Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Draedarr]

It's been a wild ride on last days trying to get to the last pages and reading through the older ones lol

[Wangming]

Youtube starts in five minutes. Time to post the joker gifs.

[Rathwell]

Historically Blizzard have ended the expansion early if it's under performing, internally it seems like if it doesn't hit the numbers they like, a patch gets cut.
This might change with Microsoft, i think it's an Activision thing.

This seems a more reasonable response to expect, unfortunately. If they make less than they intend on preorders they adjust their target and cut corners to keep it profitable

[ExiHext]

Why are we not supposed to preorder, again? What do we stand to lose?

I guess it's that old argument that the devs stop working as soon as a certain preorder threshold is reached. xD
I myself do not preorder but that's more of a "why should they have my money as long as I don't have the product?" mentality. If there are preorder bonuses that interest me, I preorder. For the last two expacs there wasn't so I didn't preorder.*shrug*

[m4Zzo928]

Enjoy people see you on the other side.

[Houle]

Dragonflight was clue enough...

naaaaah dude, dragonflight could be about anything. dragons are somewhat similar to phoenixes, who are made of fire, and fire emits light
light xpac incoming

[Kathranis]

Oh, and http://wowclassic.blizzard.com/ also gets a loading loop into a connection timeout error. That SSL certificate was registered the same day as http://dragonflight.blizzard.com/.

Most likely they're gonna launch a new proper WoW Classic site to go with the WotLK announcement, since right now they have Classic and BCC just piggybacking on the standard WoW domain.

[Mauderkin]

I hope Magni is back. I don't get people who dislike him.

Or maybe I'm just that desperate for non-human, non-elf characters in the spotlight.

[enak101]

Enjoyed the thread everyone. See you next time!

[rhorle]

Historically Blizzard have ended the expansion early if it's under performing, internally it seems like if it doesn't hit the numbers they like, a patch gets cut. This might change with Microsoft, i think it's an Activision thing.

Blizzard has been pretty clear that Shadowlands was not ended early though and they always intended it to be 3 raid tiers. So the only thing cut would be story elements or filler content from the existing patches.

[Veluren]

Sitting in the twitch stream with the chat closed, watching viewer count just skyrocketing

[MightyWarrior]

Who is ready for dragon-blessed traits on gear?

[masilya111]

I hope I get surprised despite the leaks

[bitterwinter]

I'm nervous lmao

[Rathwell]

Blizzard has been pretty clear that Shadowlands was not ended early though and they always intended it to be 3 raid tiers. So the only thing cut would be story elements or filler content from the existing patches.

Warlords of Draenor was definitely cut early though, but there were other factors there apparently. The content drought was real, and they had so much planned content that never panned out, including the Shattrath raid and a storyline with Doomhammer

[Villager720]

Who is ready for dragon-blessed traits on gear?

You mean Shards of Dragination?

[Deventh]

I am avoiding this thread until the announcement is over with just in case something gets spoiled few mins before. Have fun everyone.

[Kharistos]

I hope Magni is back. I don't get people who dislike him.

Or maybe I'm just that desperate for non-human, non-elf characters in the spotlight.

Magni isnt all that bad its probably just his accent, the Woons

[Sondrelk]

Blizzard has been pretty clear that Shadowlands was not ended early though and they always intended it to be 3 raid tiers. So the only thing cut would be story elements or filler content from the existing patches.

I am confident they said the same thing about WoD though. And in that one they had an entire raid that disappeared between the reveal and final boss.

[Draedarr]

The time is coming!!!!