This… worries me. Like, am I happy we’re getting it this year? Sure. But… it’s almost July.
Prepatch PTRs always last ~2 months. The prepatch has always lasted ~4-6 weeks.
This means, if they follow the past precedence, 10.0 will be hitting the PTR in late August/early September.
Which means, assuming Beta starts early July, that’s only 2 months of beta to test before they start testing the pre-patch, which also includes all the dragonflight stuff? And overall it’s 4 months of beta, and that’s if it starts in July?
Which also makes me wonder, seeing as that’s 2 months away - if Season 4 is going to launch with 10.0, rather than in SL.
EDIT: To clarify - I do not doubt the expansion will be ready by then - Blizzard made it clear they would not release it until they felt it was ready even if it was next year. However, this is so little time to hear player feedback from beta, etc. Something Blizzard claimed they would try to start listening to.