This all looks believable to me, timelines all seem to match what I would expect. 10/25 is the start of another cycle of fated raids, which would fit perfect with the new class. The only real surprise I see here is the 11/28 release date which would likely put some of the prepatch event during Thanksgiving week...though it's not unheard of for such things to happen.
"Change freeze on launch day" is a bit of a surprise. I'd think they'd want change freezes to happen a bit sooner just in case of last minute bugs or the like, so you aren't melding in new branches with the fixes that'll likey be needed. It's also surprising that they'd have a different Monitoring/Change Management setup for COD global launches vs. WoW global launches. Also a bit weird that they'd have only Blizz products on here aside from COD, not sure why that would be different.
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Hey BfA had possibly the biggest trainwreck of a story, started with completely broken systems, wasted themes that could have served a full expansion, failed to properly iterate on two new systems that both had solid potential. Yet I still enjoyed playing it more than Shadowlands.
Well obviously, we are about to be a full expansion removed from it. Same thing happened with WoD. Everyone was in agreement it was awful early Legion, then opinions shifted slowly during the course of Legion until by the time we reached BfA it had transformed from "WoD is the worst" to "WoD was amazing actually".
Same thing will happen to SL come this time in two years. Barely anyone will even mention once controversial topics like "Semi-permanent Covenants", or "Poorly balanced raids", and noone will remember the long droughts, thats for sure.
Instead everyone will likely be reminiscing about how unique the expansion was, how good it was at giving rewards from Open World content. The wealth of rewards to be gained from various activities in the Covenants, multiplied by 4 even.
This time in two years SL will be the little expansion that was actually amazing except a few niggling little problems, not the mess only saved from the bottom two by virtue of WoD objectively having almost nothing to do, and BfA being a plot suicide with a side of botched gameplay systems.
The world revamp dream will never die!
TBH the announcement of the phases did include a + sign on Phase 6. So that's why I'm thinking that.
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wo...w-live/1278547
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I don't think people went with WoD was amazing. What I did see was that "Well WoD is not the worst expansion anymore" (it is). Or that WoD had some great parts to it (it did). BfA also has some things that were great imo (the zones themselves, the Essence system and personally I'd say War Mode). And I am sure Shadowlands has some solid parts too? (maybe with some time I'll see them!)
Might not have been many who claimed WoD was flawless, but there was still a clear shift in WoD being considered near indefensible, to players going out and saying that WoD was the best expansion since X expansion, usually WotLK.
And obviously there were good things to WoD. I especially loved the levelling questline, the effort put into the armor sets, how it really nailed the atmosphere in the zones, etc...
But the same is true for all the expansions. They all have some good stuff, and some not so good stuff. Legion for instance despite its deification now was honestly quite egregious to play unless you played only one spec religiously, and 7.2 is a black stain on an otherwise decent open world. BfA similarly had great ambience, and the ideas were great.
It's just to say that in two years time you will only have a few who still care to bash SL, but loads who will be willing to step up to its defense in opposition to whatever flaws DF will have.
The world revamp dream will never die!
World revamp meme will never die!
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