And once again, a small mistake at Blizzard has caused us all to be a little wiser about the future of World of Warcraft.
Just a few days ago, the public test realm was updated to the latest version with Patch 7.3.2. This was marked as a “Release Candidate”, which basically means that all data is now present in the patch and only remaining bugs and fine-tuning may still be made.
But today in the early morning hours (October 19, 2017) there was another update. On the site Blizztracker.com, which logs current events in various Blizzard games, a new game version of World of Warcraft suddenly appeared: Patch 8.0.0 was available on the beta servers!
The mistake was quickly noticed and reversed by Blizzard, but a few users had already taken a screenshot of it, like this image here from Reddit user tiwuno.
New Addon Beta already after BlizzCon?
The fact that the test servers are already being prepared for Patch 8.0.0 can mean several things:
- At BlizzCon 2017, the next addon for WoW will probably be presented
- At BlizzCon 2017, a part of the next WoW addon will already be playable
- Shortly after BlizzCon 2017, the closed beta will already start
- Patch 7.3.2 is the last patch of Legion – there will be no Patch 7.3.5
So far, these are mostly speculations. However, Blizzard had already announced before Legion that they want to significantly accelerate the release of new patches and addons. At least with the patches, they were right, as fresh content appeared roughly every 12 weeks. Now the developers just have to prove that they do not need a whole year for the next WoW expansion.
Slowly but surely, the hype train for anticipation is gaining speed …
Patch 7.3.2 also brings powerful changes to Silithus – the area will be permanently altered!
