wow Patch 9.1.5 and 9.2 Release Date Predictions

[Stan 5,239]

UPDATE: The release date for patch 9.1.5 has been announced and it's November 2nd in the US and 3rd in the EU! Read up on everything that's coming here and the patch notes here.
 

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Patch 9.1.5 has been available for playtesting on the PTR for some time now, and with no release date set, we're speculating when the patch and 9.2 could hit live servers.

The last few 9.1.5 builds only contain minor updates to the game, which means we can now start speculating about the patch's release date.

As Tyrsenus points out, Shadowlands is 65 days behind schedule, and public testing averages anywhere between 60-80 days. Based on that information, we're likely to see Patch 9.1.5 hit live servers in early-to-mid November. It's also worth noting Blizzard put a placeholder date for Legion Timewalking to the in-game calendar on the PTR that reads November 2.

Patch 9.2 could hit PTR between January and mid-February, according to the player, with a release date slated between March and May 2021. Note that the article is based on the current cadence, and we might eventually see the updates go live earlier or even later, so take everything with a grain of salt.

TL;DR

• The likelihood of Patch 9.1.5 hitting live servers in early-to-mid November are high, and the predictions could be accurate.
• Everything related to Patch 9.2 are just wild guesses.

Source: Reddit

[Nym85 72]

At this point I fully expect 9.1.5 to not come out until Nov 23 (because a Quality of Life patch is apparently enough to compete with an entire expansion).

[Migol 433]

That we're even focussed on 9.15 as a patch worth looking at is pretty sad.   

[Razortotem 33]

5 hours ago, Migol said:

That we're even focussed on 9.15 as a patch worth looking at is pretty sad.   

As many devs have said, if the focus is on content and no what was going on internally, then we'd be right back to square one and part of the problem. There's a huge upset internally and we just gotta ride that down wave and hope for the best. 

Im hoping that 9.2 comes sooner than May hell even March... A year of 9.1 raid and content feels weird as hell.

[Nym85 72]

9 hours ago, Razortotem said:

As many devs have said, if the focus is on content and no what was going on internally, then we'd be right back to square one and part of the problem. There's a huge upset internally and we just gotta ride that down wave and hope for the best. 

Im hoping that 9.2 comes sooner than May hell even March... A year of 9.1 raid and content feels weird as hell.

It's great for them to take their time and fix things internally but we also shouldn't be expected to pay the same for just server maintenance. I know I'm a collector and I will use  9.1.5 to improve my collection but as soon as that's done, I'm out until 9.2

Edited October 17, 2021 by Nym85

[Dajova 0]

I don't see them not trying to compete with the FFXIV expansion with this patch, as it's slated to release on nov 23 (nov 19 for headstart). It would be weird for them NOT to do that.

[Logarithm 40]

5 hours ago, Nym85 said:

It's great for them to take their time and fix things internally but we also should be expected to pay the same for just server maintenance. I know I'm a collector and I will use  9.1.5 to improve my collection but as soon as that's done, I'm out until 9.2

Exactly! I don't care about someone's hate crusade against all the perceived wrongs of a company. I want what I pay for, and part of what I pay for in an expansion is additional content to be added. They need to find a way to fix their stupid internal bs and still get a product out the door.

[Rhondis 148]

1 hour ago, Logarithm said:

Exactly! I don't care about someone's hate crusade against all the perceived wrongs of a company. I want what I pay for, and part of what I pay for in an expansion is additional content to be added. They need to find a way to fix their stupid internal bs and still get a product out the door.

Easier said than done. Internal issues could be far more than what it appears. With a good amount of well known people leaving or getting canned we don't what staffing looks like at the current moment for WoW. I'm sure all of us have seen the "WoW is hiring people for great career opportunities" that's on the actual app. Can't necessarily push out content when you got no staff to push out content with. Which is probably why 9.1.5 is taking so long to be pushed out.

[Migol 433]

The thing is, we already have a good idea what the internal issues are that keep things slow and low quality: Activision Blizzard has been trying to cut corners.    They keep showing older employees out the door in favor of lower paid workers and contract workers, and bred an atmosphere of ugliness that makes people not want to be part of the WoW team.     That's snowballed over the years and now we're stuck with people who couldn't write a coherent story to save their lives (I'd be very interested to find out just how much input Golden gets vs devs/others in the in game story).    We get slowed down content that reuses old content to further cut costs and corners, and we get less quality for what is new.     And they seem, at least till very recently, hell bent on pumping up those played time numbers through disgusting grind-centric systems that people just don't want.

The solution would simply be: "Hire more people to lighten the load, pay more to the quality employees you still have, and start making concessions to employee concerns like arbitration, contract workers, eternal crunch time etc."

[Lac 4]

23 hours ago, Rhondis said:

Easier said than done. Internal issues could be far more than what it appears. With a good amount of well known people leaving or getting canned we don't what staffing looks like at the current moment for WoW. I'm sure all of us have seen the "WoW is hiring people for great career opportunities" that's on the actual app. Can't necessarily push out content when you got no staff to push out content with. Which is probably why 9.1.5 is taking so long to be pushed out.

It's their own fault tho. Firing employees and ruining the moral for those who are still there. Gigabrain 5head tactic for maximum profit.

[Rhondis 148]

4 hours ago, Lac said:

It's their own fault tho. Firing employees and ruining the moral for those who are still there. Gigabrain 5head tactic for maximum profit.

Firing? Or quitting? Or maybe both. As I said, we have seen well known people leave of their own accord. Yes some got canned for sure. But I wouldn't doubt that many employees left after the mess that occurred. Still doesn't change the fact that content is gonna be very slow to push out.