Current Events > World of Warcraft 8.0 dropping soon

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008Zulu posted...

Servers are offline.

I did get to see the BFA intro vid, still don't know why they didn't use them for the Warcraft movie.

Too expensive. It's one thing to make those trailers. But a 2 hour movie with that level of animation would be super expensive to make.

are the servers fixed yet
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Zikten posted...

008Zulu posted...

Servers are offline.

I did get to see the BFA intro vid, still don't know why they didn't use them for the Warcraft movie.

Too expensive. It's one thing to make those trailers. But a 2 hour movie with that level of animation would be super expensive to make.

Yeah, they gave some info about the Legion cinematic.

The gunship model was very detailed. 7 million faces, 3000 of the 4000x4000 texture maps, raytracing. It takes 4-6 hours to render each frame.

Varian takes 4-6 hours per frame and 20-30 GB of memory to render.

Now I'm not sure how long that is in relation to, say, a Pixar movie, but it sounds like that four minute video took at least weeks (months?) to render. A full movie with that level of detail would be crazy.
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Surely if they were making a movie they would have a beast of a rendering server with hundreds of GB or even over a TB of memory, plus other related specs of top end quality. They probably just dropped $2000-3000 on a workstation and used that in this case
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DavidWong posted...

are the servers fixed yet

Have been for a few hours.

I just solo'd Icecrown Citadel 25H with my 110 Ret Pally, took about 20 minutes longer than before BFA patch.
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Oh shit the Chromatic Sword is dropping again

@SomeLikeItHoth
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