I’m not seeing anything on this, but I’m taking that as bad news for the 9.1 release. No? They said the release dates wouldn’t overlap. So what’s that mean for the next patch? August? September?
No more patches for shadowlands at all, we wait 2 years for next xpac
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Mid-June if we go by the raid testing.
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Nobody here will have an answer for you, because they haven’t released one yet.
A gap doesn’t instantly mean months.
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9.1 is cancelled. We’re going directly to 10.
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What? Do you think it means days?
Psh.
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If only there were a measure of time between days, and months… they should invent it and call it weeks. 2-3 weeks is probably reasonable.
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Yesterday it said TBC June 1st, today I got the same pop up saying June 2nd. Found that a little odd.
So far the release schedule seems on par with every prediction from as far back as early February.
It doesn’t mean anything. 9.1’s best estimation has always been mid-late June since the PTR started. That’s how long most patch PTRs last.
That separates it from BC by 3-4 weeks which is easily plenty of time. There’s no way it’s going as late as August.
Seriously. Late June - Mid July is still very much on the table.
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I honestly have no real idea. I’ve been hearing a lot of folks saying August but I really hope that’s just pessimism, not some insider information. My guild is already a wasteland–I’m not sure how 3 more months will affect things 
Yall seeing the prices for the character copy and boost lol tbh no one should touch TBC classic to show them they dont understand their customers.
They are milking us its turing into Bathesda and EA… wish the playerbase would boycott or not purchase anything in classic with cash…but they know there will be enough that will just do it.
Feels bad man…
I would consider 2-3 weeks to be “released at the same time.” Expansions last about 2 years. That’s 730 days. And 3 weeks is 21 days. So the “gap” you’re talking about here is 2% of the time.
Well it doesn’t really matter what you consider to be the same time. They have said they wouldn’t release things at the same time before (such as the last phase of Classic and Shadowlands) and they were… 2 weeks apart. It seems that your definition is the one that is off.
I think you’ve made a bad argument and you’re trying to make it look less absurd:
- Patch =! Expansion
- The concept here from a business angle is that people will play classic when the freshness of an expansion wears off.
- No one is going to play TBC for 3 weeks and go “yeah alright, back to retail”
- If it doesn’t matter what I consider, well then it doesn’t matter what you consider
I severely doubt that’s how they view their release timelines.
The only reason to delay 9.1 release is to not take away from the TBC launch hype. But realistically how long will that last? 2 weeks, maybe 4 weeks max? Your August / Sept suggestion doesn’t make much sense
It’s apples to apples ya dink.
Patch of Classic - Expansion of retail = 2 weeks apart.
Expansion of Classic - Patch of retail = 2 weeks apart. (tentative)
Both are a patch and an expansion 2 weeks apart.
I guess it is good then that I am not basing it on my opinion, but rather on how they handle the timetables themselves.
It isn’t a reason to delay 9.1 but it would have been a reason to delay TBC.
The launch of BFA and Classic were a year apart, no?