Thank you for admitting it had nothing to do with the holidays.
Unless you were planning on getting that rep Dec 3 before raid time.
You have 4 weeks…
Some people are claiming Shadowlands still isn’t done. Besides, just because something is done doesn’t mean it has to be released right away.
The holidays certainly don’t help any.
4 weeks for 40 people to get raid ready during the holidays. It also means anyone wanting to play Shadowlands during launch is SOL. It’s just bad timing all the way around.
But it’s not during the holidays.
Even if you count thanksgiving (I still don’t) you have 4 weeks prior to thanksgiving to prep.
Unless the holidays start november 2nd now?
Also, why are you just starting now? It’s been on the PTR for like 2 weeks. Maybe 3 or 4, I think they tested one wing a week.
LoL this is not the holidays yet, you have all of november.
I meant to put leading up the holidays. Of course between Halloween and the election, it feels like the holidays have already started. Besides, 4 weeks go by quickly. I don’t think anyone was expecting Naxx to release this soon. Everyone I’ve talked to assumed it would be January.
Our guild leader told people to start prepping when they put it on the PTR. It seemed like a logical assumption it was coming as soon as testing was done.
Not like, next year.
The first wing was announced for testing on the 14th. I can understand if you personally hadn’t seen the topic, but all 40 of your raiders? Not one of them uses a blue tracker?
It’s hard to get people to start prepping when there isn’t a specific date known. Besides, lots of people have been spending the past couple weeks checking out the prepatch on Retail. Seems reasonable enough during a content lull.
Eh, maybe no specific release date until recently, but a PTR is a pretty clear indication something is coming sooner than later.
A PTR being shut down an even better indication.
They still gave even an entire month’s notice on top of that warning sign.
If you aren’t prepared at this point it’s on you.
Again, the whole point of this thread is that it’s too early, regardless of how much advance notice was given.
But why? In a general sense not just for you.
Because it’s a month and a half earlier then what happened in Vanilla.
We already discussed that.
They have never strictly followed the vanilla timeline.
But what does that have to do with classic?
Because there was an expectation that Classic would follow a similar release schedule.
Which died in phase 2.
Correction, it died with Dire Maul. I forgot they pushed that up too.
“Some changes already happened, so let’s change everything else too.”
Sorry, but I don’t have that mindset.
There never was, classic phases were from the start as it made sense based on progression.
And you vacillate between reasons why you are opposed, is it because it doesn’t conform to vanilla or because you are afraid of TBC?
Neither do I. That’s why I didn’t say that.
Blizzard puts out content when it keeps the most people playing. In this case, they think that’s December.
There never was any adherence to vanilla’s original schedule, so it’s not a change. It’s how it has always been with classic.
It’s whatever they think will win them the argument at the moment. There is no consistency.