The capacity? Somewhere around 25-30TB per tape.
I disagree to a point…
AQ and the opening of the gates needs it own phase…
I would have done 3 phases… launch would have included bwl and battlegrounds…
phase 2 would be AQ and ZG… and phase 3 would be naxx
the 6 phases and now even more with the half phase stuff they have been doing are a bad idea and have caused a good number of subs to be lost.
This would have went a lot better for all involved…
hindsight is always 20/20
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They would say this if all the content was released at once, it simply would have taken them an extra week.
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The “gatekeeping” these classic players complain about for retail is dumb anyways. The love it for classic, hate it for anything beyond that. Interesting no?
But I can kind of see why, a lot of players would have left after they did everything and went back to retail, or try rolling an alt.
But, this is also nothing new for wow. Players left when they got there fill or progress to where they wanted in retail and wait till the next content drop.
The only people that are “happy” about this, are those that were able to play on pservers for who knows how long to be “top dog”.
the only thing i would qualify as a mistake is the release of honor w/o bgs
other than that im ok with it
if you want the game to last longer then pacing it out was the way to go
if you dont care about that and just want to play classic for a little and move on then yeah releasing it all would have been better.
i would have been fine with the later
Progression? Bosses are on farm the first day you get in the instance on Classic. Honestly your response has nothing to do with mine
You’re posting on a lvl 120 toon and I can sense you want classic to be over so you can get back to retail. Just cut the middle man and go play it my dude there is no need for you to front about it.
We enjoy the game for what it is and want it to last before we do it all over again. I’m sure I hit the nail on the head.
Oh i see, youre triggered by an avatar. Forgot people are sensitive in this forum.
Ive been playing classic everyday since the day of its release.
Then stop hiding behind that mask.
Nah, i do it purposely cause it triggers people like you.
Back on topic, classic is trivial. Your thoughts?
if they did release everything. the neckbeards would be in tier 3 gear instead of 1 and be absolutely destroying people leveling even harder.
the system has been fine thus far. people who played a lot will be bored. people who did not have had plenty of time to at least start raiding before tier 2 drops.
nolifing doesn’t entitle you to t3 like it does 1.12 tier1/2
the system isn’t designed for everyone to be equal and every fight to be fair like it is in retail. it’s not fine how it is, there’s no endgame at all right now, there’s just farming
if the whole thing was dropped at once. it’d be a race to nax, then quittin’ time. people would skip over gear progression.
the same thing would happen as it does with wow. 3-4 months people would quit logging in, never to return - as there would never be new content.
The game overall would be way less populated around the 6 month mark.
With tiered release, players will “quit”, but come back as new content opens up (just like retail wow xpac releases).
Indeed it can be but why make it even more face roll from the start? If people can craft titanic leggings and such why get excited about any of the tiers? Sometimes savoring a meal is better then hoofing down without chewing.
That was progressive since most raids had gear checks and attunement requirements. Hell most guilds blew up at TK and had to regear new members back at Kara. Most guilds didnt get past mt hyjal let alone cleared bt.
There is a much larger picture here you either don’t see or are being disingenuous and not providing.
They did not release the content in phases solely to stretch out the content over “X” amount of time. There actually was strategic reason to release the content in certain phases.
Certain raid tiers gear renders previous version of the game worthless. The same goes for PVP rewards.
Let’s take ZG for example. If they release MC and ZG at the same time. A large majoirty of the gear from MC is worse compared to ZG. So why even run MC when there is better and easier loot to get from ZG?
This is such a cop out excuse.
I will never accept this as a reasonable complaint until you have achieved the following:
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8 Classes lvl 60.
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All 8 Classes have Raid BiS.
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Between all 8 Classes you have every single profession maxed out to 300.
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All 8 Classes have every single reputation maxed out.
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If you are on a PVE server than 9 Classes.
Fine you dont like that I believe you have to have a full maxed out account to complain “No content”
Then does your one level 60 have the following?
- LVL 60.
- Two professions at 300.
- Both professions have each and every single recipe/pattern.
- All three secondary professions at 300.
- Every single pattern/recipe on all three secondary professions.
- Every single reputation that is grind able at exalted.
- Raid BiS in every slot
- 95+ parc with logs.
- Rank 14.
If you can’t check each and every single one of these off. Then you still have “Content” to do.
So because a bunch of people failed to comprehend what a PVP server is. That is somehow Blizzards fault?
How about an ounce of personal accountability?
This comment just shows how blatantly ignorant you are about WoW as a whole. You clearly do not understand the reason byhind phases and how if they were all released at the same time how that would be disastrous to the game. Ever wondered why private servers released content in phases?
Your response indicates you have limited reading comprehension.
2014 is the year the company was purchased by my current employer and folded into the systems of my current employer.
So, 2014 is the last year I know of the tape backups being used for that company.
And I found it odd because I was new to IT; you’ll find every other post explaining how it isn’t odd.
I think pve content should have been phased as it is now. However I think bgs should have come on day 1. It doesn’t make much sense to me to allow players to rush through bwl, Naxx, or aq without first experiencing Mc or even the pre raid dungeons that even now a ton of people are skipping. Bgs though would of given people something to do outside of pve content without much consequence to actual game progression starting from day 1
There were catch up mechanics in vanilla. Not as many or as extreme as retail, but they certainly existed. I remember bug slaughter quests in the AQ patch granting gear that destroyed my dungeon blues.
With progressive release, the earlier content gets its day in the sun before being obsoleted.