I don't think it's even in question anymore.
There is no way there will be a 9.3.
Didn't vote because the second part of the question should be '10.0 to come out on time'
10.0 would be getting announced this year if we were running on schedule. They should cut their losses and focus on the next one rather than pouring more resources into this steaming pile of dogshit.
And they better pray that 9.2 hits the PTR as soon as 9.1.5 is released, because there is next to no content right now. Korthia is probably the worst zone ever added in a patch
With the rate blizzard is losing people, they will only have the janitors left to finish the game
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They may not have a choice. Quite will suffer because moral is low, unhappy staff
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They should pull a WoD on SL as quickly as possible.
Cut their losses. Two bad expansions in a row (BfA/SL) is unacceptable. Put all time/effort into the next expansion. Most importantly, focus on a good f*cking story/lore. Get rid of Ion and the Ion mindset, that imagines people get excited over expansions because of the mere systems they have above all else - which inevitably get scrapped after the expansion anyway.
Yeah, I really don't know what people are expecting at this point. The Shadowlands' story is basically finished when we defeat Zovaal. There's nothing left besides that. All of the four (or five) base Shadowlands zones got their storylines wrapped up in 9.1. The only thing left is killing / imprisoning Zovaal and one content patch is more than enough to do that. Sure, there are some minor side stories (Muezhala, Helya), but they really don't matter much.
Remember when all of the decade spanning N'zoth storyline was squeezed into one awful content patch? Zovaal has maybe 1/10 of that amount of story. They made Nyalotha and N'zoth one f* content patch, they can easily do the same with Zovaal (which is, by far, worse and less interesting in every aspect).
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Rather not have Sylvanas as the new Arbiter, but Sylvanas' storyline is unknown as well unless I've missed something, for too many weird fans want her to be the next arbiter - not to mention Anduin's storyline. And following the death of the Jailer, we still have his domination scheme which is most likely going to take place in the same patch, we still have a storyline being fed after the Night Warrior, and following that, we still have the open topic of the Sire and the Dreadlords free, not to mention two questionable cartels of Brokers. As well, there are a few fan demands of characters missing still to be seen if they were to build the actual world, and not just a raid.
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What else can they do to redeem her?
Anduin's PTSD will be used in future stoeylines, no need to wrap it up in Shadowlands.
We kill Jailer, why should we worry about his magic afterwards?
Night Warrior (and Drust for that matter) can and should return in the future when we go to Elune's realm.
If we don't kill them all in 9.2 raid (Malganis for sure will be boss there), they can be used in future content as the go to Scheming Evil like Dreadlords always have been.
They're basically Ethereals... so just Ethereal em.
Do we really want them to ruin anymore past characters by bringing them back this expansion?
I posted something in the speculation thread a while ago. Making her the arbiter doesn't make much sense, she is still a mortal and not a sorting machine with high processing ability. What would make sense though is making her into zovaal 2.0, she essentially reforms the 5th covenant sigil because she channeled his power of death and spend alot of time in the maw. Add some McGuffin from the Primus and we have our new sigil. When we beat the janitor back into the broomcloset, she will become the head honcho of the maw and the jailer of the janitor, while giving the sigil to the arbiter again (that is aleady capable of processing souls and just needs a power source). The order is restored and she attones by watching over the damned in the maw, while slowly working towards freeing all the souls that were unjustly put there. She gets to attone but won't be the focal point of the machine of death.
I agree with the rest.
You are welcome, Metzen. I hope you won't fuck up my underground expansion idea.