World of Warcraft: Cataclysm release date leaked by Amazon

September 30, 2010 By Ryan Fleming

Although not quite official, Amazon is claiming that it will ship the World of Warcraft expansion for an estimated delivery of January 5, 2011.

While Halo: Reach might have the hype, and Call of Duty: Black Ops might get the sales numbers, few games – or in this case expansions – are as eagerly awaited as the newest World of Warcraft expansion pack, “Cataclysm.” And if the Amazon e-mail that recently went out to customers that have preordered the game is accurate, January will be a big month for WoW fans.

Blizzard has yet to announce an official release date, but speculation amongst fans of the game on the official forum has been intense. Few games will ever see as vocal, or as well-informed fans, so when Amazon began to send out e-mails confirming that the expansion would be shipping in early January, with an estimated delivery between January 4 and January 18, the news spread quickly.

The actual Amazon page for the game does not list a release date, and other sites seem to contradict this date. Kotaku is reporting that while Best Buy and GameStop have not issued a release date, Target has the date as New Year’s Eve. On the other hand, Buy.com has the release date as November 11, 2010.

Amazon tends to be fairly accurate with their shipping estimates, but the official release date won’t be announced until Blizzcon in October.

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choco at 11:07am 25th October 2010 Amazon phail..once again...and CNN also for linking this story PHAIL
@WOWGuideGuy at 3:06am 15th October 2010 I think i'm going to take december 7th off from work as I won't be able to keep my mind on work anyway. LOL http://superiorwowguide.com WOW Strategy Guide
Roeth The-Maelstrom at 12:04am 5th October 2010 Blizzard have announced the release date as December 7th 2010.
DThasHorribleWriters at 1:37pm 3rd October 2010 Very funny how, in this article, you say Reach has the hype and COD has the sales...........LOL. Neither game has ever been comparable in hype, or sales, to ANY of the WoW expansions......
1. heyYOUtheTROLL at 4:15pm 3rd October 2010 Its a good idea to actually read what you comment on.
Ransue at 12:24pm 1st October 2010 I thought amazon's email said november 23rd originally. And most reports at that time said Amazon is ussually wrong
n00bkilla at 2:01am 1st October 2010 soph, that is so full of crap ioman, wth, accidentally published the SKU are you kidding me, do you even know anything about retail pre-orders, the amazon email was sent intentionally as a request from blizz to further throw off players as to the date. Blizzard has already said that they will announce the true release date an Blizzcon
soph at 1:45am 1st October 2010 http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/
Gallow at 8:29pm 30th September 2010 Doubt this is right.
1. ioman at 8:39pm 30th September 2010 Yeah, says its no official. Probably some employee who accidentally published the SKU without thinking.