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Ryudnard.2587

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It will happen much later than optimists predict, much sooner than pessimists bemoan.


I expect something like the following:

  • 3-6 months before: ANet will announce they solved the last technical issue and all that remains is finalizing UI, rules, and other gory details. They will asking our opinion about some of those things.
  • 1-3 months before: ANet will announce a date, to give people time to finalize their choice of guild and the guilds to sort into alliances
  • Day of release: the forums will be filled with complaints of how ANet goofed, how this is worse than no alliances. There will be calls to bring back links.
  • 1 month after: with things settling down, real WvWarriors will have compiled a list of constructive criticisms (and there will be many); ANet will fix many of them.
  • 3 months later: the new normal, and people will return to complaining about teams running away from fights, siege humping, warclaw, and thieves.
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Well, it is dead silent from Anet again so we can't know for sure.

The last thing we heard was 1-2 months back and that they had a full programming team working on it now, that must mean that the base design and mock-up concept programming is done now and that the code for the system is being fleshed out.

From that one could assume that they are aiming to reach early QA on the live/full code by the summer so more intensive/broad QA, polishing and recoding can be done once people get back from their vacations.

So Q3 to Q4 2019 would be a logical deducation but with Anet we never really know because of the silence and we have learnt not to trust logic, hints or rumours by now because they've let slip things like that roadmap before only to learn that the programming team was likely not more than one dude laying conceptual foundations even if he formally was programming.

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@Strider Pj.2193 said:

@"CrushEm.4708" said:They'll give us a date on Alliances right about the same time City State gives us a release date for CU.

So... 2023?

Pfft I'm betting it gets a release date once he's back down to a years' payroll, after the fresh infusion he'll get from whispering the word "beta 2"..... But who can guess how much Mark raked in from his July "beta" announcement last year? xD

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@LetoII.3782 said:

@"CrushEm.4708" said:They'll give us a date on Alliances right about the same time City State gives us a release date for CU.

So... 2023?

Pfft I'm betting it gets a release date once he's back down to a years' payroll, after the fresh infusion he'll get from whispering the word "beta 2"..... But who can guess how much Mark raked in from his July "beta" announcement last year? xD

Hmm.. I didn’t think of that. That’s a good (and just a little cynical-but-likely true) thought.

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