Filed under: Patches, Analysis / Opinion, Blizzard, News items, Wrath of the Lich King

MMO Champion’s about right– patch 2.2 is likely not coming for a matter of weeks. Since background downloading started a little while ago, we all figured that Tuesday or next was looking pretty good for a patch update, but Hortus on the forums alludes to new PTR patches “several times in the upcoming weeks,” which is a good indication that we’ve got a while to go on the PTR.

It doesn’t necessarily mean that we’re looking at a November patch– it could be that the PTR updates are for 2.3, or that 2.2 will drop with hotfixes coming later, or that Hortus just doesn’t have the data from the devs right. But take a deep breath– even whether it takes a few more weeks for a new patch, odds are we’d all rather have it “right” than “right now.”

And Boubouille says that whether it takes that distant for 2.2, he doesn’t see how they’ll release the expansion by next January, which is just plain laughable. Sorry Bou, we love you and all, but WotLK isn’t dropping anytime before July 2008, and I wouldn’t be surprised at all whether we didn’t see it until early 2009. It’s not that we won’t have subject matter until then– Zul’Aman is coming, and a new arena season will show up before next (maybe even two), as well as guild banks, a new CoT instance, and of course the Sunwell. But whether you’re still thinking we’ll see Arthas as soon as January, moment to stop holding your breath.

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Original post by Mike Schramm