While under Mike Morhaime as CEO. I see some speculation about the SL pre-patch no-show and whether or not the expansion will or could be delayed. It’s possible and has happened before while under arguably better management. Brace yourselves for that possibility 
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I like the fact that TBC’s delay was announced Oct 25th.
Totally irrelvant, but a neat coincidence.
Anyway, I doubt they will delay it, but they really should.
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Different company, different leadership, different time.
Stock holders prevent a company from taking such a bold step without severe consequences.
It will go live, massively incomplete, just like BFA did.
With that being said, I truly wish they had the balls to delay it. I’m sick and tired of BFA and corruptions, but I rather eat 3 more months if it means REAL class redesign, tuning and addressing, and if it means that ALL features that are supposed to ship do actually work as intended.
This BFA all over again
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Maybe. They know how much is riding on Shadowland’s success, especially after BfA.
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Back when Burning Crusade came out, Blizzard still worked under the idea of providing a complete product. They abandoned that idea a long time ago. Why would they delay a release when they can release daily hot fixes and patches to get it up to speed?
If shadowlands isnt good I will be done for real
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I have no inside info about Blizzard. All I have is some info about software:
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You cannot predict how long bug-fixes will take. It could be 2 hours. It could be 2 days. It could be 2 weeks. Honest.
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Even normal software is hard to predict: when will it be finished?
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No released software is totally bug-free. You get the worst ones, ship it, and keep working on it. Especially in an MMO, where you can “hot-fix” things.
So if the pre-patch may be delayed by “killer bugs”. That’s my best and only guess about “why it isn’t announced yet”.
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Nobody does that. All companies release things before they are perfect. Perfection is a nice fantasy, but does not happen in software products.
But your opinion of “good enough” might be different than Blizzard’s opinion of “good enough”. And a delay could make the difference. So your idea is reasonable.
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No one is asking for perfection. Just the high quality standards that they were initially known for. Factually, the quality of their products has been increasingly declining.
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STOP REPEATING HISTORY yo
Blizzard isn’t dedicated to making a quality product anymore in today’s time. I don’t know why you think they would delay it given that.
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This wasn’t the resounding opinion when BC was delayed and it won’t be what we read now. I predict more threads leaning towards “look how incompetent blizzard is, can’t even release a game on time. I told you covenants were a sham. How hard is it to add cosmetic options to the barber shop? This literally takes ZERO resources, guis”
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“wow, blizzard is taking their time with a quality product. I’m willing to wait longer to see the fruits of their labors.”
Don’t think that’s fair. There are aspects of the game that are still top notch. Maybe not all of them.
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Reminder: Wrath was better
they pushed Reforged out for release despite knowing it was a broken mess so if they are trying to delay SL that tells you something is very wrong lmao
Do they though? Because so far they are doing exactly what they did to bfa.
Eyyyyyyy good news everyone
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nice dude!!
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