Do you think Sylvanas book may have hints for the next expansion?
Europe is barely affected. It's Ukraine and Russia. And I say that as a European. There's no point in delaying it, but I won't mind if they delay it either. Europe can get more involved as the conflict unfurls, but then it would be wiser to rush the announcement than to delay it.
By the way, Pokémon just announced their brand new games yesterday, so I don't see why they wouldn't announce the next expansion due to this.
Keep politics out of entertainment products, thank you.
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What we have to consider is... 9.2.5 news. Maybe they come before 10.0 news? Or both at the same time? I mean that patch is lingering around now as well and it might affect the announcement of 10.0.
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Politicians tend to be everywhere because that's their job. There's always conflict and strife somewhere: refugee crisis between 2015 - 2017 where the entirety of Europe was and still is affected (and was way more impacted overall and entertainment products weren't delayed at all), COVID etc. - it's pretty pointless to use these things as reasons to not-announce a new expansion. All of this - as long as it doesn't directly interact and affect production and development - has nothing to do with entertainment products. It's dominating political news. It doesn't have any major effect on entertainment news as that's something completely different.
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But you just said that this is the first time Blizzard is announcing an expansion like this? The livestreams were always for patches only. From what I remember they usually announce the livestream a few days in advance and have the livestream on Thursday/Friday. That is what I based my prediction on. And you told me that that's what they do for patches, but this is an expansion so it won't be the same. And then you tell me that you based your prediction on history.... which does not exist because this is a first time? I am confused
Didn't realize it was the same post. I noticed I had a few notifications from quotes and just quoted and replied to them all
Alright, fair enough. At this point there isn't much other data so I can only hope you're wrong, because I am super excited and want to know as soon as possible.
People go to mass protests. Organize help or donate money. Press their goverments - with success. Finally people follow this stuff and talk about it all the time. Decent people in Europe are affected, Nyel. If you are not one of these people, I don't know what to say to you.
And as I said, 2 years ago Blizz delayed event over "political" stuff and Europe followed. Now, ekhem, "political stuff" are much more serious.
Considering the pace at which this war is going, an end-of-march announcement wouldn't really need a delay.
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And as I said, other entertainment products don't just stop because of that. I'm not saying that people are completely oblivious, but the entertainment industry has nothing to do with this and does not need to follow this pattern. Not saying it's not happening, but it wouldn't make any sense to delay an announcement.
Regarding this conflict it's the exact opposite, rushing it would make more sense now as the situation will only get worse from this point on and that would delay a possible announcement even further.
As mentioned: The biggest franchise in the world nonchalantly announced their new games yesterday and so should Blizzard. Keep politics and entertainment separate, those two things don't go well together (the only exception: international events where teams represent their own country, e.g. why sports is affected by this).
And do not confuse people not caring with people wanting to have other stuff to distract from this conflict. Just because you don't want this conflict to be omnipresent and overshadow everything doesn't mean you don't care about the situation.
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Than mythic raiding and +20 keys are a waste of ressources (and btw, I'm doing both regulary). You are aware that the amount of people who do everything is actually quite low? Pet Battles is one of the best features the game has ever got, we need more casual stuff like it that breaks out of the "get gear/borrowed power for powerplay treadmill". WoW is supposed to be an RPG - not some esports game, even if some people want that ...
So yes, something casual that's disconnected from power gains like f.e. housing would do wonders to the game. If you don't like it, don't play it.
Not announcing the expansion because there is a war going on is retarded, since it implies that there was a point in time when there were no wars. Blizzard will announce 10.0 as in accordance with whatever plans they made.
Virtue-signaling at its finest, just because there is a war going on doesn't mean we shouldn't have fun anymore, fun like watching a trailer for a new expansion.