My understanding is that art assets like this are the most laborious thing to put in. On the one hand they showed in game art assets for a ton of stuff with really only the second raid having to fall back to concept art. Middle point: April 2016.(#RESPBREAK#)520#DELIM#Rankkor#DELIM# Mid-point scenario: Assuming the beta begins right after blizzcon on November, and its a middle-duration beta (5 months) then we're looking at April as another candidate for release date. There's simply no way that Legion will be out after the movie, mark my words, it WILL be before it, so first week of June IS the absolute worst of the worst case scenario. If the expansion hasn't been released at that point, all these new people will log in only to find a deserted ghost town due to the content drought.
WHEN DOES THE WOW LEGION PTR RELEALSE MOVIE
The movie will drum up A LOT of publicity and brand awareness for warcraft to the general public, and innevitably it will cause a large group of new people interested in trying the game. Simply put, I don't see any way Legion will be released anywhere after June. Worst-Case Scenario: Beta begins very late this year, at mid or late december and its a long beta (6 months) putting the release date in June 2016, just in time for the warcraft movie. Considering how long they take to test patches and expansions anyways. But that'd be too much wishful thinking for my taste. Unless the alpha began next week, and the beta began in september and ended on december for a january release. As much as I'd love to be wrong and have the expac much sooner than that, I don't see any way for it to be earlier than march. With this in mind and with blizzard saying that the beta for Legion will begin at some point this year, there are 3 tentative dates that I speculate will see the expansion released:īest case scenario: If the beta begins BEFORE blizzcon, on October (and there is no way it could start on september, as we'd have to be in alpha already) and its a short duration beta (4 months) we're looking at a March 2016 release. The shortest beta seen so far was of 4 months (WOTLK) while the longest one was of six months (MoP), and the rest have been usually of 5 months. The beta will tell you all you need to know. Here are my best-case and worst-case scenarios: Not because I don't want the expansion here already, of course not, but because I don't believe it can be ready that quickly. Rankkor is going with the logical, smart approach and saying no sooner than Jan 2016, but more likely into the spring of 2016 before release.Īctually January 2016 is still too soon IMO. The real factor to take in to calculate an expansion release date is not the previous expansions, but the beta. They've been saying this since the dawn of time, and so far they've been unable to do so, with each gap between last-patch of current expansion and next expansion being released only growing larger over the years rather than shorter (Culminating in 14 months between the release of Siege of Orgrimmar in 5.4 and the release of Warlords of Draenor with 6.0) I heard somewhere that Blizzard want to speed up time between expansions so we may get Legion released sooner. Soooo, anytime from July 2016 to Novemeber 2016?
That's an average of 13.8 months from announcement to release. Legion - announced Aug 2015 - Released ? - Difference: ? Warlords - announced Novemeber 8th 2013 - Released Nov 13th 2014 - Difference: 12 months Mists of Pandaria - announced October 2011 - released September 2012 - Difference: 11 months Wrath of the Lich King - announced August 2007 - released November 2008 - Difference: 15 monthsĬataclysm - announced Aug 2009 - released December 2010 - Difference: 16 months Let's take a look at announcement dates of expansion packs, their release dates and time between.īurning Crusade - announced October 2005 - released Jan 2007 - Difference: 15 months