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    Good to finally have an announcement date. It’s a light at the end of the tunnel after the darkness that has been Shadowlands.

    I fully expect a deluge of “leaks” popping up after this announcement. Good luck everyone!

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    Six weeks feels way too long from now. I think I would've preferred not knowing until two weeks, since I'd basically gotten over hype/expecting news. Now I'm all anxious with waiting again, bleh.

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    Someone needs to make an expansion "leak" called the Worlds of World of Warcraft

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    I knew there would be an announcement this week. I did not know the contents of the announcement. Very surprised that they are waiting this long to reveal.

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    Nice to get confirmation finally, I'm not expecting the real leak until April. I'm surprised they are waiting until the LFR wing is out to announce it. Perhaps we can see some PTR stuff with 9.2.5 while we wait.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gangreflamme View Post
    Isn't april 19th the release date of the final LFR wing?
    Yes it is, and yet, everyone laughed at me when I said Blizzard will wait the last LFR wing to announce the xpac.

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    Mmm, part of me wouldn't think they's announce the expansion without releasing the Epilogue chapter, but maybe they will?

    Unless the Epilogue isn't left for 8.2.5 and they drop it in the following weeks, around the launch of the novel.

    But i'm still leaning on the Epilogue being left for 8.2.5 even if that happens well after mid April. (Tho the PTR for it might happen sooner than expected)

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    Quote Originally Posted by therewillbedragons View Post
    I knew there would be an announcement this week. I did not know the contents of the announcement. Very surprised that they are waiting this long to reveal.
    Good save, but I don't think we're buying anymore. :/

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    Quote Originally Posted by KOUNTERPARTS View Post
    April 19th they are revealing the next expansion, confirmed.




    Fuck that's too far away.




    "The worlds" of World of Warcraft is an interesting phrase they would use.


    Perhaps we are going to another planet in 10.0.
    Seems unlikely. They emphasize "in Azeroth".

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    Bring forth the hype train
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    Quote Originally Posted by Vakir View Post
    Good save, but I don't think we're buying anymore. :/
    well you don't have to wait THAT long to see if i'm right at least!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Archmage Xaxxas View Post
    What shall we say, is the most "obvious from hindsight" story progression from the hints Shadowlands is providing under this context?
    That's a good question, but rather impossible to tell by definition—nevertheless, there's some Dragon elements, but not enough to really say it's setting up a future plot. The only thing that seems to really be setting up a future plot is whatever's happening on Azeroth, such as the Scourge invasion and Turalyon going full Hitler mode.

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    Quote Originally Posted by micwini View Post
    Bring forth the hype train

    Choo Choo!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Le Conceptuel View Post
    Seems unlikely. They emphasize "in Azeroth".
    This clearly means we are going to another planet INSIDE of Azeroth!



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    Quote Originally Posted by therewillbedragons View Post
    well you don't have to wait THAT long to see if i'm right at least!
    Hey, there's a reason to get clout earlier: what's the HS expac theme? THAT we'll know next week.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Varodoc View Post
    The only explanation for a release date so late is that the Sylvanas novel, that releases at the end of March, will have some spoilers for the next expansion.

    Maybe something involving Alleria and the Void (maybe something revealed in that novel about Alleria, which might play a role in the next expansion).

    Or... sigh... another Sylvanas-centric expansion Blizzard is objectively Horde-biased anyway so they might do it.
    Well, there's also another option - the later they announce the expansion, the more time for development. They just released a final patch - announcement of an expansion that will be released within a year or even later won't build a hype to bring players to WoW (apart from pre-orders), so they are not in hurry. Whoever wanted to play 9.2, already plays it. 19th of April is convinient, because it's the time when Jailer becomes available on LFR, and as it doesn't really matter, because people will already have the finale seen on mmo-champion or wowhead, it's still a good marketing choice, because it's the last missing piece for the release schedule of 9.2 - in other words: 9.2 will be released for players in every possible way. And thus, it kinda makes sense for that date, altough I'd die waiting, it's sooo long
    Good for them, I hope they learnt the lesson and take the time needed to provide a proper content, without cutting a ton of it due to lack of time and resources.

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    Possible next expansions:

    Dragon Isles
    Lightbound Invasion
    Undermine
    Empire of Dragons

    Anything else?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vakir View Post
    Hey, there's a reason to get clout earlier: what's the HS expac theme? THAT we'll know next week.
    i know nothing about HS. i didn't even know there was a WOW mobile game in development until the official announce.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teriz View Post
    Possible next expansions:

    Dragon Isles
    Lightbound Invasion
    Undermine
    Empire of Dragons

    Anything else?
    I see Empire as the same thing as the isles. There's no way they'd do another dragon centric expansion and still somehow ignore it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nyel View Post
    A 2022 launch is very unlikely now. Even if they release it in December, which they usually didn’t want to do ever again (Shadowlands in late November was too late for them as well), it just leaves less than 8 months. Can they get it done? Most likely. But it would be, by far, the shortest amount of time between announcement and release then. I think Q1/23 is more likely now although that might be troublesome with the WotLK launch.

    Or… we’ll get WotLK Classic in November as 14 year anniversary and the expansion is delayed until next year.
    My money is on Wrath Classic this fall (BC just got BT and ZA just hit the PTR last week so it's winding down pretty hard) to tide over the content drought, then 10.0 next March.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Teriz View Post
    Possible next expansions:

    Dragon Isles
    Lightbound Invasion
    Undermine
    Empire of Dragons

    Anything else?
    Awakenings. Or something like MoP or WoD that no one expected.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Slowpoke is a Gamer View Post
    My money is on Wrath Classic this fall (BC just got BT and ZA just hit the PTR last week so it's winding down pretty hard) to tide over the content drought, then 10.0 next March.
    There’s still 2.4 which is pretty massive. And it’s just 8 months until the anniversary from now on. But I see WotLK Classic in November a lot more likely than 10.0 this year.
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