What players should remember is when there is no restriction over the content you can digest, people will always feast upon it as quickly as possible and always be hungry for more. Gamers are gluttons for new content, no matter how you release it or introduce it, a week goes by and they want more.

HW in itself was an expansion they pushed out early, they put a lot into it and the content in itself could of been a patch that was released in October yet they chose to make it part of the expansion itself. So even if it's November that the patch comes out, it's all good since the expansion itself did offer a lot of content to enjoy as well as a complete story that wasn't broken up into 3-5 months that took years to complete (FFXI).