Anyone else worried that we will have 8.3 for 9-12 months before 9.0 comes out? There were no announcements of an 8.3.5, 8.4 in Blizzcon. No specific date given for 9.0. Everything is pointing to a content drought.
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You are forgetting the storm of foxes before any drought can set in.
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12 Months not going to happen since 8.3 won’t be out in 2019 and Shadowlands will be released before 12/31/20.
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Once I clear Ny’alotha and get bored im just going to unsub till pre-patch.
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Yes. Very worried, to be honest. i have no doubt we’ll be in 8.3 for far longer than we should considering that’s been the MO of this entire expansion has been later patch release cycles. Not a fan of it.
However. I’m also of the mindset that BFA is so terrible, and I’d largely bet because it was rushed. The beta proved that. Azerite was screwed from the beginning, which is why we saw so many of those spec changes the week before BFA released.
If taking their time will lead to a good expansion where I will genuinely have fun again, and we can get back to a place where pvp and pve are balanced proper and classes can be fun, I’m all for it.
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I’m perfectly fine with a content drought. Expansions shouldn’t be rush like BFA.
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I’d usually be on board with the “expansions shouldn’t be rushed” group, but this is a very bad time for a content drought.
Specifically I’m a guild leader, and as one I’m wondering how the hell I’m supposed to hold things together for 8-11 months with nothing new, while Classic keeps siphoning players away from the small to medium servers with the updates its getting.
Look at any realm that’s not one of the giants, and it’s a bad situation. BFA being bad + Classic Siphon of playerbase + Blizzard’s refusal to merge more realms (because it’d be bad pr I guess?)…it’s made a lot of guilds fall apart. People leave because of game quality or because of classic…and you can’t recruit back up. Server transfers cost way too much, and the current servers are dead zones for recruiting any half decent players for a raid group. Cross realm raiding has made it harder, not easier, to maintain communities since a lot of people aren’t even bothering with the guild system.
TLDR it’s going to be a Brutal year.
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Well lets see, 8.3 comes out in Feb right? (I think i heard this somewhere). Assuming SL comes out in Dec thats a 10 month frame.
In between well almost certainly have 8.3.5, 2 new allied races, and a pre patch event.
So yeah were looking at a pretty decent content drought. Still not as bad as a year of dragon soul
8.3 on January 7th is what most people are banking on actually.
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Even though it wasnt mentioned, 8.3.5 with some story content is pretty likely.
The final raid being out for 9-10 months before the prepatch is actually short by WoW standards.
Wrath, MoP, and WoD all went > 1 year.
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So a normal last big patch to next expacs prepatch dilema.
Situation normal
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No. Not in the slightest. People need to relax about content droughts. Blizzard’s utter terror at ever having a content drought again is why we’re getting out increasingly broken and unprepared content. I would rather deal with waiting longer for good content to come out than not having to wait for garbage.
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What you mean you dont want to go back to classic for their staggered releases of content that should have been in the game since they launched it?
I’m taking up the drought by playing some 7 Days To Die with my wife. Always something else to do.
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That’s also ignoring the fact that the 9.0 prepatch will happen 4-8 weeks before the actual expansion drop. If you lived through HFC, you’ll live through this. It’s honestly normal cadence. Last patch launches, everybody is really interested for 2-4 months depending on playstyle (raider vs daily player) or until your guild clears, then you have 1-2 months of slower guilds finishing, average heroic raiders doing alts, archaeology since it’s an end patch. Then comes the prepatch a month or 6 weekish later. Everybody comes back to learn what they changed (though some people will say “there will be no big changes!”, as always), clear the last raid probably 2-3 more times with adjusted 9.0 stuff, getting used to everybody’s new main for the expansion, week of pre-expansion bag cleaning, then expansion drop. This cycle has been going on for more than 10 years.
If you are a guild leader, keep people interested by doing other things that you think your group might like, achievement runs, alts, battlegrounds. Take a poll if you need to. Play other games with your guildies, if they aren’t the kind to do dailies for 6+ months across alts. We usually have a December HOTS tradition in our guild, Diablo works too. Blizzard has a bunch of great options for you to play when WoW has burned you out.
Also, there’s you know, that library you probably have 10 games you bought during sale and haven’t played.
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8.3 is in January. There are at least 2 or 3 months before it feels like a drought.
Assuming that there is no 8.3.5 and 9.0 is pushed back to January 2021, that is only 9 months or less. That is not a drought.
Throw in a potential 8.3.5 and that is even less of a drought.
If it comes out in august or september thats even LESS of a drought.
BFA release cycle has actually been pretty darn good over all.
I hate this rumour so much. Guys…the preorder release date is there literally just because in some states and countries you need a date to release a pre-order. They have done the same thing for the past 6-8 years. They say it will be on OR BEFORE decemeber of the next year and they announce the real release date after they have more development time.
Yep, will definitely be a time to step away and maybe pull up that steam library.
Theres also the beta for those who dont mind some spoilers
There are a million games out there why do you feel so chained to WoW?
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I still have stuff I haven’t done from Legion. Content “droughts” are good for collectors because there are so many more things to collect now, especially from Legion and BfA.
There’s tons of “stuff” to do it just depends on whether a person finds that stuff interesting or not. It seems that people usually refer to droughts with regards to no new raids but there’s more to the game than raids. There will probably be a mini story patch (8.3.5) and, if not, there’s still the prelaunch event.
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