You don’t know? Or you don’t want to know…
There are a lot of changes when prepatch hits, Brutosaur mount is going extinct, mythic + mount is getting removed, ahead of the curve mount is getting removed.
So many things are getting removed and a lot of people are trying to get them or they just found out that they are getting removed knowing a release date would help them know how much time they have left.
Hm, it’s 3 weeks…Sometimes 4.
On ptr it has 3 stages for 3 weeks.
To be fair if you still don’t have get curve or m+15 then you shoudn’t get them because you obviously lack the skill or determination.
This 1-2 week difference won’t matter. (Also they announced the removal of these things like half year earlier)
It’s 2 weeks on PTR.
I believe some people are close to getting their big boy mount and 1 week difference may be a “life or death” question pretty much
I mean they had like 9 months (2 year for longboi). If you left some work for the last seconds, it’s your fault.
Not quite when there was no indication that mount will be temporary until very last minute announcement it will be removed in prepatch. If this would have been told when mount came out, it would be different situation.
I would’t call a warning 1 year before “last minute” lol.
Yes it definitely saddens me to see them so quiet and I do think they have some internal issues at the moment.
It actually makes you wonder if this new company will be the death of Blizzard after all.
I am not one of the doomsayers and I sure hope WoW will last for many years from now because I genuinely like the company and their work, but something needs to change in their mentality.
What made Blizzard and WoW great was their passion for games and their fans. I want them to understand that we love their products and we are looking for any excuse to throw some money at them.
They just need to learn to be more honest and humble really.
As Radium has mentioned before. There was no indication that the long boy would be removed before SL. Its like saying. “We will remove ICC tomorrow. What? You didn’t get your invincible mount yet? Well you had like decade to farm it. Your fault. Deal with it”. People plan accordingly. Maybe somebody wanted to farm longboy in Sl for what ever reason. If it would have been stated at the start that the mount is just a BfA only feature and will be gone with the SL arrival, then people would plan accordingly.
I find it funny to blame people for waiting “till the last second” because there were NO last seconds announced before.
Its your fault that you missed the deadline. And me “suddenly putting the deadline on a moment’s notice” has nothing to do with it! 
You are right it was bit bad choice of words. All i was trying to say that if people knew from the get go it will be temporarily available they would have started to save up on it sooner. I know people who saved from the moment they heard it will be removed and still had troubles to reach the 5 million it required. Not everyone is a gold making god.
They announced the removal of the mount at the start of Shadowlands 1 year before. Yes, there was no given release date back then, but it was guessed around 2020 Q4.
So you knew that if you want to get the mount you should get it before that, otherwise you will miss it. To be fair there were lots of speculations about an August release, so you might look this in a way that every plus days you had from August is a bonus.
And that is totally fine. Not everyone should get the mount. As with any other seasonal things, especially the harder ones.
Blizzard only annouces end of the seasons never prepacth dates.
I’ve only skimmed the thread but I don’t think anyone’s mentioned the effect of Covid. They’re all working from home and there’s no chat round the water cooler to sort out a problem which would only take a few minutes. It all has to be done online in group conversations and similar which makes it really difficult. As such it must be really hard to have any idea of when things will be ready.
Lol yes they do, they even post “survival guide” videos indicating all the changes.
We also have to remember we are playing the Beta, which by definition isn’t finished or fully fine tuned. Hell, even the pre-patch on the PTR went from a Release candidate back to a beta candidate.
To me as a programmer for the most part WFH is a blessing. There are no more endless meetings, if someone wants something implemented he has to actually write his vague ideas(which most of the time means he realizes how idiotic they are), nobody stops by my desk to chat about some useless stuff and interrupts my work.
I don’t think so, in my opinion they are listening way too much to what some people in the community want. That’s why things get changed around all the time. Many cooks spoil the broth as they say. I’d prefer if the developers would just do more what they think, like it used to be in the old times of game development. There were lots of great games back then, now many games feel the same because they are build on “community feedback”, surveys and statistics, instead of real creativity and ideas. If you always take the average, all you’ll get will be average.
And on the other side, many people that just spend a lot of time playing video games think they know as much about game design as an actual game designer, which in most cases is absurd. It’s like thinking you know how to cook just because you eat a lot. It is a recipe for anger and disappointment all around.
As for the release date, that is just a lot of speculation, just like a lot of articles on Wowhead that people take as if it was official information.
Why do people like you assume that everyone is constantly subscribed and playing WoW?
I am glad I learned of the extinction event data-mining early enough. This is the only game we apparently need to stay up to date with even if you are not playing it to not miss out thanks to asinine artificial scarcity
You do not need to know the process of how a meal is made to be able to judge its quality (or if it suits to your tastes), you just need to have eaten enough quality food in your life to be able to tell a dish made with fresh ingredients from one made from dried powders and MSG.
You speak about it as if it is some education system where the elementary school kids do not get a say on how they are being educated cause they cannot know better at their age.
Also these devs are free to go pursue their own creative ideals on brand new IPs that they will have to work to made a success.
If they are working on an established and successful IP then they better stick to what made it good and keep making good without trying to turn it into a different game of their own.
This is not limited to just games but other entertainment
This is why the newer Star wars movies were a disappointment, and so is the new Star trek series and the mainstream US comics and many more things that have been taken over by know-better-than-you staff that highjack a beloved brand like parasites.
That’s a pretty stupid thing to say. 99% of the popular games operate with time limited events, skins, etc…
You can’t really succeed with a 15 yr old game tho. If you never mix things up, most of the players got bored and quit fast. Also gaming culture changed a lot, so if you’re maintaining WoW you need to calculate with that too.