Well, that's sooner than expected. The official World of Warcraft website for Taiwan is announcing, as far as I can tell via Google Translate, that patch 2.3 is going to be released on the 15th in Taiwan. Presumably, that would mean it's coming out on the 13th in North America -- that's a week from today. This is what Google comes up with:"World of Warcraft" in Taiwan for the forthcoming age! To celebrate the "World of Warcraft" operating in Taiwan for two years, Blizzard Entertainment specially for Taiwan players in the game are now held in the colorful "花火Festival." People expect 2.3 version also will be November 15 (4) maintenance and Taiwan after the players met, "World of Warcraft" dual program installation package tomorrow (7), the province's convenience store channel synchronous devices.
If anyone reads Chinese, could you head over to the site and see if it is, indeed, predicting the patch in merely a week? Edit: The mysterious M below confirms that the site says the patch is coming out on the 15th in Taiwan. Woot! Edit 2: confirmed. Also, what's that festival about? Party time!
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11-06-2007 @ 2:53PM
Tolthalan said...
The fact that this came right after the previous blog post is hilarious.
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11-06-2007 @ 2:56PM
Hybrys said...
Yeah, the whole two weeks idea is a common misconception. They don't need to give two weeks for the PATCH, they have to give two weeks for the SEASONS 2 END. Which means they can do what they did with 2.1, and deploy it, then turn on S2 a few weeks after.
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11-06-2007 @ 2:58PM
idkanything said...
*hits refresh 200 times per minutes till someone translates*
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11-06-2007 @ 2:58PM
M said...
I took a look of the Taiwan WoW webpage.
The firework party is to celebrate 2-year anniversary of WoW Taiwan. And it is for Taiwanese players only.
And according to the article, 2.3 will be released (at least in Taiwan) next week.
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11-06-2007 @ 2:59PM
MacKoroni said...
Am I the only one who is, yes, looking forward to 2.3 but not wetting myself and theorizing what date it's being released? We'll get some time soon...jesus.
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11-06-2007 @ 3:02PM
Angry Joe said...
Eliah 1 x 0 Mike.
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11-06-2007 @ 3:23PM
infection said...
Has anyone figured out what will be in 2.3?
@2 is saying season 2 end won't be with 2.3. So is season 1 gear going to be with 2.3, or will it also only come out when season 2 ends. What about AV changes? Will that be 2.3 or S2 end.......
So many different stories being told.
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11-06-2007 @ 3:30PM
Eliah Hecht said...
Infection: Obviously since the final patch notes aren't out yet we can't be sure, but I'd predict S1 gear will stay until S3 gets "switched on". AV changes should be active as soon as 2.3 goes live, as well as Zul'Aman, leveling changes, and all the rest.
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11-06-2007 @ 3:34PM
Paul said...
So... is it now time to start completing quests but not turning them in so that you can get the bonus exp righ after th patch? :)
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11-06-2007 @ 3:38PM
Eliah Hecht said...
Paul: Actually, what I'm going to do is stay completely away from my 20–60 characters until the patch hits. The reason is that not only is quest XP getting a boost for 30–60, but XP per level is being reduced for 20–60. When the patch goes live, your relative position in the level is going to be "translated" -- that is, if you were 50% through level 21, you'll still be 50% through level 21 after the patch. But in numerical terms, since the XP per level is getting reduced (by 20%), you will lose 20% of your post-level 20 XP, to keep your position the same. Which means any XP you earn before the patch will end up getting taxed by 20%, if you're in the appropriate level range.
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11-06-2007 @ 3:54PM
Hybrys said...
Heh. Thanks for answering for me, Eliah.
Yes, all changes will go live EXCEPT S1 being honor gear, S3 being available for arena points, and Glad ranks/birds being given out.
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11-06-2007 @ 4:07PM
David Miller said...
That announcement doesn't say 2.3 is coming the state you all read into. It says there is a patch coming which introduces a celebratory event in-game for Taiwanese players to celebrate the anniversary of the game launching in that country.
It DOES go on to say ...
"Not only that, the 2.3 version of the Association of Banks will have, helicopters and other practical and interesting sexual function, waiting for the player to explore the next January 1."
/sigh
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11-06-2007 @ 4:16PM
nearlysober said...
"Interesting sexual function"?!
Now I'm REALLY excited for 2.3!!!
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11-06-2007 @ 4:18PM
nearlysober said...
"Interesting sexual function"?!
Now I'm REALLY excited for 2.3!!!
