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ezarra 07-16-10 01:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Cairenn (Post 198040)
You have no idea. You weren't seeing even half of the ones that were being uploaded. It was simply pathetic.

My addons are pathetic from a programming point of view, but they are useful and they've been around since the achievements were introduced. Just because they're pathetic doesn't mean someone doesn't like them!

You're picking on all us pathetic authors!

;)

(I'm joking, really, this thread needs some levity. Or levitation.)

Drazisil 07-16-10 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by ezarra (Post 198309)
(I'm joking, really, this thread needs some levity. Or levitation.)

+1 for levitation. :banana:

Shadowed 07-16-10 01:47 PM

As Seerah just said, keep it on topic guys. This isn't to discuss the merits of Curse and WoWI!

ezarra 07-16-10 01:51 PM

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Originally Posted by toddimer (Post 198271)
I'm less interested in the BETA gameplay, and more interested in any API changes. As a developer, anyway.

Agreed. I use to write real LUA code way back when, and I'm quite interested in the changes to the API in WoW4.

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Originally Posted by toddimer (Post 198271)
As a player, I'll squeal like a girl if/when i get that key.

Please, like a LITTLE girl, get it right! :)

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Originally Posted by toddimer (Post 198271)
Is the command-line API still enabled, ala for api calls and such? Do we have any chance at NDA-style early API previews? When's the best time for us to get feedback to the dev's?

Addons WILL be enabled later on, just not now. Or soon, probably.

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Originally Posted by toddimer (Post 198271)
For example, my addon does some pretty heavy lifting with the inspection API. It would be nice to document what works (and what doesn't) in a place the Dev's could access, before they commit themselves to a design :)

Well, they made some major changes to that in 3.3.5, IIRC, so it's probable they won't be making a lot more changes to that particular API, I'd guess.

We'll have a chance to test our addons well before 4.0 rolls out, and that will be well before Cataclysm baed on the last two expansions.

Caiginn 07-16-10 01:52 PM

I'm curious as to the timing of the giveaway. Is Blizzard wanting people who understand a bit about the interface to do some testing? It seemed a little odd to me for them to send a large number of keys to addon authors when addons are disabled, and that's the only reason I could come up with.

Still shooting for more keys later today?

Seerah 07-16-10 01:53 PM

Let's keep this thread clean and on-topic, folks. :)

Again, if you have any comments or suggestions for other sites, please post them in the appropriate places. This thread will be monitored with posts deleted (again) if need be. :)

Shadowed 07-16-10 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Caiginn (Post 198319)
I'm curious as to the timing of the giveaway. Is Blizzard wanting people who understand a bit about the interface to do some testing? It seemed a little odd to me for them to send a large number of keys to addon authors when addons are disabled, and that's the only reason I could come up with.

Still shooting for more keys later today?

Letting authors experience the UI without addons lets Blizzard test their UI more, there have a lot of major changes in Cataclysm and making sure it's stable before it goes live is always good.

We're hoping for keys today still, yes. If we get them today will do another batch.

Cairenn 07-16-10 04:38 PM

Just spoke with Blizzard, it will most likely be Monday before we get any more keys. Will continue to keep you guys updated, as always, as we know.

cloudwolf 07-16-10 04:58 PM

Blizzard: Well give you more keys soon(tm)

Kuredo 07-17-10 01:09 AM

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=soon

I enjoyed the 5th definition. :rolleyes:

Vilkku 07-17-10 04:33 AM

Congratulations, you made me subscribe to your News RSS feed - I managed to let the giveaway go unnoticed until now, even if I have visited WoWI almost daily :P

Anyway, I actually got a question as well! When I get to the point where I got a tracking number, does that mean that the system has deemed me eligible for a beta key, or will there still be some manual review process? Also, if I got the tracking number, say, 500, does that mean that there are 499 eligible people before me in the queue for a key, or is it possible that some of those 499 are not eligible for a key at all?

tutti 07-17-10 06:22 AM

From what I understand all 499 are eligible for keys, but 198 of them got keys already.

Drazisil 07-17-10 07:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Kuredo (Post 198423)
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=soon

I enjoyed the 5th definition. :rolleyes:

I refer you to http://www.wowwiki.com/Soon for the in-depth timeline. :)

Kaidian 07-17-10 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by tutti (Post 198445)
From what I understand all 499 are eligible for keys, but 198 of them got keys already.

\o/

Hey tutti!

And thats my understanding too. Here's hoping they don't find themselves too "busy" on monday :(

Maul 07-17-10 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Shadowed (Post 197116)
Guild permissions are broken right now, so only the leader can invite fyi.

So, is the guild leader ever on :p

Perhaps post a time when he/she is going to be on so mass invites can be done :banana::banana::banana:

Kuredo 07-17-10 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Drazisil (Post 198451)
I refer you to http://www.wowwiki.com/Soon for the in-depth timeline. :)

This made my day. :D

eThuz 07-17-10 10:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Kuredo (Post 198548)
This made my day. :D

Same here (10char)

shuffle 07-17-10 11:14 PM

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Oo this sure was fast

voodoodad 07-17-10 11:31 PM

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Originally Posted by shuffle (Post 198574)
Oo this sure was fast

That can't be accurate. I mean 4 BILLION? I call no way.

shuffle 07-17-10 11:43 PM

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Originally Posted by voodoodad (Post 198576)
That can't be accurate. I mean 4 BILLION? I call no way.

ya it's an error, just thought it funny when I loaded up wowi to update an addon and bam 4 billion :P


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