World of Warcraft: Current Year

Also getting the prepatch a month+ helps sort out any kinks in abilities that are not shadowlands related.

Pyros said:

This is somewhat surprising, I guess they managed to convince higher ups that it's so bad if they release like that it'll actually be detrimental enough that it's better to delay it. Good on them I guess, although I still think it'll be somewhat rushed(definitely before xmas).

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I suspect we are looking at a turkey day time frame or first week or two of december at worst but I would rather they take the time to do it right than shit up the launch and really piss off people.

This is actually the smart decision on their part. Hopefully they give them another month or two to really get shit working better. Could save the expansion.

This is very good. Also gives me more time to finish leveling.

Merrith said:

This is actually the smart decision on their part. Hopefully they give them another month or two to really get shit working better. Could save the expansion.

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Given they are still doing major balancing patches oct 27 was looking really dubious. But with prepatch out oct 13th that gives them full player loads and testing of abilities and level squish artifacts for a month+ which makes me a lot less nervous.

Koushirou said:

I'll give them props for delaying it. Wouldn't have been surprised if they'd just shoved the buggy, unfinished mess out the door this month. Got into the beta last night, screwed around with it a bit. One of the first damn quests is still missing text/dialog/etc. and I thought it was just straight up broken until a step finally completed after waiting for almost a minute.

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When you posted that you got into the beta I thought it was odd that they were still inviting people this late/close to release, but maybe I am wrong. Makes me wonder if they had this decision in mind for some time now...

It's interesting listening to Esfand talk about potential TBC for Classic, noting they need to tune raids/stuff better than they did for Vanilla Classic...where basically doing it as 1.12 basically had everything released post nerfs while player classes were all post buffs/balancing making it all far too easy. Was basically asking if they would release TBC in 2.4 form.

Wonder if they will move the Naxx release for Classic at all with SL release getting moved.

Have they said whether tbc would be fresh servers, or just a continuation of existing classic?

TBC was a total gear reset release anyway, because of the stamina and class/stat changes. So I don't think it really matters other than keeping titles like Scarab Lord (and the Black Qiraji mount)

Is there even an estimated eta for tbc yet? Was thinking about playing classic for the first time, I would expect it to take me awhile to max lvl these days so would wanna make sure I had time before hand.

I've always thought that Summer/Fall of 2021 made the most sense to give them a major release each year at that time but in reality they'll probably start priming the pump for TBC as soon as they see a significant dip in subs post-Naxx. It's not #nochanges but doing an early release of the races/classes so people can prep for the expansion is something I really hope they do. I was one of the many Draenai Shaman entering the game at level one trying to catch up to everyone in an existing guild and it made it hard to enjoy the journey.

BigDirty said:

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Not that I'm against them delaying they expansion, but these fucks need to let me pause my prepaid time.