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11-06-2007 @ 4:34PM
Musashi Blaker said...
that festival 花火 means hana bi which in japanese means fireworks not just new years. so it could be a new fireworks festival, could also be just for the taiwanese version of the game.
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11-06-2007 @ 4:43PM
Eliah Hecht said...
But what about the January 1 bit?
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11-06-2007 @ 4:44PM
Pentavilla said...
Funny, the google translation is way off the mark.
不僅如此，2.3版本中還會有公會銀行、直升機等實用性及有趣性的功能，等著玩家未來一一去發掘。
Roughly translate to: "There's more, patch 2.3 will include guild bank, and helicoptor such interesting and fun functions awaiting players to explore"
Learn2Read Chinese... /sigh
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11-06-2007 @ 4:45PM
Chris Anthony said...
@13/David: Well, that last paragraph /is/ meaningful if you don't rely on Google Translate to give you more than the individual characters. It's probably something like:
Not only that, version 2.3 will have guild banks, gyrocopters [the engineering flying mounts -C] and other practical and interesting character abilities, and new player ranks for the upcoming season.
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11-06-2007 @ 4:46PM
Dotixi said...
Here is Bablefish's nonsensical translation:
"Evil spirit Beastly World" celebrates the anniversary to lighten the Chinese mugwort Ze Russ's sky 2.007/11/06 billion "Evil spirit Beastly World" in Taiwan soon reach two full years old! In order to celebrate "Evil spirit Beastly World" in the transport business full second anniversary, Blizzard Entertainment especially plays the family for Taiwan, gets up to today in the game multi-colored holds "the colored fire festival". The audiences hoped for 2.3 editions also (4) service will play the family after on November 15 with Taiwan to meet, "Evil spirit Beastly World" the double formula peaceful packaging to will be bright (7) the date entire province to facilitate the store circuit synchronization top carriage. Multi-colored celebrates the anniversary for to celebrate "Evil spirit Beastly World" in the transport business full second anniversary, not only has soon conducts "the athletics fine time passage" on November 17 in the Taibei national capital city B3 earth's attraction, "Evil spirit Beastly World" the anniversary celebrates each activity draws a charge one after another. Today, "Evil spirit Beastly World" the night 空將 substitutes by the brilliant smoke and fire, such special "colored fire festival", is "Evil spirit Beastly World" goes on the market the second anniversary in specially to conduct, exclusive, the Hongkong, Macao area "Evil spirit Beastly World" plays the family to possess. "Evil spirit Beastly World" center, elder brother 布林 engineer specially for, Hongkong, Macao plays the family day and night to rush a job the manufacture smoke and fire, they tirelessly study chemistry mixture, to precisely researches and develops the color and most makes the blast effect which one praises to the heavens, they will use the gorgeous smoke and fire, will illuminate the entire Chinese mugwort Ze Russ's sky. Patch 2.3 蓄勢待發 multitudinously "Evil spirit Beastly World" to play 2.3 editions which the family cared about, had determined named subscribes "place of - ancestor's Aman various gods", invades Chinese mugwort Ze in the humanity before the Russ mainland, Luo Delung the area is rules by the food person monster, continuously arrived afterwards eats the person monster to repel by the alliance the world the quoin. Before number century, has the place which lives a solitary life like this to exist to in the ancestor Aman's forest, the food person monster race group intention which was called the ancestor you the gold brave to convene only saves recaptures their once land. "Ancestor Aman" is similar "the Kara approves" 10 National People's Congress transcription, plays the family to have to have 70 level of above the role, and only then may participate in 10 person of above team. In "ancestor Aman" center, will play the family to be possible to challenge including the forest food person monster military governor ancestor you the golden 6 new leaders; Increases many daily duties, including the battlefield the duty as well as the foreign country transcription ordinary pattern or the heroic pattern duty. Not only that, in 2.3 editions also will be able to have usability and the interesting function and so on trade union bank, helicopter, and so on is playing the family future 11 to excavate. "Evil spirit Beastly World" "the athletics fine time passage" on November 17 to the Taibei national capital city B3 earth's attraction square hold, the scene not only will have athletics competition which will stimulate, also has manufactures the person face-to-face symposium, limits the quantity the commodity especially to sell and so on, splendid activity only in this year "athletics fine time passage".
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11-06-2007 @ 4:47PM
Chris Anthony said...
Eliah, the "January 1" bit is an odd translation of "一一"; each of those just means "one", and while Google is translating it as "the first day of the first month", "一一" is probably more idiomatically correct as "one by one" or "gradually".
@19/Pentavilla, I think I prefer your translation of the last cause. I kept getting hung up on "等" = "rank".
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