Battle for Azeroth Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Makorus]

What would scare me is Classic. I don't expect it to be available for years but now they made a committment on an enormous undertaking and if resources have to be diverted there (possibly even an entire separate team) that can delay everything else.

They stated that they hired a completely indepedent team that is solely working on classic.

[Fahrad Wagner]

They stated that they hired a completely indepedent team that is solely working on classic.

That's good news.

[rda]

Compared to what?

To MoP / WotLK and Cata if they didn't put all the effort into the revamp and instead did a new continent. We've been over that.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

That's good news.

Yeah it is, I'm still feeling a bit out of it that they actually announced vanilla wow.

[rda]

They stated that they hired a completely indepedent team that is solely working on classic.

Do you have a link? Because that would be pretty much impossible. I guess they were talking about a completely independent team that would *maintain* it after they complete the port.

[Deleted]

1. Fuck you. Pay sub.
2. Same way they destroy Silithus.
3. Looks like its back to WoD Spells and they seem to be unpruning some stuff.
4. A bitch.

1. Not untill they make a game better than FFXIV. Or at least as good.
2. So with a revamp?
3. Well I enjoyed monk in WoD.
4- What?

[Cosmic Janitor]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxKAfG75YeM pretty sure this is it, i will search around if it isn't.

Nah I listend to it on the side, if it was in there I missed it. Was it in one of the interviews? I guess the tech and arts person were not the most obvious choice for details on that ^^.

[Marlamin]

Do you have a link? Because that would be pretty much impossible. I guess they were talking about a completely independent team that would *maintain* it after they complete the port.

http://www.pcgamer.com/this-is-how-b...a-wow-servers/

This endeavour is being undertaken by an entirely separate team at Blizzard from the one working on World of Warcraft and its next expansion. That’s great news for players who don’t care about revisiting the past but are much more interested in Warcraft’s future. "We’re going to hire people specifically for this job, and we’re going to staff it with people who are interested in bringing back Classic WoW in the best, most authentic way," Brack says. "And that’s how we’ll be successful."

[Fahrad Wagner]

Yeah it is, I'm still feeling a bit out of it that they actually announced vanilla wow.

Same, I'm not realising! I started playing during BC (December 2007) so I guess I will be able to explerience the "oh so glorious and perfect (/s) Vanilla"

[Makorus]

To MoP / WotLK and Cata if they didn't put all the effort into the revamp and instead did a new continent. We've been over that.

Yeah, Wrath was overflowing with content.

2 original bosses, 12 dungeons, Wintergrasp and dailies.

[Cryptoriana]

Is cata just hated for the world revamp? or other reasons?

[Fahrad Wagner]

Is cata just hated for the world revamp? or other reasons?

Lack of high level content more than the revamp.

[CosmicGuitars]

http://www.pcgamer.com/this-is-how-b...a-wow-servers/

Hopefully they keep Mark Kern far, far, far away from this project.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

Lack of high level content more than the revamp.

More or less, the endgame was seen as very little(Which if I recall it was, I endured somehow but those Grim Batol runs before nerfs...........NEVER AGAIN).

[Cryptoriana]

Hopefully they keep Mark Kern far, far, far away from this project.

Who is Mark Kern and what did he do?

[Marlamin]

http://www.pcgamer.com/this-is-how-b...a-wow-servers/

Another interesting interview here.

[ercarp]

Is cata just hated for the world revamp? or other reasons?

From what I remember, it seemed like there wasn't a whole lot to do. Once you got over the initial excitement of a world revamp or leveling a new class-race combination, you weren't left with a whole lot to do. Cata was actually the expansion that made my brother quit the game, and he hasn't been back since. Fortunately for me that's back when I RP'd a lot so the lack of things to do didn't really affect me as much.

[rda]

http://www.pcgamer.com/this-is-how-b...a-wow-servers/

"This endeavour is being undertaken by an entirely separate team at Blizzard from the one working on World of Warcraft and its next expansion. That’s great news for players who don’t care about revisiting the past but are much more interested in Warcraft’s future. "We’re going to hire people specifically for this job, and we’re going to staff it with people who are interested in bringing back Classic WoW in the best, most authentic way," Brack says. "And that’s how we’ll be successful."

Got it.

That means either of two things:

1. The real port, the vanilla is being adjusted on the code level to be compatible with the current subsystems. Then the above is mostly an oversimplification said in order to specifically placate people rightly worried about the initiative possibly draining development effort from WoW. The draining of effort is still absolutely going to happen, but they will try to limit it to some of the old devs getting the new ones familiarized with the old code (inescapable) and staying ready to help for the next year or so (inescapable).

2. The low-tech port, there are no actual changes in code and they are adjusting the infrastructure. The DB / network interface is virtualized and the entire execution environment is virtualized as well with their hooks doing the translation and adaptation to existing systems. This does not require knowledge of the code in vanilla / whatever, the team performing the port only has to know only the surface of both the old and the new stuff. This does not drain much of the resources of the existing WoW team. In return the port is being completely bonkers, they (the new team) is very limited in what they can fix and how and have to do this in a very roundabout way.

I am betting on 2.

[Nyel]

Was there ever a real chance tho?

Possibly? Don't know. For me it was always Q3 but some really thought we'll get it in Q2 around April or May.

[KainneAbsolute]

Some people hated the revamped zones, some people hated lfr, some people hated the last raid, some people hated the difficulty of the dungeons, some people hated the story...

What I liked of cataclysm is I had an stable raid group and I made good friends. My friends enjoyed MoP a lot but it was really difficult to be together to raid. In WoD, my friends stopped playing and in Legion, iam alone haha.

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Off: my predictions were right! faction war and they will use the titans blood as a source!

Many people have mixed feelings because we wanted to face the void but I think blizzard wanted to solve all the factions plots before we unite an face Nzoth and the Void Lords.