Blizzard is not going to have 2 game releases (Which are both of the same franchise and literally share the playerbase) compete with each other.
Blizzard is not going to have 2 game releases (Which are both of the same franchise and literally share the playerbase) compete with each other.
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Theres plenty of evidence this expansion will be 26 months minimum if not 28. I personally think it will release in March, but we shall see.
I hope they plan on having a long alpha/beta for feedback. 8+ months.
Alpha- mid to late June
Beta- August
Prepatch on ptr late November.
Prepatch live mid Feb to Mid march
Dreagonflight live Mid march to late March.
8-9 months of testing.
Not if most players are cyclical right? Because that means they will come back for the content that is released for the product they want to play. Why would stretching it out have little to no effect if most players are cyclical? That would mean that by delaying one it increases the length of low MAU in the cycle. If they release both in the same month they they can count any who plays both as 2 MAU instead of one.
So if Blizzard only cared about the economic of MAU then releasing for both Retail and Classic in the same month would be the way to go. As they can double dip when players come back as part of "the cycle", right?
"Man is his own star. His acts are his angels, good or ill, While his fatal shadows walk silently beside him."-Rhyme of the Primeval Paradine AFC 54
You know a community is bad when moderators lock a thread because "...this isnt the place to talk about it either seeing as it will get trolled..."
Games of course not, but Season 4 and Lich King with ~4 weeks between wouldn't be surprise at all. But probably not Nathria/Naxxramas scenario.
And of course this discussion will soon end, Lich King launch is last thing on Classic that could spark interest bigger than major retail patch.
They can release S4 and Wotlk at the same time, because a lot of players won't care at all about S4 which is just about recycled content
Lots more encrypted files this build.
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That person who suggested the release date of May 31st (just ahead of Diablo Immortals release) because of the DI icons being added might've been right. We'll find out tomorrow I guess, maybe.
I logged into PTR to check myself and it *is* flagged release candidate. We'll probably get a release date shortly.
Most files are encrypted, but there's one file among them that has a blp header in the code, so I changed the file type and viewed it:
No clue what it is, but here.
Note: The background color is my photo viewer.
Edit: I don't know if this is how it's meant to be, but I photoshopped to line up the elements:
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Perhaps a new mythic key interface design now that the competitive year is over? They've had that one design for about 5 years now.
Edit: It strongly resembles Naga arcane runes from the Nazjatar raid. So its tangentially elvish. If it does have something to do with Darkfallen it may be their attempt to create a cultural aesthetic for the relatively new Undead Night Elves.
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That's a good guess. First thing I thought was Rin'dorei. We really don't know much about the Undead Night Elves. And old bit of lore for undead is that they become alienated from nature magic, it would make sense for them to lean into the Arcane.
I would guess the Night Elf Darkfallen would go with Elvish runes & Blood Elf Darkfallen go with an inverted Blood knight motif.
Instead of Night Elf fallen, I'd like if we got some night elves with tons of customizations based off Tyrandes empowered form like this:
Not only is it more fitting for the NE, it'd be cool to mirror this but with allied races (darkfallen and empowered night elves)
We know about the Winter Queen giving Tyrande a seed, which most people I believe expect it to be used for a new Night Elf tree, but it could be written to bring about ardenweald/elune/winterqueen empowered night elves
We only know the name of three dungeons (and not from the presentation, they are just mentioned in the website) and don't even know about the raid. We were told about both Emerald Nightmare and Nighthold in the Gamescom announcement. Really the only thing we've got a decent amount of information on is the profession revamp.