Quote Originally Posted by Stealthy View Post
Blizzard traditionally aims for a November launch with the WoW games since it coincides with the anniversary of Warcraft franchise.

WoW classic was launched November 2004 (on the 10th anniversary of Warcraft)

Burning Crusade was supposed to launch in November 2006 but was pushed back to Jan 2007 (ref here).

Wrath of the Lich King was launched in November 2008

Note the 2 year gap in between each release.

Cheers,
S.
Correlation here only... The causal relationship is that the late November - Early December timeframe is a huge holiday spend time for most people. Launching a game for the Christmas shopping season is a very smart sales strategy, it's not sentimental.