Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Luck4]

holy crap, figured it was gonna be a selling point for 10.0 https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/ne...tion-instances

I can't believe they released this feature without guild integration... /facepalm

Like, I said before...

cross faction is in. group through group finder only. could talk in party/raid chat but not in open world or public channels. no xfaction guilds.

If that's the case then this system will be useless. I hope you're wrong because Cross-Faction implementation in 10.0 is more important for me than its theme/setting.

[huth]

[IMG]


Does that say "Dawn Awakening" or is it "Dawn of Awakening" because "Dawn of Awakening" sounds like name Blizzard would come up with.

Just Dawn Awakening. There's no letters in between. It's also pretty clear that whoever wrote that doesn't speak english fluently.

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I can't believe they released this feature without guild integration... /facepalm

Like, I said before...

It does have Community integration. Guilds are likely harder to do since they have faction dependant parts.

This is definitely an early version. Notice how it is pretty much entirely limited to areas where there wasn't anything different between the factions to begin with.

[Makabreska]

I can't believe they released this feature without guild integration... /facepalm

Like, I said before...

Extremely far from being useless, when it unlocks entire M+, among many things.

[Vakir]

It would make sense they would also roll this out with some restrictions anyway to get a sense of the reception. Other additions aren't impossible in the future.

[Teriz]

Seems that WoW: Empire of Dragons is still the top leak. I haven't seen anything as convincing as that logo yet.

[Foreign Exchange Ztudent]

I mean this is first iteration, I think it is clear that from Mike Ybarra and everything that they are trying to reinvent their company and make up for fans negativity by trying to quickly show change and what they are working on while they continue to iterate and work on the games.

[Vakir]

Biases behind why some back it aside, Empire of Dragons is both very convincing looking and has had a general dearth of information that lends it some credence.

Usually when a manufactured fake leaks hit, we get a giant wall of text fanfic and a damn plot outline of the next 12 patches, but we're extremely mum about anything pertaining to it and have limited information about where it's from.

Still likely fake, but it appears the most likely if one had to choose.

[Luck4]

Extremely far from being useless, when it unlocks entire M+, among many things.

Useless was a word that I used before this announcement, but for people that have a raid group in the Horde right now and were looking forward to this feature (like me) this will change nothing... Without guild integration I'm still trapped in the Horde...

[huth]

Useless was a word that I used before this announcement, but for people that have a raid group in the Horde right now and were looking forward to this feature (like me) this will change nothing... Without guild integration I'm still trapped in the Horde...

There's nothing forcing that other than your guild itself. Which is an issue for you and your guild to solve, not Blizzard.

[Sharby]

Useless was a word that I used before this announcement, but for people that have a raid group in the Horde right now and were looking forward to this feature (like me) this will change nothing... Without guild integration I'm still trapped in the Horde...

I predict them caving in and going all the way. Especially once they see the success of cross-faction play despite having a conservative approach.

[Foreign Exchange Ztudent]

Classic WoW interview up too on WoWHead. Things are definitely heating up. There's a treasure trove of Interviews prepared.

Future of Warcraft is coming.

Or this is just a continuation of Purgatory since 9.2 release date is still missing and this is all just trying to keep you going just a little bit longer before you go insane.

[The Stormbringer]

Anyone know what the artwork for "Dawn Awakening" is from?

[Archmage Xaxxas]

I told my friend he can slap me upside the head next time he sees me if we don't get 9.2 date/trailer tomorrow, just for falsely hyping him up.

It's due time, no? This was a fun day for news too, but my eyes were set on the cool idea of 'TuesdayNewsday!', and now I don't know whether to be satisfied for the week (I can be,) or more eager for tomorrow's news. (I am.)

[Slowpoke is a Gamer]

interesting, it was planned for 10.0.

might mean that 10.0 is going to take longer than expected.

Or it just means the game's playerbase is continuing to shrink and Blizz realizes they're about to hit a crisis point* and waiting until next year (10.0) to fix it isn't soon enough anymore.


*Of course Alliance has been there for years now.

[Foreign Exchange Ztudent]

I've already come to terms with the reality that nothing is happening tomorrow. I'm gonna keep my expectations low. I think them spamming everything on Monday means this is it for this week.

Obviously, it could just be the start. But I don't think so.

[Slowpoke is a Gamer]

I've already come to terms with the reality that nothing is happening tomorrow. I'm gonna keep my expectations low. I think them spamming everything on Monday means this is it for this week.

Obviously, it could just be the start. But I don't think so.

Embrace the FF14 Theory, embrace "no 10.0 news until Spring."

[Jokubas]

I can't believe they released this feature without guild integration... /facepalm

I was worried about this, but even with tempered expectations it still feels like a monkey's paw: get the thing you want with a catch that defeats the purpose.

This isn't rebuilding my trust, it's reinforcing what's been pushing my away for years. I can never be excited for what's coming because the first version of a feature always has some fatal flaw, leaving me with nothing but to hope instead for the promise of what it could be in the future.

Blizzard never used to do this. Blizzard always went big and bold and it was one of the most powerful tools in World of Warcraft's arsenal. They would do something grand, all at once, and force their competitors to scramble to keep up. Nowadays they're so overly cautious that even when they finally add something that other games have had for years, it's still not as good as other games. The half-finished version of the feature then often attracts such criticism they often abandon it instead of finishing it, leaving behind a trail of one-off features brimming with forever-unrealized potential.

I'm hoping they'll react to feedback on this like they say they will, but I can't rest my hopes on that. I've been asking for cross-faction play for a very, very long time, but this announcement has me feeling exasperated, not excited. As someone who became content to see content later than everyone else years ago, and whose friends stopped playing forever ago, I almost don't touch instances at all anymore. I joked about an expansion announcement that limited cross-faction grouping to that expansion's content, but honestly right now I'm hoping to see an expansion announcement that promises expanded cross-faction features only within that expansion's content, because it's still more than this and would give me real hope of them expanding the feature across the board.

[Luck4]

There's nothing forcing that other than your guild itself. Which is an issue for you and your guild to solve, not Blizzard.

What a nice way to address the problem, this kind of answer works with or without the Cross-Faction feature... and to some extent to every problem by just changing a couple of words.

I predict them caving in and going all the way. Especially once they see the success of cross-faction play despite having a conservative approach.

Yeah, hopefully, this will happen in the future.

[Foreign Exchange Ztudent]

Embrace the FF14 Theory, embrace "no 10.0 news until Spring."

Seems unlikely since Mike Ybarra said Weeks for Warcraft, OW2 and also added Diablo news later on after that. I don't think they are going to keep us in the dark for that much longer. We've already waited 7 months just for the release date of 9.2.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

What a cynical take on something thats supposed to be positive @_@