Thread: Is ther any rough ETA for 4.0?

Originally Posted by Cakekizyy

3 months is a content drought?

6 months, 2.5 was split in two, ending with two very lackluster patches (2.5 and 2.55) instead of a single big 2.5 patch.

By the time 2.55 came out most people burned through 2.5 content, including 24 man raid, and 2.55 added nothing in terms of replayable content, just the ending of the story.

Originally Posted by alimdia

6 months, 2.5 was split in two, ending with two very lackluster patches (2.5 and 2.55) instead of a single big 2.5 patch.

By the time 2.55 came out most people burned through 2.5 content, including 24 man raid, and 2.55 added nothing in terms of replayable content, just the ending of the story.

I do remember the drought. I also took a year break while waiting for the contents. The weekly lockout for tombstone increased to 900 and people was burning contents like mad. I made full set of 130 gears for all my job just in few weeks.

3.4 will probably be somewhere in early/mid Sept to play with Legion which is end of Aug, maybe a bit earlier if they really want to compete. After that with a 3 month dev cycle 3.5x will be around dec/new year or right before JP fanfest which is at the end of december.

That leaves the expansion maybe late winter or in spring depending on how long they want to drag on 3.5 like they did with 2.5x, or they could pull a wow and make us wait an entire year. Who knows.

Code:

2.0   8/27/2013
2.1  12/14/2013

2.2   3/26/2014
2.3   7/07/2014
2.4  10/27/2014

2.5   1/19/2015
2.55  3/30/2015
3.0   6/23/2015
3.1  11/09/2015

3.2   2/22/2016
3.3   6/07/2016

If we keep the pace in that list,

3.4 would be around September, 3.5 around December, then either 5 or 6 months wait for 4.0.

If we're lucky and they meant what they said when they said they want less time between expansions, perhaps we get the expansion in less than 5 months after 3.5.

Originally Posted by RobbieH

This doc has info on how long each patch took to release plus more stuff: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...#gid=504071179

Why would they release expansion 5 or more months after 3.5? That's a lot, it was 3 months from 2.55 to 3.0

We will probably get 3.55 to so 4.0 should arrive 3 months after 3.55 releases.

2.5 was in January.

Originally Posted by Vaer

or they could pull a wow and make us wait an entire year. Who knows.

Wow thanks for the patch release date! Btw, what do you mean by pulling a wow?

Originally Posted by Khalithar

The newest WoW expac was patch 6.0

6.1 took 8 months before it came out.

6.2 came out 14 months after 6.1

Except 6.1 was 4 months after 6.0, and 6.2 was 4 months after 6.1.
Did you mean that the time between 6.2 and 7.0 is gonna be around 14 months?

OT: I'd expect 3.4 around mid-September, with 3.5 around early December.
4.0 release depends on if they're gonna split 3.5 into two patches, similar to 2.5. I guess 4.0 ends up at round May 2017.