Vague Release Time Frame of the Day: WoW: Wrath of the Lich King
By Stephany on Friday, August 1st, 2008 at 11:52 AM PST In Activision, Blizzard, Computer, Gamer Life, Games Industry, World of Warcraft
Speaking about World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King during a conference call yesterday, Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime stated that the expansion, will launch between October and December of this year. That is not only unsurprising, but pretty vague as well.
“We have said that it will be coming out this year. I can tell you it’s not coming in the July to September quarter.”
Sigh. With the amount of hype and excitement that has been surrounding this expansion, you would think that they would be a little more concrete with the details, but alas, no.
It looks as if the last quarter of the year is going to be full of competing MMOs, what with WAR: Age of Reckoning launching, the LotRO: Mines of Moria expansion, and now Wrath of the Lich King expansion all coming out around the same time. Gee, I wonder who will be the ultimate winner in sales?
As if we needed more proof of how popular WoW still is, the Wrath of the Lich King beta is not only testing rather well according to Morhaime, but recently we learned that one desperate gamer even went so far as to spend $1000 on a beta key. Talk about not having a life commitment!
Thanks: Shacknews
It will be announced & released during or right after Blizzcon, Oct. 10-11