Midnight 12.X Patches & World Soul Saga Speculation Thread

[Merryck]

So where are the Void Elf Demon Hunter customisation options? They were datamined a while back.

[Lady Atia]

We getting that roadmap at all this year or?

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Also, pre-patch on January 20th

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http://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/...ive-january-20

Guess that means seasons also end there?

[GeometryWizard]

They laid off a lot of the social media team earlier this year resulting in the shitshow reveal at Gamescom so there's a good chance they don't even have anyone to do roadmaps anymore since they can't feed those graphics off to AI to generate them instead. The beta is also going to be incredibly short counting the 2 weeks holiday break where nothing will get done as major class changes has been off the table for weeks now and Microsoft always does huge layoff waves in January each year in the AI era so I imagine the team is going to get even more strained even if it's just support roles hit again and not developers

[Joshuaj]

Guess that means seasons also end there?

Idk, probably?

[Kiivar86]

So where are the Void Elf Demon Hunter customisation options? They were datamined a while back.

Been wondering that myself. I really hope they don't put out the void elf demon hunters with blood elf customizations. That'd be so lazy.

They laid off a lot of the social media team earlier this year resulting in the shitshow reveal at Gamescom so there's a good chance they don't even have anyone to do roadmaps anymore since they can't feed those graphics off to AI to generate them instead. The beta is also going to be incredibly short counting the 2 weeks holiday break where nothing will get done as major class changes has been off the table for weeks now and Microsoft always does huge layoff waves in January each year in the AI era so I imagine the team is going to get even more strained even if it's just support roles hit again and not developers

Speaking of the social media team, I did notice their youtube channel seems to be doing shorts like they had done previously, so I wonder if they have some back now.

[Super Dickmann]

They laid off a lot of the social media team earlier this year resulting in the shitshow reveal at Gamescom so there's a good chance they don't even have anyone to do roadmaps anymore since they can't feed those graphics off to AI to generate them instead. The beta is also going to be incredibly short counting the 2 weeks holiday break where nothing will get done as major class changes has been off the table for weeks now and Microsoft always does huge layoff waves in January each year in the AI era so I imagine the team is going to get even more strained even if it's just support roles hit again and not developers

Putting up a straight line graphic with some boxes in between with rough dates at the top is very challenging business, without a significant social media team it is sure to fail. As we speak, Ion is committing suicide, dreading how he just can't do it himself, and ashamed of the honor he'll lose for failing.

[GeometryWizard]

Putting up a straight line graphic with some boxes in between with rough dates at the top is very challenging business, without a significant social media team it is sure to fail. As we speak, Ion is committing suicide, dreading how he just can't do it himself, and ashamed of the honor he'll lose for failing.

My opinion of their competence there actually is that low after the Gamescom debacle where on the PR front they were putting out AI generated articles with gibberish descriptions of zones that didn't even accurately describe what the story was actually about and they had developers at the show describing things incorrectly so frequently it's like they were briefed on a different version of Midnight than the one that we're actually getting or like they kept asking an internal Copilot plugin to generate a list of Midnight features and were basing their interviews off constantly changing slop like that

[Super Dickmann]

My opinion of their competence there actually is that low after the Gamescom debacle where on the PR front they were putting out AI generated articles with gibberish descriptions of zones that didn't even accurately describe what the story was actually about and they had developers at the show describing things incorrectly so frequently it's like they were briefed on a different version of Midnight than the one that we're actually getting or like they kept asking an internal Copilot plugin to generate a list of Midnight features and were basing their interviews off constantly changing slop like that

I don't doubt that their marketing team is full of gibbering retards, but Gamescom in general was obviously an on-high decision, hence why Holly sat there like a socially awkward giraffe shooting out Blizzcon-hype lines to people who wanted to see basic mainstream releases and being met by the plain silence that anyone could've expected. Rather that come hell, bugs or high water they've maintained their release schedule up to now, obviously know what they'll be putting out within a year and getting some guy (or indeed, Copilot) to put out a single .ppt slide depicting what'll be out then isn't too much for a casual developer, let alone Blizz.

[Reive]

microsoft is cutting corners

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They laid off a lot of the social media team earlier this year resulting in the shitshow reveal at Gamescom so there's a good chance they don't even have anyone to do roadmaps anymore since they can't feed those graphics off to AI to generate them instead. The beta is also going to be incredibly short counting the 2 weeks holiday break where nothing will get done as major class changes has been off the table for weeks now and Microsoft always does huge layoff waves in January each year in the AI era so I imagine the team is going to get even more strained even if it's just support roles hit again and not developers

they hired some of them back. the dwarf guy was fired and now he's the social media manager again

[Lady Atia]

microsoft is cutting corners

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they hired some of them back. the dwarf guy was fired and now he's the social media manager again

What is a dwarf guy xD?

[milkmustache]

Hey, look at that. Our first look at the music in Midnight, the log-in screen music. I like it.

[Sondrelk]

Hey, look at that. Our first look at the music in Midnight, the log-in screen music. I like it.

I wonder if this is actually the opening bit of it. Sounds more like it's from somewhere in the middle.

Neat though. Even if nothing is going to top the Cataclysm title music.

[Cheezits]

Hey, look at that. Our first look at the music in Midnight, the log-in screen music. I like it.

If Xal is finally getting her full theme, then I assume she'll be a boss. I wonder how they'll differ her raid from the Voidspire + Darkwell.

Maybe it'll be like Zovaal at the end of the Sepulcher (already had his "themed raid" but he's still the final boss).

[milkmustache]

I wonder if this is actually the opening bit of it. Sounds more like it's from somewhere in the middle.

Neat though. Even if nothing is going to top the Cataclysm title music.

Yea, I'm feeling like this is the part in the TWW log-in music where the Cinderwold theming starts to come in. They're holding out on the new or hopefully redone Eversong themes! That's going to be a really exciting listen.

[Dracullus]

Guess Roadmap will arrive in January/February. Considering Faries comment about starting of 2026 with a bang across Blizzard Entertainment according to Variety. (https://variety.com/2025/gaming/news...ew-1236610214/)

Obviously, it could still arrive tomorrow but we'll see.

Probably it will be just Monday. 2023 Roadmap was on 21st December, 2024 on 19th.

[Foreign Exchange Ztudent]

Probably it will be just Monday. 2023 Roadmap was on 21st December, 2024 on 19th.

22nd? I don't know but sure we'll see.

[Nibelheimy]

The log in screen is miles better than TWW.

Would still rather it be a convential portal/gateway. But it actually gives me wow vibes unlike its predecessor.

[Sondrelk]

The log in screen is miles better than TWW.

Would still rather it be a convential portal/gateway. But it actually gives me wow vibes unlike its predecessor.

Yeah, don't get why they stopped with the usual portals. Could have had the perfect one for mIdnight with the mountain pass between EPL and Eversong.

[Cheezits]

Yeah, don't get why they stopped with the usual portals. Could have had the perfect one for mIdnight with the mountain pass between EPL and Eversong.

Probably deemed not worthy of excessive dev time when Battle.net skips through it fairly quickly.

[Mackud]

Not a good sign prepatch is soon when Devourer DH is barely functioning as a spec and that was a selling point of the expansion

None of it will be developers fault, as said a while back deadlines are usually made by the very people and the top and the major shareholders, but it's setting the tone really for what's to come.