Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Szera]

There's also the possibility of cross faction guilds still coming in 10.0 but implementing it would take a lot more work/time and in the meantime they could already release the non guild stuff.

[Makabreska]

There's also the possibility of cross faction guilds still coming in 10.0 but implementing it would take a lot more work/time and in the meantime they could already release the non guild stuff.

That is the general take on it.

[Lady Atia]

There's also the possibility of cross faction guilds still coming in 10.0 but implementing it would take a lot more work/time and in the meantime they could already release the non guild stuff.

Yep. I'm sure they spaghetti hard-coded guilds to be either horde or alliance and they need to figure out how to untangle them - also with 9.2.5. hall of fame will prolly be over so it won't matter anymore. I guess the easier solution would be to just make hall of fame / rankings for communities instead of guilds, but I bet the goal will be to have cross-faction* guilds with 10.0.

[maxje98]

Are we expecting some "major" news today or the yesterday cross-faction news would be the promised news?

According to Scripe, he has been told they will announce the release date tomorrow. Don't know if this is true thohttps://clips.twitch.tv/ConsiderateA...-GyveIbNW8GQ06

[Nyel]

For the people going "must be Microsoft influence", keep in mind that Microsoft has 0 influence until the deal actually closes sometime next year. Until then, anything that Blizzard does is on their own, or Activision's, accord.

It’s not necessarily next year though. They said the deal will close in the fiscal year 2023, which already starts in July 2022. But a deal of this size might take longer than just half a year, but we don’t really know what’s been going on in the background.

[Foreign Exchange Ztudent]

I guess that's it for Warcraft News. It's a shame but at least we now have the date for when we can extrapolate when 10.0 will be Revealed which would be Stream/Video on March 22th and Reveal on the 24th/31st.

I really would've preferred a video with all the news in one-go but, I guess statements is all that WoW can get these days with how bad things have gotten. Oh well, it is whatever it is.

Hopefully 10.0 Reveal is juicy with all the other stuff attached.

[Raetary]

"cross faction is in. group through group finder only. "
"Players will be able to directly invite members of the opposite faction to a party if you have a BattleTag or Real ID friendship, or if you are members of a cross-faction WoW Community."

That's not missed. He specifically said "only".

I don't think this is fair argument.

The leak is very much correct, xfaction grouping is only happening through the group finder.
You can't directly invite the opposite faction into the group, hence Blizzard specifying direct invites in the line above.

That they are exempting battle.net services from that rule, for obvious reasons, does not dispute the leak.
Complaining about the use of 'only' in the post is just nitpicking.

[The Stormbringer]

Yeah...no. That's just nitpicking. The leaker got it quite right. Especially that there are no crossfaction guilds and that you need to go through the groupfinder i.e. you cannot invite random people from the other faction in the open world. Who knows how it was when they gained the information? IF we assume that the leak is real..which it won't be. It's just relatively spot on for a mere speculation. That's what makes me wonder.

It's not nitpicking. The supposed leaker thought it would only work through group finder. ONLY group finder. That's not what's happening here. In fact, I'm pretty sure it explicitly won't work with group finder at all, and only works with pre-made groups. So, I guess you could make a pre-made of 2-4 people, and then use group finder to fill the last spots, but that's not remotely like what they said.

They wanted to make it look like they knew what they were talking about, but due to the specificity used, they just proved they knew nothing. Had they just said "cross faction is in" then you might have an argument, but they went above and beyond that, and lost all credibility because of it.

EDIT: My mistake, I confused LFD for Group Finder. Brain not work so good. Even still, they said "only group finder", whereas you can invite people via Battle.tag, RealID, or Communities, so it still shows they don't know what they're talking about.

[Ersula]

"cross faction is in. group through group finder only. "
"Players will be able to directly invite members of the opposite faction to a party if you have a BattleTag or Real ID friendship, or if you are members of a cross-faction WoW Community."

That's not missed. He specifically said "only".

No he didn't. Where did he say this? They didn't make an official statement until yesterday & it gave the specifics right away. The interview before this was a hard "maybe" on cross-faction play.

[The Stormbringer]

No he didn't. Where did he say this? They didn't make an official statement until yesterday & it gave the specifics right away. The interview before this was a hard "maybe" on cross-faction play.

