It is released when it is ready for open beta.
The Blizzard polish in WoW died with the end of MoP. Everything after that was and will be a sloppy mess.
Activison happened plus the retard generation of gamers that buy early access unfinished game .
P.s : Blizzard is still one of the few companies that deliver acceptable game when they release . Just look at shitshow that is Destiny 2 for example .
They didn't exactly "bump it up". They never gave a release date before the one we have, they only gave a "no later then" date which is required in some regions for legal purposes - which actually happens to be the same "no later then" date we had for Legion, just two years later, and Legion also released in August.
There never was any indication that they planned to release BfA any later then its now going to be released at.
you mean how vanilla was missing most of its content and alot of it never got added
or how WoTLK launched and still doesent have something that was put ON THE WOTLK BOX
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didnt know activision owned blizz in burning crusade and vanilla...
It has nothing to do with pre-purchase sales. The problem is still in the manufacture and distribution of the physical boxes. With a game this large, with global sales and a massive presence, they need to have those boxes coordinated to be on the shelves at a set time for a release. You act like the Blizzard of ages ago is the same as the Blizzard of now all because of intentional business decisions to make money off pre-orders when fundamentally pre-orders aren't any different than reserving a copy with a game store except they're cutting out the middle man. It has zero impact on delivery times. It has to do with the fact that their business has massively grown and the changes required to maintain an infrastructure of distribution is different for a company of their size versus what they were 15+ years ago.
The software industry in general is different now than it was back then because they can very easily apply updates and patches to software after release. This isn't the early 90's where they needed to have everything completely solid on a set of discs with the Warcraft RTS. Now even with physical distributions of single player games they expect to be able to update online. Again, you pretend this is some massive conspiracy to provide sub-par QC to customers to save a buck. It's not. It's just business done on the scale of a company the size of Blizzard combined with changes in technology over time. Nothing more or less.
As far as the cinematic approach, I've intentionally avoided playing much of the beta. I'll play it when it's live.
I have to regretfully share that one of the happenings is due to the community not finding themselves able to wait a little longer. Many consume things like locust and once it is all gone, then we start counting the minutes, hours, days of lacking content that many will consume and devour just as fast. Of course, I am not saying that there aren't anyone pressuring from behind the doors at Blizzard but in the end, it is the numbers that dictate and the hard numbers comes from their knowledge of the community.
If Blizzard had believed their content not to be fully ready at any of the expensions (Except MoP, that drought can go to hell) then I'd gladly wait a few more months. Though, from Blizzard's side, they have to release within well enough time from BlizzCon to not steal away playing time.
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They have technically 3, but 2 active ones. One that works the current running expansion and one the sets up and develops the next. The 3rd 'team' is actually asset people who's been given permission to sketch out ideas to reference a future expansion idea. That is how we get our Blizzard Store mounts too.
FOMO: "Fear Of Missing Out", also commonly known as people with a mental issue of managing time and activities, many expecting others to fit into their schedule so they don't miss out on things to come. If FOMO becomes a problem for you, do seek help, it can be a very unhealthy lifestyle..
Because people like "you" end up whining regardless. If they release it on time with a few things pushed for 8.1 you'll whine that they need to get better devs and plan better, if they release it two months after time you'll whine that the content draught is too long and that they need to get better devs and plan better. It's a lose-lose because "you" as a community is made up of an ungrateful bunch of entitlement warriors.
Yeah, (often same) people whine when:
- we have more RNG loot (legendaries) and predictable loot (azerite armor)
- there are no requirements for raiding (WoD) or there is a lot busy work (Legion)
- Blizz take their time and release "when it's ready" (Legion) or there is tight release schedule to cut content drought (BfA)
- classes had lot of changes (Legion) and classes have very little changes (BfA few months ago)
.. and in the end they just whine that devs won't listen to feedback from forums.
Stop right there. Its not like Blizzard is doing a service for the community developing content, they are paid in expansion revenue, sub revenue and multiple ingame purchases revenue.
I doubt we ever had content delayed by community outrage or lack of interest/content testing on PTRs/Beta, but on the other hand multiple tiers of content was delayed due to Blizzard, or canceled outright because the investment was not worth the revenue $ wise. BFA itself is an experiment into how little resources/assets can go in a full price WoW expansion.
because that motto is extremly terrible for business
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Because people like "me" actually want a proper product for the $$$ they are spending? The audacity...
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I think they have been experimenting with that for a while now. How low can we go until people stop spending time and money.
Over are the times when Blizzard actually wanted to make a good product first and foremost. Yeah, I know, here comes the "it's a business"-yada yada.
It's only a business if you actually have a product tho. Otherwise it's a scam. And that's where Blizzard is headed
What happened to "buy when it's ready" then? I'd much rather have content faster at the cost of polish but i do get the people who would rather wait for a better experience. I am just wondering where this need to play it at launch comes from the people who complain it is not ready. Surely you can wait and not buy it then? Or is it the feeling of being left behind or what? It's like complaining the cake is bad then buying and eating it anyhow.
There has never been a launch in as bad of a state as i thought the game was when the last patch of wod took over a year. Close second is the end of mop, again, for lasting too long. There has to be compromises in either the pace or quality of content coming out. Third option would be spending a lot more money on making the game and seeing the prices go up and that doesn't seem to be going well whenever they do.
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Couldn't agree more, this game WAS AMAZING with how much care they put into this game before they were bought then all the sudden they started getting this "desire" coughmoneycough to put shit out faster when they really don't understand that the unsilent majority of this game will always spend more on QUALITY and stay longer than if they feel they are being fed shit just so some company can make it's quarterly projections....quality ALWAYS beats quantity.
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