World of Warcraft®: The War Within™ Goes Live August 26!

You don’t need to pay for overtime if you have one team that is 3 hours behind.

Ok, no crunch time then. I’m sure all the bugs will be worked out by August 22.

Well the wording was “at least” 3 days I believe. But yes I was thinking the same “hmm guess it’s 4 days then?”

Except those teams don’t double up. They work on seperate projects. One team is working on the launch, the other is working on a . 05 or .1 patch. That’s how they’ve been getting updates out so quickly. And why they’ve been smaller overall.

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Most likely to stop complaints if the game is down the first day. I know they said that outages wouldn’t matter, but I could see them hoping to avoid the crowd if there is one.

WoW has always been a live service. WoW was a live service before that term was in common usage. WoW is pretty much the platonic ideal of a live service.

for shamans. its doa for shamans. everyone else will be enjoying it just fine.