Release date confirmed and Early access!

[MageBlack]

Disappointed to be honest. Happy that, "Delays typically are good for games", I guess. But really let down that they went out of their way recently to say that we wouldn't have to wait long after 2.5 part two, to get into Heavensward.

I mean, this potentially leaves us at a 3 month gap of content. I don't know what they plan on doing to keep the current players engaged in the mean-time.

It's about the same amount of time between major patches. Three months from the final installment of 2.5

[Nominous]

It's about the same amount of time between major patches. Three months from the final installment of 2.5

A lot of issues with that though. That's the time between major patches, but there's things in-between. We don't just hop from 2.4->2.5, which is essentially what this is (2.5 Part Two->3.0 being 3 months and all). We have 2.41, then 2.45 to fill the gaps. New Recipes, Questlines, even things like Golden Saucer, or Hunts, Relic Stages, etc etc get released in patches like that. Having 3 months of literally nothing at all other than bug/hotfixes sounds like a not-so-good thing, unless you're catching up I guess.

Plus, the bigger issue is just that they've been pushing this idea of, "We want you to not have to wait too long after 2.5 Part Two to start playing the expansion. We want you to be able to jump in as soon as possible, so the 2.x ending will be fresh." 3 months isn't exactly what I'd consider 'keeping it fresh'.

It's just an expectations thing. If, during Fanfest, they had just teased a 'Summer 2015' window for Heavensward, they could have pleased people (like me) today, instead of having a slight bit of disappointment.

[Felis]

It's about the same amount of time between major patches. Three months from the final installment of 2.5

You missed something

normal we have:

2.x - start of a new main update
2.x1 - month 1
2.x5 - month 2
2.x - month 3 (and a new start of a new main update)

with 2.5 we have:
2.5 - start of a new main update
2.51 - month 1
2.55 - month 2
???? - month 3
???? - month 4
3.0 - month 5