Is there a chance 29th could be a Prepatch release date?

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Believe me, I desperately wish it was going to happen tomorrow.

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I highly doubt it, I won’t say it couldn’t happen but given they are still doing connections this week…

I know as a (non-blizz) dev I wouldn’t. I would want a week or two to make sure all my backups and critical work was in order and prepped before I rolled out that big of a change.

Possibly even get blue/green environments going so that when I roll the patch out I’ve already done it more than once.

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We got that announcement already last week.

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I think a lot of us are hoping for it. If it’s next week, it’ll be the shortest prepatch thus far, if I recall. And with all the changes, I don’t think that would be ideal.

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They already did that without giving a date. Why do people come on here spouting things without looking into them first?

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the patch was already downloaded

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For BfA and Legion, they gave the Ending Soon post with no date, and then on the Friday prior to patch announced the date. For BfA, that was around 5pm PST that Friday.

So, they have given 4 days notice before.

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Or winning 7 times in a row.

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13th? Now that’s a scary thought :woozy_face:

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There is a chance for anything to happen. There is a chance that thousands of ugly yellow spaceships can appear around our planet. They are here to demolish the planet because they are making a hyperspace route. There is only one way to survive, and you better have a towel. Don’t panic.

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Well none of us really know when it’s coming but I think we can all agree that we’re tired of these posts popping up every single day.

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That’s literally the drop dead date for the content as there are only two weeks worth of ‘content’ (a couple of quests and dailies).

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Gotta remember that there’s an entire leveling revamp and rampant class changes.

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They’re merging servers tomorrow, so it’s probably unlikely we’re getting the pre-patch then.

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At this point, I think we can expect a delayed Shadowlands release, so I highly doubt that the prepatch will be here by tomorrow.

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This doesn’t necessarily mean it’s going to be on the 13th. There’s still other stuff to test out and play, even without those few quests and Nathanos

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I’m well aware see my post above where I talk about wanting at least a week to test and back things up. Big bang deployments suck… period. As someone who specializes in Devops it literally makes me wince to watch them.

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Yes the amount these and delay/don’t delay Shadowlands are getting ridiculous.

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It looks like they moved the majority of what would be ‘prepatch’ into the intro quests for the expac. I’m guessing they made a decision to focus on expac content rather than pre-patch because of existing concerns.

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Yeah like it just has people arguing for no reason, myself included. We all want the pre-patch and we all want it to be a smooth launch