wow Players Didn't Know Shadowlands Was Delayed and Had a Pretty Bad Night...

[Starym 3,775]

 

Ok, this one's a pretty big bummer of a post, so apologies upfront. It seems not everyone is up-to-date with the goings on surrounding Shadowlands and its release, as quite a few players seem to have prepared for yesterday/today's launch, seemingly missing the delay announcement.

We found several players both on reddit and in the game itself completely unaware of the fact Shadowlands won't be coming for a while, some that even prepared time off work for this week! Let's start off on our own twitter, where @Dr_Fiv3 shared this encounter he had in-game:

Two hours ago.

A player on my server: "/2 Is Shadowlands out tonight or is there a server reset tomorrow morning?"

Me: "/2 Oh dear! Where should I start? ... Grab some tissue and popcorn, it's gonna take a while to explain but I assure you, you're going to need both"

— Dr Five - The Boar Slayer (@Dr_Fiv3) October 26, 2020

He came back from a 8 months break and did not check WoW news other than the release date. He was trying to avoid spoiling himself with SL content. He took the rest of the week off but luckily he said it could be canceled.

And that's why you guys should follow @icyveins ?

— Dr Five - The Boar Slayer (@Dr_Fiv3) October 26, 2020

That's a pretty big spoiler he avoided!

Then it's on to reddit, with a couple of threads already popping up,

As you'd expect, there were plenty of F-s and "That's rough buddy."-s in the thread. And then finally we have probably the saddest of the bunch, with the title giving you hope he's at least not sure, but then he lays out his worst case scenario in the thread title, wondering if he'd have to wait until reset to be able to play the expansion:

And so the expansion launch day has passed and hopefully everyone knows that Shadowlands isn't coming that soon, and we really feel sorry for those that only found out today!

[tr111 6]

Hard to blame them because all the news portals for wow are spammed with up to 10 posts a day, so the important stuff is getting lost in just a few days time

[Badadada 184]

Did it the other way around with BFA release. I was chilling in mythic+ at ~23:50 server time and was told by teammates that we should finish quickly because new content is due in 10 minutes. I was like what - I thought that will be 2 weeks later - and they had to enlighten me how terribly wrong I was. Being surprised by the expansion not coming at all seems like a more frustrating experience.

[Ogerscherge 43]

Yeah, saw some of those poor souls in /2 yesterday as well. That's sad stuff. ?

[Ulzorn 27]

15 minutes ago, Ogerscherge said:

Yeah, saw some of those poor souls in /2 yesterday as well. That's sad stuff. ?

had some ppl in /2 that thought prepatch meant shadowlands was out...and it took a while for them to understand the difference

[HyperCynic 1]

Yeah, if only they would've put something indicating the delay on the actual launcher itself. Seems pretty disingenuous to not put that on the launcher for the product people are buying and playing. I wasn't fooled by this, but I can't blame people who've been away for not knowing this. I mean, the last expansion to be delayed was The Burning Crusade...

[SidonisAntares 288]

2 hours ago, tr111 said:

Hard to blame them because all the news portals for wow are spammed with up to 10 posts a day, so the important stuff is getting lost in just a few days time

Was I the only one that got an email from Blizzard announcing the delay and letting me know the refund portal was open? I bet not.

[GBeast 33]

I can't really feel sympathetic for them. the news of the delay was on their website, sent out by email, and all over social media. I wonder if it was on the bnet desktop app as well

[solitha 84]

1 hour ago, SidonisAntares said:

Was I the only one that got an email from Blizzard announcing the delay and letting me know the refund portal was open? I bet not.

Maybe someone gifted him the expansion; they'd get the email about the refund, I think.

I feel for the guy. I'd love to not be spoiled for the expansion but you just can't keep up with Live news without getting far more than you want to know.

[solitha 84]

Just now, GBeast said:

I can't really feel sympathetic for them. the news of the delay was on their website, sent out by email, and all over social media. I wonder if it was on the bnet desktop app as well

And he didn't play for 8 months so why expect him to be checking the website and social media? Not sure why he didn't get the email except maybe someone else bought it through theirs.

[Ogerscherge 43]

Some fellow gamers and WoW-heads potentially wasted their paid leave. How can some of you be so mean about that? Where's the solidarity? ? 

[durdyenglish 298]

How can you be this excited for something and have no idea that it was delayed? I get avoiding spoilers, but this is a whole other level.

[SidonisAntares 288]

1 hour ago, solitha said:

Maybe someone gifted him the expansion; they'd get the email about the refund, I think.

I feel for the guy. I'd love to not be spoiled for the expansion but you just can't keep up with Live news without getting far more than you want to know.

Would still have to register it to an account though, and that account has an email and/or phone tied to it.

[Ragingwolf 286]

Constantly getting bombarded by Guildies asking constantly why and when SL is being released.  Some are rather depressed when they are explained about the delay in general.  While others I believe simply ragequit and left the Guild and Game all together when they found out about the Level squish, change to classes, and etc.

[GBeast 33]

15 hours ago, solitha said:

And he didn't play for 8 months so why expect him to be checking the website and social media? Not sure why he didn't get the email except maybe someone else bought it through theirs.

idk, it's pretty important to keep up on game releases that one claims to care about especially during covid. delays should be expected lol

[solitha 84]

7 hours ago, GBeast said:

idk, it's pretty important to keep up on game releases that one claims to care about especially during covid. delays should be expected lol

The guy went with the release date as given and wasn't keeping up to avoid spoilers. Considering how stupidly hard it is to avoid spoilers if you pay attention to any kind of game news outlet, I can easily see how he missed the announcement. Maybe he did check in on the release date; even less than a month ago, it was unchanged.

It's a stressful time for most people and shouldn't be that hard to scrape up a little sympathy.

[GBeast 33]

19 hours ago, solitha said:

The guy went with the release date as given and wasn't keeping up to avoid spoilers. Considering how stupidly hard it is to avoid spoilers if you pay attention to any kind of game news outlet, I can easily see how he missed the announcement. Maybe he did check in on the release date; even less than a month ago, it was unchanged.

It's a stressful time for most people and shouldn't be that hard to scrape up a little sympathy.

I genuinely do not believe it's difficult to consider the possibility of games, or anything,  being delayed during covid my guy. if anything it's kind of foolish to not expect delays

[solitha 84]

On 10/29/2020 at 2:08 AM, GBeast said:

I genuinely do not believe it's difficult to consider the possibility of games, or anything,  being delayed during covid my guy. if anything it's kind of foolish to not expect delays

Of course it's not difficult to consider the possibility of a delay.

Just like it's not difficult to consider the possibility that someone may have been wrapped up in the difficulties of real life and didn't actually consider said delay possibility.

We're all in different places in rough times. Best thing we can do is cut each other a little slack, and be kind.