Shadowlands postponed. Will TBC also be pushed back further?

[Bloomsday-sulfuras]

@Woopee-mankrik

but I’d call this as reliable a source as you can get outside Blizzard itself.

Which is still not reliable at all

[Shinnain-azuremyst]

@Woopee-mankrik

Many people just want to play TBC because they think it’s a better game.

“Wanting to play” has nothing to do with “believing it will exist”. Not for sane people who don’t think their desires are reality.

Here’s the bigger problem: from what I’ve read in the forums, many players wants a new game they call “TBC”, but they have different ideas about what that thing they call “TBC” is. Ideas that conflict with each other. There is no widespread support in the forums for one specific game.

That is Blizzard’s big problem: why bother creating a new game if 85% of players will reject it, saying “That isn’t TBC! That isn’t what we asked for!”

[Woopee-mankrik]

@Shinnain-azuremyst

“Wanting to play” has nothing to do with “believing it will exist”. Not for sane people who don’t think their desires are reality.

Here’s the bigger problem: from what I’ve read in the forums, many players wants a new game they call “TBC”, but they have different ideas about what that thing they call “TBC” is. Ideas that conflict with each other. There is no widespread support in the forums for one specific game.

That is Blizzard’s big problem: why bother creating a new game if 85% of players will reject it, saying “That isn’t TBC! That isn’t what we asked for!”

So basically “you think you do, but you don’t?”

We saw how that worked out already.

[Paradöx-benediction]

My guess is that naxx will be pushed up in response to create boredom by the time, or shortly after SL releases to push people to retail while they wait for tbc.

[Polls-mankrik]

This is like asking if Diablo 4 will be pushed back because of Shadowlands. Classic and Retail are most likely ran by completely different teams.

[Rhodess-stormrage]

True, but a smart business would alternate releasing content for both games to limit dips in subs during content droughts. Example, SL release then have naxx come out 3 months later as SL hype dies down.

[Tuskamus-area-52 (Tuskamus)]

@Edex-argent-dawn

Despite what people think, one does not dictate the othe

I suspect you are wrong on that one. Blizzard would be fools not to coordinate Classic releases with expected luls in retail content… and they are not fools.

[Mini-kromcrush]

@Alasmin-netherwind

Some servers don’t even have their AQ gates open yet.

We didn’t know this at the time of your post but all servers will have AQ open on Oct 11th.

[anon83669306]

@Ixider-fairbanks

With shadowlands postponed for retail players. Does this mean that TBC will also be pushed back further for those classic players looking forward to playing The Burning Crusade when that comes out?

Probably no correlation at all. The teams are not the same. The timing isn’t even close.

If delaying Shadowlands would delay anything, it is the announcement and release of Phase 6 / Naxxramas, and we’re not so far removed from the release of Phase 5 / AQ. While the super rushers are ‘done’ and raid-logging, not every realm has had as many weeks with the gates open, and a few don’t have them open yet.

TBC wouldn’t be for quite some time after that, most likely after the first patch (9.1), maybe even first half-patch (9.1.5) of Shadowlands.

@Mini-kromcrush

all servers will have AQ open on Oct 11th.

Ah, hadn’t seen that yet.

[Rotsta-wyrmrest-accord]

@Alasmin-netherwind

or if they’ve even decided to release expansions to classic at all.

Any professional gambler looking at all the available evidence would consider betting on BC being released a very safe bet. The odds for a release are extremely high but no one can make a sure guess as to when or how.