This. Blizzard (because of Activision) is focused on money rather than content. They’re going to do what they want to make money and like heck they would miss a holiday season.
Statistics has new expansions coming out every 2.15 years, ± a couple of months.
If we get 9.2 in 6 months that would be December/January. That would give them 8-10 months to prep for the next expansion. And that doesn’t even include Prepatches for 10.0 a month in advance. So, we have a couple of scenarios
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If there is a 9.3, they would be forced commercially to push 10.0 to Holiday 2023, which would give Shadowlands 3 years (which would be unheard of) and NOBODY would be happy about it.
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They put the Dev team in hyper-crunch and put 9.2, and 9.3 every 3-4 months. This would (hypothetically) be placed around Nov, Feb/Mar, May/Jun in order to have 10.0 be released Nov 2022. The Dev gets overworked, therefore the content will be shoddy, and EVERYBODY would be upset about it.
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Scrap 9.3. We go from no victories against Jailer to curb-stomping him in 1 expansion. He see the Jailer’s covenant realm, which I assume is where he scuttled off to at the end of the cinematic, and nuke it from orbit. We band the covenants together and defeat him with the power of friendship or some other Deux Ex Machina. Sylvanas and Bolvar will fight side-by-side to defeat the Jailer before He can snap his fingers. Which is just like Yrel and Grom banding together to defeat Archimond. Majority of people gripe, but they can at least prep for the next expansion and put this behind it.
It’s looking like WoD all over again. Things will have to be cut. Villains will become Allies (I’m still salty about Grom). People will die (Anduin). People will live (Sylvanas) and there will be bad conclusions to conflicts (Thrall and Garrosh’s Mok’rah [Thrall cheated like a coward]).
But yeah, I REALLY don’t see how they could fit in a 9.3 when the Execs will be breathing down their necks.