I’ve already moved on to acceptance.
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thats been all of TWW. long enough.
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Woah you have access to the CD tracker on your UI? Guess they must have released 12.0 to everyone except me huh
to be fair they have cooldown manager but its bad, really bad. supposedly its changed in midnight.
but they have pruned classes and hopefully redesigned the game so you dont need to track things like that. whether or not they actually succeed we will all see in midnight beta or launch.
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The grace period is called alpha/beta. They also cannot design the encounters and specs properly while the addons exist.
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Meh.
Ion said they would go slowly with the rollout and not nuke things until Blizz has a good replacement in place.
Based on that you’d think that with the recent news Blizz must have had some new and shiny replacements for WA’s, Plater, Vuhdo, Details, etc ready to go in the Alpha but they don’t even have a working damage meter currently.
They lied to the players and lied to the addon devs based on a discussion on LimitMax’s stream the other day.
If Midnite comes out in February as rumored they have 5ish months to…
Replicate years of work addon makers put into their programs
Balance the reworks of EVERY spec
Make sure Housing is polished and ready
…AND still get a new x-pac rof the ground.
Good luck Blizz.
I wonder why Blizz didn’t just purchase the code for addons like WA’s and Plater since they’re finished products instead of making their own?
That’s their fault .
PTR is open to everyone to try . If one chooses not to take the opportunity to test out the changes before they go into the live game , then they have noone to blame but themselves.
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A valid fear, but what if they overhauled all 40 specializations to only use a 4-button rotation (even easier than the current BM Hunter)? Do you really need an add-on if there’s only 4 buttons you’re pushing during combat?
I share your concern because “the old plan” back in April was to remove RT combat API access at the END of the process, when they had verified everything works as intended, but “the new plan” is to rip off the band-aid during Midnight Alpha development and that almost certainly is going to mean that Midnight live launch will be riddled with bugs and lack-luster specs that “didn’t get finished in time.”
Just the idea of changing all 40 specs to not require addons (e.g., 4-button rotation)… that seems very high-risk and high-cost, but they’ve said they’re doing that.
Yes. What if OP cannot see out of 4 which one is off cool down.
Feels more like Blizzard “got direction” from Microsoft Gaming to work on a port to Xbox so Micro$oft can get some value out of the $69B acquisition cost of ActiBlizz.
Ion’s plan was a good Software Development Plan with incremental changes through Alpha, Beta, and Pre-Patch to build, refine, and verify functionality, then nuke addons at the END of the process. Nuking addons at the beginning of the process is high-risk, high-cost, and high technical difficulty, so low chance of a successful launch. Why do something stupid like that? Because we “were directed” to do something stupid and also lie about why we’re doing it until the WoW on Xbox hype-machine is turned on.
I hate speculating like that because Microsoft has genrally been hands-off of the Game Studios it’s acquired, but maybe the cost of acquisition of ActiBlizz merits this “meddling in division-level affairs” to recoup some of that cost with the (misguided) hope that Xboss Gamepass subscribers will: a) try WoW on Xbox; and b) love it so much they spend big on cash-shop MTX. GenX/Z/Alpha don’t even like MMOs; too much of a time sink… they want roguelikes that are won & done in 10-15 minutes. 