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| Ooh! It's a red launcher! |
Blizzard has unveiled a new system for delivering patches and updates. The launcher now tracks what kind of data is being updated into your WoW client and Blizz categorizes it as essential, secondary, and "less-important." The trick is that once the "essential" files are downloaded and in place, you can turn the game on again and the secondary and "less important" files will fill in as time ticks by. Inside the game, there is a new indicator near the mini-map that shows file traffic coming in.
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| It's the round red thing at the bottom. |
General reports are that if you do start the game while the patch is still incoming, you can expect a wide range of um... experiences. WoW might be playable, or you might be sorta stuck in a place like Dalaran that hasn't loaded in yet and so you're just going to lurk there in the sky until the scenery comes back.
- I have realized that despite everything, Sylvanas cannot really be an evil mastermind. A real evil mastermind, when giving her lickspittle an assignment that goes horribly wrong, is supposed to torture said lickspittle horribly and then say "You have ONE MORE CHANCE to redeem yourself!" In reality (as much as WoW is reality) Sylvanas just blames herself and then gives the lickspittle a pair of magical britches.
