The World of Warcraft patch 2.2.2 recently went up on live realms while patch 2.2.3 took its place on Public Test Realm, meanwhile players are asking where patch 2.3 is. Blizzard poster Tigerclaw responded to the query and explained why the patches are taking too long to roll out.

Players are understandably impatient toward the coming of WoW patch 2.3 as it brings with it a lot of content and general changes: guild banks, new flying mounts, and Zul'Aman, among other things. Patch 2.2.3 on the other hand generally contains a number of bug fixes for problems brought about by voice chat. Tigerclaw explained why:

Simply put we know that 2.3 - since it contains some significant new content - will require multiple weeks of play test and balancing on PTR. As a result, if the bug fixes now being tested in 2.2.3 were instead "rolled up" and only shipped in 2.3.0, no one on Live would get the benefits of these fixes until 2.3.0 shipped.

We made a decision to ship 2.2.3 in response to customer feedback about 2.2.0 and 2.2.2, in order to address some of the higher priority issues much sooner than if the fixes were part of 2.3.0 only.