8.3 not until 2020

[Caevan-moon-guard]

Doesn’t blizzard have a history of not listening to player feedback during PTR/beta? Wasn’t everyone preaching that they didn’t listen to any of the feedback during bfa beta?

Betas are for bug testing. Betas are not for massive changes and overhauls. Learn what betas are actually for.

[Caevan-moon-guard]

I seriously doubt that. What would that even mean? No season 4 dungeons/PVP? No gear? No cloak? No corrupted gear? No more essences? No raid? You’re going to keep playing but not do any of that content? I am… skeptical.

See you in 8.3, bro.

This is becoming a fairly common trend lately. There are a number of players who have stopped threatening to quit playing, they just threaten to not do any of the new content.

I mean, okay? Sure, have fun paying for a sub and not do anything.

[Spodge-stormreaver]

I don’t do dungeons now. I don’t do raids now. I don’t do PvP now. I don’t like corrupted gear so why should I bother. I have no need for more essenses but I guess depending on where you do get the new ones my main might do that.

That cloak I have to do assaults and that other thing to earn them and I just don’t like either of those pieces of content so I am going to pass on that cloak. I am not doing content I don’t enjoy for that length of time to grind for something.

I will probably pick up pets, do world quests in the old areas, work on the old essences for the rest of my 15 120s that I don’t have any yet for and make gold with the new professions. Oops and I forgot do island expeditions as well.

So yes I will pass on most of the 8.3 content.

Now if blizzard HAD made essences account wide - I would mostly just not be paying them.

There are a number of players who have stopped threatening to quit playing, they just threaten to not do any of the new content.

There is no threat involved - it is a statement of fact based on what I have experienced on the PTR. There literally is nothing much there I will enjoy doing.

[Mellun-sargeras]

I think it’s a good idea. Almost all of the guilds I have ever played in have always either took a break for the holiday season for 3-4 weeks or they power through and end up raging at guildies for not being at raids due to IRL commitments. There’s also a lot of people I see in trade chat still recruiting for M EP so they can get CE, so people are still doing stuff.

You can also just play a different game, farm gold, transmog, or just do whatever

[Ghaghzull-moon-guard (Ghaghzull)]

Unfortunately for you, these are big American holidays that lot people would traveling to see their families to celebrate. That mean there not going lot of things are going on at Blizzard since everyone is out to see their families.

[Ljus-amanthul]

Yeah and the average American gets a day off for each of them.

I know, I am one.

[Shandoli-area-52]

Time to break out dark souls again.

[Nuskagirru-wyrmrest-accord]

Pokemon comes out in a few weeks I do believe as well.

As someone who comp battles, this was a dealbreaker. All my favorites got cut, the metagame looks like trash, and the new pokemon look stupid in alot of cases. Not worth me buying a switch over

[Voxplaga-ravencrest (Voxplaga)]

Guess we have to twiddle our thumbs for two months.

I’ve got alt leveling and farming to do. Best time to do it is when i have a 2 month long xp and rep bonus.

[Ghaghzull-moon-guard (Ghaghzull)]

Expect I have to work on New Years

[Slashcries-area-52]

@Saphirrfox-moon-guard

Raiding Expectations for the Holiday Season

Guess we have to twiddle our thumbs for two months. Good thing my subscription runs out in a week.

There’s plenty of content it looks like you don’t do so not surprised. If I only picked like 3 things out of a buffet of dozens of items I could also complain that there wasn’t much to eat.

[Draenybrit-garrosh]

It’s fine. Hopefully my tennis elbow will be healed by then so I can start a Vulpera.

[Whispur-pagle]

Good thing my subscription runs out in a week.

Yep.

[Nargrog-pagle]

Looks like you don’t really raid or anything like that. Why would it matter to you?

[Caelia-uldaman (Caelia)]

8.3 could have easily come before January. The raid was always going to open in January regardless of the patch release though, so it wouldn’t have mattered.

[Noscapine-sargeras]

Would’ve liked to dip my toes into the new patch before I move to another country and cannot play for a while

But also, because, I am pretty bored of the current content.

[Deáthrow-skeram]

So you would rather them rush out the content with more bugs/glitches/OP issues then its already gonna have? If they released early you would complain its too broken. Taking time to make sure its not a full s*** show on release you complain.

Its crap like this why stuff gets rushed out the door.

[Ljus-amanthul]

I’d rather they launch the AR DKs so I have something to do.

[Tarbel-khaz-modan (Tarbel)]

currently im just trying to get all my toons to max level and i have 3 months left on my sub so its not a big deal right now, but with pokemon coming out next week and the new ark dlc next month i may already be too occupied. though i do appreciate them not releasing during finals

[Hawthorn-frostmourne]

I’m not buying the holiday season excuse for a second.

Far more likely they’re concerned that 8.3 and the patch that follows it won’t be enough content to keep players engaged for almost a year before Shadowlands arrives, so they’re going to stretch 8.25 out another couple of months having learned their lesson from the pre-Legion content drought.

Have I mentioned how much I detest corporate dishonesty?