wow Executive Producer Holly Longdale Addresses Lack of Patch 10.2.6 Communication

[Staff 1,488]

Executive Producer Holly Longdale addressed the absence of Patch 10.2.6 news, expressing frustration for both creators and players and confirming more information is coming soon.

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[Q 200]

Someone over on reddit had an idea of them dropping cryptic hints for the community to speculate on and while it certainly has the downside of potentially leading to overhype and disappointment when what is actually happening does get revealed, it'd be better than the nothing we get while classic players get news what feels like every other day.

[Prophet001 598]

I personally don't see anything wrong with not data mining everything before it's actually released.

[Grumar 188]

very telling she seems shocked that people are getting mad about no news, this is the same person who honestly thought classic players were going to soy face over going to cata. that's like calling Istanbul Constantinople classic, you're literally losing the plot at this point. 

[Arcling 898]

There is a huge risk of overhyping it. A lot of players are likely expecting some cool pirate-themed event, but this might lead to disappointment.

[Pandabuffel 184]

13 hours ago, Q said:

Someone over on reddit had an idea of them dropping cryptic hints for the community to speculate on and while it certainly has the downside of potentially leading to overhype and disappointment when what is actually happening does get revealed, it'd be better than the nothing we get while classic players get news what feels like every other day.

Oof, I see this backfiring so hard. Especially with how wild and crazy people tend to get on Social Media nowadays. For example: If they released a statement now that "Our favourite elf is making a return in the next expansion", people will immediatly scream Illidan Stormrage. The next day they also expect it to be Malfurion. A bit later also Valeera. A day later people are expecting the whole expansion to be around Illidan Stormrage. A day later people are having a huge fight whether it should be Illidan or some other elf. A day later people are complaining why we're getting an Elven themed expansion again, while others are already expecting Fel Elves to be a new playable race.

And then in the end all they wanted to hint was that Sylvanas will quickly say sorry for her past in some quest dialogue, with a stampede of people raging why their expectation didn't come true. No, I rather want a complete silence and sudden surprise.

I still remember how Ryan Reynolds had to make a post warning people to stop making so many expections on the new Deadpool Movie, because at some point fans were expecting the biggest and most expensive star cast ever in a movie. And we all know how those same people react when it doesn't turn out that way.

Edit; Just after posting I figure we could use some good old whispers from the Old Gods again. I think THAT was the correct way to give vague cryptic hints about what's to come. People used to speculate a LOT about those whispers and many came true in one way or another, but I've never seen anyone make an expectation over those whispers and get angry about it.

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[TheCake 144]

I have absolutely zero expectations on this, except that it will probably contain more RNG BS... ;(

[AKrandom 6]

I basically have no expectations for the game before the release of the upcoming addon as well. I still wish they added a tank spec for the evoker. Additionally move the monk from leather armor class to cloth. First of all many monk sets look like cloth...you even start out with a kind of tradional looking monk set which looks like cloth armor and monks in RL arent known for wearing leather. Other then that both of these changes ( evoker tank spec and monk change to cloth armor) would be a nice balance out of classes/specs/armor type. That way every armor type would have the option to tank, melee and/or cast/be ranged. I mean...i for example dont quite like any of the cloth classes which is why i dont play them but i would really love to use their armors for transmog since many cloth armors look really nice. But yeah this kind of change is as likely as winning every lottery worldwide at the same time.

Ah and i nearly forgot...why is the flying nimbus slow af? I mean son gokus cloud was also really fast xDDD No, but seriously...would it be so bad having a second class with a fast build in flying mount like druids? This skill the way it is right now is quite niche and/or useless.

[Migol 433]

On 3/5/2024 at 6:21 PM, Arcling said:

There is a huge risk of overhyping it. A lot of players are likely expecting some cool pirate-themed event, but this might lead to disappointment.

It's obviously poison.   Or undead.    Who would ever see Blizzard doing things with a pirate theme 😛