It's saturday evening and we did not get a new beta build this week, they only back-rolled the build from 46157 to 46144 which fixed the broken professions UI but brought back other bugs that were already fixed.And the PTR is on build 46181 with UI bugs in plus a few hotfixes.The Dragonflight beta test forum is full of reports and void of blue reactions.As there will be nothing really new for the first week anyways, take it slow, wait for the patches to roll in.At least the new "talent system" has a "starter build" so it can be easily ignored at first.Edit: and the PTR is updating here now, there is hope.Edit2: 46247 fixes at least one bug that was crashing the UIStill, moving the two bars on the right side is making the bags unuseable.
It's crazy to me that the comments section for this "article" is actually worse than the "journalism" done in it. Development for Dragonflight almost certainly started between 6 and 9 months before Shadowlands dropped, potentially even earlier. To think development only starts when coding begins is ridiculous.
One thing that's not noted here is Blizzard acquired a new company several months ago that added on several hundred new employees to the development of WoW.The reason why this expansion is launching so quickly is because it was already about 70% done by the time I got the beta 2 months ago. Leveling zones, quests, dungeons, etc. were already in. We were just missing finalized class trees and M+/raid testing... and of course bug fixes for classes/talents. They rushed out the class design way too fast imho, but Blizzard treats WoW like a live service project so they just hotfix and tweak everything week-by-week.This expansion is probably the most barebones expansion launched in the last decade. Outside of the revamped talent trees + crafting system, Evoker class (which seems DoA already), better hud, and dragonflying... there's no new game feature at all. It's an expansion mainly meant to hook back players who were disenfranchised by the previous borrowed power systems. That also includes Classic players as well... since their main complaint is in regards to the overcomplexity of retail.I suspect that Blizzard pushed back new system to 10.1 and 10.2 that might have made it if they had more time on the expansion. What will make Dragonflight a success is if they can give us more frequent content updates. The 6-8 month patch cycles get a bit stale.
They told us time and time again exactly when they plan these things. Ex-employees have put out articles and even a book (WoW Diaries) that go through the process.If Shadowlands was the BEST expansion we ever played, Dragonflight would still be on the exact same release date. They work 2 expansions ahead of where the game is.
Who wrote this?Blizzard literally said that Dragonflight was in development before Shadowlands launched.This is "too late" propaganda with either zero research or just lying.
tl;dr "We ain't got a god damned clue when it did, but we're gonna post it with a headline that makes it sound like we do"
Regardless of the post being right or wrong, the sheer number defending Blizzard is just sad and surprising. I guess with such a loyal fanbase they will never need to make the game fun or put much effort into it. These loyalists will continue to pump out money at any chance they can get.