A word on S19

[Vern1701]

S19 will not be this Friday, as the season blog has not been posted yet. The D3 community is because things got messed up due to Blizzcon. Expect the season 11/22.

[WyrmKin]

Confirmed that it will not be this Friday, but no date given for when it will. Season preview will be coming out on Thursday that should have a confirmed date.

[Vern1701]

That Thursday date is NOT confirmed in that post, the way I read it. Read my post here in this thread:

2.6.7 patch live on console versions - General Discussion - Diablo 3 Forums

It's one of the very rare times I get mad at the community in general for bashing both the dev team working on the game and the overworked (and enjoying it!) CM. You may remember that Activision fired 800 people a while back. 90% of that was in the Community Relations and associated fields. D3's CM was one of the very few they kept.

I'm twitter friends with a lot of those former CMs, although I don't consider myself a fanboy. I am, however, very loyal to those people.

[WyrmKin]

The Thursday date was mentioned by Bluddshed, who was told by Nev, the D3 community manager and one responsible for the season preview post.

[Vern1701]

I stand corrected, then.