Doesn’t take a rocket dentist to realize time gating earthen is a bad move
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Unfortunately it doesn’t matter if the roadmap was wrong. The advertisement given to players to draw them to making these purchases stated one thing and they’re now being told another. I feel we are well within our right to be frustrated, and to voice that frustration (though I maintain we must be at least somewhat restrained, cursing them out wont do us any good) on the forums so they can see they made a misstep and upset the players. Do they care? We don’t know. We hope they care. Time will tell I guess if they come back and at least acknowledge it.
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Oh, I didn’t realize there was that post in CS, happy we finally got a date though. Not too long away - but very annoying that there is misinformation (or better yet, misrepresentation of information).
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I don’t normally curse (that’s wifey’s specialty 
), but this is just so… disappointing. 
I was really, really excited to make an Earthen - even more so than before, after getting to finally experience their story and culture in-game over these past few days! I’ve been planning my Earthen since Thursday, have a class decided and everything, even fooled around with the preview option in character creation. Wife and I were going to have a fun duo run of DF into TWW with them.
This is so upsetting. I know it’s “just another week”, but it’s the fact that we’ve already had to wait all EA, and then they only communicated this change from the initial slides… now. Right before official launch. It’s incredibly demoralizing and frustrating, with seemingly no reason behind it on top of things. It isn’t as if they provide player power, or anything! They begin at level 10! 
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It was likely posted on twitter, wowhead says it’s directly from blizz
I’m not gonna lie, the way they’ve handled the Earthen released has left me feeling burned. I was planning on having an Earthen Pally prepped for raid night on Sept 10th and now that will be much harder.
I’ll probably keep playing, of course, but this has definitely made me uninterested in ever shelling out extra to Blizzard for Early Access ever again. Premium prices for less-than-premium content/service.
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I think you figured out the goblin form of dentistry with this, and it made me chuckle when I’m rather frustrated. Thank you for that.
Well, lessoned learned. Don’t buy early access next time.
lol, honestly I’ve used rocket dentistry as a phrase for years!
Expansion “feature” strikes again. Figured they would have learned from ally races last time
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Nothing to do with ea
I know a lot of people keep saying “they’re just another dwarf recolor” but I really love how they looked and haven’t even touched WoW Head’s dressing room - just so I could have spent time tonight exploring it all <3
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They had me at horde dwarf
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Yes I can see the golden chariots coming one day.
It will be a glorious day indeed.
A day where BlizZard doesn’t fumble before entering the endzone.
Glorious!
… yes it does! If someone else tells you something another random third party doesn’t suddenly become responsible for the miscommunication of the second party.
Do you have any idea of just how insane the thing you said here is…? So no, you are fundamentally wrong and no one should ever take you seriously if you genuinely think that what a second party says makes a third party responsible. So no.
Other people, sure.
You in particular or someone employing your type of logic? Not in a billion million infinite number of years buddy!
I have said as much since BFA that their art teams are rock stars.
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In fact, it appears they had no plan to say anything. After all, this disclosure came up in response to a question here – it has not been disclosed anywhere else.
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Just when I was about to salute Blizzard for turning things around with this expansion. There is no way they didn’t know everyone anticipated this race to be available at launch. They let it sit like that, purposefully cultivating it, just so they could ensure more people bought the launch. It also improves their time engagement metrics. They don’t care about lying to us and scamming so long as their time engagement metrics benefit. This is Blizzard in 2024.
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Why the hell are they timegated a week? Who is that for? Good lord.
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Did I buy the right edition or is Earthen monetized also? Seems to be the path blizzard has chosen with the scummy early access cash grab.
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