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This is a pretty dumb thread and is more likely than not to end up shit heaped.
Blizzard didn't put BWL on Test because the community asked them not to. I remember making an R&D post entitled "Blizzard, please don't put BWL on Test" and getting a blue reply.
Hakkar and Ossirian both had serious, serious problems in their initial versions. Hakkar had a hilarious bug. But the difference is that those were 20-man instances tuned to be a bit easier and thus balancing them was easier. I was in raid groups on Test that killed Hakkar for the first time, and cleared all of AQ20 as well. We had invisible devs tagging along observing us, dropping repair bots for us when needed, and so forth. We could play through every encounter fully and give feedback like "hey, this guy hits our Wrath-geared MT for over 2k crushing, are you sure this is supposed to be doable with blues?", and they could balance accordingly. We didn't need days of wipes to advance because we were overgeared for the zone, and it wasn't top-tier content.
With AQ40, on the other hand, they needed to balance at the very edge of player capability, while still respecting the competitive raiding game. What would the player reaction have been if C'Thun had died on Test? Wouldn't that have cheapened the whole zone right from the start?
The whole use of the term "cockblock" with regard to stuff like bugged Ouro and C'Thun is fucking retarded. A cockblock in EQ was when a gateway boss was made truly unkillable to hide unfinished content beyond. C'Thun wasn't blocking a damn thing except some epics. It's not like you need 40 C'Thun Hide Cloaks to zone into Naxx or something. Blizzard wanted him to be killable, but they didn't want him to be too easy, and the guys whose job it would be to truly finetune the encounter were probably otherwise occupied making sure patch 1.11 was ready for E3. And yeah, meeting a major corporate deadline like that would take precedence over fixing something that was hindering the gameplay of, at most, a few thousand players (in March, anyway).
Edit: Fuck, what Beef said ^^^
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