Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Fahrad Wagner]

*looks at list of characters with bare chests in WoW and realizes most of them are male ones*

Yeah. Really overwhelmingly female. Catering to those entitled straight wowchuds all the way, or something like that.

Comparing what's comparable as always, Yarathir. Moving on, we can pursue this in private, there is no need to derail the thread.

[Yarathir]

Comparing what's comparable as always, Yarathir. Moving on, we can pursue this in private, there is no need to derail the thread.

yeah yeah I get it
something something male gaze something male power fantasy yadda yadda women don't actually have a sex drive and gay men don't exist yadda yadda more intellectual pretzels and cognitive dissonance

[Nyel]

yeah yeah I get it
something something male gaze something male power fantasy yadda yadda women don't actually have a sex drive and gay men don't exist yadda yadda more intellectual pretzels and cognitive dissonance

Please don't get yourself banned, I enjoy your sober view on this topic. But as I said pages ago, please let's all get back to speculation (although there is basically none at this point) and get this woke nonsense out of this thread.

[Yarathir]

Please don't get yourself banned, I enjoy your sober view on this topic. But as I said pages ago, please let's all get back to speculation (although there is basically none at this point) and get this woke nonsense out of this thread.

I would be remiss if I were to pretend that I could care about that possibility at this point.

But very well.

[Cosmic Janitor]

Please don't get yourself banned, I enjoy your sober view on this topic. But as I said pages ago, please let's all get back to speculation (although there is basically none at this point) and get this woke nonsense out of this thread.

I mean we could speculate about the future stories under the new light of the recent changes in direction? Maybe we will finally be rid of Thrall for good and follow the empowering adventures of Aggra in the future? I'd welcome that over another "let's pick a weapon that resembles my crude blunt axe held together by shoestrings and kodo dung" quest or working through his mommy issues for a 3rd time. I guess it comes down to if Blizzard is finally cured of their WoW GT attempts or if they keep demystifying every last inch of the franchise.

[Aucald]

Let's keep this thread on the topic of future WoW content patches and not the discussion of social politics or what have you.

[Lahis]

Let's keep this thread on the topic of future WoW content patches and not the discussion of social politics or what have you.

But social politics are key component of future WoW patches now.

[Dracullus]

If only we had some content to talk about. I suspect 9.2 reveal will be big and maybe involve Mike Ybarra, but that's November territory. Hopefully 9.1.5 launch 20th, PTR progress is slow as hell, but beside MT nothing major needs much testing, M+ is tested already.

[Fahrad Wagner]

If only we had some content to talk about. I suspect 9.2 reveal will be big and maybe involve Mike Ybarra, but that's November territory. Hopefully 9.1.5 launch 20th, PTR progress is slow as hell, but beside MT nothing major needs much testing, M+ is tested already.

Btw I wanted to ask, is November a given for 9.2 announcement? Like did we get a blue post or something on it? I think I skipped that.

[Lahis]

If only we had some content to talk about. I suspect 9.2 reveal will be big and maybe involve Mike Ybarra, but that's November territory. Hopefully 9.1.5 launch 20th, PTR progress is slow as hell, but beside MT nothing major needs much testing, M+ is tested already.

I bet there are still lot of censoring left to do.

[Foreign Exchange Ztudent]

Btw I wanted to ask, is November a given for 9.2 announcement? Like did we get a blue post or something on it? I think I skipped that.

November is not a given, however I do not see them waiting till over the Holidays to make people excited. November makes the most sense and usually news about the next patch happens within 2-3 weeks after the previous patch has been released which would put 9.2 news in Mid/Late November as the likeliest candidate.

Especially since they are seemingly going to push everything into 9.2 releasing in January/February with Blizzcon Online later that February which should lead us into Expansion Announcement. Unless the Announcement in November is that they are going in for the long haul and 9.3 is a given which would put the Expansion Announcement as another Gamescom announcement.

[Dracullus]

Btw I wanted to ask, is November a given for 9.2 announcement? Like did we get a blue post or something on it? I think I skipped that.

Nothing is a given, but it will be 5 months after last big patch and biggest competition release expac that month. No blue post, with official word from Blizz there would be hype.

[Foreign Exchange Ztudent]

Fundamentally they need a dub, Ion already teased that 9.2 would be mindblowing and all that jazz prior to 9.1s' launch. So it is clear they have put their resources on the next patch to be as good as humanly possible with all the restraint and conditions they've been put under.

It just makes sense to revitalize everything in November due to the fact that Fresh Classic will release in November and also having news about the future of the game just makes logically sense, especially if they want to give us the somber news that 9.2 is the end and we're heading out on a new adventure in October-November next year.

[Fahrad Wagner]

November is not a given, however I do not see them waiting till over the Holidays to make people excited. November makes the most sense and usually news about the next patch happens within 2-3 weeks after the previous patch has been released which would put 9.2 news in Mid/Late November as the likeliest candidate.

Especially since they are seemingly going to push everything into 9.2 releasing in January/February with Blizzcon Online later that February which should lead us into Expansion Announcement. Unless the Announcement in November is that they are going in for the long haul and 9.3 is a given which would put the Expansion Announcement as another Gamescom announcement.

That would indeed make a lot of sense! November is still so far away though, ugh, I wish we could have more visibility on all of this.

[Lahis]

November is not a given, however I do not see them waiting till over the Holidays to make people excited. November makes the most sense and usually news about the next patch happens within 2-3 weeks after the previous patch has been released which would put 9.2 news in Mid/Late November as the likeliest candidate.

Especially since they are seemingly going to push everything into 9.2 releasing in January/February with Blizzcon Online later that February which should lead us into Expansion Announcement. Unless the Announcement in November is that they are going in for the long haul and 9.3 is a given which would put the Expansion Announcement as another Gamescom announcement.

There is no fucking way 9.2 can release in January. They need 4 months of PTR first and we're in October with the previous patch still on PTR.

[Raetary]

We are not getting 9.2 till late february/early march at the earliest.

[Fahrad Wagner]

We are not getting 9.2 till late february/early march at the earliest.

I agree late Feb./early March makes more sense for 9.2. I just hope it is not dragged out until April…

[Varodoc]

I agree late Feb./early March makes more sense for 9.2. I just hope it is not dragged out until April…

Lol.

Almost 1 year for a patch, nice.

I'm sure it's Covid's fault btw.

[draugril]

It's kind of sad... twenty years ago, if Blizzard announced a delay or was taking an inordinate amount of time, everyone assumed that this was due to them being supremely competent developers. These days? It's attributed to incompetence, unfortunately with good reason.

[Hitei]

It's kind of sad... twenty years ago, if Blizzard announced a delay or was taking an inordinate amount of time, everyone assumed that this was due to them being supremely competent developers. These days? It's attributed to incompetence, unfortunately with good reason.

Twenty years ago people didn't give a shit about delays because people didn't take every last little thing in a single video game as some life or death matter that needed to be screamed about for months. Blizzard was just as incompetent 15-20 years ago as they are today, people on all sides of every issue are just more eager to be stupidly outraged about shit.

It's not even a trend exclusive to WoW, it's something observable in pretty much any domain, movies, music, politics, sports, medicine, you name it.