AHAHAHAHA surprise surprise, no 8.3.5. I find this quite hilarious honestly, but it's expected. Shadowlands needs so much work to be released this year that this is really no surprise.
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Shadowlands will never launch in August / Q3 this time, they moved the deadline to the end of the year which basically means it comes exactly then.
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Legion and BfA had a deadline set in September, Shadowlands has in December. Guess what this means - Shadowlands will be here most likely in November, but the latest date is December.
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7.3 wasn't enough content to last 10-11 months, and that had 3 new open-world zones! 8.3 is just a bunch of daily quests in old content and a raid.
Im not talking about the effect. But there were bits and pieces in the files that were flagged for patch 8.3.5. How 8.2 felt unfinished and chopped. Etc.
Also between 7.3.5 and 8.0.1 there was "only" 6 months. We did get the scaling world in 7.3.5. 8.3.5 would have been the best to do the levelsquish and let people level up alts till shadowlands.
It will be buggy, but this hypothetical 8.3.5 would have been around the June/July timeframe, well after everybody completely exhausted 8.3.0 content anyway. So there wouldn't be anyone left playing to care, and the patch would bring people back with faster leveling and such.
Yea... I'm a bit confused about how this patch being the final patch of BFA fits into the whole..... Sylvanas planning on attacking Stormwind thing that was clearly stated in the novel 10 times, or the devs themselves coming out and saying that the giant canon in Azshara goblin area will be fired before the end of this xpac...
Is this another WoD situation where we're just supposed to forget those things were said and done? O-o
Every patch since 6.2 (besides Argus) was shit.
Getting Shadowlands out asap is in the best interest of the game, since Blizz can only do base expac patches right.
And yet time and again they (and other MMOs looking at you FFXIV) have basically told players to take damn breaks. Go play other games, stop no lifing. Difference is that when FFXIV devs said it their community reacted with "That makes sense." while this community acted as a bunch of petulent babies crying about how Blizzard can't make it possible to no life games and have unlimited content.
Great. Can you link to where Blizzard said they were fine if people unsubscribed?
No worries, but April or May, they'll release another mount tied to a 6 month sub to deceptively keep those numbers somewhat stable.
Those mounts aren't "tied" to a 6 month sub, they're just free if you happen to purchase a six month sub, which many people do sub in 6 month periods.
They're available separately too if you don't care about paying for just the mount. And, no, there won't be one in April or May, if there is another one it will be June or July at the end of this 6 months.