you do for violating a contractual commitment to provide a service by a certain date...especially under California law...if they don't deliver by the end of 2022 its a sure bet a class action lawsuit will be filed...the ultimate award may be measly like a month of free game time plus lawyers fees but there will be a lawsuit if they don't deliver on time.
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I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work
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Challenge Mode : Play WoW like my disability has me play:
You will need two people, Brian MUST use the mouse for movement/looking and John MUST use the keyboard for casting, attacking, healing etc.
Briand and John share the same goal, same intentions - but they can't talk to each other, however they can react to each other's in game activities.
Now see how far Brian and John get in WoW.
No it does not. Release date is still December. That has no bearing on how long ALpha is and there is no set rule for how long alpha/beta has to be. So, calling their release date is beyond premature.
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That is old tech with data tuning. They can do most of that internally. The only thing they need players for would be to try it out to get feedback on player feel.
I don't see the point in comparing time spent in Beta test between Shadowlands and Dragonflight. Shadowlands suffered largely from really stupid decisions, which still exist in game. If development would focus on making it a fun game instead of a sport, it could have been great.
They do focus on making it a fun game. What you are really saying is they need to focus on making it a fun game for YOU. Fun is subjective. What you find fun, others do not and vice versa. You not finding it fun does nto mean they aren't focused on trying to make it a fun game.
And I also wouldn’t put it passed them to keep iterating over the talent trees like they do every week with hotfixes and patches etc.
Also most likely a large amount of the talents is going to be tested internally and the alpha/beta will be to see how it goes with people using it and then worked on from there and that won’t take 9 months to do…
As a QA analyst for a much smaller gaming company the first few hours of beta testing/test servers the players test more than all of the dev hours combined for a few weeks there's just that many more eyes on the content. Its impossible to catch everything players will always find stuff or break stuff in ways the devs had no idea was even possible