A Word on World of Warcraft

[Zarvel]

What's in the box, holly? What's in the boooooooooooooox?

The 10.2.6 secret is killing me.

[Kathranis]

my bet is on some kind of scaled up content or mode, where you can just play at any level. Think a roguelike game mode where u start out naked and can collect power ups, as an example. im excited either way

Maybe something to help level up alts, in anticipation of Warbands and to get Classic / lapsed players caught up and ready for The War Within?

[Zarvel]

PTR's are primarily just for generating hype. I doubt that user feedback plays even a minor role for QA/development... I mean there isn't even a "proper" way to report bugs, besides just being able to write down a small note (no images, limited text size etc.)

You have no idea how wrong you are on this lmao. But I like the confidence.

[DeltrusDisc]

No one called it a "Playstation Portable!" It was called a "PSP" she's a FAAAAKE!!! /s
Damned corporate-speak

[doledippers]

Maybe something to help level up alts, in anticipation of Warbands and to get Classic / lapsed players caught up and ready for The War Within?

if the implication is that its available simply by having a sub, then it just cant be DF or level 70 specific, which just adds to the intrigue. Definitely looking forward to speculating

[FelPlague]

no ptr so it wont be tested properly
so i assume plenty of weird bugs

Eh, its worth it for cool stuff, I mean Season of discovery has been untested, and the untested stuff they have been doing since late shadowlands has been rather bug free, key word RATHER.
I have confidence.

[Kyphael]

third faction : pirate

Everyone knows the Third Faction should have been Night Elves and their Amazing Friends way back when.

[Kilpi]

In general given the amount of firings in recent times for Activision Blizzard I have zero faith in the future of their games anymore.

Was there ever a report who got fired? Not names but departments. Meaning was there WoW devs or QA fired? Anything else don't affect this. I still don't understand why the survivor game devs weren't mixed to other projects, but still..

[Soeroah]

"event"

Damn it

Hopefully there's a nice chunk of story too

[Shadowferal]

I got my selfie-cam all prepped...somewhere.

[rrayy]

Where is the obsession? Giving a patch a number could be down to sheer...you know..programming and release demands.

I mean..I don't get why it isn't called 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4 etc but needs to be 10.2.6 - but if you want to call that an obsession...then ok /shrug

Because that gives them room if they need to add a patch before the next big one is ready.

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Was there ever a report who got fired? Not names but departments. Meaning was there WoW devs or QA fired? Anything else don't affect this. I still don't understand why the survivor game devs weren't mixed to other projects, but still..

WoW wasn't touched. These were all redundancies created with the merger.

[DechCJC]

Super intrigued with the 10.2.6 stuff. Their wording is strange, not sure why they felt the need to specify that anyone with a subscription can play the new event. Isn't that a bit.... duh? I wonder if them specifying that anyone with a sub can play is a hint that it's some sort of new mode akin to SoD, though I can't imagine how something like that would work in retail. Consider me interested.

[doledippers]

Super intrigued with the 10.2.6 stuff. Their wording is strange, not sure why they felt the need to specify that anyone with a subscription can play the new event. Isn't that a bit.... duh?

well it implies that you dont need to be max level, or even own dragonflight to do it. which could mean its some kind of scaling content

[FossilFree]

Maybe the ability runes in classic are coming to retail? Classic could have been a testing ground for them before bringing them to retail. Rogue tank, mage healer, etc.

[Mojo03]

sounds like separate realms (since classic and retail subs can do it)

they tend to overhype things and under deliver, so I'm skeptical, but still sorta curious

sounds like an elaborate community treasure hunt or something, hence the pirate flag

yup, that's where my money is.

[WeAreNotSmilesTimes]

Twitter integration part II!

no no no. It's X integration now! That means it's new!

[arandomuser]

one piece crossover?

[Soeroah]

well it implies that you dont need to be max level, or even own dragonflight to do it. which could mean its some kind of scaling content

Makes me think of Legion invasions, but pirates

[RobertMugabe]

You have no idea how wrong you are on this lmao. But I like the confidence.

Except that I am completely right on this. Player input always played a rather small role in bugfixing here, where as I already said, there isn't a decent system to report bugs at all, let alone anything beyond that. Games like Minecraft use a full ticketing system like JIRA, meanwhile in WoW you can just submit a random ass text which can't be longer than a paragraph and then there's no way of knowing if anyone ever even read the report, let alone if anyone got any use out of it.

And tbh the reason why it is like that in WoW is because it mostly just doesn't matter for Blizzard and I don't mean this in a bad way. Because, as I said, PTR's are only here for generating hype. Even during a expansion's beta, player feedback doesn't matter all that much except maybe reporting blatant bugs. At the stage where players get to test out something, all decisions have already been made a long time ago and that's why we rarely see any major change even if the issues are obvious.

[Enrif]

10.2.6 being such a mystery event, and it being available for classic and retail subscribers is interesting.

I think it is something they test now that will be part of the TWW expansion features. Zaralek was for the underground system. We will get warbands with the prepatch, but have not a single system of it tested yet.
So my prediction for 10.2.6 - Privateer Mode. A different mode to war mode. Where you set yourself as neither faction. Which will allow for entering and interacting with both factions, but you can no longer PvP. And it will come for classic too, for the people who want to play with players from both factions.