CATACLYSM 2011

[jackslammer]

Last night and this morning, Amazon sent out emails telling those who preordered the Collector's Edition of World of Warcraft's third expansion, Cataclysm, that the game's estimated arrival date will now fall between January 4 and January 18, 2011. Of course we will know officially when the release date is on October 22 and 23 during Blizzcon.

[Firecrest]

This happens every time and with every hyped up game release. Amazon takes a stab at the release date with no more information than what everyoue else has and bunches of people take it for gospel when it ends up being wrong half the time.

[Sanderz]

Enjoy 4.0 for 3 months.

[CAN]

rumor has it december 7th, since arena season 9 is supposedly the 14th and a dev said the release would be a week before hand.

[Thorran]

Why preorder it when you can just buy a cdkey from some sketch chinese or russian site 2 weeks before it launches.

[abecx]

or just goto walmart at midnight.

[abecx]

Why buy it?

Fixed for a more appropriate thorranesc response.

[CAN]

chinese sites sell it cheaper, gfy abec

[Talith]

now i know i have time to get my orange axe

[Hitshade]

http://kotaku.com/5653372/is-december-7-...lease-date

[spoiler]A day after Amazon.com suggests a January release for World of Warcraft's Cataclysm expansion, MMO Champion uses a combination of patch info and official forum posts to nail down December 7 as the date. What does Blizzard say?

MMO Champion came up with the December 7 date by putting 2 and 2 together. The first 2 is a note in the latest World of Warcraft: Cataclysm beta patch which reads:

+ARENA_MASTER_NO_SEASON_TEXT = "Arena battles and Rated Battlegrounds are only available during an active player versus player combat season. Season nine will begin on December 14th, so be prepared at that time to take your shot at glory!";

That entry indicates that the next arena season will start on December 14.

Combined with a recent official blue post on the World of Warcraft forums stating that the next arena season would start a week after Cataclysm's release, that seems to indicate a release date on or around December 7.

While I have every faith that the blue post from the forums was accurate, I find the patch notes entry a little sketchy. Patch notes change all the time, and this particular entry could simply be a placeholder.

We dropped Blizzard a line to ask about the date, and received the expected response.

"We haven't announced a release date for World of Warcraft: Cataclysm and we do not comment on rumors and speculation."

All will likely be revealed come October 22, when BlizzCon 2010 kicks off in Anaheim, California.[/spoiler]