I see the next Catacalysm timewalking for EU starts on TUESDAY 12 August, and the Arena event the following the timewalking starts on Thursday 20 August
(see screenshot @ https ://ibb.co/5WNqjvF ).
Does this mean that Shadowlands is releasing in that week? I could not find anything on the internet confirming a release date.
cause there is none.
Release date has not been announced but I would not expect August I’d expect much later.
Pre patch though? Sure could totally see that
? Who cares the date, when it’s worthy of being published is what’s important. 2025 if need be.
I was just asking a question based on an observation that seemed strange to me, I was sure a lot of people would be curious when they noticed it.
August/September was my guess but given the pandemic it could be pushed back.
Probably not soon.
Ion stated it’s still planned for 2020 in a recent interview so, not later than the last day of December I guess
Just strange that the weekly holidays for that week would start on a Tuesday and not a Wednesday. The last time it happened if it serves my memory correctly was when 8.0 was released in the EU.
Probably September at its earliest, it’s still probably going to be 2-3 weeks of adding the remaining zones to the alpha.
Then i’d imagine they open up Beta & the maw zone by mid summer something, and start raid testing shortly after that.
Then its probably going to be 1-2 months of raid&torghast testing and fixing numbers, scalings, bugs etc.
Then we have the prepatch scourge even in retail around late summer/early fall, probably lasts a couple of weeks, and then a very optimistic Shadowlands release around mid fall.
*World of Warcraft®: Shadowlands expansion available on or before December 31, 2020
My guess, nearer on than before.
If they waited that long they would lose so many players
Gonna get on October 
Next year early january.
My absolute fear is that once again they strive to rush it out the door because you know $$$$$$$$$$$$ from sales on xpac is more important than releasing a very polished product that both sells and keeps players subbed.
I am happy to wait till next year to be honest as long as it means we get a polished and worth while product where they take feedback on board from alpha and beta, instead of rushing it, ignoring feedback.
I’d still prefer a 2021 january but really late 2020 also works like December.
My money is on November.
when the first alpha been has been datamined, in the game files where present the achi for wow 16th anniversay.
we can expect the prepatch or the expansion before it
Some time between August and December.
My crystal bubble sais November, December is too late & October will be too early.
November is a prime month for Christmas shopping