heres another thing pointing to a 16th release
we already know NVIDIA said its out november, a few days ago but now AMD is teasing nov launch too
https://www.wowhead.com/news=318811/warcraft-highlighted-in-amds-radeon-rx-6000-graphics-card-unveiling-feature-vide
the feature vid nov 10th (Scourge Invasion Event in wrath, Nov 10 2008 was the event day for that prepatch so thats works too 14 days aka 2 weeks nov 10ths event… 2 weeks later on the 24th SL launches same day the new wow book with major spoilers comes out) which is middle of a week and the upcoming monday after is the 16th aka aniversary
but if this happens we will know for sure if the new WoW book gets it date changed, the reason the book is the 24th is because it has major lore spoilers but nothing is stopping SL from coming out before the book. If this is true then nov 3rd is the pre-patch EVENT, which gives it 2 weeks til lthe 16th
if you were blizz higher ups releasing SL in nov, ofc you will choose the anniversary so it will be both wow and SL anniversary.
on the side note, this tuesday had a 5.5hr maintenance. The maintenance release nathanos as a killable world boss in the plaguelands, he is tied to the event, meaning the maintenance added the event stuff… so they were preparing for next week.
nov 3rd the start of the 2 week event
nov 16th SL
They DO NOT need to warn players about the pre-patch nor give a release date prior because
1.no need for event date since we are already in pre-patch, they could annoucne day of or before
2.the release date of SL is probably announced the day the event starts becuase the day the event start… 2 weeks later is SL so thats ur “two week required warning”
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It does make sense but so does this :
AMD saw the opportunity to maybe make players of a very old but still very popular mmo switch to a rtx card ? I mean RTX on wow is so small atm ( im using it) ) that it a little push to market it more wouldnt hurt .
Also if i were a higher up at blizz , considering BFA , BFA launch , Legion Launch and WoD Launch , i would launch it when its super ready . Id want to have nothing less than a laggy launch at worst .
I would also be announcing it in advance to line up my pockets since the “hype” would be back on … Just putting myself in the shoes of a greedy higher ups …
My new laptop gets here the 3rd, so by that logic, and that logic alone, it will release on the 16th with prepatch on the guess what… 3rd! Coincidence?. I think not!
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if you were a higher up you would realize
money+ stock lost daily by delay > money lost from the vocal minority that wanted a delay and wants a delay despite not even playing the beta for themselves and just echoing the thought of their fav influencer.
Do you know alot of the people on beta complain about stuff being “bugged” that existed since legion or all of wow ect? yep quite alot complain about something that existed before pre-patch and after ect. That how come lower lvls kill stuff easier than higher ungeared lvls. Well common sense, its the scaling always has been, nothing new, lower lvl = less abilities, higher lvl has to utilize everything have the best gear and secondary stats ect. Nothing new at all. Quite alot complain about false bugs and stuff thats not bugged but they don’t like stuff thats not new to SL stuff thats current in live for years so yeah. Thats how it really is, this is what happens when blizz doesn’t do open beta + they give influencers most the ability to pick and choose which followers of their get into beta.
If you see the beta, it is ready and anything not ready will be ready by nov 16th, plenty of time.
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No need to be so defensive on your guess for the release date … geez im out 
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Pretty sure that week is blocked out by every major publisher because of Cyberpunk.
Cyberpunk was delayed to December 10.
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Cyberpunk was delayed for the 7th time cuz its trash lol, it was also delayed by like 8 years already. Hiring keanu reeves for it and buying copyright for billy ellish music in the ads, will not save it… its no mans sky/ fyrefestival all over again 
but hey if thats the case and so many suppsoedly want Cyberpunk > SL then yo blizz hire keanu reeves for the SL adds and make him a character! prepatch nov 3rd and SL launch nov 16th and to make sure launch is good jsut have keanu reeves promoting the game all day on launch
we can always hope. i dont want too many more delays. the expansion is gonna be a crap show. id rather it just come out so they can actually fix the design flaws for 9.1
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FML
I guess I slept through that one yesterday.
We already have the event stuff, we have all the files. If they had added anything during the maintenance we would have downloaded client-side to match. All they need to do is enable the events on the back-end to start it.
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Yes totally that AMD is in on the hidden cabal to try and hide the release date from the players but accidentally leaked the date in their announcement today.
lol big companies give other big companies release shedules that public doesn’t nvidia leaked it amd teased it, obviously they made deals and gave permissions for these presentations lol the xpac isnt the 10th soonest can be 16th the prepatch quests is 2 weeks time if it starts nov 3rd SL is the 16th if it starts nov 10th, SL is nov 24th
They give information such as vendor builds. But they do not let such information for games leak without allowing proofreading by the consenting companies.
Because blizz obviously wants to themselves to be the sole source of information.
We’ll know this coming Monday or Tuesday. Though I’m still going with not happening.
then the leak was on purpose and nah people make mistakes thats how leaks get out, one guys forgets to tell someone hey you cant post that, so they post it, when alot notice they remove it all either way it got leaked as nov launch and now amd is teasing
I just really doubt that its going to be that date. Launch is looking to be in December and people (even with the gimped zombies) won’t want to stomach anything longer than 2-3 weeks.
A pushback of 2 week just does not look like a well enough date to afford them more time. Especially since how “agile” Blizz has shown themselves these days.
Like maybe zombies coming on the 17th.
It absolutely isn’t even CLOSE to ready for the 16th man.
if this mon-tues that means luanch 16th but the odd factor is the book which is nov 24th
if they want both out to be on same day
the 10th is event and 24th launch
if they still want the book out 6 days before then launch is the 30th
but now that we know its out nov, i am certain they would eye the 16th if they have the chance to make a single date the anniversary for both, its so fitting the sweet 16th bday for wow to be the day SL is out
As covered by a lot of youtubers, The expected release date is the last week of november.
Because, the art book was scheduled to come out 1 week before the initial release date of 10.27, but now it’s pushed to November 23 I think?
Also, Nvidia made a post (also referenced in the video by bellular) they are promoting their ray tracing for shadowlands november 28 or whatever the date was.
So that is two different sources (one blizzard and one blizzard partner) suggesting last week of november.
Chances of it being later than that are pretty slim, because blizzard won’t want to have the raid come out 3-4 weeks after that and then be having to spend all their time hotfixing/patching things during christmas break. And people don’t really want to be spending their christmas holiday trying to (essentially) beta test raids