As long as there’s no 9.3, it’s good for me.
This garbage expansion has been going for far too long.
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I doubt it will be then end of the expac. We will either kill or redeem Sylvanas in 9.1, then we will probably resolve the Jailer problem in 9.2 and save Shadowlands and then the last major patch will probably bring us back to a changed Azeroth where something is happening that will lead to the next expansion.
They already had people working on it before SL launched
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Or do like they did Legion and Announce it somewhere else besides Blizzcon .
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They already said they aren’t going to do that but then again it was Ion who said it.
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I don’t think they will scrap content like Wo but I do think there will only be a .1 and a .2 for SL . The only difference will be instead of 2 raids in one tier like Highmaul and BRF in 6.0 and one raid in the other HFC , the SL raids are going to be split up between 9.0,9.1 and 9.2 as well as each patch having more content in them then most previous content patches .
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They won’t end it with 9.1, they have already said that there have designs for the 9.2 patch. Now they might pull a WoD at that point and call it a night on SL. As by that point we will be pushing 2 years in SL and they will need to start focusing upon the next expansion.
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If they don’t then you can expect 9.3 to be the shortest patch or the most garbage patch.
They will never risk their income of expansion launches every 2 years
9.1. the final boss is at Torghast TC layer 30 aka Zovaal is Donkey Kong rolling flaming barrels down from the top of the layer.
And princess Sylvanas is waiting on us to save her, but spoiler alert we’re just in the friend zone for her zombie boy toy anduin
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At the rate thier going… feels like it.
OP, if you know anything about the pattern WoW follows with their patches, no, it is not the end.
It’s always in this order:
Launch: We find new world, Horde and Alliance either join forces to stop it or slapfight each other over a shiny new resource. We gain reputation from the various new NPC races and learn to fix their problems like change their lightbulbs or water their plants for pennies or a shiny new pair of pants that looks like clown barf. We finish their inane chores and get bored.
x.1: Things getting intense, continuation of the story and some world-ending (or in this case, reality-breaking) threat has come forth and some well-known NPC is joining forces with some dingbat who thinks the only way to take over the world is to cackle maniacally into the air and let their minions get lawnmowered by the globetrotting murderhobos we are. It finishes the story and concludes there is something more behind the veil.
x.2: We find what is behind the curtain, OH NO IT WAS MERELY A SET BACK! as we eventually join forces if we went the ‘slapfighting over stupidium’ route. We learn that the well-equipped manslaughter janitors that we are were played a fool and now we have to fight this new threat and fight some story-based monsters.
x.3: Wrap up, the conclusion. We go home after shanking the final jerk, we relax and go back to old content within the expansion to farm stuff while we wait for news on the new expansion, but oh no…some new roiling threat that leads UP TO said expansion is waiting for us and now we start from the beginning.
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We defeated Gul’dan but that wasn’t the end of the Legion. We’re just taking out the rooks before the King, see?
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The same place these people always pull them out of…their A…
No because the Jailer is not the last boss. It is a Void Lord who used Death to unleash the chaos it needed.
If I recall correctly, WoD’s planned final boss was known because Tom Chilton slipped up and told everyone: Grom.
Because of that slip-up, they had to change plans and made Grom turn against the rest of the Iron Horde. Of course, WoD had a bunch of changes during development and post-release, but the situation with Grom makes sense when you consider that us going from fightning the Iron Horde to all of a sudden (in the storyline) going against Archimonde and the Legion was a bit abrupt. I think Blizz might have also realized that it would’ve been odd to have an entire expansion where it seems like we’re killing nothing but Orcs and Ogres, and since we lost an entire raid tier that might’ve given us something different to split things up before Hellfire Citadel, we found ourselves in the situation that WoD became.
You’re correct about the others, and Ion made it clear before Shadowlands was released that he felt that having a clear final antagonist would make pathing to the end of the narrative much easier for everyone involved. What it can also lead to, unfortunately, is a situation where if they fall behind or inadvertantly add too many extraneous threads to the narrative, now they have to hurry and rush back to get to that already named final antagonist, and this usually results in plotlines being completely dropped without any resolution and the path to the endpoint of the narrative seeming forced.
I’m sure Blizz is working overtime to catch up due to the various delays caused by Covid, but in the end, they’re a part of a publicly traded company, and the financial side of the business will have demands (such as releasing a new expansion), that might make pushing the new expansion back to 2023 untenable. They’ve unfortunately wedded themselves to this 2-year expansion cycle, and it wouldn’t surprise me if the big bosses hold them to it regardless of whether it messes up the narrative of Shadowlands or not.
Hell, WoW and Blizzard were in a much stronger position when WoD dropped, and yet they still didn’t have the juice to say, “Hey. Give us a little more time so that we can do what we planned for WoD before going into Legion.” With Blizzard experiencing cuts and layoffs, it doesn’t seem likely that they can go to the big bosses and ask for an additional 6-9 months to complete Shadowlands in a way that is comparable to what they had planned prior to Covid.
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Honestly, that’s my view.
Blizz and WoW were in a much stronger position back when WoD was released, and they still couldn’t go to the big bosses at the company and ask for more time to implement the extensive plans they had for WoD.
It’s highly unlikely that they’d give Shadowlands an additional 6-9 months on the tail-end to wrap up the story if they’re truly in a bind of this nature. As you said, if it’s a choice between keeping to their 2-year expansion release cycle, and satisfying the investors, or keeping SL around for an additional 6-9 months and releasing the next expansion in 2023, I’d put my money on the former being the choice, and us players getting a truncated SL like we did with WoD.
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I believe nubkeks’ hypothesis about the 500 day limit.
There is not enough time for a 9.3.
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Im stewing in my own stinky froth over his ego refusing to revert the loot-a-rang crap that didnt do anything to slow a bot or a boxer down. I see them now more than ever.
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100% agree with this
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I think SL will be just any other expansion
So no I don’t think 9.1 will be the last patch -
You better hope 9.1 isn’t the last patch because I doubt the playerbase would be (financially) in the mood to buy another xpac so soon
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