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Post by
Snownation
It will be released within the 1year period since the Annual Pass started.
It makes sense so ppl will have to spend money on Mists to continue the part of the 12 months they "must" play.
Post by
Nathanyal
It will be released within the 1year period since the Annual Pass started.
It makes sense so ppl will have to spend money on Mists to continue the part of the 12 months they "must" play.
They don't have to buy Mists to keep playing. They only have to buy it if they want a Pandaren, a Monk or they want to level to 90 and do all the things that come with the level cap.
They could just stay at 85.
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588688
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Post by
Adamsm
@ rank, I can have hope, can't I? ;)
There's hope and then there's being naive.
Post by
Rankkor
@ rank, I can have hope, can't I? ;)
A man can dream, I should know T_T I still dream that one day they'll kill off Varian, Aggra, Med'an, and Sylvannas. But sadly, those events seem highly unlikely. Still, I can dream they can happen.
I'm just pointing out some reasons why a June release is flat-out impossible. August really seems like the month to release it. Its on the third quarter of the year, so there's plenty of time to let people play Diablo 3, it lets them use the last quarter of the year (October-november-december) to launch SC2's expansion, and 4 to 5 months of beta testing seem more apropriate to tackle the BUCKETLOAD of bugs the beta has at the moment.
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588688
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Post by
Adamsm
If they want to release a buggy and unplayable game sure.
Post by
spiketcat
I still like the November 12th date. That way I can get MoP for my birthday on the 5th ;p
Lol are you a time lord or something?
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670547
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Rankkor
Well, august latest, but it's still possible for it to be out in june or july.
/sighs
man we're going in circles here. June is OUT OF THE QUESTION. No way NO HOW.
If June was the intended date they would had announced it already since they always do so 2 months in advance. Plus that would make the beta last what? 2 months? no way a beta will last 2 months. PTRs for PATCHES last 2 months.
The last two expansion have been in the Fall or early Winter, probably to capitalize on the mass buying during the holiday season. It's just good marketing on their part, adults like myself will go out and buy it whenever it comes out, but the countless kiddies that play are a lot less likely to come up with $50, but they can easily nag their parents to get it for them for Chrismachanikwanzica. Ready or not I bet we don't see the game until at least October or November.
Releasing it in october or november risks them losing too many people, not gaining.
so what? that many people leaving are the very same people who are gonna come back.
My realm went from having nearly 16000 horde active players to a mere 3000 on the last days of Wrath of the Lich king. Yet that number spiked up WAAAAY back up to 17000 once cata was released.
I really don't understand why people think this is a good business move,
they will release it when it's done
Which is exactly another reason why there's no way the game will be out by June or July. Its NOWHERE NEAR DONE. Please understand that we've barely tested like what? 10% of the content? you have any idea how much left is there to test on this expac?
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Adamsm
Sold, your whole 'releasing it in Oct/Nov' means they are losing people is a load of bull: Look at the massive upsurge of people returning to the game thanks to the lvl 80 SoR and the MoP hype; people are actually getting back into doing things. They'll live and stay, and even if another 2 million leaves in the next six months.....those same people will be back as soon as MoP drops; let the Beta go on for as long as it takes to fix the plethora of bugs.
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669109
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Post by
Azrile
I'm gonna have to disagree, I don't see them holding off releasing the expansion so that people can play their new game, diablo and wow players are mostly a different audience, and they can't just leave their biggest customer base, wow players, with nothing to do just so that a much smaller minority of their fanbase, diablo 3 players (which do include wow players, but still) can play their new game. That's a really bad business move if you ask me.
They did it with Starcraft 2; they won't release two games in the same quarter to make sure they get the most bang for their buck.
That's still leaving out the fact that there are a mess of bugs that make it really hard to level: Off the top of my head:
1. No monk quests yet for the other classes.
2. Westfall, Duskwood, Darkshore, Ashenvale, Desolace, Western Plaguelands, STV's, Feralas all have quest lines that are either A) Missing entirely, as in the quest givers aren't there(Lor'denial is completely empty of quests) or B) Phased out(WPL is after the battle for Andorhol) for Pandarens.
3. None of the reps work for the Pandaren except for Kurenai/Mag'har, so good luck finding all of the quests in zones.
4. Multiple quests still bugged in the new zones.
Yeah.......sure would be stupid to release a game that is still this buggy in 2 months......
You realize all of that is one bug, that will be fixed rapidly. The same thing was happening with deathknights, and there was a similar ´huge´issue with blood elves. One day it seemed there were bugs in dozens of zones, one patch later, it was completely fixed. Pandaran aren´t flagged correctly. The problem is not with the zones, it is with pandarans.. will be a quick fix that will disappear rapidly, same as every other expansion where there were similar ¨huge´ questing problems.
I am guessing August 16th. The reason is that people just don´t realize that there are two other servers running ´beta´ right now which are much further along. These AP servers aren´t even a real beta... they are a demo.
Post by
Adamsm
Right now there is a major bug that keeps client crashing people every 15 seconds to a minute after being online.
You can't talk in General in Jade Forest.
There are still dozens of PH models all over the place.
Trying to raid on 25 difficulty to test raids is impossible as constant client crashes occur.
The endless number of low level quests that are bugged to Pandarens.
If anything Sold, you are the one under estimating what is needed to fix things.
As I said in this thread: I'm in a guild with people who were in Wrath, Cata, BC beta and they are all of the same mind that what we are in just one step above an Alpha, and don't see the actual expansion being released for the next 5-6 months.
I used to say late Q3 but now I'm changing that to Q4; may be in the early part but can't see it coming out any sooner then that.
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588688
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Adamsm
Late june-mid july release IMO.No way in hell.
Post by
Snownation
It will be released within the 1year period since the Annual Pass started.
It makes sense so ppl will have to spend money on Mists to continue the part of the 12 months they "must" play.
They don't have to buy Mists to keep playing. They only have to buy it if they want a Pandaren, a Monk or they want to level to 90 and do all the things that come with the level cap.
They could just stay at 85. Yeah that's not what I meant by "playing", and i think you know that as well.
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