Shadowlands alpha WHEN?

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How long will it take for alpha to drop?

Legion alpha was like October or November
BfA alpha was February

When will Shadowlands’s become available? I was hoping after the world first race but it’s STILL not here :frowning:

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It’ll be close alpha for internal testing first.

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alpha february 25
beta may
prepatch august
launch september to compete with cyberpunk 2077

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It’s likely the alpha will be here within a month or two, but the beta that we will see won’t be up for at least another month. Expect late spring/early summer

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I dig this timeline, hope your accurate

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Soon™

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Who gets alpha access?

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Streamers. Probably.

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Well Ion did say in the Radio Interview that there would be Shadowlands info VERY soon.

So I’d say we’ll see Alpha datamined monday and then an official announcement on Tuesday and testing beginning later that week.

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Friends and Family usually first. Then it goes to random folks after that.

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I want whatever your smoking because if that’s accurate… based on what we saw at Blizzcon… Shadowlands will launch with substantially less content than even WoD.

I can’t stand some people who want to rush these expansions because many times they are the same people who turn around and say expansions are terrible and there’s nothing to do when their clamoring forced the expansion to be released six months too soon.

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This is Blizzard, they’re not going to release it until it’s ready. LOL! I ALMOST COULDN’T MAKE IT THOUGH THAT WHOLE SENTENCE. HA!

…and now I’ve made myself sad.

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Next week. I’m willing to bet my right thumb on it.

Ion had his interview with Warcraft Radio a few days ago and his words were “More Shadowlands info is very near”. I’d say 1 week off for “very near” is accurate.

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your playing shadowlands now bro all you will end up doing is getting your rng lootbox on teuesday just like you are now,your lfr/n/h raids since most cant do mythic just like you are doing now and grind a tower instead of visions/islands just like you are now.

you are already playing shadowlands.

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Don’t rush them please, we’ve seen how that ends up.

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Next week.

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Exactly, finally someone who shares me thoughts. I hope they delay it just to make sure it’s absolutely amazing

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I have for two expansions and I am not a friend or family. Been playing same account since 2004 though.

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