Developer lack of communication

[Jetstream_Fox]

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You sort of missed my point, my point was SE HAD new builds out for the classes, instead they showcased an old build. Why would you show off something old, when you have a revised version that is more up to date? SE created this discrepancy by not using current build gameplay, and they're the ones who are ultimately at fault for allowing the "Delete WHM" threads to spring up. Had Yoshi not mentioned about a different build then this post and much of the outcry over WHM would likely have never of happened.

[Xiomara]

You sort of missed my point, my point was SE HAD new builds out for the classes, instead they showcased an old build. Why would you show off something old, when you have a revised version that is more up to date? SE created this discrepancy by not using current build gameplay, and they're the ones who are ultimately at fault for allowing the "Delete WHM" threads to spring up. Had Yoshi not mentioned about a different build then this post and much of the outcry over WHM would likely have never of happened.

Because that old build was customised for the media tour. As various articles mentioned, dungeons were removed, NPCs that were spoilers were removed, whole areas were blocked off and a good chunk of features were simply missing. So once the build was done and stable, it's isolated from future development, because why waste time backporting changes to a single snapshot release that will never be used again after the tour?

I guarantee the next time SE do this, they'll probably instruct every journalist that they are not to discuss, or take screenshots of tooltips and the potency numbers and simply write about how things look and feel. That's if they provide a playable build again, they will probably just stick with pre-canned trailers and a powerpoint presentation because the playerbase just do not understand how this stuff works (also see the datacenter move and the complaining around that)