Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Lorgar Aurelian]

I see. I searched for some info and it seems that Golden is no longer working for Blizzard (no longer part of the team, she will probably write more books).

But it is so terrible that they work like that. How can we have a decent story under these conditions?

Anyway, really excited to see Vengeance DH talent tree tonight, as I made a new account for SL and I am maining one.

Also Gamescom starts tonight right? I guess that we will get a Beta date for DF in the coming days and hopefully some extra surprise.

Unless there was another tweet golden clarified that when she said she had no idea about 9.2 she meant the ingame aspects not the story ones as she is not and has never been part of the ingame team and is on another supporting team which writes for all of blizzards games.

As per her Twitter she is also still at blizzard. https://mobile.twitter.com/ChristieGolden

[Darkarath]

Unless there was another tweet golden clarified that when she said she had no idea about 9.2 she meant the ingame aspects not the story ones as she is not and has never been part of the ingame team and is on another supporting team which writes for all of blizzards games.

As per her Twitter she is also still at blizzard. https://mobile.twitter.com/ChristieGolden

Oh I do not know. This is what I found in Google:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.1ne...140049%3famp=1

She wrote that tweet, then she erased it and wrote that she was talking about in game aspects, which I do not buy at all.

She also said in that tweet that she is no longer part of the WoW team, which is why I thought that she was not with Blizzard anymore.

[Lorgar Aurelian]

Oh I do not know. This is what I found in Google:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.1ne...140049%3famp=1

She wrote that tweet, then she erased it and wrote that she was talking about in game aspects, which I do not buy at all.

She also said in that tweet that she is no longer part of the WoW team, which is why I thought that she was not with Blizzard anymore.

Look at the date of that article it came out in Nov when we got the 9.2 reveal which showed no story stuff, the sylvanas one came out in in Dec.

She’s also has never been on the wow team, here’s a tweet from 2018 about it.

I am not "in charge" of the WoW story. I don't even work for the WoW team, I work for CDev/SFD, where I interact with all the game teams. I do not direct where the game is going. I write cinematics, novels/novellas, song lyrics (Hearthstone yay) and comics,

https://mobile.twitter.com/christieg...98236299653120

[Darkarath]

Look at the date of that article it came out in Nov when we got the 9.2 reveal which showed no story stuff, the sylvanas one came out in in Dec.

She’s also has never been on the wow team, here’s a tweet from 2018 about it.

https://mobile.twitter.com/christieg...98236299653120

Thanks, that tweet clarifies things. I want to believe that there is an ongoing comminication between Golden and Danuser to help her write books.

[Lady Atia]

Thanks, that tweet clarifies things. I want to believe that there is an ongoing comminication between Golden and Danuser to help her write books.

The way these books are written is that the writers usually get an overview with characters and plot points that they have to follow through, although they are allowed to flash out and add stuff - although they have to ask for permission when they want to use certain characters. Christie f.e. had to ask for Calia to be used in BtS.

[Berkilak]

Thanks, that tweet clarifies things. I want to believe that there is an ongoing comminication between Golden and Danuser to help her write books.

Honestly, I think both should be using WoWpedia as a resource.

[Lorgar Aurelian]

Honestly, I think both should be using WoWpedia as a resource.

Wowpedia has a lot of flaws rather they be info left out or people adding there own fanfic.

I’d dread to think that blizzard doesn’t have a more accurate data base.

[Berkilak]

Wowpedia has a lot of flaws rather they be info left out or people adding there own fanfic.

I’d dread to think that blizzard doesn’t have a more accurate data base.

At the very least, it is annotated so you can actually check on the validity of stuff. Much like Wikipedia, it's a great starting point. I doubt they have anything in-house. Or we wouldn't wind up with stuff like the Dragonmaw Clan showing up to a meeting that happened before the Orcs ever actually encountered dragons.

[Lady Atia]

At the very least, it is annotated so you can actually check on the validity of stuff. Much like Wikipedia, it's a great starting point. I doubt they have anything in-house. Or we wouldn't wind up with stuff like the Dragonmaw Clan showing up to a meeting that happened before the Orcs ever actually encountered dragons.

The dragonmaw are named after rylaks, not Azeroth's dragons.

[Berkilak]

The dragonmaw are named after rylaks, not Azeroth's dragons.

Rylaks didn't even exist until WoD. And the Dragonmaw Clan didn't even exist in the alternate Draenor. That is simply a clumsy retcon that was made because of these slip ups. Originally, the Dragonmaw Clan was put together by the Blackrock Clan as an elite force of the Horde's top shamans, dedicated to overseeing the new dragon-taming initiative. It did not exist until the Second War. No matter how many "Nelghor-Shomashs" you throw at it.

