I am not satisfied with a blue post. 5 minor things being addressed over 5 months? That is it really? It is clear to me that Blizzard needs to allocate more resources to this project. I will lose interest if to much time is taken on this project, I mean its already been 16 months since announcement…
Put more resources on Classic, get it done right, and get the game released early summer!
Keep the Hype train alive!
1st. Blizzard doesn’t owe us regular updates.
2nd. Blizzard has the resources they need to get the job done, I’m pretty sure they would know better than your gut feeling on how many people are required to finish this project.
3rd. If you lose interest in Classic, that’s on you not Blizzard. There is plenty to be excited about and if you can’t keep patient long enough till summer how do you expect to do when leveling isn’t quick, mindless and easy like it is in BFA?
You both ask to get it done right and in the same sentence say get the game released early summer. These 2 things are probably at odds with one another. Do you want it quick? or right? You may not be able to have both at the same time.
Have some patience and faith in the Classic team. Not talking about Activision-Blizzard… the Classic team.
What type of announcements do you want? They have already stated that it is still planned to come out this summer. Outside of their changes to accomidated their limited customer support structure it appears as though they are making it as close to vanilla as possible. So do you want them to announce every time they successfully port of a certain texture or successfully tested certain aspects of the game?
It’s not a new game, and I doubt its a linear process so updates wouldn’t be very dynamic regardless.
I suggest that you lose interest.
Nothing will speed up the release of Classic.
The announcement of Summer 2019. That’s all we really need. Anything from now till then is hype material.
While I do enjoy me some hype. It’s not required.
Now if a Blue popped in here with an exact launch date… that’d be cool.
I hope they give us some notice on a specific release date. I would really like to schedule my vacation time well in advance
I dont like to use this term often, but you are the textbook definition of an “Entitled Gamer.”
I can hear the crickets chirping in the pause after this. Just hoping for a blue to drop in and be like “July 23!” or something.
Hire those crickets and paint them blue
It’s almost certainly going to be July 16.
How great would it be if that’s actually how they announced it. Not in a press release or add campaign, just dropped as a single sentence in the middle of a random thread with no additional follow up. Now that I think about it, people would be PISSED if that happened. I’d love it, but god it would just be immediate shouting for beta info and realm lists and why don’t we know more?!??
They could do what EA did recently with Apex Legends and just announce that they’re releasing it in like 2 hours one day.
Would probably somewhat reduce the initial surge of players, too out of sheer surprise.
Eleven years have passed since the Vanilla races banded together and leapt united into the unknown called The Burning Crusade.
Though Azeroth was saved, the tenuous pact between the player-base and the developers has all but evaporated.
The drums of war thunder once again.
We’ve waited eleven years and now we should cry that it’s taking 16 months?
I too would have loved to hear more about what they are working on, their overall progress, and philosophies or topics on topics that being talked about in the community but as I understand it. This type of blue post are heavily crafted and critiqued internally before we see them. I wish it was easier for devs to share things with us. I strongly doubt this is all they have done in the last 5 months, that statement is ridiculous.
What announcement do you honestly need? Whatever question you have refer back to 1.12 and that’s probably your answer
Atleast they told us and reconfirmed a 2019 summer release. Remember when people thought we were looking at like 2021 for release?
The hype train is the least of my concern in regard to Classic.
While I understand the desire to learn more, the fact that it’s a re-release and we have a release-date window is enough for me.
Actually, you just said what will speed it up.
I’m gonna stop thinking about it for a few months as much as I can.
Still can’t wait. :x
Good things come to those who wait.
nice gear set @op
Hopefully Blizzard will delay Classic for a couple more years to give the community time to decide exactly what they want. After all, the biggest mistake they made with BfA was releasing it before the flying debate was settled.