So anyone else feel like a faction change but just waiting on the sidelines hoping there's new races announced at Gamescom/Blizzcon?
FFXIV - Maduin (Dynamis DC)
Blizzard stopped caring about Alpha/Beta terminology long ago, community should too.
On what? Regarding alpha/beta servers, I haven't seen any unknown test servers pop up yet but we can no longer tell the difference between 7.0.3 or 7.3 so there's a chance initial 8.0 aren't recognizable as such either. They also moved all of their shit to a different IP range so the old Alpha/Beta server IPs are no longer valid. It's also a bit too early for these to be popping up. Testing will probably start shortly after BlizzCon or worst case scenario after the holiday season.
In-game cinematics are usually added to the game in one of the last PTR builds, pre-rendered cinematics (videos) are added during PTR as well but are often encrypted until they're unlocked on Live.
Everything of 7.3 is currently on PTR if they are going to generate hype it shouldn't be for 7.3, it can't be, they are already talking about systems in 7.3 in their q&a's I will not accept anything less then an expansion announcement. the WoW team that's currently working is very uptight and talky about future content, as they should be.
Except we don't know 100% it is the end of the legion sure theirs the whole i'll keep him locked up and be his jailer deal would it wouldn't be the first time Illidan chose to do something "Wrong" for the right reasons I.E letting sargeras free to fight the void not saying that's going to happen just saying we don't know 100% that the legion is finished.
Announcement of xpac reveal at gamescom 2015- July 29
Gamescom 2015 announce date - August 6
Roughly a weeks notice that xpac reveal would be at gamescom so I guess we will hear about it next week if its gonna happen that way.
Whether 8.0 is revealed at Gamescom or at Blizzcon, the release is no sooner than autumn of 2018.
Jaina appearing as the key note artwork for blizzcon this year, just like the legion sign last year without "Legion". This is basically confirming some sort of south seas xpac , or at least Kul Tiras (the armor sets helped with this as well).
If the reveal will be in Gamescom, then we can expect the title Copyright within the next 2 weeks.