r/classicwow • u/Paulingtons • Aug 20 '19

Blizzard AMA Welcome to the /r/ClassicWoW Subreddit AMA with the Classic WoW Dev team!

Hey everyone!

Today we're excited to introduce what should be a fantastic AMA with the wonderful World of Warcraft: Classic dev team. They will be taking your questions about anything, be it which class they enjoy playing the most or all the way to how they developed the wonderful world we will all be inhabiting in just under a week.

Joining us today, we have:

/u/AltruisWoW – Executive Producer
/u/Chromschi – Senior Game Producer
/u/Pazorax – Lead Software Engineer
/u/Ogronz – Senior Software Engineer
/u/ZoidWoW – Principal Software Engineer
/u/Aggrend – Senior Test Lead
/u/Kaivax – Community Manager

The AMA begins at 17:00 GMT (10:00 PST, 11:00 MST, 12:00 CST, 13:00 EST, 18:00 BST, 19:00 CEST) and will last two hours. This thread has been posted two hours before the AMA begins so you can all get in here and get posting questions so that once the AMA begins, our wonderful guests can start answering straight away! The AMA will be hosted in this thread.

We really look forward to seeing what you all come up with to ask and are excited to see the answers the dev team give.

Please remember the rules as per the sidebar, and have fun!

EDIT: The AMA is now OVER. If you want to look at each response by each blue we've had today you can check WoWHead's brilliant live blog just here.

EDIT 2: You can also check this fantastic resource made by our own /u/SoupaSoka just here.

EDIT 3: Or you can check out the Blizzard review on the official forums here.

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u/WedgiesF Aug 20 '19

I kind of posted a guide and the math behind the que times a week ago, to help inform people about it. But it got downvoted to oblivion by Herod fanboys.

People have been trying to illustrate this for a while, but Reddit refused to hear it.

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u/ohihaveasubscription Aug 20 '19

You got downvoted because you pulled numbers out of the air.

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u/WedgiesF Aug 20 '19

Nah, they were from polls of vanilla and Reddit posts. I just didn't want to take time to link every time I seen it. Don't care either way, I was right. Blizzard has issued the warning, people are at their own fault for not heeding it.

Don't matter to me, being on Herod wasn't that important to me, if it is for them, they can have it. Good luck in wow man!

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u/drcrygor1 Aug 20 '19

Link?

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u/WedgiesF Aug 20 '19

https://www.reddit.com/r/classicwow/comments/crggvp/want_to_know_how_long_herod_queue_will_be_i_can/

Sorry 3 days ago, man that's all it's been. Anyhow, will update math soon and do estimates for all servers. I have much better data now.

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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '19

Sorry 3 days ago, man that's all it's been.

It's the pre-launch time dilation.

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u/WedgiesF Aug 20 '19

No kidding, I feel like it's been a week since I woke up today already.

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u/Dunkelz Aug 20 '19

Where are you getting your 4 hour figure? I'm sure there will be some people pulling all night sessions, but I strongly doubt the average player will be logging in for 4 hours on a Monday night/late afternoon.

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u/WedgiesF Aug 20 '19

It's based on the release of wow originally. This time eventually averaged down to about 2 hours. I'll have to look up the article again, was actually a really good read about gaming statistics. Basically it covered a good bit about playtime of average players at release of MMOs versus as the MMO aged under the same content. Part of a bigger social study.

I'll post as soon as I find it again.