Summers almost here, where is release date?

[Razzako]

This is just wrong.

Summer 2019 - Friday, June 21 to Monday, September 23

If Classic launches on a Friday I won't sleep for 72 hours lol.

[Daedius]

2020, the future!

[Chickat]

Im guessing late August.

[chazus]

I mean... it's re-releasing a game they released 15 years ago. Classic servers have existed without them made by unpaid non-employees hobbyist fans rather than a team in a major game developer. It shouldn't be... you know... hard. But yeah... sure take their time to "get it right".

You realize that they aren't just "putting it back out", right? And they're doing a totally different process from what private servers did. There is a LOT of work, and yes, it is hard.

[vsb]

This is just wrong.

Summer 2019 - Friday, June 21 to Monday, September 23

No. Summer is June 1 to August 31.

[Puupi]

Blizzard isn't going to be present on Gamescom in August this year, which could mean Classic is out before that.

Maybe it's just me, but it would be worth hyping Classic a bit before the release. To get more people to sub. Nothing to hype if it's already out.

They should definitely NOT hype up Classic.

The backlash from the community would be huge if they did.

You do not hype up 15 year old stuff or mobile games. You just don't.

[Hey There Guys its Metro]

Is it? Still like two months until summer even starts.

[Beet]

I actually imagine not until September. Apparently they said second half of the year on the earnings report so that rules out June.

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They should definitely NOT hype up Classic.

The backlash from the community would be huge if they did.

You do not hype up 15 year old stuff or mobile games. You just don't.

Uh why? That’s absurd. There’s bound to be tons of people who would play but have no idea it’s coming. Shit my old hunter buddy from vanilla didn’t even know it was in the works muchless out soon when I told him last month. Now he’s excited for it. The community is going to bitch anyways. The fan base is divided over BFA vs classic.

[Nite92]

I mean... it's re-releasing a game they released 15 years ago. Classic servers have existed without them made by unpaid non-employees hobbyist fans rather than a team in a major game developer. It shouldn't be... you know... hard. But yeah... sure take their time to "get it right".

A.) They said it is a small Team.
B.) Yeah, hobbyist who where really good at coding. Ignore the fact that devs are basically programmers.
C.) Is it so easy? Why does Nost/Elysium or whatever server have/had so many issues?

[FireVoodoo]

No. On every server (I played all the popular vanilla ones) there are always things that are off, such as:

Basic loot tables(random mobs always drop too much)
Mob damage
Bugged abilities
Nodes spawn time (mining, herbalism) are either too fast or too slow. This leads to a screwed up economy.
Mob and hunter pet pathing (especially in caves)
Many bugged quests
Band aid fixes to boss mechanics and damage when no one can provide info on how it really was back in the day
Abusive and corrupt staff.
Almost every npc have no dialogue. "Greetings <name>" on most npcs.

The list goes on but you get my point.

All these things and probably many more which I did not mention here are what blizzard will take their time on fixing before release, and I'd wait a thousand years to play classic rather than play a single private server again

True, but they don't have to "fix" that though. They got original database.

[Jibjub]

No. Summer is June 1 to August 31.

What calendar are you using? I can only assume you are not in the United States (or you're just trolling)? Because in North America it's June 21st to September 23rd.

[Dakhath]

It's not going to happen in the next 3 months. 8.2 will be Blizzards MAU grab for this quarter, Classic will be the next quarter.

[Dakhath]

Agreed, Blizzard doesn't have to spend a single cent on marketing Classic. The people that want to play it are already foaming at the mouth for it and have been for a long time now.

[JohnRoads]

As it kinda is in Europe....so..no idea..maybe its is the Chinese year or something oceanic?

Denmark, and maybe other countries in Europe, still stick with the fixed months seasons. At least I often hear something like "Today is the first day of winter/fall/summer/spring" when we get to the 1st of December/March/June/September. The Danish Weather Service (DMI) also uses that when they are comparing seasons from year to year.

[oplawlz]

September 10th.

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No. Summer is June 1 to August 31.

Not for those of us who moved out of the dark ages.

[Battlebeard]

I don't know enough about programming etc to really say this, but it seems that if private servers can come and go very quickly then Blizzard who is a huge company should be able to produce these servers ALOT faster than they have done. Please, if private servers can do it so fast, what is taking Blizzard so long, please do explain to me.

[Binaris]

September 17th, the last Tuesday of summer.

[Bdatik]

I don't know enough about programming etc to really say this, but it seems that if private servers can come and go very quickly then Blizzard who is a huge company should be able to produce these servers ALOT faster than they have done. Please, if private servers can do it so fast, what is taking Blizzard so long, please do explain to me.

Private servers were shell of the original. A ton of guesswork on numbers and a lot of abilities (players and NPCs) didn't work properly (or some didn't work at all).

[vsb]

What calendar are you using? I can only assume you are not in the United States (or you're just trolling)? Because in North America it's June 21st to September 23rd.

Russia, of course, who cares about US?

[draynay]

Since Blizzard operates out of California it is logical to assume they will conform to the standard North American definition of Summer.