Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[8bithamster]

I work as a IBM I Engineer which is an Ops job, and I know for a fact as I work the shifts all over the week/end myself that things can still go on over a weekend including downtimes maintenance and new system builds/upgrades.




Similar to what I do but there is always a Dev team member available on call should things go wrong with what we do.

"There's always stuff going on"
"THere's just a person on call"

It's either/or.. not both.

No sane company will perform maintenance in the weekend unless it's not possible otherwise. And guess what? For an alpha it's perfectly possible!

[huth]

"There's always stuff going on"
"THere's just a person on call"

It's either/or.. not both.

No sane company will perform maintenance in the weekend unless it's not possible otherwise. And guess what? For an alpha it's perfectly possible!

They didn't say "just a person on call". They said "always at least a person on call".

[Hitei]

Spill your secrets old man.

"It will be here soon, or maybe later than that."
"It's gonna have <changes> so if you were asking for <changes> you'll probably be happy"
There you go. Literally the only two things he ever says.

[Makorus]

Man, stop debating with the guy who said "Oh, don't rule out the 4th of July, because Blizzard has offices outside of America, stop being so America-centric"

Yes, technically they can release a patch on Saturday Midnight.

Practically, they have no reason to do that.

[sandini]

to change the topic a bit:
What do you expect to be play and testable in the first alpha built?
I hope all class talents and the professions will be in early on so it can get tested and itterated on rather early than too late.

[Catastrophy349]

I think class talents and professions will be a major testing ground initially.

[zeir]

see ya on Tuesday

[Marlamin]

to change the topic a bit:
What do you expect to be play and testable in the first alpha built?
I hope all class talents and the professions will be in early on so it can get tested and itterated on rather early than too late.

Going out on a limb, I wouldn't be surprised if some classes are outright disabled still. The profession stuff they previewed yesterday -looks- like mockups still, but I might be wrong on that. Some parts of the screenshots look a little off and it's still on the same background screenshot as the announcement ones, so not expecting that to be testable in the first build either. Hoping the new race/class is in at least, that'd be good.

[Nymrohd]

Going out on a limb, I wouldn't be surprised if some classes are outright disabled still. The profession stuff they previewed yesterday -looks- like mockups still, but I might be wrong on that. Some parts of the screenshots look a little off and it's still on the same background screenshot as the announcement ones, so not expecting that to be testable in the first build either. Hoping the new race/class is in at least, that'd be good.

Was that not the case with Legion?

[Nyel]

to change the topic a bit:
What do you expect to be play and testable in the first alpha built?
I hope all class talents and the professions will be in early on so it can get tested and itterated on rather early than too late.

Everything, honestly. I'd be shocked if they have some classes unfinished 4 months before the release of the pre patch.

[Catastrophy349]

Everything, honestly. I'd be shocked if they have some classes unfinished 4 months before the release of the pre patch.

Will be interesting to see if they do a targeted alpha or more "complete" alpha in terms of the amount of stuff to test.

[Vasoka]

Datamining tonight yay or nay??????????

[Grimmy17]

Hoping the new race/class is in at least, that'd be good.

Even if the first build is just the Evoker class, I'll be a happy chap

[Catastrophy349]

Datamining tonight yay or nay??????????

Copium life

[Dracullus]

Datamining tonight yay or nay??????????

Maybay.

/10chars

[Aeluron Lightsong]

Copium life

Copium Mk2

[therumblings]

Datamining tonight yay or nay??????????

That's the best case scenario for today, I can't imagine them actually pushing the alpha onto live servers now. I still think we wont get anything until next week, but let's hope I am wrong.

[Duckpower]

Alpha build upload today (possibly some datamining)
Alpha servers going live on the 14th
Let's go

[enigma77]

Got any copium to pass around guys?

I'm fresh out.

[Hyrja]

Got any copium to pass around guys?

I'm fresh out.

Its only 10 am there. 7 hours left for some news!!