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07-16-10, 01:37 PM   #221
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Originally Posted by Cairenn View Post
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.)
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07-16-10, 01:42 PM   #222
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Originally Posted by ezarra View Post
(I'm joking, really, this thread needs some levity. Or levitation.)
+1 for levitation.
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07-16-10, 01:47 PM   #223
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As Seerah just said, keep it on topic guys. This isn't to discuss the merits of Curse and WoWI!

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07-16-10, 01:51 PM   #224
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Originally Posted by toddimer View Post
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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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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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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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.
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07-16-10, 01:52 PM   #225
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Question

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?
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07-16-10, 01:53 PM   #226
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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.
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07-16-10, 01:59 PM   #227
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Originally Posted by Caiginn View Post
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.
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07-16-10, 04:38 PM   #228
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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.
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07-16-10, 04:58 PM   #229
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Blizzard: Well give you more keys soon(tm)
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07-17-10, 01:09 AM   #230
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http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=soon

I enjoyed the 5th definition.
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07-17-10, 04:33 AM   #231
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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?
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07-17-10, 06:22 AM   #232
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From what I understand all 499 are eligible for keys, but 198 of them got keys already.
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07-17-10, 07:16 AM   #233
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Originally Posted by Kuredo View Post
I refer you to http://www.wowwiki.com/Soon for the in-depth timeline.
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07-17-10, 10:25 AM   #234
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Originally Posted by tutti View Post
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
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07-17-10, 04:33 PM   #235
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Originally Posted by Shadowed View Post
Guild permissions are broken right now, so only the leader can invite fyi.
So, is the guild leader ever on

Perhaps post a time when he/she is going to be on so mass invites can be done
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07-17-10, 05:59 PM   #236
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Originally Posted by Drazisil View Post
I refer you to http://www.wowwiki.com/Soon for the in-depth timeline.
This made my day.
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07-17-10, 10:59 PM   #237
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Originally Posted by Kuredo View Post
This made my day.
Same here (10char)
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07-17-10, 11:14 PM   #238
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Oo this sure was fast
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07-17-10, 11:31 PM   #239
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Originally Posted by shuffle View Post
Oo this sure was fast
That can't be accurate. I mean 4 BILLION? I call no way.
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07-17-10, 11:43 PM   #240
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Originally Posted by voodoodad View Post
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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