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Dragonflight 10.0 Patch Pushed to CDN Testing Branch
Dragonflight
Posted
2022/06/27 at 7:41 PM
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Anshlun
One of WoW testing branches, WoWVendor3, has been updated by Blizzard to version 10.0, build 44351. While this testing build is only accessible by Blizzard testers, it might indicate the start of the Dragonflight Alpha soon.
It has been around 2 months since the
first Dragonflight build hit the WoWDev servers
. Check out our
Expansion timeline analysis posted a few days ago
.
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Comment by
TheRuan
on 2022-06-28T06:25:49-05:00
The expansion is most likely going to be delayed. Everyone get your shocked faces out and over and done with and just be happy it will be delayed. They will make an announcement like they did for Warcraft Reforged and push it out a month or two.
Enough complaining about something you haven’t seen yet to know how far along it is or isn’t.
At this point, I think they'll do it a 3rd time and announce a delay by November. Anyone believing 2022 is the year 10.0 releases will get upset despite the warnings.
It’s just ridiculous…games get development release dates. All projects do. It is a placeholder and that’s it. They legally would have to put a release date on it to allow pre-orders to be done. It’s all for show and that’s it.
So, you're saying they put a date for release they knew they couldn't keep so they could get pre-orders? You know, by law, they have to offer refunds if they can't keep that date. They could have put March 2023 or June 2023, but they didn't. Some of yall have real bad takes.
True, if the date isn't for real, it could have been a $%^ up, i really doubt they would want to go through the hassle of dealing with so many refunds and even risking law suits, not only that, if they don't release the expansion let's say 1~2 months later than that, it would be a major moral hit on blizzard and blizzard can't really take much more ...
On the other hand what they could be planning is to release the content more gradually like they did on 9.2~9.2.5 and test it more gradually too, that would mean that only base content would be available at launch, giving them 1~2 more months to test everything else.
About half of SoFO wasn't tested until about 2~4 weeks after the raid was launched.
Let's say by launch they release only the talent trees, the talents themselves are mostly current or old skills, so they don't require that much testing, the combination of them do, but that can be tested by simulations, most of it anyway.
The new AH/profession system could be released in steps, giving them up to 2~3 more months to finish it.
The new class/race will indeed require tons of testing, but if we consider the amount of hype around it, most bugs will be known shortly after alpha is released.
The new flying system will require some fair amount of testing, i'm not sure how far along they are on it.
So finally, in regards to effort needed for testing to launch it's close to a content patch.
On the testing subject i do hope they do some sort of prizes for testers, it could be very very small things as days of game time, that would speed up the bug reports by a lot, we have seen hundreds of small bugs that could have been easily fixed.
Comment by
Xernes
on 2022-06-28T07:23:53-05:00
least they could do by now would be giving us more talenttrees so we could tell them that this is way to early and they should 100% delay this alpha test of an "expansion"...
how is it too early only things that needs testing are the evoker and the profession system
Comment by
1910828
on 2022-06-28T08:40:56-05:00
The expansion is most likely going to be delayed. Everyone get your shocked faces out and over and done with and just be happy it will be delayed. They will make an announcement like they did for Warcraft Reforged and push it out a month or two.
Enough complaining about something you haven’t seen yet to know how far along it is or isn’t.
At this point, I think they'll do it a 3rd time and announce a delay by November. Anyone believing 2022 is the year 10.0 releases will get upset despite the warnings.
It’s just ridiculous…games get development release dates. All projects do. It is a placeholder and that’s it. They legally would have to put a release date on it to allow pre-orders to be done. It’s all for show and that’s it.
Except for the legal consequences if they delay past the date on the pre-order.
If they weren't planning to put it out this year they'd have put March 31st 2023 on the preorder.
Comment by
apedosmil
on 2022-06-28T10:08:17-05:00
The expansion is most likely going to be delayed. Everyone get your shocked faces out and over and done with and just be happy it will be delayed. They will make an announcement like they did for Warcraft Reforged and push it out a month or two.
Enough complaining about something you haven’t seen yet to know how far along it is or isn’t.
At this point, I think they'll do it a 3rd time and announce a delay by November. Anyone believing 2022 is the year 10.0 releases will get upset despite the warnings.
It’s just ridiculous…games get development release dates. All projects do. It is a placeholder and that’s it. They legally would have to put a release date on it to allow pre-orders to be done. It’s all for show and that’s it.
So, you're saying they put a date for release they knew they couldn't keep so they could get pre-orders? You know, by law, they have to offer refunds if they can't keep that date. They could have put March 2023 or June 2023, but they didn't. Some of yall have real bad takes.
