As much I'd like to see a new expanion as well, I actually do hope we get a 6.3. I want to know what's up with Faralon and I'm sure WoD's story hasn't fully ended yet.
As much I'd like to see a new expanion as well, I actually do hope we get a 6.3. I want to know what's up with Faralon and I'm sure WoD's story hasn't fully ended yet.
We don't actually know where all those new people went. Resource allocation isn't public. We also don't know how many internal projects never see the light of day. There are so many things we don't know which makes things extremely complicated to judge. We basically have to wait and see.
RS was a truly shitty raid. It was both unimportant and uninteresting. It is so bad most forget it or never went. SWP was also added after the fact too. BT was supposed to be the final BC raid and we ended up getting something fun with a cool questing area. They did have a lot longer to work on Quel Damas and SWP then the train wreck that was Ruby Sanctum.
"Privilege is invisible to those who have it."
I think the fact that mmo-c couldn't make an accurate time of arrival for wod until a month before release means that blizzard is on a really wacky schedule and honestly anything could be possible with blizzard.
I really wouldn't be making bets like this until blizzard gives us more info... Which may not be until blizzcon.
Which would blow away any shot at it coming out in the year time period they talked about. Without the months of beta testing they do the next expansion would be a heap of unfinished unbalanced crap. For some reason it was become a very popular topic that Blizzcon will come 7.0 will go live the next Tuesday giving us one final month of WoD. There is just no way that is happening.
"Privilege is invisible to those who have it."
They would have to start working on that tier immediately, if even that would be enough time. Making a whole tier is lot of work, and will severely delay 7.0. Don't count on it happening.
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That's a myth, Sunwell Plateau was planned from the very start and is not something they just threw together prior to Wrath, it's been confirmed by Blizzard themselves, sadly I don't have the quote bookmarked as of now but hopefully someone else reading this does...
Blizzard has shown time and time again that they are incapable of making good on the promises of "faster content" in any context.
Them doubling their work force has done nothing but cause us to have even longer content drought and WoD has had the least amount of content of any expansion to date for its time furthering this perception.
I expect WoD final tier to be over a year long (again) and for Blizzard to once again make the same exact excuses for lackluster delivery. What we need is a 50% sub loss to force their upper-managements hand and get whoever is controlling their current timelines canned.
You were more likely delusional to think that they would be able to get to a point where their vision of this yearly expansion was truly realistic. We are still on the same time table as before. They will announce at Blizzcon and the alpha/beta will be sometime in the spring and the expansion will roll out somewhere before Blizzcon next year. If they do go to this yearly expansion process, it will most likely be the next one, because by then they should be able to only have to create raid content patches and not expansions anymore. By that time the sub levels in the west should so far in the tank that they can get by making just about any type of content they deem they want to make.
Every time I see someone say BT was supposed to be the last raid in BC, I expect to die of a massive brain hemorrhage. Sunwell was always planned to be the final raid. Do you really think they pulled a raid that good, with story that fit with the narrative so well, AND an entire zone with a massive quest hub, rep grind, and 5 man out of their asses?
It's hype, and stale hype at that. They've been saying for about three or four expansions now that they want "quicker turnover with content and yearly expansions." It hasn't happened yet, no reason to believe it is going to happen any time soon.
If we're lucky, we're going to see the next expansion a year from now. They've hinted that 6.2 isn't the last patch with their, "We have plenty more story left to tell" comment in one of the interviews recently. That coupled with the fact that we're still missing a few of those warlords we're so "eagerly" trying to fight, and there's at least one more patch this expansion, followed up by who knows how long of a gap.
If Blizzard knew what was good for them, which they probably don't judging by this failure of an expansion, they'd release 6.2 soon, then 6.3 in 4 months, then their next expansion in 6 months after that tops.
Or, and now hear me out on this, Blizzard realized that they weren't going to have enough content early on in the expansions life cycle, and realized, "Hey, we need to crush out some quality content because we're not going to have enough." Then, they set about doing it, because at that point in time, Blizzard actually gave a shit about their customers and didn't just treat them like paychecks like they currently do.
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Enough with the drama already. "We have been betrayed", can you exaggerate anymore? Did they sleep with your girlfriend? Report you to the IRS?
Also, where do you get the idea Blizzard owes you anything beyond what they currently offer and you pay for? Blizzard makes games, those are huge projects and those don;t always go as planned. Actually, they rarely ever go as planned. Blizzard decides when they are ready to release and what they will and will not do with the game. We are entitled to nothing, we have the option to buy expansions when they are released and we can start and stop our subscriptions as we please. If you don't like it, cancel. You do know that you can just come back when there is a new expansion you don;t have to keep playing?