Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Hyrja]

just got a 200mb update for retail

[Nemah]

Since it's a speculation thread, I thought I'd share this since I hadn't seen it mentioned. Apologies if it was mentioned.

Could be a commentary by itself on how poor the story line has been - where there's room for this level of exposition due to the gaps in the story as it stands. I don't know that I have this level of faith in the story architecture that we've seen to produce what's in the link....but I wouldn't be mad at all if this came to pass.

https://www.wowhead.com/news/what-if...ulation-326318

The TLDR is speculative of the Primus being the so called architect of all of the things that have happened from WCIII and beyond, using domination magic - with it's flaws - dread lords, and so on to gain access to Zereth Mortis, and now using us to figure out how to exploit it to do ____.

[Makabreska]

As much as this is a clear improvement in terms of accessibility, I cannot help but feel this is just evidence Blizzard doesnt want to make Timewalking better.
The Mage Tower being updated for Legion Timewalking is probably the best single thing added to Timewalking beyond extra themed mounts, and detaching it from the actual Legion Timewalking just makes me think Blizzard is going to keep neglecting Timewalking.

Or maybe it's just to make people stop buying Tower boosts due to how rare this event is? Last ban wave was about accounts being piloted to do Tower, and if it is perma opened then there is no time pressure to do it right now.

[Nightshade711]

We also had no idea what it was initially.

I remember people memeing that the Bastion leak saying it looked like Minas Tirith and people saying it had to be fake because they picked apart the logo saying it just looked like the Legion logo recolored.
But to be fair this wasn't that long after the "8.3 Stormwind raid and warfront" leak with the green ghost ships in SW harbor so they even picked apart the leaked image of Lich King Bolvar.

[jzhbee]

I remember people memeing that the Bastion leak saying it looked like Minas Tirith and people saying it had to be fake because they picked apart the logo saying it just looked like the Legion logo recolored.
But to be fair this wasn't that long after the "8.3 Stormwind raid and warfront" leak with the green ghost ships in SW harbor so they even picked apart the leaked image of Lich King Bolvar.

I think what was even funnier is when people took the Bolvar image to pieces and were like "this image is obviously altered if you look at its subpixel positioning (I'm paraphrasing because I don't know digital image theory, sue me)" and then it was real.

[Vasoka]

So Lore is leaving the WoW team (the CM with the frizzy hair). Perhaps just as well, he hasn't really felt excited about the game or the company in a long while judging by his social media posts.

But one thing that caught my eye - in his farewell tweet he mentioned that he can't wait to see everyone's reactions to the news on April 19th. Doesn't have to mean much but kind of feels like he's suggesting it's big.

https://twitter.com/devolore/status/1506035256075247617

Nice, more of the OGs leaving, soon there'll be just the diversity hires left. Boy oh boy I can't wait for 10.0 indeed.

[KOUNTERPARTS]

So Lore is leaving the WoW team (the CM with the frizzy hair). Perhaps just as well, he hasn't really felt excited about the game or the company in a long while judging by his social media posts.

But one thing that caught my eye - in his farewell tweet he mentioned that he can't wait to see everyone's reactions to the news on April 19th. Doesn't have to mean much but kind of feels like he's suggesting it's big.

https://twitter.com/devolore/status/1506035256075247617

I don't get the impression he's suggesting or implying something particularly "big" with the April announcement, that will get reactions he's looking forward to seeing.


This reads to me as the generic "doing the honors" for the company and leaving on good terms with a positive message. Doing the gentlemenly (uh oh) exit.

[ChairmanKaga]

Nice, more of the OGs leaving,

When was Lore an OG?

[Sondrelk]

I remember people memeing that the Bastion leak saying it looked like Minas Tirith and people saying it had to be fake because they picked apart the logo saying it just looked like the Legion logo recolored.
But to be fair this wasn't that long after the "8.3 Stormwind raid and warfront" leak with the green ghost ships in SW harbor so they even picked apart the leaked image of Lich King Bolvar.

The logo also looked especially crusty and low-res, so the idea that this was just a random fake logo put through some image compression to hide defects was a very strong possibility.

[Hitei]

When was Lore an OG?

For Blizzard? Never. He joined in late MoP.

[Sondrelk]

When was Lore an OG?

Since the moment him leaving became a sign Blizzard was bad. Same as all the other developers leaving. They are complicit in the terrible work enviroment and low quality of gameplay until the moment they announce their resignation, at that point they become the last of the old guard who were trying to keep Blizzard afloat.

[graysontum]

just got a 200mb update for retail

yarp, looks like they updated, then pushed back? cause i just got another update and its back to the old build now, something must've broke

[Sondrelk]

yarp, looks like they updated, then pushed back? cause i just got another update and its back to the old build now, something must've broke

Highly unlikely, but maybe they are waiting to release 9.2.5 on the PTR to not spoil stuff, or to not take away from the WF race.
Don't think they have ever done something like that before, and I doubt it's happening here, but you never know.

[graysontum]

Highly unlikely, but maybe they are waiting to release 9.2.5 on the PTR to not spoil stuff, or to not take away from the WF race.
Don't think they have ever done something like that before, and I doubt it's happening here, but you never know.

on retail not on ptr, 42825 got pushed, but now im back on 42698, its the small update with the aura lua changes with the bluepost

[Tartys]

I don't get the impression he's suggesting or implying something particularly "big" with the April announcement, that will get reactions he's looking forward to seeing.


This reads to me as the generic "doing the honors" for the company and leaving on good terms with a positive message. Doing the gentlemenly (uh oh) exit.

Sad but also good for him...

At this point I'm hoping that the projent Chilton is working its WoW2... so the next expansion will lead us to a totally new game... alla Final Fantasy Realm Reborn style.

[Raetary]

So Lore is leaving the WoW team (the CM with the frizzy hair). Perhaps just as well, he hasn't really felt excited about the game or the company in a long while judging by his social media posts.

But one thing that caught my eye - in his farewell tweet he mentioned that he can't wait to see everyone's reactions to the news on April 19th. Doesn't have to mean much but kind of feels like he's suggesting it's big.

https://twitter.com/devolore/status/1506035256075247617

Survival guides will never be the same without him.

[Marlamin]

Highly unlikely, but maybe they are waiting to release 9.2.5 on the PTR to not spoil stuff, or to not take away from the WF race.
Don't think they have ever done something like that before, and I doubt it's happening here, but you never know.

Retail hotfix bake and some minor interface stuff, pretty regular really. They rolled it back due to some incompatibility issues, I think. We'll probably see the build again tomorrow/later this week.

[Shadochi]

Since the moment him leaving became a sign Blizzard was bad. Same as all the other developers leaving. They are complicit in the terrible work enviroment and low quality of gameplay until the moment they announce their resignation, at that point they become the last of the old guard who were trying to keep Blizzard afloat.

So much this. I mean sooner or later people tend to leave or switch around in the same company, especially when dealing with software. Working 10 years in a single company and on one project (WoW) is a really long time tbh. I think people underestimate this and just group up each expansion as a separate project.

[Gloriandus]

Danuser’s out

[Khaza-R]

But one thing that caught my eye - in his farewell tweet he mentioned that he can't wait to see everyone's reactions to the news on April 19th. Doesn't have to mean much but kind of feels like he's suggesting it's big.

There's a lot of ways to read into that. Could be really big and exciting. Could be highly controversial.