Blizzard has announced via Twitter that the highly anticipated start of an Alpha for the upcoming expansion Warlords of Draenor is being postponed.
The reporting on World of Warcraft is so extensive that nothing escapes the public eye. Due to so-called data mining, it always appears as if everything is ready, although it is still far in the future.
The English-speaking site mmo-champion.com has – as it always does – “datamined” the closed Alpha client of Warlords of Draenor, sifting through all sorts of numbers, data, skins, and hints about how the game will look later. Fans already have a rough idea of what to expect in Draenor for the second time. In most games, such information is only revealed shortly before the start of a public test run, not so with World of Warcraft.
However, this flood of information is not accompanied by a wave of invitations for the Alpha, even though it would have been due by now and is expected by fans. An internal test already started on April 4th. However, Blizzard does not want to showcase their new gem yet. A few days ago, CM_Zarhym, community manager Jonathan Brown, answered a Twitter inquiry about when the Alpha would finally begin. After all, it is already almost 6 weeks overdue.
"They are still working on polishing the first zones and will soon begin inviting," said Zarhym on Twitter. In response to a fan’s comment that they were tired of the endless "soon," the reply was that it is very difficult to set exact dates in this regard. Zarhym doubted that fans would react better to total silence than to a date that ultimately could not be met.
From Blizzard’s side, they probably expected that mmo-champion’s internal build would be dissected, and thus felt compelled to provide a date that they are now unable to meet.
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[intense_testimony_text]Mein MMO says:
It’s impossible to say whether this will have any impact on the actual release of Warlords of Draenor. It does seem a bit strange that it is still so quiet around the expansion. For all the fans who were hoping for a release in September, this can be no good sign.[/intense_testimony_text][intense_testimony_author image=”https://images.mein-mmo.de/magazin/medien/2014/01/Logo-022.png”][/intense_testimony_author][/intense_testimony][/intense_testimonies]
