So far the class changes seem great, but even so, if everything is scaled towards our new lvl 85 soon it still seems super buggy. A lot of classes arent working as intended, and farming honor feels like im truely back in classic, which is not a good thing. I hear people shouting from the rooftops all these excuses, but what I am really seeing is a bunch of issues that looks exactly like a BRAND NEW GAME released with bugs, instead of a game version from 2009-2010. Maybe im a being pessimistic, but I was really looking forward to this prepathc.
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Prepatch released in a poor state, yes, but the reasoning of âitâs old content they already made 14 years ago!â doesnât hold water, because theyâre having to backport that content into a version of the game that did not exist back then. Anything and everything can go wrong, itâs not as simple as just copy/pasting the code like people act like it is
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the bads outweight the goods considerably IMO. I like a few things about the pre-patch but overall I wish they never would ve done it
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Seems ok to me, if anything I think it was the delay in the updating of addons.
About the only âissuesâ I had.
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When in beta the whole thing was very confusing to me, because you know⌠itâs a very old game. Sure it should have bugs, but⌠so many? And some things I kind of get, theyâre broken because of the shift to a new client. But then you start doing the quests and finding a lot of quests that were reported broken⌠in later expansions. And theyâre the exact same bugs that would be reported in Shadowlands or BFA. But Blizz never fixed them because you know⌠itâs old content no one usually does.
So Iâm beginning to think how we got the base of this game was from them just taking it from retail and cutting out the Cataclysm specific code. And then sort of just blending it in with code from the original launch. If thatâs not it specifically itâs some sort of Franken-game.
The other part is Blizz probably doesnât have enough people on this. SOD is probably eating up all the Classic resources right now because itâs more popular. The current Cata Classic population is 60,000 players. SOD has 180,000 raiding alone.
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I can get on board with that.
If I still found full GDKP instead of an easy 25H, just in case there are many classes between paladins and Priest whose undead or holy damage is very OP for top more than a 6.7K Warrior with Shadowmourme at maximum, there I assure you that the pre-patch sucks, but it sucks because it wasnât like the pre-patch in WotLK.
This doesnât explain why full size hunter pet stables donât exist at all in pre-patch!
Yes, I see a lot of comments clearly indicating a lack of understanding what coding involves.
But thatâs not an excuse to assume everyone complaining is making the same mistake.
And it doesnât change the fact that Cataclysm Classic is NOT ready! (not even for pre-patch).
You sure youâre responding to the right person?
If that question is directed at me, then yes.
I donât see why youâd even doubt it though.
Because you seem to think Iâm excusing the poor quality of the prepatch launch, when my literal first line is âprepatch released in a poor stateâ
Then you missed the point of my post.
I make clear reference to your comment about people not understanding software development.
Yes, you provided reasons/excuses for the poor quality.
But pre-patch is more than (or should I say less than) just poor quality.
There are things not done at all that should have been in the game before pre-patch dropped. (Iâd say the hunter pets thing should even have been in beta before it dropped - even if buggy.)
No, you missed the point of mine. My point, is that yes, there are things wrong with prepatch, including, as you say, stuff missing entirely. This is inexcusable. However, the fact that this is stuff that was already made years ago is not a fair argument, because itâs not as simple as just copying the data over
When youâre upset about something, itâs important to have a clear and accurate reason to be upset, because misinformation and blind rage is what makes people want to dismiss the complaint rather than hear it out
Uhm, oh honey⌠donât you know, all they needed to do was flip a switch. DuhâŚ
/endsarcasm
You tried to discount this argument on that basis that some people making it donât understand the complexities of software development.
Reminder:
When you feel the need to resort fallacious arguments to discredit an argument, youâre off to a bad start.
While I in part agree with, Cata Classic requires much more dev work than most people realise. You seem to be making a similar mistake in the other direction. Thereâs tremendous benefit in having a stable reference code-base. And large amounts of code that should be orthogonal to the the new framework being ported to.
You have no idea what youâre talking about
The projection is strong in this one.
No projecting. You donât know what youâre talking about. You misunderstood my post and are now doubling down on that misunderstanding. You think Iâm defending the state of prepatch (Iâm not) simply because Iâm clarifying a misconception that there shouldnât be any major issues because itâs all old content. Clearing up misunderstandings and misinformation =/= discounting arguments
Iâve never claimed youâre defending the state of prepatch - not once!
Yes, the projection is strong.
Stop trying to pretend you can read my mind.
No, you just implied it
This downplays the block you quoted and diverts from the actual point. If you didnât think I was trying to defend the state of prepatch youâd have literally no reason at all to bring it up. Itâs combative in tone and redundant to mention besides