WoD Ending Soon?

[Noctifer616]

Content for WoW takes longer to come out not sooner despite what they've said about year expansions or whatever. Blizzard never rushes . EVERY expansion they release comes out in winter and there is absolutely no chance for this winter as they would need to be releasing a 6 month beta now.

Could they release an expansion before winter 2016? Yes. I think if they got their act together they could. Do they need to? No. Theres no point in rushing the expansions when they can make money on store transactions which people buy all the dam time.

Until things go sour I reckon next expansion will conform to the usual schedule: announced at Blizzcon and then released the following year: winter 2016.

I don't know about the US, but winter here starts in late December and lasts till March. So when you say this winter, it's almost all of Q1 2016. Which ends in 11 months.

[Shennanigans]

Hopefully, I can't wait to abandon this whole garrison based BS

[Spotnick]

It's written in the sky that the next expansion will be released just in time for the Warcraft movie.

Let's be honest, it would be stupid as hell from Blizzard's part to not benefit from all that free marketing.

Expect an announcement and beta release at Blizzcon for a march release. Of course they got more time due to the fact the movie was delayed 3 months to avoid Star Wars.

[Alanar]

Can't be over soon enough.

Goodbye orcspansions, hello demons!
At least the Legion is up-front with its evilness. It's an honest, chaotic and classic villainous force that is true to itself. (YEAH! FIRE! DEATH! DESTRUCTION! BACKWARDS RECORDS! lml, >_< ,lml )

Unlike Grom.. who waxes poetic about "honor" and upholding the traditions of his people while getting Ner'zhul to defile the souls of orc ancestors and sending his soldiers out to burn civilians alive in their homes. (mixed messages much?)

For this patch yes, so many people believe the legion expansion is next, I will cheer on the tears that will fall when we discover the next expansion is either orgreland or southseas

[pankind]

Actually if they start beta testing right after it's announced they would need to announce it around July assuming public testing lasts 6 months.

If they plan to release it in Q1 2016 they could announce it at Gamescom.

We will know for sure once Gamescom comes around. If they don't announce anything there it's going to be Blizzcon with the expansion coming around in May at earliest assuming they start public testing right after Blizzcon.

There is no real precedent to the 'start beta immediately after announcing' that keeps coming up. I'm afraid MaraStarfury does have the most realistic take on this. What we get before it's out is a question mark, when to expect it is less so.

[Serissa]

Ending soon? Nah more like Soon™. 1-2 months for 6.2 ptr then 10-14 months for last tier. Yea Soon™ indeed.

[Apexis]

Is it just me or does it feel like this expansion is flying by and will end very soon? The legendary rings are already going to be at its peak soon, and tanan along with hellfire citadel is also being tested. I see warlords of draenor lasting until October and after the new expansion gets announced at this years blizzcon it will be released either in late December or January 2016. Who agrees with me?

There is no way we get a new expansion by the end of the year or the beginning of next. They will be lucky, if they are in beta by then let alone a launch. I think it will go the same course as WoD, beta by April and launch just before or after Blizzcon 2016. This notion that they are actually going to make the yearly turnaround per expansion is just not in the cards for them. They would literally have to have only raid content and made dungeons to be able to get it out any faster. I guess it could happen given how much world content they put in WoD to this point, if they cut that by have they may get the next expansion out even faster.

At least we won't have another garrison or character remodels, so that should cut down in the over all development time. Course if they gut the world content, they might just loose some more people due to lack of actually endgame world content. I am sure we won't be flying ever again outside of the older zones. that recipe of slow boating content worked out well for them, not so much the people that play the world content and go give two shakes about the raid content.

But there is no way we see another expansion this year.

[xanzul]

Maybe he has a raid guild and doesn't want to lose his spot?

If you aren't having fun in the game what the fuck does it matter?

[Res03]

If you people are expecting a brand new expansion before winter holidays 2016 you are deluded. They need a year alone just to test, market and hype it. For it to be released jan 2016 the expansion should of been announced 4 months ago.

