3 expansions or 3 paid for major patches

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So anyone else get the impression that the saga is one patch that we pay for what use to be major patch updates?

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Could be their set up into transitioning into a F2P model after War Within.

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I get the impression that this is like 45th time someone has made this thread since Friday.

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Hint for game pass in late 2024, it could be right in time for WW.

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How about we actually hear more about what the plan for the 3 expansions is instead of running around like bunch of chicken littles screaming the sky is falling .

Stuff was just announced now we wait until we get more details . Most likely they will be 8 month expansions instead of 24 month ones.

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what’s the difference? we have money.

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I would guess the new expansions will be two tiers, instead of three. That way they can get them out faster. I would be fine with that.

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Or the same amount of tiers with no fated season.

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Sounds fine would put them at around 18 months per expansion if all goes well but seeing how the plan for yearly expansions went during WoD , I’m going to stick with them being 2 year expansions but 18 months wouldn’t be bad.

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I expect slightly under 2 years. Their stated goal is that in 2030 we wont be in this arc anymore. At 2 years each, we’d be finishing the arc in 2030.

So I expect a little bit cut off. Makes most sense from the dead period at the end.

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I’ll be honest, I have only marginally more faith that we’ll actually finish the story before 2030, than I do that a Steam Greenlight game will actually release. Sure, they want to get them out faster, but they’ve wanted that in the past.

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4 zones, 8 dungeones, 1 raid, + story campaign, every 8 months would be an absurd amount of content when compared to what we usually get.
6-7 zones, 9-10 dungeons, 3-4 raids, + story campain stuff, over the course of 24 months.

But if it is that much i wouldn’t really mind paying extra. Not sure i am your average person though.

But i am pretty sure that won’t be the case since one of the interviews mentioned the “first” raid of the expansion will be the nerubian stuff. I would personally guess expansions will last between 12-16 months.

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Nope. I didn’t get that impression at all.

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Not really OP. I think it’ll be dragonflight just without the more longer droughts.

If they can streamline the evergreen content, cut corners, not add anything more in midnight and last titan from a systems perspective.

They can probably knock out 12-14 month expansions mayyyybe.

They emphasized ‘faster’ so my guess is they don’t want to keep to the 2 year cycle and deliver this faster , so 15-18 month possibly. But man oh man is all that tight, with testing etc, it’d need to be a well oiled machine.

I hate the idea of it if they’ll opt to ignore the open world past using ‘delves’.

I really had hoped they’d revisit the old world on a bigger scale for 20 yrs anniversary 11.0 but I can see why they went this route instead.

This could let them update places like northrend, quel’thalas and whatever else is to come in chunks… if they do indeed update it to begin with.

Quality is gonna suffer I fear.

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There’s a wide range of interpretations possible about the choice to avoid giving us an actual timeline and a wide spread of moods in the community, from trusting to cynical.

I feel a bit like an Old God right now, peering out across a wide variety of possible timelines.

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Depends on what we get and for how long. If it’s one year and less content, then it’s even more of a money grab than normal, imo. If it’s a year and a half and a decent amount of content… eh… still pretty fast to shell out that kind of money for my current economic situation, but that’s on me, no one else.

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Too much content to be considered a patch. Why are people making this argument? It might be a smaller then normal expansion but it’s not a patch.

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Standard fair for the x.0 patch.

Same thing they announced for DF. Just because they gave the 11.0 stuff doesn’t mean there won’t be more stuff in 11.1 and 11.2

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I actually changed it to 18 months right after I posted .

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Because with every announcement for a new expansions people come into GD acting like the initial bits they have shown us for what’s coming in 11.0 patch is the entire expansion .

I don’t understand why people do that when they already know that information for further patches come once the expansion is launched.

Heck we will probably be out from beneath Azeroth by 11.1 if not 11.2 by the latest fighting something above ground . Maybe that is where we will finally see Avaloren .