TBC Release date - Page 3

Aloxy · 10/24/06, 6:26 AM

As a guildleader who was already tired of raiding and pushing my guild to farm to keep up naxx progress, I have no clue as how to find the energy to carry on for another three months. Should I recruit more people to keep the guild going, just so I have to kick them once 25 mans hit.. But even then I dont know how to keep up my own motivation, and how am I then supposed to keep the rest of the guild motivated? Extremely bad news.

Kody · 10/24/06, 6:52 AM

Ugh, I'm really torn by this. On one hand, I'm happy to see Blizzard had the guts to tell Vivendi "No, we aren't ready yet." On the other hand, it's going to suck dealing with attendance problems due to info released about the beta for another 3 months.

Emth · 10/24/06, 7:07 AM

Originally Posted by Cull

Looks like trying to hang on till the expansion isn't going to work :( Gonna have to buckle down and start raiding hard again.

The most progressed horde guild on our server had 8 people online last night during raid time, another had 17. We barely managed an AQ raid and still have huhu emps and razuvious to kill tonight (unlikely) or we miss them for the week. I wonder how much of a difference this new release date will make to this, I hazard a guess at 'not much'.

But hey at least I can get my mage to 60 well before TBC and maybe get a bit of gear rather than jumping into the expansion with greens.

Northerner · 10/24/06, 7:14 AM

Actually, if they uncap the BEs and whatever the hell that alliance race is, then this might be masterfully smart. I doubt they will (they are still a selling point I guess) but man would that make life easier!

kharen · 10/24/06, 7:18 AM

The most progressed horde guild on our server had 8 people online last night during raid time, another had 17. We barely managed an AQ raid and still have huhu emps and razuvious to kill tonight (unlikely) or we miss them for the week. I wonder how much of a difference this new release date will make to this, I hazard a guess at 'not much'.

Ouch. I knew we were having a lot of problems lately (the multiple disbands and renamings probably aren't helping us out much, mind), but i didn't realise you and Validus were so badly off as well :(

I'm really not looking forwards to trying to hold the guild together until January now - it was looking shaky enough with a November release, but now we have to get through another two months?

Warpony · 10/24/06, 7:19 AM

If they uncap BE's and Draneis this will actually be sweet.

The people grinding Naxx will get a boost with Pallys and Shamans and they'll get more ppl into expansion content early.

I doubt theyr that smart tho.

Ayr · 10/24/06, 7:22 AM

There is no way they will uncap the new races.

Kody · 10/24/06, 7:23 AM

I highly doubt they're going to let people play expansion races prior to release - that's a very major selling point of the expansion. Infact it's pretty silly to even suggest speculation like that.

Phlis · 10/24/06, 7:25 AM

Pre-order CD w/ Dreanei and Blood Elf starting zones only. Something like that would make my life a hell of a lot easier.

henaki · 10/24/06, 7:28 AM

Originally Posted by Kody

I highly doubt they're going to let people play expansion races prior to release - that's a very major selling point of the expansion. Infact it's pretty silly to even suggest speculation like that.

How about: You can purchase half of the game, which gives you Blood Elf and Draenei access now, and you can buy the Outlands half later. Both are done online.

Taipan · 10/24/06, 7:29 AM

It might be dubious to release Draenei and Blood Elves in 1.13, but it would keep a lot of ppl happy till TBC.

Eej · 10/24/06, 7:29 AM

Fuck that, let everyone who pre-ordered BC to start leveling a Draenei/Blood Elf to 60. They have no excuse to force people to level Draenei/Blood Elves from scratch at BC release, since they have so much time to tune raid instances now they don't need the 1 month window of people leveling from 1-70 and getting kitted out for raiding. People won't be buying the expansion just to play the new races, how many people are actually rerolling their character to Draenei/Blood Elf?

No, if you shove the new 41 point talent trees into everyone's lap and say "Hey, you could have 10 more points, plus Outland with its crazy gear and the Arena system, if you buy the expansion", that's the real selling point.

Warpony · 10/24/06, 7:37 AM

It would be a dream come true... Sadly i agree with people who say it's not gonna happen. I just don't have enough faith in blizzard tbh

Kody · 10/24/06, 7:39 AM

Originally Posted by henaki

Originally Posted by Kody

I highly doubt they're going to let people play expansion races prior to release - that's a very major selling point of the expansion. Infact it's pretty silly to even suggest speculation like that.

How about: You can purchase half of the game, which gives you Blood Elf and Draenei access now, and you can buy the Outlands half later. Both are done online.

That I could see. Some type of pre-order code allowing you to play your Draenei or BE to 60 prior to expansion release. I also wonder how strong of a selling point that would be, I'd think fairly huge. I bet they would get tons of extra pre-orders if this was possible.

Kody · 10/24/06, 7:41 AM

Originally Posted by Eej

Fuck that, let everyone who pre-ordered BC to start leveling a Draenei/Blood Elf to 60. They have no excuse to force people to level Draenei/Blood Elves from scratch at BC release, since they have so much time to tune raid instances now they don't need the 1 month window of people leveling from 1-70 and getting kitted out for raiding. People won't be buying the expansion just to play the new races, how many people are actually rerolling their character to Draenei/Blood Elf?

No, if you shove the new 41 point talent trees into everyone's lap and say "Hey, you could have 10 more points, plus Outland with its crazy gear and the Arena system, if you buy the expansion", that's the real selling point.

Probably quite a few? There are at least two people in Conquest that plan to level shaman and ultimately switch to them as their new mains. I'm sure it's the same for horde guilds as well - at least two of their shaman or whatever plan to level paladins, etc. Altaholics? You bet. They would kill to get access to a new race to level alts as - especially alliance players that want alliance shaman alts. Let's not forget, the majority of their playerbase is not a hardcore min-max raider that won't be rerolling to a new race.