[Lorgar Aurelian]

At the very least, it is annotated so you can actually check on the validity of stuff. Much like Wikipedia, it's a great starting point. I doubt they have anything in-house. Or we wouldn't wind up with stuff like the Dragonmaw Clan showing up to a meeting that happened before the Orcs ever actually encountered dragons.

The problem with wowpedia though is that you pretty much have to check every line of text for validity, nothing can be taken at face value because people will add random incorrect stuff in with canon stuff that you wouldn’t know is wrong if you didn’t check the sources your self and the citations are often really vague.

One example that comes to mind is the Cenarion Circle where it says that they are outside of the command of Tyranda and ruled by a council which includes Cenarius and has a link to a short story as a source. But if you read through the short story all it actually says is that they are outside the command of Tyranda and it never mentions any council let alone the fact that Cenarius is notable not part of the circle telling malfurion in Curse of the worgen that he will not join and will not lead and that it was up to malfurion and the others to make there own choices.

Some one randomly added the line about Cenarius being a leader and if you didn’t read the random worgen comic you wouldn’t even know it was wrong as his roll in the circle never comes up any where else and wowpedia likely has hundreds of things like that.

[Berkilak]

The problem with wowpedia though is that you pretty much have to check every line of text for validity, nothing can be taken at face value because people will add random incorrect stuff in with canon stuff that you wouldn’t know is wrong if you didn’t check the sources your self and the citations are often really vague.

One example that comes to mind is the Cenarion Circle where it says that they are outside of the command of Tyranda and ruled by a council which includes Cenarius and has a link to a short story as a source. But if you read through the short story all it actually says is that they are outside the command of Tyranda and it never mentions any council let alone the fact that Cenarius is notable not part of the circle telling malfurion in Curse of the worgen that he will not join and will not lead and that it was up to malfurion and the others to make there own choices.

Some one randomly added the line about Cenarius being a leader and if you didn’t read the random worgen comic you wouldn’t even know it was wrong as his roll in the circle never comes up any where else and wowpedia likely has hundreds of things like that.

I don't disagree that it's problematic. But it is better than not checking anything at all.

[Lorgar Aurelian]

I don't disagree that it's problematic. But it is better than not checking anything at all.

Well ya but those aren’t the only two options blizzard should have copy’s of all The work they have published so even if they don’t have a build data base they would be better off just going through relevant works instead of going through wowpedia where they are gonna get a lot of incorrect info and then have to go through all the same works any way and pick out what parts were added by fans.

[kiruz]

Is new alpha build today?

[Prenderghast]

So what are you guys hoping to see in tonight's Alpha build?

- Surprise, Survival now has dual-wield!

Oh man, I'd kill for dual-wield Survival. Love the spec, but I dislike that most (all?) melee hunter NPC's like Rexxar/Nathanos/Tyrande dual wield and I can't emulate that on my character.

[Berkilak]

Well ya but those aren’t the only two options blizzard should have copy’s of all The work they have published so even if they don’t have a build data base they would be better off just going through relevant works instead of going through wowpedia where they are gonna get a lot of incorrect info and then have to go through all the same works any way and pick out what parts were added by fans.

At the very least, you know what parts to consult. It really feels like some of the modern output was created without even knowing that some of the older stuff exists at all. And to be fair, this has always been an issue.

[Lorgar Aurelian]

At the very least, you know what parts to consult. It really feels like some of the modern output was created without even knowing that some of the older stuff exists at all. And to be fair, this has always been an issue.

It could be used for “these story’s exist” even if they aren't represented correctly that’s true.

Though I’d blizzard doesn’t even have a in house reading list man that would be bad.

[Berkilak]

It could be used for “these story’s exist” even if they aren't represented correctly that’s true.

Though I’d blizzard doesn’t even have a in house reading list man that would be bad.

I won't name names, as I find that to be in poor taste, but they do indeed have a "Head of Lore" position at Blizzard with "historians" as staff. Perhaps I overstated my argument when I said this stuff doesn't exist. I'm sure it does. I just wonder how closely it matches the actual product delivered, and how accurate it is overall.

[Lahis]

That's so weird. I remember being there when they had the legion cafe .... without blizzard I wouldn't have got tickets for gamescom in the first place.

Only reason they were there back then was because they needed to announce Legion and waiting till Blizzcon was too long.

[Lorgar Aurelian]

I won't name names, as I find that to be in poor taste, but they do indeed have a "Head of Lore" position at Blizzard with "historians" as staff. Perhaps I overstated my argument when I said this stuff doesn't exist. I'm sure it does. I just wonder how closely it matches the actual product delivered, and how accurate it is overall.

Totally forgot that they had a “historian”, though I wouldn’t actually be surprised if they did there job really well and they did have a great data base but then people higher then them just don’t check it, or do check it and just don’t care.

A lot of shadowlands feels like it’s stuff they couldn’t have possibly missed so instead they just ignored it.