early access is not launch day tho
buying on early access is considered pre-order
buying pre-order new world gave early access to the whole game
if you have to pay to get into early access then that is pre-order lol unless they are double charging ppl 1 for early access 1 for launch
I love that type of game though, i have like 1000 hrs in Satisfactory.
“Candidate” is literally the industry term.
“Release Candidate” is a term used in the software world. It wasnt just Blizzard adding something.
you counting the email blizz sent everyone?
technically the date they announced SL release date was warning enough do the math and prepatches were usually 4 weeks minimum and that was well known, and if pvpers cant figure tht out, then must not have been high ranked players to begin with especially if they wait last second and req a 2 week notice to even bother pvping last second…
I mean, i know that part, but blizzard doesn’t call it release candidate, they just call it release.
lol wut? It went from release to testing because it didn’t have all the class changes as it was not the most recent build anymore. The PTR was updated with the most recent changes on it. And would you look at that. It’s now the release build.
It was 15 days, or 3 resets, so I was making a joke that it was 3 weeks, a joke, hence the /s
Could they possibly be talking about the launch of early access? 
Or are you now trying to troll here on the forums?
He’s a troll, but it’s fun to poke at him.
They have called it release candidate before.
https://blizzardwatch.com/2019/06/18/patch-8-2-officially-release-candidate-ptr-8-2-actually-dropping/
It’s a common term in software development, dates backs decades. When you deploy a release build to a Testing environnement, that build becomes what is known as a “Release Candidate”.
Just tagging something “Release” doesn’t make it release worthy on its own, there are still some final tests to run before a Golive. Which is why often multiple release builds are put on testing prior to a final build being dubbed the actual “release” build which goes to the live servers on deployment day.
I’d have to see the actual build at the bottom of the PTR, but iirc they always just say (Release) instead of (Test)
yeah and look at the link blizz did call it release on the ptr, see the pics?
its wowhead that calls the things candidate
to clarify on the actual ptr it said release, wowhead just by habit calls it candidate
the pics shows release
Exactly. If they want to give us 1 week for prepatch, they can. If they want to give us a single day, it’s totally up to them. A single day is kind of mandatory, otherwise it would just be the patch, lol. I guess they could delay release. I would pay to see that cryfest.
Because it being a “release candidate” is the full term
Shorthand is shorthand
Sure, but we’re talking about a company that for years released beta’s that were actually alpha’s by industry standard lol.
That is normal as a build would be required to promote a test build to a release build usually, as the version string would have to be updated.
Which is why Release Candidate builds usually have nothing to really distinguish them from their actual release counterparts, including final version strings and all. That way, the release candidate build that passes all the gates can be pushed straight out to live without having to update the version and rebuild.
I always wondered how some people can stand aggressively chewing tinfoil this hard. I’d imagine it would hurt the teeth.