Interesting how most games delayed their release due to Covid and yet

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Wow is right on target. So you can form two conclusions.

  1. They are exceedingly efficient and managed to meet all goals even during a pandemic

Or

  1. They just said F it, we are gonna release this before the holidays to make money and patch as we go. Quality be damned

I wonder which one it is

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I imagine a little bit of column A, a little bit of column B.

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I’d be very surprised if anything is worse than BFA,

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Don’t wow expansions generally get released in august?

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I hope it’s #1. The gnawing pessimist in me is expecting #2, though. I want Blizzard to prove me wrong, desperately so, but after BFA I have little faith that they will. I won’t believe that this is going to be a good expansion until I have the chance to actually play it and judge it for myself. Watching streams of the beta aren’t enough for me to decide if I’m going to approve of it or not.

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Well, Sylvanas is still the focus sostory-wise we’ll have to see. Mechanics wise SL looks to be better. Gear wise, miles better.

Class wise, it might be even worse.

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New abilities on classes and it is worse than BFA? Far from it. I like the changes they have made to druids.

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They said they’ve gotten hang of working from home ages ago. All you need is a computer to keep progress going, it’s very versatile. And it was always set as a Q4 release anyways so it’s a good thing!

Nah it was just a coincidence that Legion and BfA were August releases. Other expansions have ranged anywhere from September through January.

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anything done on a computer can be done from anywhere in the world . so , #3 they sent everyone home with their workstations and let them work from there .
im being optimistic i know , but that is still an option .

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how hard is it to work from home on a computer in the age of internet really

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Lots of specs are bugged though, and we’ll have to see how covenant abilities and the other passives end up working out.

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Not for Shadow Priest’s. :grinning:

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For #2 you could have saved yourself some typing and just said Activision. I’m sadly leaning toward #2.

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No one cares about them.

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From all the complaints I’m seeing I think Blizzard cares a lot more about Shadow Priest’s than WW Monk’s. :man_shrugging:

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A lot of development work can be done remotely and with everything shut down, Blizzard employees probably had an opportunity to work without many distractions.

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Considering there has never been a release date set prior to a few weeks ago, what is your basis that the published release date is “on schedule” and not a pushed back date?

Also, now that we have a date, BFA will be the longest expansion ever (not longest drought, just overall longest).

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There are so many placeholders and bugs on the beta right now, there’s no way SL releases as a genuinely finished game. We’ll get new content, but I suspect that class balance will be the worst it’s been in years.

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Though it’s worth noting that Blizz is changing the way they’re rolling out the expansion this time. Usually, their main development work is done by the time the pre-patch rolls out, but this time they’re splitting the pre-patch into two chunks, one released as the typical pre-patch, and continuing to work on one released closer to launch, which makes it sound like there’ll be another 2-3 weeks of development than usual.

Hopefully it results in a less buggy launch, but we’ll see.

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No.

The Burning Crusade January 2007 70
Wrath of the Lich King November 2008 80
Cataclysm December 2010 85
Mists of Pandaria September 2012 90
Warlords of Draenor November 2014 100
Legion August 2016 110
Battle for Azeroth August 2018 120
Shadowlands October 2020
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