Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Dracullus]

Only that they prefer the expansion hype to last a full year. You say "forced" here as if it's not Blizzard itself who decides when Blizzcon is held.

Forced because you can't move Blizzcon date once machine is running. They start selling tickets around April, first preparation likely much earlier. Not to mention first week of November became tradition at some point.

You could stretch a bit and say that Blizzard decided to reassess how the game was doing once the Microsoft deal became a possibility.
Lower level employees would almost definitely not know, but employees like Ion might have known that a Microsoft deal was on the table for a while.

Imo they just needed something exciting for 8.2.5 and SL drought in general. Legion had Allied Races, scalled world, legendary vendor useful for Mage Tower, new battleground. BfA had massive XP boost, introducing reputation boosts to timewalking, corruption vendor (must be more, I remember they handled drought very well).

But SL already made systems alt friendly in 9.1.5 and 9.2 don't require massive catch ups, only thing they could add in 8.2.5 is maybe Renown 80 token and further Anima/offerings increase. Barely anyone cares about new arena. So it's perfect time for something like cross faction, especially if it's instanced version that doesn't require big changes.

[Makabreska]

Forced because you can't move Blizzcon date once machine is running. They start selling tickets around April, first preparation likely much earlier. Not to mention first week of November became tradition at some point.

Not to mention that Blizzcon was always mainly about community meeting each other and the devs. Announcements were the most exciting thing, but not the main thing.

[Sondrelk]

I still stand by how I think it's a great idea if Blizzard announced they would release the 10.0 trailer once the world first race is finished. Drum up some actual hype around the event and how it will end.

[Khaza-R]

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hey I found these 9.2.5 story chapter leaks

JK I just made a goofy comic highlighting that the Jailer got Snoke'd.

Higher Res : https://i.imgur.com/TTvYz3g.png

Sadly, I fully expect we'll get something along the lines of "not the real Zovaal" by end of the Sepulcher raid.

[The Stormbringer]

Oh my bad I think I quoted before the edit but either way oops

No biggie! It was a pretty silly mistake of me to make too, lol!

[Edward Wu]

Huge WoW news in 30 minutes or so? According to Towelliee I've heard...

[Dracullus]

I still stand by how I think it's a great idea if Blizzard announced they would release the 10.0 trailer once the world first race is finished. Drum up some actual hype around the event and how it will end.

It would be awesome if Blizzard give info about upcoming event to winning guild so leader would be first person to annouce it.

[AOL Instant Messenger]

Huge WoW news in 30 minutes or so? According to Towelliee I've heard...

He also promised a WoW announcement last week.

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It would be awesome if Blizzard give info about upcoming event to winning guild so leader would be first person to annouce it.

What if they don't like it?

"Yeah, it's pretty terrible. Don't buy it" is not particularly useful advertising.

[Dwarfbeater]

He also promised a WoW announcement last week.

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What if they don't like it?

"Yeah, it's pretty terrible. Don't buy it" is not particularly useful advertising.

Nowhere did he promise a WOW announcement... "We have some exciting things to announce, and I’ll be sharing more next week." how is that WOW announcement ?

[Buster B Keys]

It would be awesome if Blizzard give info about upcoming event to winning guild so leader would be first person to annouce it.

No thanks, mythic raiders get enough special treatment as it is and it would be mega cringe.

[AOL Instant Messenger]

Nowhere did he promise a WOW announcement... "We have some exciting things to announce, and I’ll be sharing more next week." how is that WOW announcement ?

Towellie, not Ybarra.

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Towelie seems so washed. Is he actually still popular enough to be in the know with Blizz devs? I just figured he had fallen to Swifty levels.

I mean, he's fought with MMO-Champion users about his fake predictions before.

[Dwarfbeater]

Towellie, not Ybarra.

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I mean, he's fought with MMO-Champion users about his fake predictions before.

ahh, my mistake, Sorry

[KOUNTERPARTS]

I remember reading in this thread (can't remember the page) that somebody said Blizzard would not announce the next expansion before the final content patch of the current expansion is at the end of it's life cycle. Blizzard wouldn't want to divert attention away from 9.2 or so the reason was explained.


They did this already though. They announced Mists of Pandaria at BlizzCon before the Dragon Soul raid patch came out (or when the patch already went live) so at least there is a precedent there.

[Dracullus]

They did this already though. They announced Mists of Pandaria at BlizzCon before the Dragon Soul raid patch came out (or when the patch already went live) so at least there is a precedent there.

And for 1000th time, this time there is no Blizzcon and they can pick any date. I understand people thinking reveal will be before 9.2 few months ago, but now, when patch is ~3 weeks away? C'mon.

[AngerFork]

I remember reading in this thread (can't remember the page) that somebody said Blizzard would not announce the next expansion before the final content patch of the current expansion is at the end of it's life cycle. Blizzard wouldn't want to divert attention away from 9.2 or so the reason was explained.


They did this already though. They announced Mists of Pandaria at BlizzCon before the Dragon Soul raid patch came out (or when the patch already went live) so at least there is a precedent there.

They did, but you have to remember that this was before the era where the end of the current expansion led into the new one, which started with the MoP -> WoD transition. Nothing that happened in Dragon Soul or 4.3 gave away anything about MoP coming up, so there really wasn't any story to ruin. Since then, there has been a fairly consistent hand-off of the story between expansions. Gul'dan from WoD to Legion, the sword from Legion to BfA, Sylvanas' betrayal from BfA to Shadowlands.

As for diverting attention away from 9.2, I'm pretty sure yesterday's announcement that cross-faction instances were coming in 9.2.5 has already done a great job of moving that interest away from 9.2 & towards 9.2.5 instead.

[KOUNTERPARTS]

And for 1000th time, this time there is no Blizzcon and they can pick any date. I understand people thinking reveal will be before 9.2 few months ago, but now, when patch is ~3 weeks away? C'mon.

No fucking shit there is not a BlizzCon this year and I didn't even say there would be. I said there is already a precedent of them announcing an expansion before the final patch of the current expansion.

[Dracullus]

No fucking shit there is not a BlizzCon and I didn't even say there would be. I said there is already a precedent of them announcing an expansion before the final patch of the current expansion.

Not precedent, common practice. Almost always Blizzcon happened before last piece of content was released.

[Makabreska]

Ion's interview about cross faction on the front page. And as predicted:

Ion says the team is open to expanding the feature in the future to include things like cross-faction guilds. They want to start conservatively and grow it from there.

Also:

It is unlikely they will every do an 'all-consuming faction conflict expansion again," but stick to wider ranges of perspectives on the divide through characters, such as the survivors or Teldrassil, Genn Greymane, and the Forsaken.

Lore fanatics malding af right now.

[Foreign Exchange Ztudent]

I am just disappointed they took the corporate decision of waiting till late March/Early April. Oh well, I kind of expected it with how heavy February is.

At least, we get the release date and so it feels at least a bit better to swallow.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

I'm ok with cross faction but like they said humans in org is too much.