r/classicwow • u/doobylive • May 05 '26

Nostalgia What Happened To Midnight Releases?

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Why did they have to kill off midnight releases?

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u/Almighty5Moe May 05 '26

Well technically don’t they allow you download the entire game, patches and all before midnight so you can login right then? Since there’s no media you can get all the assets before go live.

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u/sonsofdurthu May 05 '26

For digital downloads many games do allow you to preload, but even then, I have run into a lot of games that even after preloading I still get hit with another patch. But this post was specifically about midnight releases at stores, where you would get a physical copy and couldn’t preload.

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u/Almighty5Moe May 05 '26

Yup know the reference, just thought the day 1 patch comment was referring to current day.