Lmao, it’s not a bad take at all.. they needed the pre order numbers to hit in Q2, before the shareholders meeting, so there would be at least one, on paper at least, bright spot in a company almost completely consumed in scandal, lawsuits and their own bad press. I’m pretty sure the law is based on an EU law and not on a US law. I’m almost positive that the law they must comply with for presales in the EU says they have to have a release date on or before the last day of the calendar year that the pre sales are taking place in. They couldn’t just give it some realistic 2023 date for that reason. Anyone buying right now is simply making activision/blizzard look good on paper. Right now I bet half of the player base is 100% expecting a delay announcement, and the other half is really hoping they can meet the 2022 deadline. Even if they can meet the extremely tight timelines posted in the wowhead article, and also manage to not step on the holidays, so at the latest an early November release, that’s just about 4 months or 16/17 weeks for the alpha/beta/content creator beta/Ptr/release… all while we also haven’t even seen a season 4 release date and thee has to be at least 12 weeks of season 4 to get at least one rotation of every affix combo in m+… add to that they usually want at least two rotations of affixes in a season to make it viable for m+ ratings, that already puts us at 24 weeks which is now a mid December release.. if they can manage an incredibly unrealistic and tight release window, more power to them, but I think as a gamer I’d rather they announce a delay and also listen and incorporate changes based alpha/ beta tester feedback and release in the spring at the earliest…
Oof, my adhd doesn't allow me to read blocks of text and I'll just focus on that first part
Lmao, it’s not a bad take at all.. they needed the pre order numbers to hit in Q2
It is though, Blizzard could have said January, February, or March of 2023 as the launch by date, and would have still gotten all those preorders for their shareholders meeting, if not more sense so many doubt they can get this thing launched by December. The mental gymnastics some of yall go through to ultimately say Blizzard bad, no faith in big bad Blizzard, is astonishing. You really think they want to risk tons of refunds just to look slightly more favorably at a shareholders meeting or on some profits report?
Comment by
pawpurr
on 2022-06-29T01:31:58-05:00
The expansion is most likely going to be delayed. Everyone get your shocked faces out and over and done with and just be happy it will be delayed. They will make an announcement like they did for Warcraft Reforged and push it out a month or two.
Enough complaining about something you haven’t seen yet to know how far along it is or isn’t.
Where is this information coming from? It sure seems like a lot of the community is on fire about "it's too quick it's too fast it will be delayed" but there is no evidence of things going poorly - or going well for that matter. If Blizzard misses the posted release date, they have to offer refunds like they did with SL, so it makes no business sense to do this on purpose.
Comment by
Greensmower1
on 2022-06-30T05:58:37-05:00
The expansion is most likely going to be delayed. Everyone get your shocked faces out and over and done with and just be happy it will be delayed. They will make an announcement like they did for Warcraft Reforged and push it out a month or two.
Enough complaining about something you haven’t seen yet to know how far along it is or isn’t.
At this point, I think they'll do it a 3rd time and announce a delay by November. Anyone believing 2022 is the year 10.0 releases will get upset despite the warnings.
It’s just ridiculous…games get development release dates. All projects do. It is a placeholder and that’s it. They legally would have to put a release date on it to allow pre-orders to be done. It’s all for show and that’s it.
So, you're saying they put a date for release they knew they couldn't keep so they could get pre-orders? You know, by law, they have to offer refunds if they can't keep that date. They could have put March 2023 or June 2023, but they didn't. Some of yall have real bad takes.
Lmao, it’s not a bad take at all.. they needed the pre order numbers to hit in Q2, before the shareholders meeting, so there would be at least one, on paper at least, bright spot in a company almost completely consumed in scandal, lawsuits and their own bad press. I’m pretty sure the law is based on an EU law and not on a US law. I’m almost positive that the law they must comply with for presales in the EU says they have to have a release date on or before the last day of the calendar year that the pre sales are taking place in. They couldn’t just give it some realistic 2023 date for that reason. Anyone buying right now is simply making activision/blizzard look good on paper. Right now I bet half of the player base is 100% expecting a delay announcement, and the other half is really hoping they can meet the 2022 deadline. Even if they can meet the extremely tight timelines posted in the wowhead article, and also manage to not step on the holidays, so at the latest an early November release, that’s just about 4 months or 16/17 weeks for the alpha/beta/content creator beta/Ptr/release… all while we also haven’t even seen a season 4 release date and thee has to be at least 12 weeks of season 4 to get at least one rotation of every affix combo in m+… add to that they usually want at least two rotations of affixes in a season to make it viable for m+ ratings, that already puts us at 24 weeks which is now a mid December release.. if they can manage an incredibly unrealistic and tight release window, more power to them, but I think as a gamer I’d rather they announce a delay and also listen and incorporate changes based alpha/ beta tester feedback and release in the spring at the earliest…
Oof, my adhd doesn't allow me to read blocks of text and I'll just focus on that first part
Lmao, it’s not a bad take at all.. they needed the pre order numbers to hit in Q2
It is though, Blizzard could have said January, February, or March of 2023 as the launch by date, and would have still gotten all those preorders for their shareholders meeting, if not more sense so many doubt they can get this thing launched by December. The mental gymnastics some of yall go through to ultimately say Blizzard bad, no faith in big bad Blizzard, is astonishing. You really think they want to risk tons of refunds just to look slightly more favorably at a shareholders meeting or on some profits report?
Don’t you just hate it when the explanation to counter your comment is already in the “wall of text” you never bothered to read?
Also in the long run, if it is delayed past December, how many will actually bother to ask for a refund? The numbers from Warcraft 3 were never released but I’d bet it less than a thousand people just trying to make a point, who then almost all turn around and buy the game again…
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