What we’d like to see in a developer update

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During the Blizzcon developer interview, the developers stated that communication will be more frequent than it was in the last year.

It has only been one month since Blizzcon, and we should expect to see another update from the developers in the coming months. While the details we’ve gotten so far have been enlightening, there are still many questions and concerns that should be addressed by the developers, if they want to keep an open line of communication.

I’m the next developer update, I think they should go point-by-point through this list made by the community, and address some glaring flaws we’ve noticed in the demo.

This would be an effective way for the developers to make a meaningful update, and relay more than just vague lawyer-speak to us.

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The Reddit compilation is interesting and I agree a good place to start to expect answers to questions. While IMO, much of the list consists of bugs and genuine artifacts of the 7.3.5 backport which hadn’t yet been cleaned up, there are some areas of confusion and possible concern there too.

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Has it only been a month, God this is gonna take forever… I have no patience.

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A roadmap would be nice. As would decisions on game aspects like AV.

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Given that this whole project started with Blizzard asking a lot of “which version of Vanilla should we use on things” I’d like to see if they’re going all out 1.12 or if they’re using older versions of things like AV, dungeons, etc.

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i really hope AV is the old one. was lots of fun with all the extra npcs the huge elites

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lol…even one post by them would be “more frequent” than what we had for the past year.

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I don’t even wish a discussion. I just want information. Hell, Blizzcon came and went and what actual information did we honestly get from it beyond the alleged release timeframe? (Information that we were actually asking for)

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Monthly updates right here in the Classic forum pinned to the top

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I’d like to see a video documentary of updates. Like a behind-the-scenes video of the developers struggling to make Classic work in the new system, or arguing over “changes” such as sharding in their meetings. Then we could at least see the process rather than sit here complaining.

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This doesn’t happen with retail, why would you think it will happen for Classic?

Most likely we’ll be given a large review a month or two before it is released.

We might get something in a couple of months though, maybe. The best thing we can hope for is data mined information.

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To keep the hype up I guess? Seems reasonable.

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Again they don’t do this for xpac launches, thinking they change their approach for classic is quite a stretch. Sure would it be cool? Absolutely, but if we’re being honest with ourselves we should expect their usual information release schedule. Which is mostly everything will be given to us a couple of months before the release.

They also don’t want people to stop talking about it, if their implementations they choose to make are not what that particular person would want.

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I agree with what you’re saying, just wishful thinking. I definitely agree that them not saying much is building a ton of excitement and planning and theory crafting but I still want a little attention from a blue.

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Re-releasing 14 year old content is not remotely the same as unknown content of an upcoming expansion.

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Releasing any content is the same thing. What if what they release, people won’t like? Why risk bad publicity when people will give you free publicity by continuing to talk about it.

For example, if Blizzard right now said AV will be like it was in 1.12, certain people will not be happy. Why even bother with that?

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Releasing known content and releasing unknown content is vastly different. To answer “why even bother?”, because when going shopping for a known selection of products, consumers find it valuable to know what the selection consists of. I do not want to drive all the way to the store for my favorite iceburg lettuce and find that when I get there they substituted it with ebola-riddled romaine. I personally will be judging the worth of classic on what version of AV they go with. Not going to wait till a few months into the game to see what they went with.

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Yeah the store doesn’t care about that, because they will hope you buy another product if the product you wanted is not there. This is the entire idea behind door busters.

If you want to see why Blizzard wont release content is just look at:

Look how that turned out when the CM said it will have a subscription.

They most likely won’t even tell you what version AV we’re getting until the next patch drops anyways.

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Counterpoint: Look at how the “D4” announcement at Blizzcon went over. If you are going to be giving consumers something completely different from what they desire and are getting hyped for, and in fact act like you have no clue what it is they desire, you best communicate that to them earlier.

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Blizzard said in advance that the Diablo announcement at Blizzcon was not D4. While I agree I think the Diablo Immortal fiasco was terrible and how they even talked about it in their share holder meeting was laughable. However they tried to warn their fan base that D4 wasn’t going to be a thing at Blizzcon.