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05-05-16, 01:49 AM   #161
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Originally Posted by MunkDev View Post
When this was first announced, I noticed quite a few addons that were either outdated or plain useless in the modern game getting updated to 6.2.x, which was most likely for these particular authors to match the criteria of eligibility in the original post. I hope this doesn't offend anyone who will not be eligible this time around.
On the surface, I was guilty of this to some degree, but as my addons were running fine as-is, I was a little lax in marking their compatibility. All they would've needed were ToC number updates.
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05-05-16, 06:05 AM   #162
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Originally Posted by SDPhantom View Post
On the surface, I was guilty of this to some degree, but as my addons were running fine as-is, I was a little lax in marking their compatibility. All they would've needed were ToC number updates.
Well, neglecting an update is understandable if you're not playing the game in its current state. I think there's a distinction between updating addons to match the ToC number and updating addons that are no longer of any use. If I recall correctly, I even noticed one particular addon that went as far as calling itself a "legacy addon", just there for "legacy reasons" without any real functionality. Also, you're a very frequent poster who seems inclined to help other authors solve their problems, which I think is a desirable quality in a beta test. My rolling eyes are directed towards those who are merely fishing for an invite to play the new expansion in any way possible.
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Originally Posted by MunkDev View Post
If I recall correctly, I even noticed one particular addon that went as far as calling itself a "legacy addon", just there for "legacy reasons" without any real functionality.
This moves into a gray area as marking an out-of-date addon as "legacy" leads me to believe they're promoting its use on private servers. Of which we all know is against ToS. Once in a while I do see requests for such addons, usually met with a snippet of our forum rules. Many of such responses have been mine. I would like to see measures taken against publishing addons for this purpose, but I'm not sure which direction to take for suggesting a systematic implementation of limiting factors. Especially ones that would act upon addon listings that have gone out-of-date.



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Also, you're a very frequent poster who seems inclined to help other authors solve their problems, which I think is a desirable quality in a beta test.
I try. I do have times though where I just don't have enough time in the day, questions asked are about a particular topic I don't have enough experience to contribute, or someone already answered and my input wouldn't add any value to the conversation. In the end, I guess this describes a lot of us.



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My rolling eyes are directed towards those who are merely fishing for an invite to play the new expansion in any way possible.
I recognized your intent, just adding a little anecdote to how broad the explanation was. To be honest, I was already a long-time member when the LK beta was being offered. At the time, I hadn't even considered uploading any of the random scripts I had written by then. I ended up packaging a few of them and uploaded them to be eligible for the beta key, but I was too late in signing up and my number never was called. I ended up sticking around anyway and I'm still here even though I don't have as much time now as I used to.

I recognize people will do anything for a beta key and a major reason for the join date cutoff is to prevent people from stealing addon code and creating new accounts to post them. It's very hard to come up with a computer algorithm to properly gauge how trustworthy someone is or whether they're trying to abuse the system for personal gain. I know going by the join date isn't perfect, but it's what we have.
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05-05-16, 03:53 PM   #164
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Originally Posted by SDPhantom View Post
This moves into a gray area as marking an out-of-date addon as "legacy" leads me to believe they're promoting its use on private servers. Of which we all know is against ToS. Once in a while I do see requests for such addons, usually met with a snippet of our forum rules. Many of such responses have been mine. I would like to see measures taken against publishing addons for this purpose, but I'm not sure which direction to take for suggesting a systematic implementation of limiting factors. Especially ones that would act upon addon listings that have gone out-of-date.
I don't think it was actually designed for vanilla servers, just an addon that used to be relevant to the game but due to changes in API and content no longer had any purpose except for saying "this addon once did this one thing, but since that's no longer part of the API, it now does nothing. Here's an updated version that won't trigger any lua errors."

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I recognize people will do anything for a beta key and a major reason for the join date cutoff is to prevent people from stealing addon code and creating new accounts to post them. It's very hard to come up with a computer algorithm to properly gauge how trustworthy someone is or whether they're trying to abuse the system for personal gain. I know going by the join date isn't perfect, but it's what we have.
I think the join date is a good rule to deal with that to some degree, since most people are not devious enough to register an account years in advance just for the off-chance of snatching an early access pass with stolen code. The false updates was just something I noticed when this post appeared on the front page, since I've gotten into the habit of checking out the addon feed every now and then.
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Originally Posted by MunkDev View Post
I don't think it was actually designed for vanilla servers, just an addon that used to be relevant to the game but due to changes in API and content no longer had any purpose...
Vanilla isn't the only game version that private servers run out there. I've seen requests for support of Cata and MoP more recently among others.
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05-05-16, 04:29 PM   #166
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Originally Posted by SDPhantom View Post
I think it does, as long as you have game time on your account, it should be good.
In the past, this was a loose requirement. My account was inactive when I got into the Cataclysm beta.
I hope so too. I remember getting into some previous betas while my account was not active.
Even the PTR did not require an active account, for me at least.
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To be honest to me it seems rather possible that the 'beta' of Legion will start with the release of the pre-patch for Legion.
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05-08-16, 05:12 AM   #168
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Originally Posted by Miiru View Post
To be honest to me it seems rather possible that the 'beta' of Legion will start with the release of the pre-patch for Legion.
When the pre-patch happens all WoW clients will be patched to the 7.0 client. The UI changes would go live for everyone. It would cease to be a beta at that point. They'll get us in before then.

