9.0 General Discussion

[TheFirstOnes]

this is one of the most ridiculous bit of speculation i've read around here lately. do you really think they are literally holding off the build to insert a bunch of new artwork at the eleventh hour? (especially since this is of absolutely no value in the development process, there is nothing in the game that depends on it and can't be tested without it)

whatever is in the build has already been deployed on an internal branch yesterday, because you don't just pull a build from the daily development branch and deploy it without a minimal amount of qa first, even on a beta server. The delay is more likely because they now have to deploy servers and push builds for two different branches (here's what one of the server devs have to say about it: https://twitter.com/SeTec9/status/1303781195549822976)

as a sidenote lmao @ creating a separate branch to stabilize a pre-patch that will exist only for a few weeks, i've already been working on three branches almost at the same time on our game at work in much less narrow time constraints and it wasn't pleasant and not something we'd do lightly

they're defo in crunch time now. yeah, they're totally going to nail covenant balance in those few remaining weeks while juggling with two dev branches

Uhm, yeah? Login Screen and Music takes a bit of time to implement, or at least it usually does. Also gives a recent build a couple of gigabytes.

[gunner_recall]

this is one of the most ridiculous bit of speculation i've read around here lately. do you really think they are literally holding off the build to insert a bunch of new artwork at the eleventh hour? (especially since this is of absolutely no value in the development process, there is nothing in the game that depends on it and can't be tested without it)

whatever is in the build has already been deployed on an internal branch yesterday, because you don't just pull a build from the daily development branch and deploy it without a minimal amount of qa first, even on a beta server. The delay is more likely because they now have to deploy servers and push builds for two different branches (here's what one of the server devs have to say about it: https://twitter.com/SeTec9/status/1303781195549822976)

as a sidenote lmao @ creating a separate branch to stabilize a pre-patch that will exist only for a few weeks, i've already been working on three branches almost at the same time on our game at work in much less narrow time constraints and it wasn't pleasant and not something we'd do lightly

they're defo in crunch time now. yeah, they're totally going to nail covenant balance in those few remaining weeks while juggling with two dev branches

Chill, buddy.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

Your game is probably way less complacated then a MMO like WoW.

[tamarin]

Uhm, yeah? Login Screen and Music takes a bit of time to implement, or at least it usually does.

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[gunner_recall]

Your game is probably way less complacated then a MMO like WoW.

Pffft, WoW isn't complicated

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[TheFirstOnes]

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Insert images exist, btw. Here's an example!

[tamarin]

Your game is probably way less complacated then a MMO like WoW.

Even if it was true (our game's development involved multiple dev studios across the world, there's been a total of give or take 50 programmers on the project, we released it accross four different platforms - you be the judge), it would only server to prove my point: if juggling multiple branch on a simpler game was already nightmarish, then surely it's worse for wow.

[Seasz]

Someone's definitely not angry

[TheFirstOnes]

Reminder: It's been almost 3 years since we imprisoned Sargeras.

[TigTone]

Reminder: It's been almost 3 years since we imprisoned Sargeras.

How many years in lore wise?

[TheFirstOnes]

How many years in lore wise?

Lore-wise? About 2

[therumblings]

How many years in lore wise?

1 year between this and BFA, 2 if you add shadowlands (most likely).

[Aeluron Lightsong]

How many years in lore wise?

From each expansion lasts one year although that can get absurd all considering BUT


Legion 1 year

BFA 1 year

Shadowlands launches or starts next month and by its end it will be one year so 3 years of imprisonment buuuut Sargeras cares little for such a small amount of time....considering how many times he went after Azeroth.

[gunner_recall]

Someone's definitely not angry

Jimmies are definitely rustled.

How many years in lore wise?

Each expansion is about 1-2 years so about that.

[therumblings]

The timeline was officially documented finally with the third chronicle, despite fans still getting it wrong/fighting over it. Good rule of thumb, every expansion is 1 year, except for Cata, which lasted 2.

So,

Classic: Year 25
TBC: Year 26
Wrath: Year 27
Cata:Year 28
MoP: Year 30
WoD: Year 31
Legion: Year 32
BFA: Year 33

[gunner_recall]

The timeline was officially documented finally with the third chronicle, good rule of thumb, every expansion is 1 year, except for Cata, which lasted 2.

So,

Classic: Year 25
TBC: Year 26
Wrath: Year 27
Cata:Year 28
MoP: Year 30
WoD: Year 31
Legion: Year 32
BFA: Year 33

Until Shadowlands with tIMEskIP

Anduin out here with 2D3Y on his arm

[huth]

Until Shadowlands with tIMEskIP

Anduin out here with 2D3Y on his arm

Well, we won't really know about that until SL is over. Who knows when we end up after that.

[TheFirstOnes]

https://twitter.com/Zorbrix/status/1303829443656343553 Hm...

[gunner_recall]

Well, we won't really know about that until SL is over. Who knows when we end up after that.

Well hopefully we all meet up in Sabaody.

[therumblings]

Well, we won't really know about that until SL is over. Who knows when we end up after that.

I'm wondering how far they could push it if they decided to. Short lived races like Thrall and Jaina would be in Oribos and wouldn't be affected, so you could technically push it to a 200 year time skip, races like dwarves elves and draenei characters would still be alive. Plus, if you want any alive that would be dead, just throw them in Oribos with the rest.