Except that you can go back YEARS on this forum before wow classic was even conceived, to the old "Vanilla realms" threads and see i was one of the ones pushing for it and kept saying "it will be huge" even though the retail crowd would always say "it'll be dead within a week. no one will play vanilla again" and now look at classic realms, booming like all the vanilla fans said it would.
TBC will absolutely be fine during its initial run, but yea TBC realm 2 years after sunwell drops is gonna be a ghosttown. as it should be.
The ff14 devs delayed an expansion a month or 2 due to covid, the same as WoW team did for SL last year.
That said, they are still putting out patches. So is ESO, and they just dropped a huge expansion just fine and have the road map pretty much set in stone.
Covid is not an excuse for 9.1's delay anymore, only incompetence is.
ps - you have a lot of growing up to do with that attitude
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again, delaying an expansion a few months is acceptable. SL itself was delayed by months.
the difference is, once ff14 comes out with it's expansion it isn't going to just leave it's community high and dry for a year without a patch or any update. It'll be smooth sailing ahead. Like ESO just did with it's expansion launch and already has devs talking about next patch and how excited they are.
Fact of the matter is the WoW team isn't running on all cylinders, even without covid in the picture. They have a budget likely bigger than both of their biggest competitors maybe even combined, and put out half as much content.
There is no excuse for 9.1, and we've seen most of 9.1.... it isn't exactly a patch worth waiting a year for, it's just a generic run of the mill average patch. For this much time waiting, it should be 2-3 patches worth. Any dev team worth their paycheck not only would've had 9.1 out by now, but probably 9.2