That said, we're looking at the pre-patch possibly happening in ~2.5 months.

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05-08-16, 12:01 PM   #169
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Originally Posted by Gello View Post
When the pre-patch happens all WoW clients will be patched to the 7.0 client. The UI changes would go live for everyone. It would cease to be a beta at that point. They'll get us in before then.
Well the UI changes would cease to be beta but not the content The timeframe for the pre-patch was 1 month before release right? That does not leave much time for recoding addons and in many cases leveling a toon (if there's no premade 110's) to test stuff which is only possible at maxlevel
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Originally Posted by Miiru View Post
and in many cases leveling a toon (if there's no premade 110's) to test stuff which is only possible at maxlevel
Blizzard created a level 110 premade PvP server for a
lpha two months ago, but it's partially restricted.

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/20742614769

However, I'm pretty sure we've had max-level premades available for PvE realms at some point in the past several betas so that more content, outside of leveling, could be more thoroughly tested.
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05-08-16, 03:17 PM   #171
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By the way, for historical perspective:

For BC which saw a massive change in how addons worked with the secure environment, protected API and such, and required entire rewrites of many addons, the lucky authors who got in early (thanks to wowinterface) got an invite only two months prior to the pre-patch going live. The closed beta started less than three weeks before the pre-patch went live. We managed just fine then.

The time between WotLK author invites and pre-patch was around two months too.

I can't find the email from the Cataclysm invite so don't recall how long that time frame was. For MoP (that was the Annual Pass thing maybe) it was five months. For WoD it was four months.

I don't forsee anything close to the upheaval in Legion on the scale of BC. So we're well on track to getting in early enough to get our addons working in time for the pre-patch.
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05-08-16, 03:38 PM   #172
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It is quite likely that the official "beta" rollover happens very soon either way, they got nearly all missing features into the alpha now (which would generally qualify to cease calling it alpha), and chatter from some WoW CMs and Devs seems to point into a similar direction.

Maybe this week, maybe next, but quite certainly within this month. Maybe Watcher says something about it in the stream on Tuesday.
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I would be intrested in that function which determines how much mana are you gonna lose, when your current cast succeeds. Someone with a beta access could snoop around? :P
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From their legion dev update, it looks like they're targeting for the switch from alpha to beta at 2pm PT on Thursday with a big invite wave just prior.
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Just for convenience and to anyone that's interested, you can watch the developer update at this link:
https://player.twitch.tv/?volume=1&v...441&time=9m52s

The transition to Beta is the first topic that Ion brings up.
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This image is being passed around... hopefully soon(tm).

Thanks for the video link MunkDev. Interesting how the perception of beta has changed and thus made Blizzard re-think when they should switch to beta.
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Interesting how the perception of beta has changed and thus made Blizzard re-think when they should switch to beta.

Yes, it is. I'm thinking it's how they're going to handle things in the future, as well. An internal "Alpha", a long, possibly non-NDA, invite "Alpha", then a larger-wave "Beta" when things are more polished.
If that's the case, people will have to let go of the phrase, "it's only Beta, guys!"

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Well the UI changes would cease to be beta but not the content The timeframe for the pre-patch was 1 month before release right? That does not leave much time for recoding addons and in many cases leveling a toon (if there's no premade 110's) to test stuff which is only possible at maxlevel
Pre-patch is generally 2 weeks to 1 month before the release. It could be slightly longer, depending on the feature, class, spec, UI, and API changes they wish to introduce in said pre-patch. This time, the pre-Patch will likely include the Demon Hunter class for those who've preordered a digital copy, so there's potentially more to get used to in the pre-patch.

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From their legion dev update, it looks like they're targeting for the switch from alpha to beta at 2pm PT on Thursday with a big invite wave just prior.
I fell asleep right before the dev update and had to go back and watch it, but my assumption is that this wave would likely be the same wave to which Cairenn is referring here?:
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The word I've received is that they are currently planning on a blitz invite of you guys when it actually goes to beta.
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I would be intrested in that function which determines how much mana are you gonna lose, when your current cast succeeds. Someone with a beta access could snoop around? :P
This function was found in the Nameplates system.
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costTable = GetSpellPowerCost(spellID);
They just brought alpha down for the switch to beta, so I can't probe the function yet. The way the code looks, it appears to return a list of tables that contain power types and mana cost entries.
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Originally Posted by Dolby View Post
This image is being passed around... hopefully soon(tm).

Thanks for the video link MunkDev. Interesting how the perception of beta has changed and thus made Blizzard re-think when they should switch to beta.
Thats so weird. I just got my alpha invite today :O And i read that the beta will start tomorrow. Probably related. Anyone else got his invite?
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My invite to alpha/beta came today as well. Installing it now.
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