Lol @people thing thinking QA testers are part of the development team.... they're not. Many sources have pointed to many QA people being let go. I'm not going to go dig it up, find it yourselves.
Lol @people thing thinking QA testers are part of the development team.... they're not. Many sources have pointed to many QA people being let go. I'm not going to go dig it up, find it yourselves.
Wanting WoW to fail doesn't compute with the fact that they're money driven...
Either way, they've had developers added to the team, not removed. No matter how people may try to spin the importance and numbers of the positions being let go. Especially considering we've had far worse in this game without there being mass layoffs of support staff, so...
The problematic design philosophies are a problem of the devs, not the support staff being let go.
I wish instead of "we currently don't have any 8.3.5 plans", he could just say "there WILL NOT BE an 8.3.5 patch", but this is at least some small good news to hear, even though I think 8.3 shouldn't have happened to begin with.
Still wondering why I play this game.
I'm a Rogue and I also made a spreadsheet for the Order Hall that is updated for BfA.
Here's the thing. The QA team if they were on the PTR looking for bugs simply put likely would not have found them because they for the most part (from what I seen both in live and PTR) were not there. If something wasn't on the PTR that became a bug in live that's an issue no QA would find ever because it's down to how similar builds being not the same build can and will have differences. Something that might be stable in the PTR might cause something catastrophic in live no matter what the game is.
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Youtubers that are fueled on rage bait or pretending to be professional and shitty sites like Kotaku that wouldn't know how to report a fact unless 50 other sites got there first.
the PR disaster source is here on mmo on news page, but of course that was over 2 years old, i don't even know how to dig it, but it was pre-alpha if that helps
as for delay i did say it is just my feel, based on honestly every single exp including wrath about content cut that sound amazing on paper and get cut only because of time constrain (not talking about content cut due to being crap after testing it a little, like wall climbing), i have no idea of shadowlands is having a squeezed cycle or not
The beginning of wisdom is the statement 'I do not know.' The person who cannot make that statement is one who will never learn anything. And I have prided myself on my ability to learn
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http://youtu.be/x3ejO7Nssj8 7:20+ "Alliance remaining super power", clearly blizz favor horde too much, that they made alliance the super power
Did anyone suggest it yet.. ? Didn't read all the posts.
But perhaps there will be 8.4?
I mean.. the x.x.5 patches are always additions to the x.x.0 patches and maybe he just ment 8.3.5 won't get an addition.
Not gonna say this is happening, but did he just say "no .5" or did he say "BfA is over"?
Quote from the article:
"The celebrated Game Director for World of Warcraft"
You have got to be kidding me...
back in the day F&F Alphas had been as closely guarded as you suggest but that isn't the case anymore and the last F&F Alpha, or possibly the one before that, didn't even have an NDA as Blizzard used it to generate enthusiasm / publicity. We have known, at the very least, when the F&F has been happening the last several expansions. With no whiff of one at this stage there is no way in hell Shadowlands gets released as early as some were suggesting in might be released and I stand by my statement that Blizzard will be hard pressed to meet their own deadline and the most likely scenario is significant content will have to be cut for them to do it which doesn't bode well for Shadowlands chances of being a good expansion.
I don't really care one way or the other as I'm not buying it. I was just responding to some of the irrational, delusional fanboyism in this thread.
The subs dip will be even larger than WoD's last patch, but this time the company will have millions of WoW Classic subs to save Blizzard.
They were permanent staff. Sounds like not any more. Which is why I brought up the point about contract workers.
Is it possible Blizzard is now going with the industry standard instead of how they used to run things?
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The only reasonable times I can see them launching is right before the end of Q3, or right before the end of Q4 to bump their numbers. Blizzard doesn't make decisions based on what's good for the games anymore(WC3 Reforged is evidence of that, if nothing else). It's 100% on what makes their financial reports look better.
Given that, I think it's entirely possible they could release before SL is actually ready, even though it would harm the overall quality of the expansion. That's just the kind of company they are now.