11-04-2004, 10:39 PM
MongoJerry,Nov 4 2004, 08:04 PM Wrote:I'm going to withhold final judgement until I see the open beta patch that is supposed to include hunter and pally talents, warrior and possibly priest refinements, some massive and needed overhauls in Kalimdor areas, and the introduction of a raid instance and a small battleground. However, I have to say that I feel much better about this release timetable than I did a month ago. One of my biggest worries about the game was the question of what would keep someone playing their characters once they reached the lvl 60 cap. Now that I've been able to play and experience some of the high-end content, however, I'm much less worried about it. I like the direction Blizzard is heading with that. The primary issue for me regarding "releaseability" is how well thought out and developed the classes are at the start of Open Beta. If the new hunter and/or paladin talents are like the half-formed joke talents warlocks got at first, then I'll be very disappointed. However, if they're well thought out and only need minor tweaking, and if the new content is pretty good, then yeah, releasing the game at the end of this month wouldn't be a travesty.
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Speaking of the patch, here is what Blizz said today about it:
"I believe the last time I discussed the patch, I said, "not for awhile."
Tyren "
And
"The process of patching the client up to this point has been a different technical structure than the client that we will be releasing come launch. Thus to syncronize the two different versions of the same client, the closed beta testers had to reinstall the entire client.
The new content patch will arrive sometime in the not too distant future, and the dev team has done it's best to make sure that patch is not too heavy so the download should not take very long.
Tyren "
However the "not too distant future" sounds awefully close to the release day. =(