01/26/2012 09:01 AMPosted by Nethaera

we’re trying to close in on a solid release date for the game, not move further away. When weighing these systems against releasing the game, we decided to cut these scrolls and stay on track for the game’s release.

Never seen you guys talk about releasing a game like that.. its always been when its ready its ready.

So why the big change?

Some of the stuff thats been done in Beta 10 is cool, trimming the fat per se.

Other changes it feels like you're trying to meet the Q1 window because of outside pressure, which is something Blizzard has been notorious for never caving into.

And honestly, did companion scrolls really have that much of an impact on the release date? Seems pretty simple.

Contrary to popular belief we absolutely want to release games. When we say "we won't release a game until we think it's ready" that means we're going to make sure the systems are solid, and it's as bug free and stable as we can realistically expect of ourselves.

Ideas about design, our experience, player tastes and technology never stop moving forward, so when we refer to our game development process it doesn't mean we'll actually keep developing a game forever to have anything and everything we can ever imagine in it. We're going to at some point have to say "this is it" and get it into your hands.

01/27/2012 09:43 AMPosted by theeighthark

I don't understand why people need you or any other blizzard employee, to explain statements made by the development team. It's mundane to say the least. Great job with the game so far, I love it!

1. Bashlok wants to.
2. It rams home the point he (bashlok) is trying to make.
3. Not everyone is up with game development. And they can learn what some of the industry lingo means in layman's terms so they can better understand it.
4. Blue posts in topics make the topic much more popular. So it's a way for Blizzard to get us fans to read the topics they (Blizzard) deem important.

5. I like paying my rent.

I see the haste in the latest changes. I sense changes for changes sakes.

The Login screen text for username is now out of scale with the rest of the graphics.

The graphics for potions has been changed in the inventory from a bottle to a vile, yet it still drops at a bottle? Seriously, out of all the fine details that have been fleshed out - it looks sloppy.

Items are generating incomplete indexes with missing affixes in the titles.

Clean it up!
Doesn't someone sign off before these patches are released?

The beta is privy to many in-process changes. If we made every beta patch perfect before releasing we'd be here for years. Part of the beta process is pushing out a build because you need X feature tested, and we don't care if Y and Z aren't done yet.