Jumping to conclusions: 23rd September

[Master Po]

http://wow.mmozone.de/warlords-draen...r-2014-europa/

It's a German article about the game guide release date which generally matches the expansion release date.

BradyGames Guide	BradyGames Release	Blizzard Release
Burning Crusade	16. January 2007	15. January 2007
Wrath of the Lich King	13. November 2008	13. November 2008
Catalcysm	7. December 2010	7. December 2010
Mists of Pandaria	25. September 2012	25. September 2012
Warlords of Draenor	23. September 2014	Unannounced!

As I said "jumping to conclusions" but maybe this is true

I'm sorry but these dates of yours for the Burning Crusade, Wrath of the Lich King and so on, have been adjusted later to the correct dates.
So of course you see previous dates correct, lol?

You guys are looking into like things too much, you end up seeing things like illimunininati or what youngsys rabs aboot?

[Archmage Alodi]

anyone saw this on gamespot? from key giveaway
http://imgur.com/JDShB5L

[Tisane]

I'll return to this thread on the 23rd of September to award you a virtual medal if it happens to be true!

Great find.

I'm sorry but these dates of yours for the Burning Crusade, Wrath of the Lich King and so on, have been adjusted later to the correct dates.

Source/proof?

[Anium]

That would be nice! Seems too short of a time dedicated to beta though... so many changes need to classes idk...

[Bigbazz]

There is no chance they can finish WOD by september.

[Arbs]

anyone saw this on gamespot? from key giveaway
http://imgur.com/JDShB5L

Dat is a Placeholder Date, Gamespot does that all the time. I remember Diablo 3 had December 31st 2008 & 2009 many times before.

[Zka]

A few years ago posting placeholder release dates resulted in a ban in this forum. Maybe we should return to that practice.

[Feali]

A few years ago posting placeholder release dates resulted in a ban in this forum. Maybe we should return to that practice.

You must be fun at parties.

[Rosstafa]

September would be lovely, but I fear it may be too early. October for 6.0 and late November/early December for WoD release looks more likely, but we can dream.

[Deleted]

It may be a placeholder but if Wod doesn't come out sometime in Sept/Oct then when? They aren't going to release it too near to Blizzcon as it is typically all hands on deck at Blizzard for that. After Blizzcon is over, Thanksgiving is coming up not to mention the 10 year anniversary of Wow and 15 year anniversary of Warcraft so that would mean the next window of opportunity for release would be December and the issue with that is they take 2 weeks off for Christmas. I'm sorry I just don't see Blizzard waiting that long or longer to get Wod out especially as it would result in Siege being the first raid tier to last a full year or longer.

It is a feasible date, I agree; I just mean that we shouldn't take it as anymore valid than a date pulled out of a hat. I agree that it can't come out just before Blizzcon; not because it's too much work for them but because they'd have very empty conference rooms. I also don't think they can release it after Blizzcon because then they are mingling with customers who are not best pleased at still having to do SoO (albeit with the new mythic system). That probably does leave late September or October.

[axi0m]

Supposedly in the Gamespot interview yesterday they mentioned shooting to have it out BEFORE Blizzcon. Take it with a grain of salt obviously but kind of adds to the sooner , rather than later, theories/

[Joeygiggles]

Supposedly in the Gamespot interview yesterday they mentioned shooting to have it out BEFORE Blizzcon. Take it with a grain of salt obviously but kind of adds to the sooner , rather than later, theories/

Do you have a link or anything that can show a transcript of that interview?

[Deleted]

The release date will probably be 23rd of september, 1974, as we're going back in time 30 years. Also already heard something about a vanilla expansion, but that's still far off.

[Deleted]

Highly unlikely. Nay, impossible.

[huth]

The release date will probably be 23rd of september, 1974, as we're going back in time 30 years. Also already heard something about a vanilla expansion, but that's still far off.

That's 40 years. It's 2014, not 2004.

[Roshar]

That's 40 years. It's 2014, not 2004.

LIES! 10 years ago is the '90s, not the '00s!

[axi0m]

Do you have a link or anything that can show a transcript of that interview?

That info was posted in another thread and I'm trying to dig up a source myself.

I believe it was this video: http://www.gamespot.com/videos/world.../2300-6420002/ but theres no date on when it aired (though Now Playing implies it was recent) and I'm at work so don't have the time to find a timestamp.

Could also be this: http://www.gamespot.com/shows/the-lobby/ The Warlords stuff starts around 45 minutes in, this was where they gave away the codes.

[schwarzkopf]

When I first got into MoP beta (first wave) vs getting into WoD beta (first wave) - WoD is a good 6 weeks behind MoP's status.

It did surprise me given how long ago things were meant to be more advanced than MoP.

I can think of two reasons for this - either they are doing more in parallel than MoP (new production system), or they are 6 weeks behind MoP.

I can easily see September 23rd as patch 6.0.1, and November 23rd as WoD release - but that's about the earliest I'd expect either.

[Mawnix]

It's fine. Remember T14? Here's the progression for u (taking method as example) :

MSV : Took 2 days -> 10-12 october
HOF : Took 3 days -> 8-11 november
TES : Took 4 days -> 21-25 november

Top guilds again won't have an issue with killing the first part of the tier on Mythic in 7 weeks. It will most likely only take them a few days aswell. The second part of the tier could be released 3 weeks before Blizzcon and they will still be able to kill it well in time and have it on farm before Blizzcon is even near. Though I guess the second raid won't be untill after blizzcon.

In the end everything below top 25 doesn't really matter, and I'm sure all of them will have enough time to kill it before Blizzcon, those outside top 25 are most likely not even gonna appear at Blizzcon anyway, so I doubt it will have any impact on them.

On topic, my retailer states either 4th or 5th week of September as shipping dates for the physical collector edition. Albeit they have been a few weeks wrong in the past, so can't really say they'll be right this time. Then again 12 hour maintenance tomorrow in EU, which generally indicates a patch or prepping the PTR for the next big introduction patch, then again we'll have to wait and see.

Another thing to think about the live raid, what better way to promote would there be to have the new raid being live raided.

Mythic is actually supposed to be legitimately difficult.

Yay Mythic trash.

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When I first got into MoP beta (first wave) vs getting into WoD beta (first wave) - WoD is a good 6 weeks behind MoP's status.

It did surprise me given how long ago things were meant to be more advanced than MoP.

I can think of two reasons for this - either they are doing more in parallel than MoP (new production system), or they are 6 weeks behind MoP.

I can easily see September 23rd as patch 6.0.1, and November 23rd as WoD release - but that's about the earliest I'd expect either.

....

Might get infracted for this, but..

What fucking world are you living on?

I was in the first wave of Mists Beta invites. NONE of the zones were finished nor even testable.

Everything was a buggy mess.

They have nearly all of the zones finished along with everything almost finished internally testing. How the hell does say "WoD is 6 weeks behind Mists"?

It's at least 2-3 months ahead.

[huth]

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Might get infracted for this, but..

What fucking world are you living on?

I was in the first wave of Mists Beta invites. NONE of the zones were finished nor even testable.

Everything was a buggy mess.

They have nearly all of the zones finished along with everything almost finished internally testing. How the hell does say "WoD is 6 weeks behind Mists"?

It's at least 2-3 months ahead.

They also redid Jade Forest in the middle of beta. While they did redo SMV and FFR, those were already done before beta even started.