World of Warcraft: Current Year

I guess Sept 21 is more for Activision finances division.. so they can savely plan the income for 2016q3. If they really get beta running around beginning of december, i guess june 2016 prepatch and july 2016 expansion release is realistic. July would then also be 2016q3, so ok for Activision.

Cybsled_sl said:

I never bothered playing Warlords because Brewmasters got nerfed hardcore before the expansion came out. How are they now?

Click to expand...

Very strong though they were a little stronger earlier in the xpack. All the tanks are really good.

Tauro_sl said:

I guess Sept 21 is more for Activision finances division.. so they can savely plan the income for 2016q3. If they really get beta running around beginning of december, i guess june 2016 prepatch and july 2016 expansion release is realistic. July would then also be 2016q3, so ok for Activision.

Click to expand...

They are realizing the preorder income as it is paid, there isn't a refund. Actually it isn't a preorder, people are actively buying the game right now.

pre orders aren't booked as revenue/income until the game ships, its known as deferred revenue and while considered an asset doesn't show up on the income reports until the game ships.

Foggy_sl said:

They are realizing the preorder income as it is paid, there isn't a refund. Actually it isn't a preorder, people are actively buying the game right now.

Click to expand...

Oh, you are right, but i guess a lot of the expansion income is still made at release? 50%+?

Spronk you are 100% right. I have been using the wrong term. These are actually game purchases so the preorder accounting doesn't apply.

Tauro, I'm sure a majority of the income is made at release. Between all the people buying the box as they come back for release and the massive bump in sub income, it has to be larger than pre purchase income. Not sure they care when it comes out, as far as actively delaying release. Maybe they want it to hit in a certain financial year but I don't know their financial year. Not to mention, the nature of the genre and current condition of the game, sooner has to be better for their financials.

DavivMcD_sl said:

It's not great, but it doesn't quite get to wear the title of 'worst'.

1.10: Dungeon Armor Sets 2.0!
1.12: EPL and Silithus PvP Objectives!
2.2: VOICE CHAT!
5.1: Operation Shieldwall / Dominance Offensive!

and of course:

6.1: ......balance changes?

Click to expand...

1.10 was really fun for me. I did two mans with a Thunderfury Warrior so hydrid Druid gear was interesting to use, though I normally used T2. Then got some Shadow Priest gear to raid with (yes I did manage this in vanilla!). Wasn't this the timed Statholme run too? That was probably the hardest thing I did in the game.

Foggy_sl said:

Spronk you are 100% right. I have been using the wrong term. These are actually game purchases so the preorder accounting doesn't apply.

Tauro, I'm sure a majority of the income is made at release. Between all the people buying the box as they come back for release and the massive bump in sub income, it has to be larger than pre purchase income. Not sure they care when it comes out, as far as actively delaying release. Maybe they want it to hit in a certain financial year but I don't know their financial year. Not to mention, the nature of the genre and current condition of the game, sooner has to be better for their financials.

Click to expand...

Oh, I see the problem you haven't even read the product details on the battle.net store:

Pre-purchase: Game isexpectedto release on or before September 21, 2016.

Haha, there's going to be so many angry people just because a dev has pink hair.

Probably. lmao. I'm missing the stream right now, anything exciting mentioned yet?

DK Runes were too complicated!? WTF. Rest of the changes sound pretty cool tho.

Transmog system: Account wide, wardrobe stores item appearances (so you can sell/disenchant/etc the item once you're done), can save looks as outfits, can save outfits with spec-dependant rules, all items from every quest you've ever run automatically added to wardrobe (even those with multiple rewards).




E: including tabards. Oh, and you can hide shoulders now too.

Holy fucking shit, that transmogrification update was such a mic drop moment. Dude kept saying "Not done!" and adding more unbelievable features, the crowd was going nuts.

I have to say, as an avid collector of all sorts of things, that is by far my favorite feature/udpate in Legion.

Cliffnotes :

All item appearances will now be collected into a wardrobe interface.
You don't have to keep the items around, the appearance is saved forever.
It's account wide.
Every quest you've ever done, the item rewards are saved automatically in your wardrobe, even for rewards you did not choose.
You'll be able to save whole outfits, and they'll be able to be saved based on spec for when you switch.
The hidden items (helm/cloak) will be saved too.
You'll now be able to hide shoulders.
You'll now be able to transmog shirts and tabards (which will also be learned in the wardrobe forever).

HOLY FUCK THIS TRANSMOG DUDE IS SUCKING MY DICK RIGHT NOW FUCKIN HYPE TRAIN IS REAL

Random world drops are Legendary (orange name) with unique affixes, D3 style.

Some examples were a necklace that gave a chance for HoTs and DoTs to tick for the full value of the entire spell and a cloak that did 5k dps to all targets in a radius around the wearer.

Crafted items have unique affixes as well, I remember they showed off a necklace that gave Warriors 15% movespeed while enraged.

Palum_sl said:

Oh, I see the problem you haven't even read the product details on the battle.net store:

Pre-purchase: Game isexpectedto release on or before September 21, 2016.

Click to expand...

In the launcher shop: "Legion will be released on or before 09/21/2016."


Regarding the content of the xpack, it seems like they are completely changing their design philosophy and letting time played have a major impact on character power. Not a fan.

Those transmog changes are huge. So much QoL.

Foggy_sl said:

letting time played have a major impact on character power

Click to expand...

Back to how it should be imo

Good, man. Take more of D3s systems and put them in the game it'll make this game so much better lmao. Finally I can get rid of like 200 slots of gear for my transmog shit. Can't wait to watch the video once it's up z_z

What do you mean time played having an impact on power? I like that idea because I have like 3 characters I've played since launch, but what are they doing?