Dear Blizzard,
It’s not too late to release the TBC prepatch before/during the Christmas break. I know that there are many people anticipating the release of TBC and the Christmas break would be the perfect time for everyone to start leveling their shamans/Paladins, their Draenei/Blood Elves, gearing up their level 58 boosted characters from the TBC Outland Epic Pack/Edition.
You would also be putting some time between the TBC prepatch and the Midnight prepatch.
It just makes sense.
Does it make sense that they would change a date they announced more than a month ago?
The OP doesn’t understand how things work in the real world. His “Christmas Break” statement tells you all you need to know about his age and maturity.
And all those people who set their paid time off when Blizzard officially announced pre-patch will be very happy.
Blizzard is not cool enough to shadow drop pre-patch
Imagine taking time off for prepatch lamo kys loser 
Using age as an insult is definitely very telling of your age and maturity 
Yep. I am 52 and would like this nice present too lol. I was actually expecting it.
Mainly because wow usually does nice things when I take trips. Its like they see my calendar and go oh…he will be touching grass. for a week. did we say 50% xp…make it 100% lol.
While I missed lots of these things, at least others got a crack at it lol.
Time off for expac release sure but for prepatch? Yeah idk about that