I think and hope it will be everyone that installs a key before a certain date say 14 days after release.
As for me if i don't get they wing cos i went with a physical CE instead of the Digital i will be pissed but it has been stated that the CE will hold the wings anyway.
have no clue how they will handle physical standard edition. but they could just leave a "pre-order" bonus like this to Digital standard/Deluxe and Physical Collectors edition.
anyway i hope they will sort it out. the wings feels like a half attempted thing to make up for the lack of CE/DDE content gone wrong.
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As a non-native speaker I can never decipher when "a couple of weeks" means "two" or "a few". I've heard both from native speakers. Can anyone provide any solid argument as to why this "couple of weeks" that Josh is referring to means indeed two and not just "a few"? Is it just out of context, because "a few" is what we know anyways since RoS is around the corner, so it's gotta be two? On the other hand, OED, Wictionairy, and Merriam Webster say "an indefinite small number", often stating that "few" is a valid synonym.
Sorry for the kinda off-topic language lesson request, but I wanna be sure before I start celebrating.
The tweet is not specific about the 2 week, the original korean announcement is. They got the valor wings part right before any blizzard employe even spoke out, why would they lie about the 2 week parts. They have yet to ever not be a credible source of information even before ros, so i think its reasonable to believe them.
well a couple of weeks is not always 2 weeks, it can be at least 2 and at most maybe 5-6. basically the same as to say a few weeks.
i don't get why people are so up in arms about when the patch will hit. and i can tell you with big certainty it wont hit before mars 18th. At least at this point. there is nothing stoping it from being released tomorrow or 1 month ago, but with only 25 days to go before the AH Shutdown it would just be to much of a hazle on there part to release it earlier then the 18th.
when i first heard about the AH Shutting down the 18th i pretty much knew that patch 2.0 would hit within 1 week of that and the expansion within 2 months of the AH shutdown. Guess i was right a bout RoS Hitting Within 2 months of the AH shutdown. and now its just a guessing game to when patch 2.0 will hit. and since the announsment of the release date for RoS, patch 2.0 will drop on the 18th to 25th of march.
As for the Pre-order wings its just stupid how they set it up. ATM basically saying fuck you to anyone who is getting the Physical Collectors edition. (physical standard edition is just meh anyway, better just pre-order digitaly anyway)
With Imperius wings they can do it very easy. Everyone who attach copy of ROS on their B.net account until 26.3.2014 will get those wings.... Everyone who pre-prdered will get wings, because retail shops will ship game 24.3.2014 so you will be able to receive it on 25.3.2014 as with every Blizzard game.
Personally I already purchased DDE, so I am 99.9% sure that I will receive wings....
Correct English meaning of a couple of weeks is two. It goes like "1 week" = 1 week. "A couple of weeks" = 2 weeks. "A few/bunch of weeks" > 2.
But, sometimes this word is misused to mean more than 2. And this is the internet, we're proper grammar usage is by no way enforced (see what I did there).
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The literal sense yes, but the prase is commonly used as an uncertainty factor also, say you take your car to the repair shop and he says it will be done in a couple of days. sure he is probably aiming for 2 days but it could also take up to 5. it also could fall in more naturaly for him to say a couple then a few or several days.
Josh Also mentions that ANY preorder of RoS will give us wings. How exactly will they monitor this? There are far too many companies that sell video games for blizzard to keep track of them all. Do you guys think they will just award the wings to anyone who logs in on day 1?
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Josh Also mentions that ANY preorder of RoS will give us wings. How exactly will they monitor this? There are far too many companies that sell video games for blizzard to keep track of them all. Do you guys think they will just award the wings to anyone who logs in on day 1?
Well that ain't exactly Pre Order now is it?
Pre Order - Order it before it goes LIVE.
You will probably get a note with a redeem key. Wouldn't surprise me if it was possible to even sell it.
So you will get the standard game key which follows with the game, and then a extra note you got form Pre Ordering. That is at least how I would imagine how it would be.
I just want to be on the safe side, and buying RoS DD through Blizzard themselves. They can see I ordered the game a month before release.
Maffia explained here how it's probably gonna work with wings and pre-order.
Well for certain we know that the Pre-orders from blizzards own digital shop will get the wings if the pre-order atleast now.
