WoW 2.0 tomorrow? [Update: Nope.]
by Mike Schramm 
Nov 20th 2006 at 8:40PM
Just now (my guild is heading to Onyxia tonight), I started up Blizzard Launcher, and it ran a small update, then said that after I quit WoW, a new patch would begin to download. Intrigued, I logged out, and sure enough, after I quit the game, Blizzard Downloader started up in the background, working away on "1.12.x-to-2.0.1-enUS-patch."And that should have gotten anyone who's been paying attention very excited, because, as we all know, WoW 2.0.1 is the expansion patch-- a revamped honor system, new talent trees, a new LFG system, and a host of other improvements (no DHKs!) running in advance of the January expansion. Originally, when Blizzard officially delayed the expansion till 2007, we were told this patch would drop in December, but the public test servers have been up for a week or so, so maybe Blizz determined we were good to go, as an early Thanksgiving weekend present for players.
Then again, maybe this is the downloader getting things ready for the coming patch, which will drop not tomorrow, but at a later date. But a month ahead of time? That seems really early for them to drop a patch to just let it sit on our hard drives. I guess by the end of tomorrow's maintenance, we'll know whether WoW 2.0 is here or not.
Update: Blue says it's just a download in advance for the patch. No patch tomorrow. Oh well. (Thanks, Strum!)
Filed under: Patches, Realm Status, Blizzard, News items, PvP, Expansions
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Aikavari Nov 20th 2006 9:05PM
Cool... I can't wait to try it out :)
Flux Nov 20th 2006 9:32PM
Huh. I wonder if the Mac patch isn't ready yet. I'm not getting a download.
Shat Nov 20th 2006 9:33PM
may just be an update to the PTR... but we can hope. And I do think they said November.
Andy Nov 20th 2006 9:45PM
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the patch won't hit tomorrow. If you go to the login screen right now, there is an alert about tomorrow's weekly maintaince. The only catch - 5 realms will have rolling restarts instead.
I doubt they can apply a patch (that updates most/all items, no less) with just a rolling restart.
PsyClerk Nov 20th 2006 10:13PM
Yup, remember that last week they mentioned that some realms would be excluded from this week's maintenance. It was a hefty list, too. I doubt the patch drops tomorrow. More than likely we are getting parts of the patch that are not going to change, so they don't hit us with a big 200+ MB download later.
Strum Nov 20th 2006 10:20PM
No patch tomorrow. Read the second blue post:
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=48665276&sid=1
Deam Nov 21st 2006 9:17AM
I have the patch reserved at fileplanet, says late Nov. Which next week is as late Nov as it gets:) Of course I'm not counting on it, I've been playing MMORPG long enough to know better!
rogue Nov 21st 2006 10:51AM
It would be pretty crazy for them to update the servers right before Thanksgiving holiday. I pity the server monkeys if they ever decided to do something like that.
Oldbear Nov 21st 2006 2:52PM
I tried last night - but the patch would load - with no warnings as to why. Anyone else having trouble downloading it?
rrockstar Nov 23rd 2006 11:23AM
I am downloading a 468 MB patch RIGHT NOW! wow-1.12.x-to-2.0.1-enUS-patch. Not very many people have it yet, so if you're reading, hop on the gravy train and start downloading!
matt Nov 25th 2006 5:25PM
1st patchs only come out ON TUESDAY. No other day BUT tuesday, so no patch tomorrow, possibly TUESDAY. I still doubt it will be this tuesday, as the whole 2.0 patch will be close to 800 megs I believe.
2nd remember there is a difference between the 'blizzard downloader' and the 'blizzard BACKEND downloader' the 'BACKEND' downloader down loads ALOT slower then the regular one and it is more to help speed up the downloading over a long time.
Orc Zorbu, Garithos Nov 28th 2006 7:59AM
well consider the size of this "patch" chunk... 468 megabytes? the first part of the patch was only 35.7 so that's an additional 332.3 megabytes which seems big enough to be a patch since the last big patch install was patch 1.10 at a size 368.3 Megabytes...
so i'm sure this has supreme potential to be THE patch to tie us over till TBC comes out... i really can't wait to see raiding coming back in style...
- Zorbu
lvl 60 Orc Huntard
Garithos
Bluecandy Dec 4th 2006 12:07AM
So,my computer somehow always takes like 6 hours extra to DL the patches that come out, but I can download torrents great, so i DL'ed this torrent and it contained part 1 and 2 of the partial data for the patch, and now i ran the WoW downloader againa nd it says its dowloading part 3, but I haven't made any progress so far, and I was just wondering we we are able t dowload that yet or is that not suppost to be happening?