Honestly, often times they do what they can with fixing the major issues with a patch, then push it through, and then hotfix anything that arises afterward. Also, there is only so much you can find on a public test realm. I am reminded of all those mobs that were swimming through the ground for weeks after Patch 2.0. And what about Jerome outside of Silvermoon City, who wandered around with his bottle floating outside his hand for months after the release of TBC?
So we can start the speculation now about when the patch move onto the live servers. Personally, I am looking toward the second week of November. This dev team needs to move on, needs to start finishing up the Sunwell encounter, heck, they need to start building us an expansion, am I right? When do you think we will see 2.3?
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10-28-2007 @ 8:08AM
lucifer.cross said...
Actually, no. I'm not in any huge rush to see the next expansion. Heh. But that's just me.
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10-28-2007 @ 8:40AM
Dabura said...
Ye, why the hell do so many people pressure Blizz into releasing a patch early and then whine about all the bugs it causes coz it wasn't properly finished. If u want something done right, done well, then u have to be patient idiots
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10-28-2007 @ 9:12AM
Rabbit said...
I don't care how long it takes. Get it right- I'm having fun as it is. Also, they have more than 5 developers...geez. Stir it up, stir it up...
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10-28-2007 @ 9:29AM
TonyMotorola said...
2.3 is slated for a Christmas release.
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10-28-2007 @ 9:29AM
PeeWee said...
I want the time I spent reading this "article" back.
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10-28-2007 @ 9:31AM
Braz said...
I hope that it takes long enough for me to accumulate the marks/honor points to start collecting my Arena Season 1 Set when the patch goes live, but not long enough for Blizzard to decide not to allow BGers to buy arena gear ;) .
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10-28-2007 @ 9:37AM
Christian Stricker said...
I don't think we'll see any patch until the release of Wrath of the Lich King.
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10-28-2007 @ 9:43AM
Xip said...
@6 QFT - I'm really glad that I can jump into arenas wearing a decent set of gear as soon as I hit 70, rather than spending months working my way up.
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10-28-2007 @ 9:48AM
outforprophets said...
Well, if these issues aren't related to increased leveling from 20-60, just release that part only! Please Blizz, I don't want to be level 70 when it becomes easier to level!
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10-28-2007 @ 9:57AM
Ghen said...
Can I have a mute button for TonyMotorola, he has never posted anything constructive.
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10-28-2007 @ 10:10AM
Daniel said...
I think its for X-mas or Late Decemeber. But have we heard if they are fixing the male shoulderpads or just leaving them?
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10-28-2007 @ 10:11AM
Tagor said...
To quote Blue:
When it's done.
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10-28-2007 @ 10:11AM
Daniel said...
male night elf*
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10-28-2007 @ 10:17AM
Adam said...
It will be out sometime in November.
If it's not, I'll be highly dissapointed since I'm really excited for this patch.
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10-28-2007 @ 10:23AM
Medros said...
I am sure it won't be out before halloween. I agree, the first week or two of November are likely, but it really depends on how the patch is coming on the PTR, as I admit I haven't been over there in about a week or two. As Blizz says, and they are right to do so, it will be out when it's ready, just like the expansion will be.
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10-28-2007 @ 11:00AM
tython25 said...
Sorry with 9 million subscribers at $15/month, Blizzard should get it right much faster than they do. Other MMO's with far smaller budgets release more content that WoW does.
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10-28-2007 @ 11:16AM
Magellan said...
"Pick two, Good, Fast, Cheap"
It's a free content patch so that just leaves one more choice. Do you want it good or fast? You can't have both.
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10-28-2007 @ 11:20AM
Nati said...
@17: It's not free. We pay for it through our monthly subscription fee.
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10-28-2007 @ 11:33AM
Shadowisp said...
Blizz has to take a hard look at the way they do these content patches... 2.3 Was suppose to be ZA, now its the ever increasing monster patch from hell.
I think they are too large and are problematic. They should think of rolling out smaller segmented patches.
Worse is the way the known errors in the patch appear.
If you read through the list some of the errors seem to be unrelated to the any of new content. WTF! Those are the strangest things, how stable is this code when Bosses in instances not touch start acting irregular (classic one: Onyxia Deep Breath error)
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10-28-2007 @ 11:51AM
othertim said...
I've been predicting the first week of December, right around the time we got 2.0 last year, for a nice early Christmas present.
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