World of Warcraft Classic Beta Added to CDN

Ohh shitt so much hype.

1.13 BOYS

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Originally Posted by Explicit Teemo Nudes

I hope I end up on the "wrong" server. There will be more chill people there

I experienced being in a lively server that turned dead, it wasn't fun

Originally Posted by Razzako

I experienced being in a lively server that turned dead, it wasn't fun

That's going to be the vast majority of servers if they open too many off the bat just to deal with the "first month influx"

Originally Posted by Onikaroshi

That's going to be the vast majority of servers if they open too many off the bat just to deal with the "first month influx"

Yeah, I'm curious how they're gonna handle that. I would hate having my server die no more than half a year into Classic.

Originally Posted by Razzako

Yeah, I'm curious how they're gonna handle that. I would hate having my server die no more than half a year into Classic.

Unless the Classic team is better then the Retail team they'll "handle" it by charging for server transfers.

Originally Posted by Razzako

Yeah, I'm curious how they're gonna handle that. I would hate having my server die no more than half a year into Classic.

They will have a small number of realms for classic total. They will use sharding for the launch to handle the huge influx of players and then gradually stop with the sharding as the populations stabilize.

Just give us a release date already! I want to know how to schedule my holidays this year.

Originally Posted by BarosanuNr1

Just give us a release date already! I want to know how to schedule my holidays this year.

With 8.2 on the horizon you REALLY shouldn't expect it before late aug. They're not going to overlap the two, spreading them out makes the bottom line look better.

Originally Posted by BarosanuNr1

Just give us a release date already! I want to know how to schedule my holidays this year.

I get the feeling they're only going to announce it when they're 3-4 weeks out. Not a lot of time to schedule, sadly. It is just a feeling, though.

This is happening hype is real!!!

PS mmo-champion is buggy it was meant to be in caps!

Originally Posted by Onikaroshi

Unless the Classic team is better then the Retail team they'll "handle" it by charging for server transfers.

I was referring to the initial amount of servers. Perhaps they'll release a few and open some as deem necessary progressively and cautiously.

Originally Posted by Razzako

I was referring to the initial amount of servers. Perhaps they'll release a few and open some as deem necessary progressively and cautiously.

They've already got data on how popular it will be, just depends on how many they can fit, realistically, on each server.

Originally Posted by Adynos

They will have a small number of realms for classic total. They will use sharding for the launch to handle the huge influx of players and then gradually stop with the sharding as the populations stabilize.

Yeah that's most likely going to be their definitive plan for launch. Are shards going to be used only for the few starting zones though? IDK if they ever went into more details regarding shards since the demo and the short time afterwards they talked about it.

Sweet. Getting ever closer to coming back to WoW.

make another section of your website for classic. no classic crap belongs on front page

Originally Posted by The Stormbringer

They said already that they're not doing a beta for this one.

EDIT: That screenshot leads me to believe otherwise though, maybe. Weird.

They never said that.

Originally Posted by Cavox

I'm an IT engineer

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Originally Posted by Onikaroshi

We have to remember that vanilla was made by a bunch of amatuers doing their first MMO ever, it was a mess

Amateurs? Hardly.

Blizzard had been making video games for over a decade at that point. It's not that they were hacks it's just that technology is constantly evolving. What was great in 2004 is not going to be so great 15 years later.

Originally Posted by Cavox

Let me level with you:
NO U

If you think Blizzard is less competent than a bunch of nobodies that emulated private Vanilla servers for tens of thousands of people then.... I agree. They are. Or it's a marketing move - take your pick.

Botched mangos core hacked together with bandaid =/= proper product where you actually have to care about security issues

Your incompetence is showing.

Originally Posted by Docturphil

Amateurs? Hardly.

Blizzard had been making video games for over a decade at that point. It's not that they were hacks it's just that technology is constantly evolving. What was great in 2004 is not going to be so great 15 years later.

I should have said "amatuers in mmo's" they had no clue what they were doing with an MMO and didn't even know how it was going to do. WoW was a completely different ball game then anything they had done.

This isn't just some random thought, there's interviews done with the old devs about it, they were flying blind for the most part.

Originally Posted by Malum

Can't wait! Looking forward to transmog and LFR.

That's just silly.

Originally Posted by Onikaroshi

This isn't just some random thought, there's interviews done with the old devs about it, they were flying blind for the most part.

That pretty much describes every project that any software engineer has ever touched. Mistakes are always made in any software project. Ask any software engineer to look at code they wrote 5 years ago. They'll look at it and tell you it's shit.

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Originally Posted by Cavox

And people who blindly believe companies make me smile. They only want what's best for you, right?

Does Blizzard want what's best for their customers?

Well 99 times out of 100 what is best for their customers coincides with what is profitable. That's how the entertainment industry tends to work. Good stuff does well and is profitable and bad stuff doesn't do well and doesn't make money.

Diablo Immortal aside, yes Blizzard mostly does what's best for their customers. They're not some agency shrouded in conspiracy. They just make video games.