Following the early announcement of the World of Warcraft expansion Dragonflight on Tuesday, April 19, 2022, many players were waiting for the official release date. Unfortunately (or fortunately), it hasn’t happened yet. But this Thursday, May 12, 2022, a new Dragonflight prequel surfaced. on Amazon. The release date is scheduled for the end of the year, which will be a potential clue to the release date of WoW’s ninth expansion!
The new Dragonflight prequel: first clue on the release date?
Unsurprisingly, this new prequel to the next World of Warcraft supplemental disc doesn’t yet have an official name. Just on Amazon”Untitled Dragonflight Prequel (World of Warcraft)But the release date planned by the American giant is interesting: there will also be an English version. Scheduled for November 22, 2022. There is currently no information on the French version, but if this first version is approved, it will probably be released in the coming weeks.
- Dragonflight Prequel (Solid Cover) VO: $28.00
- Dragonflight (Kindle) Preview VO: $14.99
Shadowlands covered similar stories. Titled Shadows Rising and written by Madeleine Rus, it was originally planned around three months before the expansion’s official release, only to be delayed a month at the last minute:
- Shadows Rising: out July 14, 2020
- Shadowlands: Release November 23, 2020
As for Dragonflight, and provided that the release model is the same as Shadowlands, which has certainly not been confirmed, we can now calculate the release date as the beginning of 2023, more precisely in February, provided that no of them is rendered. In the next weeks. The idea makes sense and confirms our initial assumptions. However, the alpha and beta could be coming sooner than some think, we also suggest an announcement about this could happen during the Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase on June 12th.
For fans of Madeleine Rus’ writing, it looks like she won’t be writing the prequel this time around: comments on social media have been deemed too harsh, making her the target of criticism fierce, working against her (but he’s just a guest). The name of the author seems to own the place so far, “Ballatin” and should be disclosed when Blizzard officially announces this news.
This short story and the previous expansion should introduce players to their next adventure in the Dragon Islands. Of course, we don’t know anything about this book, but we can easily imagine that it will allow licensees to understand how their return to Azeroth happened, and also what led them to this mysterious archipelago.
It may also be possible to discover the first elements of the identity of the first threat we face, let alone the great evil: we discover it expanding, just as we discovered the threat posed by Garosh. During the Pandaria Fog. It was Ion Hazikostas himself who said so in an interview, before adding that we are not going to fight the “leader of one of the existing factions”!
Source : Millenium
