People are too easy to fool man holy cow. There is no way they are going to release a retail raid tier and TBC at the same time or even close to the same time. What are you smoking?
I 100% agree with you. Even within 2 months would be a bad move. People are just getting their TBC toons geared up and want to push it.
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All speculation, nothing to show how it’d improve retail.
Not to mention your speculations hold no water on how it hurts retail.
Paying 10 devs doesn’t change ANYTHING.
You have them delayed, not 'cause of an insufficient amount of devs, but because of circumstances that made their already sluggish release pacing of the past, even worse.
There are several groups simulteonously working on different areas of the game and throwing more $ at the problem, doesn’t change their design philosophy and pacing. 9.1 isn’t gonna come out quicker.
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Yes it’s plain as day what they are doing and it’s totally smart from a business standpoint. 9.1 is probably going to carry us till the end of the year, which means it most likely won’t release till late July but most likely August.
Then how did TBC hurt retail 
How…
When they literally weren’t even done with the 9.1 stuff on PTR even closing in on TBC launch. You are either really daft or plain trolling, cya.
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Classic is totally hurting retail. It basically destroyed BFA and now Shadowlands.
Alright, I hear your points. I understand what you’re saying but I don’t agree. I simply disagree with you. It’s fine. I’m not going to change your mind you’re not going to change my mind. We can argue the same thing in 10 different ways back and fourth for another hour it won’t make a difference.
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The earth is flat and covid is a just a hoax: am i doing it correctly? 
Bro that is just what they are telling you man. Companies know that if they told us TBC is delaying retail half the playerbase would be furious.
Ever heard of the saying “it’s better to beg for forgiveness than ask for permission?” All companies do this lol
Nope humans have known the earth is round for thousands of years and I was one of the first to get a vaccine.
Also let me guess you believe everything your told? Am I doing it right?
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You clearly dont know how long game development takes.
No offense but let me guess, you have no idea how to make a business as profitable as possible. Everything Blizaard is doing is for money. If Blizzard wanted they could pump out WoW updates monthly but that is not cost effective based on what the customer base is willing to pay.
Thank you for the laugh.
Do you know what company PR is? That is how they get a feel for how the customer will react and expect.
The problem is that you’re assuming that retail would get more devs in the absence of classic. They’ll use the smallest number of devs and spend the least amount of money that they can get away with. While I’d agree that they probably wouldn’t launch BC and a major content patch too close to each other, I’m not sure that 9.1 would have been ready any faster if TBC wasn’t a thing. Those devs and resources wouldn’t go to retail. They’d just keep the money.
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The work required for Classic versions is very small, so it wouldn’t really affect a whole lot.
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Your point is void seeing as how you dont have to pay anything aside from just having a active sub. Why would they move people away from retail where they have the shop and tokens people can spend money on.
Exactly we don’t pay enough to get the updates we desire.
Blizzard has entire teams of people managing player expectations and deciding what gets released and what doesn’t as well as when it does. Your just naive and that’s ok. And nothing blizzard is doing is nefarious at all it’s just good business.
We are getting 1 raid tier and TBC classic this year people. It doesn’t matter what you read or what blizzard says that’s all we are getting. Lmao
It is indeed possible but highly unlikely we may have another raid tier in December.
The size of your team doesn’t matter, leadership matters. Right now retail WoW has some of the worst leadership I’ve ever seen in the video game industry, hell Kingdoms of Amalur did better, at least they released a great game, the same cannot be said for WoW since WoD.
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Fair enough, how they dropped SL as an afterthought and with the release of TBC hard to disagree with that. They had so much momentum at the beginning of SL it’s a shame they let that die out.