World of Warcraft: Current Year
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Foggy
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What makes you say that? PTR is a release candidate, arena season ending, and they have locked transfers to PTR.
Ukerric
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Probably. Basically all the content is designed and implemented, there's just a few fiddly bits of fine-tuning to do. The extra stuff is already pushed to a 6.2.X. The release is merely deciding that enough fixes have made it out of the bug tracker, and the rest will be hotfixable.
Ao-
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First timewalker weekend is the weekend of July 4th, isn't it... so they could push out the patch on the 30th, right? Or is there some holiday on 6/29 that I'm not understanding?
Foggy
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In a preview article, they accidentally posted the weekend of the 26th as the first time walking weekend, which is why everybody is guessing next Tuesday is patch day.
Qhue
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Good lord. Ten weeks of a delay for LFR this time? Two and a half months?? What marketing genius thought this was a good idea? If a casual player actually remained subscribed for the 10 weeks it takes to open up the LFR content and they were interested in doing the Tanaan jungle content then they would be completely geared out in Apexis Crystal / Tradeskill / Garrison handouts before the door to Archimonde even opens.
So it actually makes a lot more sense to unsubscribe and simply not do any content until the fall when the game unlocks than it does to stay subscribed for 6.2. At least by walking away from the game you have a better chance of enjoying the content and feeling you get a reward than you would just feeling obligated to login to do dailies for 10 weeks building up your gear so you can ... not get any reward from killing Archimonde.
So it actually makes a lot more sense to unsubscribe and simply not do any content until the fall when the game unlocks than it does to stay subscribed for 6.2. At least by walking away from the game you have a better chance of enjoying the content and feeling you get a reward than you would just feeling obligated to login to do dailies for 10 weeks building up your gear so you can ... not get any reward from killing Archimonde.
Ukerric
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That was already the case with Blackhand. You did Blackhand LFR to finish your legendary questline, not because it gave you incredible upgrades.
xzi
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I'm kind of very annoyed with this. I don't raid like I used to in vanilla/tbc/wrath.. mostly because all my good friends quit the game. I came back and I enjoy seeing the content, LFR is ezmode yes, but it's nice to at least be able to see the content while playing solo.
There is already an extreme lack of anything to do and I bet I'm going to complete the Tanaan jungle questing within 3 days so now to add another 3 fucking months of having nothing to do. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Maybe I should just join a guild. lmao
kaid
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Eh its annoying but it follows the same pattern they have done for the previous two raids this expansion LFR wise it just is 10 weeks because this is a 5 wing raid. Also if the mythic dungeon stuff is decent maybe more avenues for people to play in that time than there was in 6.1.
kitsune
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I did some math and it's been 219 days since WoD released which I would say is 219 days for the first content patch. By far the worst they've ever done (and no, I don't count 'garrison update' as a content patch
Blizzard is really one of the few companies that become slower with age which is retarded. Now this patch is huge - why can't we have separate smaller patches throughout the expansion instead to keep us entertained instead of EXP Release - Radio silence for fucking 60% of a year - BIG BLOCK OF CONTENT. Now what, radio silence until 6.0 drops in August next year?
Blizzard is really one of the few companies that become slower with age which is retarded. Now this patch is huge - why can't we have separate smaller patches throughout the expansion instead to keep us entertained instead of EXP Release - Radio silence for fucking 60% of a year - BIG BLOCK OF CONTENT. Now what, radio silence until 6.0 drops in August next year?
Big_w_powah
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Because FFXIV isn't radically different, just a little slower. Lots of people have at least 5+ years invested into WoW at this point; Why jump ship from that investment for a game you may like cause its similar, but you're ADHD and need the spam? I mean, WoW survives at this point because its WoW, basically. If FFXIV made some of the stupid decisions WoW did, they'd die a fast death. But WoW can do it, because they're the biggest, baddest motherfucker around. EQ survived the time it did on the same principals. Look at Luclin, PoP for casuals. It was total shit for a long time. LDoN brought some decent gearing options but a massive, fuckoff grind. When GoD rolled around as another bad expansion, there were alternatives in the WoW beta. People knew what WoW was. They had something else and were sick of the bullshit.
WoW will kill itself, just not until theres an alternative that has mass appeal and provides a different enough experience that its worth jumping ship for.
Foggy
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