I hope they announce it monday night.
I’m going with this week for the announcement. Partially because I’m ready for 9.2 and partially based on the World Arena competition for Season 3, they are running out of time.
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Considering they just took 8 months for a single smallish zone and one raid, November this year does seem…
Optimistic.
No announcement today at this point but maybe tomorrow?
*takes a hit of copium*
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They have likely been working on 10.0 for over a year now – but I do share your caution with the November date. I’m thinking December/January.
Could still get the build tonight, even if it’s not a release candidate. They are running out of things to test other than the creation catalyst – but it’s not even usable for 8 weeks so i’m not sure how much testing it needs for day one of 9.2
lol
Maybe summer next year. If they were significantly down the 10.0 path we’d see legit leaks by now. And lately they certainly haven’t demonstrated any ability to get quality content to market when it’s needed.
Would we have though?
when it’s ready Sentenza, it’s close but there’s still tuning left, it’ll be out this month i am certain of that.
True, the development cycle has been stretched lately. Will be interesting to see if they can return to form or just change expectations of the patch/xpac cycle all together.
they have a lot of monetary incentive to keep the xpac cycle on a 2 year basis though – lots of revenue at one time.
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2/22 it is! 
Indeed. People who think WoW can just decide on a 3-year expansion cycle are kidding themselves. Expansion every two years is a big part of the revenue model.
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they’re mostly tuning, it’ll be out the moment that they’re done tuning.
Like when we got the rough layout for Shadowland? Either leaks are plants for PR or they’re disgruntled employees just leaking things.
Seems like they got plenty of later, and the former would require something substantial to leak.
When did we get the rough layout for the Shadowland? I’m not saying it didn’t happen, I just don’t remember hearing about it.
Most of the leaks were like press or trailer material leaking ahead of Blizzcon. The only leak I can recall that was legitimately someone on the dev team leaking stuff out and not just leaked after it had gone out to be prepared for PR was Warlords of Draenor, where we got a snapshot of the internal state of development six months ahead of its official reveal.
One could make some kind of argument that with all of the PR disasters maybe a leak should have happened from someone upset about the internal state of Blizzard, but I dunno. The Warlords leak was kind of rambling/insane and didn’t come across as real either, and we’ve seen a lot of insane theories disgused as leaks so who knows? Maybe it has been leaked already.
February 22nd. Twenty more days.
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I missed this post earlier -
New PTR build tonight. Makes me think we’re not getting an announcement date trailer this week. Probably get announcement date trailer next week with a Feb 22 patch release date as others speculate.
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You’re dreaming my dude.
Here, this tells you they are FAR from done with tuning passes and fixing classes.
I’m telling you, 9.2 is not coming before March. Don’t mistake me though, I want to be so wrong. But yeah… PTR is not as solid as people think. And let not even talk about some classes that have been 100% ignored, like Rets and BMs.
There is no chance it gets released February now which I was hoping for. They always announce these things at least a month ahead. There is also a big PVP tournament starting on March 18th. I don’t think they would release it in the middle of this tournament or right before, that wouldn’t be fair to players prepping. Factoring all of this in, my release date guess is March 8th.
You guys release we usually get 2-3 weeks of a season ending warning, and then 2-3 weeks after that there’s a post-season before a new patch drops. We’re looking at mid-March at the earliest.