...isn't 8.3 supposed to be in 2020?

[Maizou-proudmoore (Maizou)]

…but at BlizzCon they announced that Dottie would be the Make-A-Wish pet and be released in December.

Yet, they only added Dottie to the PTR and not live.

Did Blizzard change their mind and are going to release 8.3 in December, and just hold the raids off until the New Year like previous Holiday-Time patches?

EDIT: If anything, it seems likely they might release the patch in December, but withhold the raid, N’zoth Invasions, etc. Anything with character progression, until 2020. But open up the new Allied Races and Allied Race/Pandaren DKs (for Pre-Purchases).

[Tzesh-wyrmrest-accord]

Did Blizzard actually say 8.3 would be released in 2020?

[Spotti-area-52 (Spotti)]

Nope, it’s the christmas season so it’s targeted marketing. 8.3 is still going to be in 2020. Pet is for Charity like the previous one was.

[Spotti-area-52 (Spotti)]

Yes. Early 2020

[Maizou-proudmoore (Maizou)]

Raiding Expectations for the Holiday Season

With the reveal at BlizzCon of the upcoming Shadowlands expansion, we’ve been getting a lot of questions regarding the schedule for the previously announced Visions of N’Zoth content update. To that end, we want to share that Visions of N’Zoth and the raid—Ny’alotha, The Waking City—will go live early next year. Visions of N’Zoth is making good progress on the PTR, and currently with your help, we have been comprehensively testing the new content along with iterating on new systems like Corrupt…

Yea, in this thread.

EDIT: Though, reading the thread again…

It never actually says the PATCH is in 2020. It just says the new raiding/content tier. I think MMO-Champion and Wowhead may have misunderstood the post. Ahead of the Curve doesn’t go away until the new raid releases.

The fact the post ends saying they’ll have more information on the new content patch in the coming weeks adds further credence the patch may actually be in December as well.

EDIT2: The fact Dottie is confirmed as being in December, but was added to the PTR and not live further leads credence to 8.3 being in December.

[Eternosus-galakrond (Eternosus)]

It’s always seemed to me that cash shop pets/mounts have been hotfixed in outside the normal patch cycle.

[Asana-moon-guard (Asana)]

EDIT2: The fact Dottie is confirmed as being in December, but was added to the PTR and not live further leads credence to 8.3 being in December.

Plus there’s also the new Santa Pepe costume. Seems a little weird that they’d make one then have it not available till Winter Veil of next year.

[Maizou-proudmoore (Maizou)]

It’s always seemed to me that cash shop pets/mounts have been hotfixed in outside the normal patch cycle.

They are. But they’re done on live servers, never on the PTR servers. Dottie was added to the PTR servers.

EDIT2: The fact Dottie is confirmed as being in December, but was added to the PTR and not live further leads credence to 8.3 being in December.

Not to mention there’s also the new Santa Pepe costume. Seems a little weird that they’d make one that’s not available till Winter Veil of next year.

Yea, I made a thread about taunting us with Pepe for 13 months a few weeks ago, lol.

[Kargrave-turalyon]

All I want for Christmas is my KT Death Knight.

[Grummle-deathwing]

I duno my feelings toward bfa content patches is 2 words: who cares.

[Eret-hyjal (Eret)]

charity pets can be released anytime they want. Doesn’t have to be on a patch.

[Thecheat-turalyon (Thecheat)]

They’ve hot-updated other pets and mounts into the game before without a patch release, so I’d expect to still see Dottie next month without 8.3.

[Owie-senjin (Owie)]

My understanding is that 8.3 comes out Jan 2020.

[Kellorion-thunderhorn (Kellorion)]

Wowhead may have misunderstood the post.

Wowhead? getting something wrong?
Really?!?!?!?!!