announcement showcase!

[Musashidon]

seems we will be getting an annoucement showcase early feb.


what's everyone think will be announced?

any chances it will have expansion/job details since by now we should have had at least 1 fan fest and are behind on details only 1 patch left for the expansion and we have had no details on 6.0 at all.

anything anyone specifically wants to hear about?

[MPK]

I'm excited to see how they'll dumb down healers even more! Maybe they'll get rid of their dots and their 1 attack this time!

[Vahlnir]

I think an expansion launch trailer will be a given. As to the rest...I'm sort of expecting Feb 5th to be one big information dump about the next expansion since they missed Fanfest part 1 and 2. So...probably new job announcements as well, among other things.

[Cidel]

I'd like to be proven wrong, but probably the usual. They'll detail what's coming up in the next few patches. Maybe show pictures of upcoming mounts, furniture, and maybe even gear. Maybe even show new Viera and Hrothgar hair (to go on the Mogstation, mwahahah!) if they aren't totally apathetic. Then move on to some expansion teasers. Maybe tease (if not outright reveal) a (or even "the?") new job. And they'll wrap-it up by announcing their newest feature to /gpose: customizable dialogue boxes!

I have a few things I'd like to see, but I'll keep my expectations reasonable. Honestly, I'm probably more piqued to see some of the, well, "meltdowns" that'll probably pop up here on the forums when people don't see specifically things they were expecting in 6.0 in the coming months.

[Musashidon]

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well the reason i am not sure exactly what it will announce is we have LL's for patch announcements and what is coming up, so why just have an announcement stream for what they do timed with live letters.

i will say they could announce nothing expansion wise and this be a whole stream just to announce some collaboration or some other something that is sometimes announced at the end of a LL but want to give it more attention or even say they wanna announce stream fan fests were it's virtual who knows!

[van_arn]

I'd like to be proven wrong, but probably the usual. They'll detail what's coming up in the next few patches. Maybe show pictures of upcoming mounts, furniture, and maybe even gear. Maybe even show new Viera and Hrothgar hair (to go on the Mogstation, mwahahah!) if they aren't totally apathetic. Then move on to some expansion teasers. Maybe tease (if not outright reveal) a (or even "the?") new job. And they'll wrap-it up by announcing their newest feature to /gpose: customizable dialogue boxes!

I have a few things I'd like to see, but I'll keep my expectations reasonable. Honestly, I'm probably more piqued to see some of the, well, "meltdowns" that'll probably pop up here on the forums when people don't see specifically things they were expecting in 6.0 in the coming months.

This guy knows the cycle.

[Garnix]

Might be wrong, but I think both StB and ShB expansion announcements happened between X.4 and X.5.
So, of course everybody is expecting it to be the 6.0 announcement.
I don't see why it wouldn't be to be honest...
On top of that, they said their development schedule has been delayed by 2 months because of Covid, but that they are now back on track.
Fan Fest was scheduled for the end of November, which would be about 2 months prior to Feb 5th. They always announce expansions during Fan Fests.
So yeah, this is the expansion announcement stream. Nothing else to expect.

Depending on how long the stream is going to be, they might put the first 5.5 live letter in there as well. (pretty sure the JP team mentioned something about that, but don't quote me on this)

[Yencat]

Maybe even show new Viera and Hrothgar hair (to go on the Mogstation, mwahahah!)

Go wash your mouth out with soap.

[Cidel]

Go wash your mouth out with soap.

Mmmm. It burns of lemony freshness.

[Destati]

I imagine that since this is supposed to be the FanFest replacement they'll be announcing expansion related things, either everything they would have announced across the three FanFests, or they'll be staggering out over several announcement streams.

I'm just trying to temper my hopes/expectations for anything related to male Viera/female Hrothgar and general updates on those races... admittedly it is stupidly difficult for me to do so.