Still set for the fall
Today on Blizzard’sWorld of Warcraft: Shadowlandsstream (one of many summer individual game streams), the company revealed that the upcoming expansion will not be delayed. Hopefully these devs are dealing with a decreased stress load and the bulk was already finished before the pandemic.
On stream, executive producer John Hight emphatically stated that “Shadowlandswill arrive in the fall, even if we have to ship it from our homes.” Hight followed that up by confirming thatShadowlandswill leave its alpha form andwill be entering a beta state next week.
Game director Ion Hazzikostas also gave us some stats for that alpha period, including the fact that in the three months since it started, that 817,508 quests have been completed, 2,124 players reached veteran status forExile’s Reach, Torghast was run 62,727 times (with 11, 218 Tarragrue deaths) and there have been 64,440 bug reports. Thank goodness for real alphas!
The beta will be “feature complete” according to Hazzikostas, with a level cap increase of 60 and a “first look” at the endgame (mostly having to do with max world content like raids/dungeons/open world play and the covenant system).
You can also get a closer look at the extrasin theShadowlandscollector’s editionin the gallery below (including the mouse pad and the pin set for each expansion faction).
HardbackArt of the Shadowlandsbook
Shattered skymousepad
Set of4 collector’s pinsfeaturing the sigils of each Shadowlands covenant
ShadowlandsCollector’s Editiondigital soundtrackkey
Epic Edition digitalgame key, which comes with30 days of game timeand all of thein-game extrasfrom the digital Epic Edition:
Illusion: Wraithchill cosmetic weapon effect
Shadowlands-level character boost
