Ambitious, but I’m hoping so as well. I will always be curious to see in which direction this game flows, even as my time spent in-game slows
I will be playing until WoW goes or I do, whichever happens first. 
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i may or may not buy the deluxe verison. depends on what they show.
but the base expac? yeah probably
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Depends on the world content. I’m so tired of their three pillars philosophy to this game. I don’t play a open world mmorpg to spam instances. Open world content in SL has either been non existent or really badly implemented.
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If 9.1.5 is delayed, that probably means 9.2 is at least 4 months off, probably closer to six. Unless part of the delays are due to blizzard spending most of the time on 10.0, it might be significantly longer than a year away.
But it looks like they’re spending more than a insignificant amount of time trying to save us from dad jokes, including unannounced changes that required art and voice over assets. So if that continues and there are also delays I’ll probably sign off before then. And really, if saving us from dad jokes is whats most important to the devs, I don’t have a lot of faith in what ever they come up with.
If one or two key people left from my guild I would be out very quickly.
Either one of two things will happen in Febuary with there blizzcon online. We either learn of the final patch for Shadowlands or the new expansion. Considering WoW has had about 8 month to a year patch life for the last patch, Febuary seems like good bet on expansion announcements.
That seems like sound logic to me, and I would actually appreciate a peek into their team’s direction either way! My free time isn’t heavily weighted on WoW’s whimsey at this point, so I’m not easily disappointed with Azeroth nowadays
If the current team is still there then NO!!! They have repeatedly failed to listen to beta feedback until they lose subs. I pay for a completed product and not early access. This expansion and BFA should have been labeled as “early access.”
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Considering that my PC is full-on potato status, being able to afford or obtain a new computer that can play the next expansion is the real question.
I didn’t buy SL.
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most probably yeah, i always enjoy the opening of a new expansion and also the prepatch events
Maybe if you microwave it? idk my mom was a bad cook, so she’d microwave potatoes, and they turned out okay 
Don’t hate me, I couldn’t help it lol
It depends on what it is. I’m not going to go for another expac that I don’t care for. So obviously, will wait until it’s actually out… lol
Also, if Blizz keeps up with the Puritan attitude then probably not.
I’m an adult who enjoys playing a fantasy hack and slash game. Who wants to just immerse herself in a fantasy role for a while and have fun. Who has played for quite a few years and has no problem with the way the game has been attitude wise etc. Only issue is some of the nasty players who like to ruin the fun for others. But, I play on different servers, so I just switch to something else.
If everything in the game which is based on a different world and is pure fantasy, has to suddenly be politically correct for real life… Then I’m out.
So, will see what happens.
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Yes. On release day.
Just one more thing. They underestimate that players will stay on longer when having fun. They threw their whole bag of tricks at endgame peeps and still managed to torque those guys off along with PVPer’s.
I know everyone has a different slant or pet peeve but there has to be some common denominators in this community of WoW lovers.
Fun is fun and we’ll stay on it until the cow’s come home if we’re having it.
True, there are many still finding fun. I tried going back with a few alts, but because I screwed up with chromie time (seriously, there should have been some huge red flag poster clarifying STOP at level 48!) Maybe I just missed it in all my other research at the time. I did have fun for awhile keeping busy with old stuff and achievements…
I just remember in WoD to get flying you had to find all the treasures. I thought: “Hey, this is kinda fun. The game makers probably want us to see more of their art and hard work. No prob. Cool alternative to get flying.” (& despite everything WoD is pretty - especially the coffee lol) Still, great idea for fun and flying.
But then the pattern emerged: whatever new mechanic challenge for our players introduced, especially in the last patch, would become a precedent. And then double down on it the expansion after that.
Whoever thought this up years ago as a way to keep players stay on must have been happy because it worked for awhile - until it turned out players weren’t so stupid or gullible to not recognize company tactics, and when they aren’t having fun!
Sigh…just, I like(d?) this game. I still want it to succeed. And cuz I was older and never played an mmorpg playing ff14 gave me perspective. I like both, but now I kinda understand how important the dev/player relationship is - and why my sons after playing from the inception of Warcraft eventually left.
Hopefully, we’ll see some more interaction with the players; active listening in beta, ect…maybe read the forums instead of freakin’ twitters…idk
This got too long - just probably because I’m passionate about it succeeding.
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Of course. I love WoW. 
I certainly am not buying it until I read reviews about it and see if they have stuck with the same horrible PVP system or if they made it so you get honor gear and then you get conquest gear which is best in slot and then if you want to pursue elite transmogrify for PVP. Otherwise I’m totally done with this game
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It’s called operant conditioning, a psychological technique where you get someone used to the new thing so it becomes routine for them, then push it a little further next time.
They pushed the playerbase off a cliff trying to show each other how clever they are, when in fact they have zero grasp of human nature, or of why and how most people play games.
I would expect more of the same next expansion.
I prepurchased wod when they first introduced the expansion bundle, though I was a new player and didn’t make it to max level until the next year. I bought Legion the first week. Bfa I bought on sale after I completed my honor level 500 project and played classic for a while and my friend quit.
I didn’t buy shadowlands and don’t intend to. I leveled up all my characters on all my accounts to 50 for better mount hunting. I might play shadowlands if it was free at this point, but I kind of doubt it would be of any value to me. I fully expect the next expansion will be no better and maybe even worse. I don’t think they’ve learned anything from this failure. They’re still blaming players.
I wish they would go back to making a game players want to play rather than creating a half finished expansion sold on hype to people who are going to leave anyway - so why bother trying to retain them with fun, interesting content - and assuming that everybody else is so addicted they’ll never leave, so again, why bother?
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Wait until halfway like around now or empirically the .5 patch (or equivalent amount of time) after the first added zone to the expansion (or earlier if deemed good). Or around the second raid tier, but still time to get into the content without dealing too much with pug hell.
Rough estimate would be like 5.2 for mop, 6.2 for WoD. A bit before 7.2 maybe earlier for legion, barring mythic NH memes most people I talked to liked that raid. A bit around 8.2. And well for now basically right now, since 9.1.5 probably has 4-6 weeks left before dropping.
In short, never play launch. Purposely designed to induce the honeymoon effect and make you blind to the broken things they had at launch. Wait for the finished product.
Q: But what about the fomo like elite sets, ksm, ce, blah blah?
Me: What about those? You’ve already missed out on countless amounts of removed items already. Some worth leagues more than sets that people will boost for or CEs that people will pay thousands in tokens to earn a bit before or after cross realm mythic is open. Missing more to play a game that is finished is more important. And this unfinished meme isn’t something started in legion. It’s been like this for way longer.
Again all sort of subjective but the main thing is I don’t think I will play launch or during the first tier again. Mid way to the end is more fun.
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More than likely, sure. I am still enjoying myself with the game but there is without a doubt room for improvement.