Here it is Wednesday night and I am wondering what I am going to post about tomorrow. I have several choices, as tomorrow appears to be a busy day in the MMO world.
Blizzard
At 9:30am Pacific Time (16:30 UTC) Blizzard is going to do their big announcement for the date for the Warlords of Draenor expansion.
Tell us the date
That is the date people have been waiting for… and predicting would come early or earlier… since the beginning of the year. My own pick back in January was September 9th, a date judged as pessimistic by some. Now I am going to guess November 18th, right near the 10 year anniversary but just before the holiday season begins in the US.
Blizzard will also be showing us the cinematic for the expansion, which will no doubt be much discussed, but won’t tell us much more than the story behind the whole thing.
CCP
Then just a couple hours after that, at 20:00 UTC (13:00 Pacific Time), CCP will be holding their own live stream on their Twitch channel to present the next expansion for EVE Online, Hyperion.
No Hyperion graphic yet…
So far this has been billed as the big “fix wormhole space” expansion. I didn’t even know W-space was broken, but players will work whatever system is in place.
Sony Online Entertainment
Then in the evening, at some point past 19:00 Pacific Time (2:00 UTC) SOE will be having their SOE Live Welcome Keynote address.
SOE Live 2014
This will also be on their Twitch channel, though SOE is trying to get people to put down $20 for their channel, so I am not sure what you get for free.
SOE on Twitch with Goodies
While we probably won’t get much in the way of details, this is the likely point during the event for any big announcements. This will produce news, and I will be watching the EQ2 Wire blog for a summary. (And they have a list of streamed SOE Live events.)
BioWare
And at some point today BioWare will be launching the latest Star Wars: The Old Republic expansion, Galactic Strongholds.
Housing!
This will be the housing expansion for SWTOR and I will be interested to hear what path they have chosen for this and how players react.
Addendum: Or maybe not. I thought there was a live stream planned for today about housing, but I must have dreamed it. Probably for the best.
Others?
Meanwhile, Gamescom is still running in Germany and I haven’t checked to see if any other developers have decided that the second Thursday in August is THE day to announce something, but I won’t be surprised if somebody else is on board.
Which announcements will you be paying attention to?
The Ancient Gaming Noob 
Theres also a closed beta start in ArcheAge today, the first time im heading into it :)
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To add to your list, apparently relatively recently (I’m not sure precisely when but I think basically in the wee hours of the morn), NCSoft, which publishes GW2 and Wildstar, released their Q2 report for 2014. Here’s a quick link discussing it, I’m sure there will be plenty more: http://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/comments/2diwg3/ncsoft_earnings_2q_14/
Fake Edit: In fact as I was writing this I decided to check on Massively, and so we go: http://massively.joystiq.com/2014/08/14/wildstar-and-guild-wars-2-boost-ncsoft-profits/
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Meh… none. I’ll wait until you summarize anything interesting.
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SWTOR’s housing expansion comes next week in Game Update 2.9 on Tuesday 19 August, the date unchanged for a couple months now. Nothing for SWTOR being released today or tomorrow on live. Seems unlikely we’ll get details about the end-of-year xpac for a wire yet.
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@Teo – I thought they had something slated for today, like a live stream or something. Oh well, they made some room today for everybody else.
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Neverwinter Online also launches its fourth module (aka expansion-type thing) today. There be dragons!
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“Which announcements will you be paying attention to?”
I will probably focus on announcements from Cloud Imperium Games. This will be a big weekend for Star Citizen as they approach the $50 million pledge milestone.
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