Talk:Timeline (World of Warcraft)

Timeline
My aim is for a simple timeline of WoW culture as it happened, to assist people who were wondering what happened and when put in a simple timeline.

Please try to keep this page clean - only mention big changes, notable game culture and events - for little changes to specs, etc the reader can check the links to patch notes. I've kept only to the major patches for simplicity.

Important Warcraft things that everyone knows about are okay - note the addition of Leeroy Jenkins and Corrupted Blood.

--Pittsburghmuggle (talk) 13:16, October 16, 2009 (UTC)

Stub?
What is considered a stub about this? Is there something we are looking for? Drazisil (t/c) 16:39, May 20, 2010 (UTC)
 * I put that on when I as starting this page out to draw attention to it.--Pittsburghmuggle (talk) 00:24, May 28, 2010 (UTC)

Pic for 2013
We don't HAVE to have one, but 2013 is the only year there is no picture for. Given, it was a dull year - buut it looks kind of blank and empty. Kind of stumped as to what to put there, and don't want to force it.--Pittsburghmuggle (talk) 09:12, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
 * I went with the Battle.net Desktop app. -- Dark T Zeratul (talk) 16:25, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Though the text is kind of misleading. A few days ago, the Battle.net Desktop app decided to reset on me, so the "Install" button for Wow was appearing. I decided to check what wow.exe will do and it instead opened the original launcher that was replaced by the new Battle.net Desktop app. Once I corrected the destination for my wow, the wow.exe now starts the new Battle.net Desktop app (So technically, the original launcher still seems to be in used but nevertheless, the new one is the main launcher). 20:54, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

1999
A few minutes of research (well, slightly more than a few) provided the following results. The statement on Wikipedia was initially written in 2007 based on the following quote from this article, written Sep 2001: "World of Warcraft has been in development for a little more than a year".

The figure used was initially 4 years, but another editor came along about a year later and changed it to 5, providing no reference for this. Later editors reverse engineered this into the statement "Development of the game started in 1999 and took roughly 4–5 years", with no references or other explanation.

Wikipedia aside, this article (2013) non-numerically states the 1999 start repeatedly and with apparent confidence, although there's no actual reference or quote from a Blizzard employee to be found, and it is possible they've simply taken the number from Wikipedia:


 * ''First announced in 2001, World of Warcraft had already been in development for two years and would require another three before seeing release. Beta testing began in 2003. It may come as a surprise to outsiders, but World of Warcraft has been an integral part of the lives of Blizzard employees for over 14 years. [as of 2013]

That's all I could find without delving any deeper. This would set 2000 as the start year (with 1 reference), although it's possible 1999 is correct. It's possible there's a solid ref for 1999 out there somewhere. -- Taohinton (talk) 19:08, 21 March 2014 (UTC)


 * Apparently there are screenshots in the Blizzard Museum stating 1999.


 * This means WoW started 1999 or earlier. The above quotes seem to suggest 1999, but 'first' screenshots like this certainly show a lot of progress within that first year. -- Taohinton (talk) 02:48, 5 June 2015 (UTC)

Mists Login screen will be a record
The mists login screen debuted August 28, 2012. If 6.0.2 drops in October, it will be a run of 2 years and about 2 months, probably outdoing the original login screen's 2 years, one month.--Pittsburghmuggle (talk) 09:39, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

Expand Timeline for Warcraft
Thinking if this timeline can instead be about not just the MMORPG but also all the classic games such as Warcraft 1, 2, and 3 with the expansions. This also means it might need to be moved to a article name such "Timeline (Warcraft)". 17:11, 23 November 2014 (UTC)