We will all be grabbing our swords and girding up our loins for battle on August 30th 2016. A little over half a month before their released by date of Sept. 23rd. This I believe is a good thing. I'm a little surprised they are announcing it at this point, the game is still in Alpha but hey, I trust they know what they are doing. And I'll be honest, I think a lot of the Alpha has served the purpose the Beta has in past expansions. I think the only reason they are calling it an Alpha and not a Beta is to keep folks from making assumptions about how far along the game cycle is.
This means folks I haven't seen in a while in game will be coming back together. We will be gathering up our forces and hitting the raids and hopefully downing a few baddies along the way. I really want to hop in on a Demon Hunter... The class has been fun to play around with, but Lag may still be my main just for consistency sake.
I am hoping, as they said this would be a longer pre-patch then other expansions this means we will get our 7.0 drop in June. That is a month and a half away for those who are counting. While I think the overall game won't be ready by then, I could see the class specs and other such things being ready to ship at that point. I imagine if you prebought the game, Demon Hunters might be released at that point too.
The other news is the fact Blizzard shut down a big private Vanilla server. Nostalrius was a server based on the original implementation of the game that was being run outside of Blizzard's purview, and Blizzard finally stepped in and shut it down. Now fans are up in arms over this, and there is now a petition going around for Blizzard to open up a Vanilla realm of their own for players to play on. Which is fine. What is not fine is the uproar.
I'm sorry, a private server using someone else's technology and code is illegal. Yes, I'm sure it was nice to have a Vanilla server to play on, but you are playing on code that was stolen from Blizzard so if they step up and say "No!" you have no ground to stand on.
If I befriended Brandon Sanderson, got ahold of one of his first drafts of Mistborn, and started selling it I would be stealing his intellectual property. (Now, to be fair I'm not sure anyone was making a profit off Nostralrius) He would have the right to sue me for distributing what wasn't a finished, or optimum work even if I left his name on it. The fact Blizzard just shut these guys down, but doesn't seem to be making a bigger smack down, which I'm sure they could, is points to them.
That being said, if you want to petition Blizzard for a Vanilla server I'm behind that. Go play a Vanilla server for a while. Other than the fact you will be forced to build a stronger community to find groups etc... you will also be reminded of the grinding and pain. But I would love for Blizzard to host a couple of servers of pre-iterations of World of Warcraft. That would be cool.
Anyway, that is my rantings for this Week.
Lag.
1 comment:
They have no clue whats Vanilla is all about, but the one who is really crying is one who dont have the cash to pay for subs, sad lot trying to ruin my game spreading all that nonsense.
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