They announced legion, at gamescom so.
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Patch is coming out next month, and the raid will open the week after Blizzcon.
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90% of the profits flows back to Wanda aka the one that financed warcraft, for the first 2 weeks of it's release.
Thus it made more in line of $180M rather than the $60M you are talking about.
My money is still on a Gamescom reveal, seems like the perfect time
And a release date for 7.3 as well.
At this point it's gonna be a Blizzcon announcement let's be fair.
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You have to take budgeting into account. Hosting an event like Blizzcon is fucking expensive - just the cost of renting out the convention center alone is a huge amount of money, along with paying for power, security, emergency crews, etc. Anything they can sell to offset that cost is going to be welcome, especially a PPV ticket. 200k is nothing to sneeze at, in terms of paying off the costs of the event. Sure, Blizzard could afford to take a loss on the whole thing, but why should they? Just so your sense of justice is fulfilled?
Well, that's something we didn't know. There are several sources that state Warcraft needed $400-450 million to break even because it's marketing costs were horrendous ($160 million is the production budget alone).
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That's not what I said. I said "they never did that and the event..." - they never did that at San Diego Comic Con. I know they announced Legion at Gamescom but we all know why they did that ("announce Legion at Gamescom") and did not wait until Blizzcon as they would usually do.
We will most likely see more final fantasy 7 remake coverage and kingdom hearts 3 stuff if anything.
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The expansion will be announced on November 3rd or 4th at Blizzcon. It will be released in August or September of 2018, with a gap of about 7-11 months between the final raid and the prepatch. A prepatch will be released about a year from today. We will get one more full raid after this, but there will be more content during the long end game patch than there has been in any content gap before it. The content will be slim and derided, skippable novelty. If we are lucky, a 3 boss raid with higher ilvl gear may be released in early 2018. Hype train will hit in may, resubs in June/July, prepatch in July and on until morning.
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I was under the impression that Blizzard had said something about putting out more patches overall and lengthening the overall life of expansions. If they put out 7.4 and 7.5 before moving to 8.0, that should give them a lot more breathing room to work on the expansion. 8 more months of "fresh" content but maybe only 3 more months to the actual length of the expansion, leading to a shorter drought overall. If they could get the drought down to 10 months or less, I think there would be a lot more people who would stick it out for the whole time, rather than just letting their sub run out until the xpac hits.