You know they have been working on the new expansion since before WoD released, it's definitely been in the testing phase for awhile. Why do you think WoD lacks content every patch?

[xanzul]

Considering 2 seasons of pvp gear were added in 6.2 i'd expect this raid tier to be the last one and to have it last 12+ months. So i wouldn't really say it's ending soon :P, but this is probably the last tier.

For all we know the "season 3" gear is mislabeled and is actually intended for something else in 6.2 or something that has been completely abandoned and just not removed yet. This happens with EVERY single patch. Just because it was datamined doesn't mean it is going live or will ever be used. There is a ton of stuff in the game files on live that has yet to be used and prior to Cata there was even more stuff that was from before Wow went live 10 years ago.

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WoW movie coming within 1 year. It would be logical to release the next expansion at that time. They probably plan to do so, they told us in advance that we'll only have 2 raid tiers this time. The rest can be deducted from this.

They said no such thing and people need to start getting infractions for this bullshit.

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Considering that is when every expansion or vanilla were released during those months it be a good bet

TBC released in a January and did just fine. Wow is a subscription based game meaning there needs to be new content and expansions released regularly to keep subscribers so holding back content for an extended period of time for some arbitrary reason like "hurr durr people only buy games during holidays" would quickly cause Wow to lose most of its players.

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Content for WoW takes longer to come out not sooner despite what they've said about year expansions or whatever. Blizzard never rushes . EVERY expansion they release comes out in winter and there is absolutely no chance for this winter as they would need to be releasing a 6 month beta now.

Could they release an expansion before winter 2016? Yes. I think if they got their act together they could. Do they need to? No. Theres no point in rushing the expansions when they can make money on store transactions which people buy all the dam time.

Until things go sour I reckon next expansion will conform to the usual schedule: announced at Blizzcon and then released the following year: winter 2016.

They need to start a 6 month beta NOW to release a year from now why exactly? Blizzard has ended betas and released expansions within a 1-2 month period every single time so why do they need an additional 4-6 months for that? Do we seriously have to go through this nonsense every single fucking expansion?

And are you seriously saying Blizzard intends for 6.2 to last nearly 18 months? Jesus fucking christ. Could these forums get more moronic?

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For this patch yes, so many people believe the legion expansion is next, I will cheer on the tears that will fall when we discover the next expansion is either orgreland or southseas

All of the lore from end of Mop and what is going on in Wod say otherwise. In one way or another we are facing the Burning Legion in the next expansion. That is the entire reason behind all the quests Wrathion sent us on during Mop: to prepare us for that invasion and he even gave us a time line for when it would happen. There isn't a chance in hell that Blizzard is going to wait another 2-3 years to continue that story.

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There is no real precedent to the 'start beta immediately after announcing' that keeps coming up. I'm afraid MaraStarfury does have the most realistic take on this. What we get before it's out is a question mark, when to expect it is less so.

A year of testing isn't remotely close to realistic especially considering not one single Wow expansion beta has lasted more than 6 months and not one single expansion was released more than 2 months after end of beta testing. The math just doesn't add up for a "year" of anything involving the next expansion.

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You know they have been working on the new expansion since before WoD released, it's definitely been in the testing phase for awhile. Why do you think WoD lacks content every patch?

"Every" patch? We have only had one patch so far and 6.2 has a significant amount of content.

[dejaa]

Well Blizzard wanted faster x-pack cycles for a while now, because they want that initial rush of "moar subs" that occurs at the beginning of each new cycle.

That may have worked if WoD had not been such a utter failure, but because of it a lot of people will wait and see how good an expansion is before buying it rather than preordering as soon as it's available.

[cptaylor38]

Nah, September/November/December 2016 with no raids. I don't even see Farahlon happening. Maybe the transmog feature and a continued spurt of Timewalker dungeons at best.

Buckle up, kids! It's going to be a bumpy ride!

