When did blizzard say today was 8.1.5? They never did. You assume things and it winds up making you upset at something that was never promised. PTR is still going on. It just started two weeks ago. Will you give it time to get finished?
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This guy waited so long for Zandalari and Kultirans:
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I mean, if you don’t eat for a week or so you die. Maybe you should do things other than sit in front of a computer playing WoW.
It was obviously a joke dude. Take the stick out of your bum.
What stick? you mean the one they’re turning that dead horse into a puddle with?
Hooray, someone else actually gets it.
Can people slow down now, my ribs won’t make it to
Sunday at this rate ![:stuck_out_tongue:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/stuck_out_tongue.png?v=6" ":stuck_out_tongue:")
I don’t know… on one hand, Blizzard’s love of timegates is perverse and has done nothing but gotten worse over time.
On the other, the alternative seems like it would be content drought, which is never fun.
On the other other hand (counting on a collection of severed hands, bear with me), you’d think by now development of a game this mature would be so streamlined and efficient that neither should be necessary.
On the other other other hand, the evidence is indisputably against this notion, with not only content still requiring so much throttling you’d think it was Activision-Blizzard-Comcast running this circus, but so many problems going unfixed for so long you’d think development was outsourced to one guy in India.
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Ultimately, the only solution for it all is for Blizzard to well… do better. Like, that sounds so petty and oversimplified, like I’m the coach of a losing college team giving a post-game interview, but… that’s the only real solution. If I sound unsympathetic, well… I’m not.
This is supposed to be a AAA game studio, and in fact, the undisputed champion of this genre. The Michael Phelps of MMOs if you will. So I really have no reservations against telling them to do better releasing, QAing, and polishing their content. This is one of the most successful entertainment venues in human history - they’ve no shortage of capital, and no real excuse for a shortage of resources.
Zandalari and Kul’tirans (I’m assuming the missing apostrophe will be DLC) being pushed back to the middle of the expansion is just one more sign of Blizzard not living up to easily imagined potential. When that happens, in the absence of reasonable explanations and valid excuses, assuming the worst isn’t only natural, but expected. Moreover, disappointment is the natural consequence, if you’re disappointing your customers, and worse, your fans… you’re doing something wrong, plain and simple.
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No, it’s called being angry at Blizz for timegating things for no actually good reason.
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I’m just disappointed that they only added a 10 min questline. I do think that had they brought out the other Allied races, it would have at least given people something to do after they were done with the questline, but then they’d have nothing for people to do in April.
Something that was never promised?
What about the Zandalari releasing at launch with Dark Iron? That was promised.
Look how it turned out.
Don’t see the words promised, guaranteed, abosultely definitely anywhere on any of the announcements.
So, where is this promise that everyone keeps talking about?
That image is from Blizzcon 2017.
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Can post that image all day til the next Xpac launches, it still doesn’t contain the words promised, guaranteed, abosultely definitely.
Nor does any of the videos, or any of the forum/blog posts ever mention any word of promise.
Announcements != promises.
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The completely weird and arbitrary schedule? Yeah, sorry if we missed somewhere that the allied races that were supposed to be here with the new raids is now being released with the 8.2.1 wich we don’t even know why would it exist in the first place.
For example, a movie studio can announce a movie, provide a trailer, and give out a release date like (for example), February 17. The movie doesn’t end up releasing, even though it wasn’t finished.
What would you consider that?
Also, let’s check in on the English dictionary.
make a public and typically formal declaration about a fact
^Definition of Announcement.
How many movies, albums, games have been announced and scrapped?
I can announce I’m launching the jPhone tomorrow with the totally awesome Orange OS.
Then decide it’s not worth the effort and scrap it.
I never promised anything.
Grats on using the dictionary, but there’s a little more to it: a formal public statement about a fact, occurrence, or intention.
Intentions can change at any time, which is covered by Blizz’s ToS.
Still doesn’t make it a promise.
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Ok, so I also want to address another point though, why were they delayed?
That’s something only Blizz can answer.
Not everything goes to plan sometimes, or the plan was to string everyone along for as long as possible, such is life.
You’re missing 20k posts read.
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Ah. Thank you!
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