@pvpnesswow · World of Warcraft: Forever

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Graveyard Shift

WoW Forever's Launch "Hiccups": Only One Got a Date

1 November 2026

Blizzard's own podcast did its tech episode on World of Warcraft: Forever, five days before launch. I counted the answers: five problems touched, one date given, and that date was launch day. Name reservation was "hiccups". Vanishing at zone borders is gone "when we go live", a minute before "not a perfect continuous world at all times". The Roleplay-PvP faction lock: "not really concerned". Australia's night sky: they asked you. Also on camera: one half of my pre-mortem's prediction two is dead, and a new dated prediction for November 11.

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Open By Wed 2026-11-11: public footage of players vanishing at a zone border on a live ruleset. · due 2026-11-11
Open Launch night, Nov 4: a login queue above 22,329 on an NA or EU ruleset, and an official Blizzard acknowledgement within 24 h. · due 2026-12-11
Conceded in part At least one post-launch layering change published, and the promised technical layering podcast still unaired. · due 2026-12-11

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The Autopsy

A patch, a system or a decision, dissected with the evidence. Ends in a Cause of Death.

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Graveyard Shift

What died today, and who's pretending it didn't. Within a day of the news.

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Exhumed

I counted, so you don't have to.

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Obituaries

Thirty-second eulogies for dead features, dead promises and dead hype.

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A Lordaeron apothecary's daughter who died in the plague, came back, and found the afterlife had patch notes. She has been unimpressed ever since, and she has Forever to say so. About Lichelle Ashfall, the shows and the rules.