Hello Everyone,
I am very dissapointed and still wondering about why is TBC release date not announced in BlizzConline.
Does anyone have an idea about this issue?
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Most likely due to slower then normal development due to Corona. Working at home for some people, lowers the overall efficiency.
Additionally there are probably unforseen difficulties implementing some of the code, or classic hotfixes, and problems seen in the alpha test.
Once they are fixed, and the game is ready for beta the’ll announce that. But the beta might actually also take longer then the classic one did.
Not only do they have to make TBC but they also have to restructure and basicly copy all of Classic as well, splitting the server up into prepatch and postpatch tbc.
TBC is comming, be patient and realize that now you can lobby for those things that you want to get in since #somechanges.
Just like the others in the other threads about this, no one knows.
As I said before, I think it’s going to be beta in early November, and full game late December. Personally I think that they won’t want TBC to overshadow the latest Shadowlands updates, Diablo 4 and D2 Ressurected. All those will be given their time in the spotlight first.
RIP Classic then, no one is going to raid Naxx until December unless you enjoy torturing yourself.
To elaborate, number of signups is already decreasing each week. Due to the huge cost of raiding Naxx (especially melee) people are starting to refuse consumable use, leading to tensions in the guild. Add in the occasional loot drama and people (nearly) having completed T3 the guilds are slowly going to die. By summer there will be no more guild raiding unless guilds start merging.
Retail vanilla lasted from November 2004 until January 2007, that is 2 years and 3 months. With this in mind, combined with corona delays, I think there is a distinct possibility that they might plan a TBC release to be on the 2 year anniversary of classic release, so Late August.
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That actually mirrors Vanilla. Naxx was known as the guild killer for a very real reason.
But my post above was mere speculation, I don’t have any inside info. Hopefully I am completely wrong.
If you care about your guild and your friends in it like I do this is the horror scenario. I’d like to keep raiding current raids at regular intervals with the same people. If they drag out content with over a year of the same tier that goal is nearly impossible with the amount of turnover that will create.
It’s better with the current mentality to never let payers ‘complete’ all their gear from the tier because they will simply quit or take an indefinite break. When I was full P4 BiS I kept raiding because I wanted to raid with the guild, not quit because I was ‘done’
I’m probably different in that it would actually benefit my guild. I know how weird that sounds, but we’re in a strange situation.
On my little, friendly, medium population server there wasn’t a great deal of raiding or end game activity going on, it was extremely casual for months into Classic. People are literally only just starting to clear BWL now.
Only now, toward the final months have a group of people got together and formed a large raid-focused guild, which will allow ordinary people to progress.
I swore I’d not do any raid content in Classic, and do all I could to re-capture my original vanilla experience, where I did no real raiding, but I caved in. It was more fun that I expected to be, but the point is that I’m in a somewhat different situation, as my guild still has to progress beyond MC, ZG and AQ20. We may not even see BWL before TBC hits.
I still hope it comes in spring though, regardless. I can’t wait for TBC.
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If you think Naxx was called the guild killer because people raided it for 1 year I don’t know what to say to you. it was called the guild killer because it was hard…
There is a larger chance i will get struck by lightning 3 times in a week than TBC releasing in December. If they wait that long they will lose 95% of their subscribers for classic wow which would be a completely stupid thing to do. Retail Naxx only lasted 7 months and all classic content has been faster paced than retail so why would they prolong this phase with around 40%?
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No, nothing to do with the length of time it was out, nobody raided Naxx for one year, it was released only a few months before TBC.
It was the guild killer because, yes it was hard… but also because of the fortune in consumables that people had to spend.
My original post didn’t make that very clear at all, sorry.
To be fair they did not even announce the release date of next SL content patch. It’s bad. My guess is they are going through tough times partly because of Covid but also the recent layoffs. The whole video game industry is slow atm and major release dates are scarse.
My only hope is that TBC comes way before Diablo 2 Resurrected, because if it’s as good as it looks i probably won’t have the time for wow. The addiction is real. Going full circle considering I went from Diablo 2 to wow back in 2006 
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The one thing you’d think would help is pushing out games, especially an ‘easy’ game like TBC Classic (they have done it before so less work?). The sub money alone but also all the paid boosts etc. should make them want to push this xpac out as soon as they can?
There will be a huge comeback during the prepatch.
Everyone will be gearing up their retribution paladins and moonkings for Slave Pens.
No way are they going to release in December. That’s far too late, it will be September for the full release at the very latest, pre-patch a month or two earlier.
Especially with the beta coming soon™.
Judging by their most recent performance, TBC will launch anywhere from November to February.
Remember what happened to Classic, Warcraft 3 Reforged, Shadowlands, etc.
They always either hit the very end of the period, or delay past it.
In 2021 !
I think you are way out, but that’s my opinion.
As is the case with all recent Blizzard products, it will launch timely as a TV series to watch on twitch, and the game itself will release for non-streamers at the very end of the year.
Remember that games are only side products, Blizzard’s main products are corporate products aiming at corporate streamers
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