So 5 to 6 months on an expansion that they just started the closed in house alpha testing on. I'm going to have to say the level of suckage is going to be astounding, not even sure if it's going to be worth playing the first 6 months it's out. The Beta testing alone should be 5 months. yeah going to have to take a hard pass for the first six months after release
I was hopeful for Dragonflight, now I'm concerned, hopefully my concerns turns out to be unwarranted.
There will always be people screaming its too early. If those people had it their way, we'd be playing SLs for another 2 years. No thanks.
"Shadowlands sucked, can't wait for the next expansion""Hey guys, we're excited to announce that Dragonflight will release before the end of the y-""Rushed"
Is it too early? Yes! Why? Ol' Bobby Gallywix wants the fast cash to end the year off with fat pockets for him and his coterie , and then they offload the maintenance cycle costs of a new expansion on Microsoft while he flies away on his Golden Loot Blimp. Meanwhile... the transition is rough and Dragonflight suffers content cuts ( I am looking at you dragon riding) due to the rush and of course it will be badly received by it's subscribers.Just my two cents as I look in this crystal ball while wearing a tin-foil hat.
Have to disagree with most here. Way back this year Blizzard said they had a lot of the expansion done. Shadowlands tried to push out all the systems for power gains early out of the gate and left it with problems. Also, Blizzard works on expansions as soon as the last one is released.We are not getting all the borrowed power out of the gate, new revamped trees and maybe tier sets so far are all we know and blizzard has been fantastic about listening to players lately and bringing quality of life changes to the game.I'm not going to sit here crying the sky is falling from the past when recently Blizzard has been great.
Who are these arrogant people saying its too early? Who are they to presume they know anything about the inner workings of the company. How do they know if Dragonflight isn't already completed because they've been working on it for the past decade? Maybe they dont need the same length of testing period as they did in the past? If they cant speed up game development over 20 years there is something seriously wrong. Maybe no matter what you do there will always be unhappy people who complain for no other reason than that is who they are and they complain about everything.
Wrath, Mists and Legion all had shorter Beta time then the amount of time from now until Dec 31st. And they are still considered among WoW's best expansions.Also to consider, is the fact that they already worked on the expansion for an additional 6 months before making the announcement in April. The expansion would've been announced back in November 2021 if Blizzcon would've happened.
this news of DF getting released this year makes me have absolutely no faith in Blizzard as this is a hard confirmation that SL was WoD 2.0. If Blizzard doesn't have faith in their own storylines/expansions, then there is no real reason to believe the player should care about lore (as its dead due to SL) and game mechanics (as we know 10.3 will be when the game is as it should be in 10.0 if Blizzard took the feedback in beta to heart and changed what was needed). So no real reason to come back to the game if you aren't playing retail until 10.3 as the expansion will be a total letdown until they fix the expansion's problems. *Insert GiF of Godfather crying and saying, "Look how they massarced my boy!" :(
It was already stated in this interview that the DF pre-patch would last 2 weeks and would take us to a revamped Uldaman dungeon & playable evoker class:https://www.cuckhead.com/news/dragonflight-interview-with-judgehype-pre-patch-event-dracthyr-questline-mythic-326780
We get an expansion roughly every two years. SL came out in 2020. This is 2022. Right on time.
Possibly - NO.Initially I said yes, but something someone recently posted in a comments section or some random chat changed that for me quite a bit. Borrowed power - there isn't any (apart from the standard tier sets) in Dragon Flight. No legos (personally hoping for old school 0.000000001% weapon drop chance type legos at some stage), no Covenant soulbinds, no covenant abilities. Take away all the tuning that's had to be done since WoD - Legion: Artifact weapons/legos, BFA - Azerite/corruption/neck/legos, Shadowlands: 2xLegos, Soulbinds, Cov Abilities and you have a pretty basic design outline.Apart from new talent trees (which look good albeit in limited viewing), a profession overhaul, UI overhaul and "How to train your Dragon", all that's left is story/questing, modelling, environmental designs, Dungeon and Raid designing - all standard stuff they work on for years before even announcing anything. And none of those is a major tuning issue.Honestly, it's all going to come down to Beta. If they take on board player critiques/issues and actually change things early on instead of 10.1 or 10.2 , we could get a really great product.They have to come through, three in a row could be game destroying.
Imagine what a game we would have if instead of sucking the life out of the game like vultures, they reinvested money into it, to make the patch release more like Vanilla, direct correlation between lack of updates, and steady decline of the game since late mid WRATH.
>Is Dragonflight too Early?No idea, I have not played the beta so I have no idea how far along they are.And one thing that the betas since MoP taught me, they release it regardless of whatever bugs are reported and either chooseto entirely ignore them or hotfix the crap out of it for several weeks after release.I still have the issue in Zereth Mortis that chests disappear from the mini-map if someone else opens them.So, why bother with 6 months of beta-testing if the input from the players is mostly ignored anyways?