I was one of the people that said that they literally fucking cut Draenor in a half and abandoned it, the game was in shambles, I say it as someone who currently enjoys WoW. The game needed something, and they announced it at Gamescom.
2. They gave a damn warning to watch the stream because they would be announcing an expansion. I literally said that the position they are now, isn't the same as when 6.2 was already over and the state of the game and community perception wasn't the same. I am VERY sorry that those aren't good enough reasons for you, but it seems like they are to them. But you refused, and still refuse.
Remember 2015 though? For weeks leading up to the actual expansion reveal invitation they sent out, I argued there would be an announcement at Gamescom, and it happened. We could just as well look back at that and say "Blizzard being silent or not hyping something up doesn't have to mean anything. Expansions can happen outside BlizzCon with short notice."
Does people whine about 14 month content drought already in case we won't have one (longer than 10 months) at all? ;P
It remind me about this thread when some lunatic claimed that Argus raid will be horrible for some reason (like 2 months before 7.3 PTR).
Yeah totally utterly meaningless.
Stop talking like an idiot when you don't know your shit.
Cataclysm: Announced at Blizzcon, released December - 13 months
MoP: Announced at Blizzcon, released September - 11 months
WoD: Announced at Blizzcon, released November - 12 months
Legion: Announced at Gamescom, released August - 12 months
Blizzcon could possibly delay it.
chance of gamescom announcement is 0.01%, but my point stands.
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it is confirmed legion will not have a 7.4? cause if we end in 7,3 would be pretty lame, at least in terms of lore
There's no rule book for any of this guys. If they don't announce it on wednesday it will have to break a ton of the previous patterns to not have a huge content drought. It would also be highly unusual for them to announce it on wednesday given they've given us no warning (the opposite) and the timeslot for doing so is very small.
There no way this will be "normal" or "business as usual" so everyone should stop acting like things are "obvious" and if some people want to hope for one outcome over another let them.
There is absolutely no evidence supporting your theory about announcing Legion early because of WoD's subscription losses. Not before, not now.
Imo, it is much more likely that they announced it at Gamescom in 2015 because they needed to make room at the BlizzCon opening ceremony, wanted to throw EU fans a bone, liked how it worked out with Reaper of Souls in 2013, and so on.
Yeah, next expac is going to release before the summer, that's for sure. Beta will start right after Blizzcon in November and will last 5 months or so until it launches.
And then there's the 8.0 patch in-between.
Guys, the announcement has nothing to do with the release. They announcing the expansion now or in November does not matter. It's when Alpha/Beta begins that should be used as a benchmark, as the testing denotes how far on development the expansion will be.
They announced Legion in August, but Alpha began in January.
For all we know, they could have announced the expansion already, but they chose to delay the reveal because (a) there's still unreleased Legion content, and (b) delaying the reveal would make the wait for release to appear shorter. Revealing now and releasing in September 2018 would make it a 13 month wait. Revealing it in Blizcon but still releasing it September means a 10 month wait.