As for Physical CE i can see it just being implemented into the Collectors edition status no matter when you get the got and use it.
as for regular physical copies this is the tricky bit. as there are almost no way to for em to track when and what was sold when. unless they keep track of the batches of CD-Keys. And then you could be in for a random surprise if you get it or not.
The more likely scenario is its given to any game key registered to the B.net profile within a certain time frame say 1-2 weeks after the 25th.
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Since I ordered my physical CE from Amazon in the US - which will probably take quite a few days to ship to my place - I just pre-ordered the digital (non-CE) version as well, and can hopefully get the key back once my CE arrives and I redeem the code. At least I hope that's the way it works ;-) So... whatever they do to identify pre-orders, I'm fairly certain I'll get the wings
Nope, the wings from the CE were Angelic Wings, a blue-colored version. Wings of Valor are the wings that you can see on Imperius (Archangel of Valor), which are yellow.
Obviously it hasn't been confirmed yet, but it makes sense. Not sure if there's a leaked picture anywhere, but I'd be surprised if the wings are of any other color than yellow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=5aNhnLacB4U&t=229
dont know if anyone linked already , but here is the interview
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=5aNhnLacB4U#t=229
https://twitter.com/joshmosq/status/436720408293683200
Can't confirm the 'in two weeks' with what he said, which is 'a couple weeks'.
As for me if i don't get they wing cos i went with a physical CE instead of the Digital i will be pissed but it has been stated that the CE will hold the wings anyway.
have no clue how they will handle physical standard edition. but they could just leave a "pre-order" bonus like this to Digital standard/Deluxe and Physical Collectors edition.
anyway i hope they will sort it out. the wings feels like a half attempted thing to make up for the lack of CE/DDE content gone wrong.
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Sorry for the kinda off-topic language lesson request, but I wanna be sure before I start celebrating.
As a native English speaker, a couple means two. Just the same as you'd say "oh what a happy couple".
i don't get why people are so up in arms about when the patch will hit. and i can tell you with big certainty it wont hit before mars 18th. At least at this point. there is nothing stoping it from being released tomorrow or 1 month ago, but with only 25 days to go before the AH Shutdown it would just be to much of a hazle on there part to release it earlier then the 18th.
when i first heard about the AH Shutting down the 18th i pretty much knew that patch 2.0 would hit within 1 week of that and the expansion within 2 months of the AH shutdown. Guess i was right a bout RoS Hitting Within 2 months of the AH shutdown. and now its just a guessing game to when patch 2.0 will hit. and since the announsment of the release date for RoS, patch 2.0 will drop on the 18th to 25th of march.
As for the Pre-order wings its just stupid how they set it up. ATM basically saying fuck you to anyone who is getting the Physical Collectors edition. (physical standard edition is just meh anyway, better just pre-order digitaly anyway)
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I don't know anybody who uses the word "couple" the same as "a few" at all.
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/couple <- States on the page clearly, TWO or a PAIR.
Personally I already purchased DDE, so I am 99.9% sure that I will receive wings....
But, sometimes this word is misused to mean more than 2. And this is the internet, we're proper grammar usage is by no way enforced (see what I did there).
http://ell.stackexchange.com/questions/1427/does-a-couple-always-mean-two?answertab=active#tab-top
As for josh, it could just have fallen more natural for him to say a couple instead of soon™ or a few.
language always have these kind ofuncertaintiesand it can make a big mess sometimes.
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Pre Order - Order it before it goes LIVE.
You will probably get a note with a redeem key. Wouldn't surprise me if it was possible to even sell it.
So you will get the standard game key which follows with the game, and then a extra note you got form Pre Ordering. That is at least how I would imagine how it would be.
I just want to be on the safe side, and buying RoS DD through Blizzard themselves. They can see I ordered the game a month before release.
As for Physical CE i can see it just being implemented into the Collectors edition status no matter when you get the got and use it.
as for regular physical copies this is the tricky bit. as there are almost no way to for em to track when and what was sold when. unless they keep track of the batches of CD-Keys. And then you could be in for a random surprise if you get it or not.
The more likely scenario is its given to any game key registered to the B.net profile within a certain time frame say 1-2 weeks after the 25th.
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Obviously it hasn't been confirmed yet, but it makes sense. Not sure if there's a leaked picture anywhere, but I'd be surprised if the wings are of any other color than yellow.