WoW WotLK Classic: Blizzard accidentally reveals the release date
Apparently, those responsible for Blizzard revealed the release date of WoW: Wrath of the Lich King Classic too early last night. The corresponding information has now been removed from the official WoW website.
Large parts of the Classic community are currently waiting for Blizzard officials to finally officially reveal the specific schedule for the launch of WoW: Wrath of the Lich King Classic. After all, it’s not just the Northrend trip that’s involved, but also the pre-launch phase, the provision of the death knights, the activation of the level 1 server and the experience point buff promised by the developers.
Leak instead of official announcement
But although the WotLK Classic Beta is making good progress and the first raid instances have also been testable for a short time, Blizzard continues to remain silent. It’s good that you can now rely on another weakness of the developers: If they don’t want to reveal anything themselves for a long time, there will eventually be someone who “accidentally” leaks information to the outside world.
Such a leak also occurred last night. Multiple sources report (verified through the Internet Archivewhich forgets nothing) that on the World of Warcraft official website the release date of WotLK Classic was briefly visible. The new edition of the Northrend adventure is apparently scheduled for release on September 26, 2022. A short time later, Blizzard removed the date again.
What does this mean for the overall schedule?
A little over a week ago we speculated what the schedule could look like until the launch of WotLK Classic. At the time, we had assumed a release on September 14, 2022. Taking the new date and all the info known so far, we now come up with the following possible schedule:
- Experience point buff coming in the first or second week of August
- Current Arena season ends no later than August 10, 2022
- Server merge coming August 10, 2022
- The beta ends on August 29, 2022, the pre-patch starts and the fresh start servers go live
- WotLK Classic will be released on September 26, 2022
Even with this schedule, we would have a pre-patch phase of four weeks, the XP buff would be active for a total of seven to eight weeks, and the information about the supposed leak would be correct. Fingers crossed that Blizzard reveals the actual dates in a timely manner. After all, the only date that has been officially confirmed to date (server deletions/mergers on August 10) is getting closer and closer.
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