[Evilfish]

Nah, September/November/December 2016 with no raids. I don't even see Farahlon happening. Maybe the transmog feature and a continued spurt of Timewalker dungeons at best.

Buckle up, kids! It's going to be a bumpy ride!

If that is true and despite their assurances we still end up with over one year of no content then I will end my sub until such time they release new content. If they can't live up to their own words then why the fuck should anyone pay up?

[Role Unknown]

It's written in the sky that the next expansion will be released just in time for the Warcraft movie.

Let's be honest, it would be stupid as hell from Blizzard's part to not benefit from all that free marketing.

Expect an announcement and beta release at Blizzcon for a march release. Of course they got more time due to the fact the movie was delayed 3 months to avoid Star Wars.

^ This 100%

Someone involved with the movie(cant remember his name) already stated he wanted the movie to appeal not only to WoW players, but to people who know nothing or very little about WoW, and can watch and appreciate the movie as a whole.

With that said, an expansion planned around the release of the movie is the BEST marketing an expansion could get. There's potential for the non-wow viewers to become interested in this game, and a new expansion is a good way to draw them in.

[Deleted]

They need to start a 6 month beta NOW to release a year from now why exactly? Blizzard has ended betas and released expansions within a 1-2 month period every single time so why do they need an additional 4-6 months for that? Do we seriously have to go through this nonsense every single fucking expansion?

And are you seriously saying Blizzard intends for 6.2 to last nearly 18 months? Jesus fucking christ. Could these forums get more moronic?

You failed to read my post properly and then call me moronic? Since you were so polite I'll give you a second explanation as to what I meant. They would need to release beta now IF we want it at the end of this year (September, October, November, December time period). That's not 1 year away, that is roughly half a year. Roughly 6 months since this is how long beta always takes. I don't know where you got 1 - 2 months from..... MOP started March 15 and released late September (just over 6 months).

It wont happen.

What we are left with is either a summer 2016 or release later. Blizzard has always released their expansions in the later months (Q4), fact. I fail to see why a guess of Q4 is a bad estimate. Plus it seems their development seems stretched with the amount of qq they have with resources. I also don't see anywhere anyone stating 6.2 is the final patch for definite? It doesn't even have a release date yet.

Its pretty obvious they are going to announce the new expansion at blizzcon at the beginning of Novemebr and as always it will take a year to market, test and release.

[PrairieChicken]

Wrath : Next expansion will be faster than ever
Cata : We will not repeat ICC again
MoP : Beta is on faster stage than any other expansions
WoD : Next expansion is already content-ready

[lunchbox2042]

We need to do the mandatory 1 year+ last patch content draught first.

There is no reason to believe there won't be one based on historical evidence and reasonable trust.

After all of the "no content" backlash they've gotten this expansion, I doubt having that drought would be a good idea.

[Deleted]

Some previous beta stats:

Burning Crusade

Announced: October 28, 2005
Beta Launch: October 2006 (12 months after announcement)
Release Date: January 15, 2007 (3 months of beta testing)

Wrath of the Lich King

Announced: August 3, 2007
Beta Launch: July 17, 2008 (15 months after announcement)
Release Date: November 13, 2008 (4 months of beta testing)

Cataclysm

Announced: August 21, 2009
Beta Launch: June 30, 2010 (10 months after announcement)
Release Date: December 7, 2010 (5 months and a week of beta testing)

Mists of Pandaria

Announced: October 21, 2011
Beta Launch: March 21, 2012 (5 months after announcement)
Release Date: September 25, 2012 (6 months of beta testing)

[thelightthatstrays]

If this is the last true raid of this expansion then expect it to last for a year. Or you'll be getting a filler patch with fuck all content in it at some point.

That's wishful thinking. If this is the last raid, you suckers are looking at a 16 month content drought. Remember, blizz has already established that their fanbase is more than willing to pay more for less, that is the overwhelming theme of WoD.