So I am curious if we think we will get a beta? Do they really need bug testing?
With a lot of negative community feedback will they risk bad publicity? If they only do internal testing I hope they do streams to show off there work what do you think of this idea?
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ye we’ll get a beta
We don’t know if they’ll have a beta or not.
After they’ve gotten things close, it would probably help to have players run through it to point out some things they might have missed which they can then go and check their reference build on.
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Summer 2019
begins Friday, June 21
ends Monday, September 23
That’s 5-8 months for launch. If there is going to be a beta. Soon™ will be too late.
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I sure hope we do. I can’t take the wait much longer.
I hope so too, I don’t think it will last as long as a beta for a new expansion as they will not need to test things like balance, new quests, and newly developed material. They will of course need to test for the implementation of the classic material and there are bound to be quite a few bugs that need dealing with prior to the official release.
One thing for beta I hope they do is a replay of the end of beta event that I have heard so much about at the end of the original vanilla beta.
Going to end up eating my own foot but I am of the opinion we either won’t get a beta, or if we do it won’t be until a month before their launch.
Truthfully, I hope they make me eat my words.
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I expect so. Even if it ends a week before launch. I think they should at least update the demo so we can see their progress. I can see why they wouldn’t though. I want to see what they have done before I pay for it. Why show me that when they can get my 15$ and a ton of other people’s money for a month?
the demo was a proof of concept.
not even close to alpha, let alone beta.
it looks to me that an alpha release may be in the summer.
a beta release in the fall.
maybe final release in the winter.
They already said that the final release is summer 2019.
lmao at all these “beta testers”. should just say “i want early access”.
yall won’t report anything, because you have no frame of reference other than “i 'member it to be this way”.
brb, blizzard taking someone’s memories from 12 years ago that surely isn’t tainted by private server experiences over their own build and code
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That’s why Blizzard’s reference build should be the final word on anything.
Though it would be silly to think that Blizzard will catch every single difference. People can still point things out to them.
and a beta should come with the understanding that it will be a full character wipe at launch. If people want “early access” to play Vanilla just to reset everything when Classic drops then we have private servers already.
odd… all I read was a release in summer. not whether it was alpha, beta, or final.
I am certain we will not see an alpha or beta before summer.
There’s a blue psot basically saying “If we have a beta you’ll need to set World of Warcraft to “accept beta thingy” on account settings. We’re not confirming it but here’s how you do that.”
Personally I don’t think they would have gone through the trouble of the post if they didn’t intend on there being a beta.
Hell yeah to a beta! I want to play! I’ll find every bug!
Plenty in Silithus.
My guess is that they will have an open beta for publicity, maybe a stress test. I doubt they need much bug hunting.
Wasn’t there an extensive beta back in 2003? Sounds like some people are a bit late to the party.
1.12 Vanilla WoW has been aggressively researched and documented by Vanilla enthusiasts for a decade now. This isn’t lost knowledge. A streamer and I were able to find errors in the WoW classic demo by switching back and forth from the demo to his toon on a vanilla pserver and compare damage for different ranks of spells.
Yes, Vanilla pservers had to make educated guesses to fill in missing data for some things, but they got many things right, and at present they are drastically more authentic than the classic demo was.
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I don’t buy this “we don’t need a long beta because there’s not much to test” argument, because the reality is there is a profoundly large amount of 1-60 content, and they’re trying to accurately recreate all of it. That’s a tremendous amount of bug testing and fixes.
New expansions are a relatively small slice of content relative to the massive chunk that is original 1-60 Vanilla. And when new expansions are released, they don’t really care how much it adversely affects old content.
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