#1 Hype-Thread Shitposter - Overlord of the Hypethread
It's no longer friends & family alpha if everybody has a chance of getting it by opting in/entering key giveaways.
What f&f used to be is what the name suggests, and it stopped because people would still get the files from their servers and datamine them, so might as well let the strangers just play alpha.
#1 Hype-Thread Shitposter - Overlord of the Hypethread
But it's not only f&f that get the keys, because in that case retail servers could be called blizzard employ servers since all blizzard employees get the game (was the case at least in vanilla, mentioned in a panel this year).
f&f alpha means that friends and family are the ONLY ones (other than devs ofc) that get access to that test phase.
Now it's just Alpha
#1 Hype-Thread Shitposter - Overlord of the Hypethread
#1 Hype-Thread Shitposter - Overlord of the Hypethread
A couple things here.
1) They said that the storyline that "culminates" in Undercity and Teldrassil is predicated on you having Battle for Azeroth. Pre-expansion events themselves are universal. This means that those storylines are almost certainly in the expansion itself and not the pre-patch.
2) 7 months is longer than the previous raid tiers. I don't see why it would be a problem. Nor why they would delay the expansion and extend content drought for the entire playerbase so that the tiny minority of raiders can keep farming something they've been doing for months in order to all get the mount.
How little they've done where? Most of the zones are very late stage, that is farther than many expansions were at release. There has literally never been a testing cycle longer than 7 months, and what they bring to Blizzcon is always a fraction of what they have done. Just because they haven't worked out exact timers on Warfronts (a beta testing determination) or similar things does not mean they are early in development. They have music pieces out for each of the zone previews they did. That is farther along than Legion was at Blizzcon 2015 (November, with an August release)
Last edited by Hitei; 2017-11-13 at 10:32 AM.
#1 Hype-Thread Shitposter - Overlord of the Hypethread
Nah, hope for whatever you want, but know to set the expectations according to facts. And to also not be butt-hurt when your hopes haven't been met.
I guess the first step in getting good at the process is pretty much what you described, and as time passes you'll get better at creating valid expectations.
#1 Hype-Thread Shitposter - Overlord of the Hypethread
Same here. Well, maybe not Nightborne, I already main a night elf and I don't want to see the people I spent months helping joining the other faction that easily.
But with those six new character slots, and the toggleable PvP, I'm probably going to have three or four Horde characters.