Hitei is referring to a supposed leaker who said that cross faction would be in.

[Sharby]

What's the point of races joining factions now? Isn't it beneficial then to remain neutral and work with everyone?

Isn't that always the case though?


I feel like them trying to all or nothing when it comes to "you are X race you cannot do Y" is just illogical and dumb. Especially considering there are several mini-factions that ignore racial backgrounds.

[AliceCattx]

Didn't Towellie claim last week that the 10.0 announcement was in an hour on that day?

I don't listen to streamers for exactly that reason.

He said it could be within that hour in the vain of "It could drop at any time." Someone took that comment and lifted it into a comment here without the context.

[Edlarel]

Not to be a pedantic dick or anything but group finder is pre-made. Auto queue is called RDF or LFR.

I mean, if you have to say it...

Anyway, hopefully something today or tomorrow after reset.

[Dracullus]

He said it could be within that hour in the vain of "It could drop at any time." Someone took that comment and lifted it into a comment here without the context.

I was on this stream, he was saying he has no idea about schedule this time and joking from time to time when same question was asked 500th time. Towellie often makes vague statements about future content that are impossible to check (like 9.1 will launch between June and August or 9.1.5 will have some stuff we are waiting for, wow great info), but when he says that something will happen TODAY, it's truth (unless it's something like PTR build that could be pushed for next day last minute).

[Foreign Exchange Ztudent]

Yes, 9.2 is coming, you’ll be hearing about that more soon. We do have more planned after that. But it’s hard to say too much more without almost spoiling some of the story that’s going to come. We’ll have a lot of details on that soon, but we want to be able to explain it in the full context of what 9.2 is going to be.

You know I always wondered what they meant by this and I worry quite a bit with the context already given. Again, I think things will happen after the Zovaal Cinematic more and more now. But, IDK.

It's either right after 9.2 Release Date announcement next week or After Zovaal Cinematic.

[Varx]

Isn't that always the case though?


I feel like them trying to all or nothing when it comes to "you are X race you cannot do Y" is just illogical and dumb. Especially considering there are several mini-factions that ignore racial backgrounds.

Because lore wise, many orgrimmar citizens wouldn't be cool with humans just walking about like their tourists. And many SW citizens sure as hell wouldn't want orcs or forsaken walking around SW.

That being said, that doesn't mean individuals can't work together in the world.

I mean come on it's obvious.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

Because lore wise, many orgrimmar citizens wouldn't be cool with humans just walking about like their tourists. And many SW citizens sure as hell wouldn't want orcs or forsaken walking around SW.

That being said, that doesn't mean individuals can't work together in the world.

I mean come on it's obvious.

Pretty much, Factions are still gonna matter after 9.2.5 but gameplay wise better to cross.

[Varx]

Pretty much, Factions are still gonna matter after 9.2.5 but gameplay wise better to cross.

Yeah. And honestly it can be explained lore wise too.

"I Falcor, are an individual and refuse to let me faction's prejudices prevent me from working with ZugZug over there. But I sure as hell won't bring him to my house in SW, and have him lynched, what am I stupid?"

I mean that's basically what happened with Tyrion and etrigg right?

[Dracullus]

You know I always wondered what they meant by this and I worry quite a bit with the context already given. Again, I think things will happen after the Zovaal Cinematic more and more now. But, IDK.

It's either right after 9.2 Release Date announcement next week or After Zovaal Cinematic.

What to worry about? 9.2 is like 3-4 weeks away, so Jailer cinematic 5-6 , I doubt they would wait for last campaign chapter, cause likely that's just some epilogue for Sylvanas not connected to 10.0 at all. Again, assuming only spoilers hold them back at this point.

[AliceCattx]

I was on this stream, he was saying he has no idea about schedule this time and joking from time to time when same question was asked 500th time. Towellie often makes vague statements about future content that are impossible to check (like 9.1 will launch between June and August or 9.1.5 will have some stuff we are waiting for, wow great info), but when he says that something will happen TODAY, it's truth (unless it's something like PTR build that could be pushed for next day last minute).

So it is you I recognise in his chat whenever I do watch haha