’s ready to be released.
But how in the world does the team think that a week’s notice is a good thing? Are you trying to irritate your audience? I know we could have assumed it would be this time, but what is preventing Blizzard from giving us maybe a bit more insight to timelines?
IDK. But out of curiosity, what would you have done differently the past 2 weeks, 3 weeks, 1 month, etc. had you know 2 weeks, 3 weeks, 1 month, etc. ago?
The PVP season ending announcement was your notice.
Blizzard has a long history now of keeping everyone in the dark until about 1 week before something is dropped.
Plan accordingly.
Kind of but not really. If it was, why couldn’t they just say it?
How though? I’m just curious as to what precisely would be different given a different amount of time.
I once worked at a place that insistent we give 24 hours notice if we were going to be late, even though the protocol followed was identical whether no notice was given whatsoever.
This is literally how it has been done for 17 years… Why are you mad or even slightly surprised?
It helps so people don’t complain about it.
There’s a higher up at Blizzard who views TBC as maintenance mode and refuses to open any bugs or issues unless it’s breaking the system. If something is misconfigured or wrong, they sweep it under the rug.
I’ve dealt with these type of higher ups before and they are horrible, they are in charge of WoW classic is only focusing on what new features they can push out faster to increase the bottom line by getting Wrath out to keep subscription numbers up.
Because the bottom line is the only thing that matters for the top level as the merger comes through.
I’m sure there are good employees, maybe even the project manager who legitimately care about the community but they got silenced by the higher ups and they aren’t allowed to do anything because it might look bad for the company.
Everything is corporate now for Blizzard, keep numbers up high so the merger with Microsoft looks sustainable, push stuff out faster, ignore game breaking bugs, ignore the inconsistencies that the player base clearly sees, voiced their concerns and it gets dropped on tone deaf ears.
With less time to prepare the quicker someone has to react to get prepared, meaning they may just buy their consumables instead of farm, and with the announcement of new content prices skyrocket, especially when it’s short notice. You can see this happen even on a weekly basis where consumable items tend to be most expensive on reset and trickle down a bit over the course of the week when people are done raiding. To be fair people should have started doing this a few weeks ago since we knew this was looming, but the point still stands and a shorter release notice means prices will pump even harder than if we had more time to prepare.
I think people just don’t like being caught off guard, and if we’re going to go with your logic then really they might as well just release it without telling us because we can’t do anything else.
Sunwell on PTR and the end of a PVP season are enough indications that you should’ve done your preps already, the only fair point is unable to organize off days but that’s about it.
I simply asked some questions; I didn’t give an opinion, nor did I present any logic.
Yeah, the PTR got my whole guild in gear.
Better consumable planning. Gearing of flex players that will help with healing, etc.
Ya no. How long until Dragonflight?
The only answer I can give that doesn’t sound cynical (because I am regarding Blizzard and their communication, to be honest) is that they weren’t sure themselves because they were still testing things on the PTR.
As for “what could have changed with more notice”. Well, we wouldn’t have three guildies calling out where we now have to find replacements because they do evening work and need to tell their employers (we have a bench, but it’s not big enough to accommodate so many and yes it’s more than 3 in total just for other things). With no official announcement it’s not fair to ask people to ask for time off when there’s even a small chance it will happen the week after (and some on here said they did because they assumed on May 19th and took that week off).
Understanding that means understanding life in the real world through. A lot of people don’t.
I don’t really mean it in a negative way, but if you’re going to openly debate what extra time allows for people to do then you are, on some level, throwing out a notion that it doesn’t matter. Call it your logic it or don’t, I don’t really care.
I just hope they dont spring Wrath on us like this, or with just 2-3 week notice. I am sure everyone would appreciate knowing if it is going to be an Aug thing vs an Oct thing for life planning purposes.
The way they did TBC pre-patch kinda sucked. Give us plenty of time to organise to properly no-life pre-patch and Wrath launch, for the love of all that is gnomish.
it is
that way they dont have to deal with angry people they just post it and leave
or do you even think they read the forums and or feedback?
They probably will. That’s what they did for TBCC as you know and it’s not like anything with proper communication has changed over the last year. 
It’s just how it works, you either Announce when you know you can hit a date (likely a week or so before, maybe slightly less) or you give a tentative date that could easily Change. Either way you piss someone off