World of Warcraft: Shadowlands will be released on November 23, 2020, at 3pm PT/6pm ET/11pm GMT, a little less than a month than its last set release date of October 27.
John Hight, executive producer of World of Warcraft, wrote a message to the community alongside unveiling a new story trailer, thanking fans for their patience as the team made the tough decision to delay the upcoming expansion.
Hight also revealed that Shadowlands’ pre-launch event will being on November 10 and will have players taking on a “flood of the Scourge.”
World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, the eighth expansion for Blizzard’s MMO, will send players to the realm of the nine afterlives where mortal souls go to find a new purpose – or “suffer eternal torment at the mercy of the Jailer in his Tower of the Damned.”