Jade Forest not available in v8.0

[Disidaus]

[Location, Faction, Race]

Jade Forest, any faction, any race.

[Name, Type]

Zone: Jade Forest

[Problem Description]

Jade Forest is not accessible. When you ride, walk, fly, teleport or take a flightpath there, it teleports you to your Hearthstone location and displays the message in chat in yellow:

"This area is not available in this version yet. It will be unlocked in a future update."

[How it should work]

You should be able to enter this area. This works fine in v6.1.2!

 

[Don_Roth]

Hello, as has already been explained several times, this is normal in version 8.0. This release is a very large and comprehensive update, and certain MOP zones are intentionally locked because they don’t yet meet our quality standards and will be improved. This is expected behavior. That is not a Bug.

 

[Disidaus]

Hello - thanks for your reply! Huh, wait, what? This version was released knowing the actual MoP content is not playable? Where was this explained several times? I guess I must have missed it. Seems to me this is rather important information to clearly share, so people can make an informed descision to install this version or not. If I had known this upfront, I wouldn't have taken the time and effort of getting it on my test environment. I would have just waited for the next update.

 

[Don_Roth]

Hello - thanks for your reply! Huh, wait, what? This version was released knowing the actual MoP content is not playable? Where was this explained several times? I guess I must have missed it. Seems to me this is rather important information to clearly share, so people can make an informed descision to install this version or not. If I had known this upfront, I wouldn't have taken the time and effort of getting it on my test environment. I would have just waited for the next update.

I might be misremembering, but I’m pretty sure people on Discord weren’t exactly thrilled about this either—though it was definitely communicated. In version 8.0, almost all low-level zones—including every single quest—were completely overhauled. To maintain that same standard for the 85–90 level range, this feature was disabled in Pandaria.

 

[peculiar.shove]

Hello - thanks for your reply! Huh, wait, what? This version was released knowing the actual MoP content is not playable? Where was this explained several times? I guess I must have missed it. Seems to me this is rather important information to clearly share, so people can make an informed descision to install this version or not. If I had known this upfront, I wouldn't have taken the time and effort of getting it on my test environment. I would have just waited for the next update.

Yea I missed that too, I only thought they'd release the improved Panda zones later and we play the old until that.