Three months after Cataclysm, Blizzard is putting the finishing touches on the first full patch since the expansion's release. While the patch itself may seem a little content-light (read full patch notes here), Community Manager Zarhym posted on the battle.net forums the company's reasons for not shipping the Firelands raid with the new patch, which boils down to: better 4.1 now and Firelands later than nothing at all. In other words, Firelands ain't ready yet, but Blizzard is still giving players something (sorta) new to chew on.
What we're really saying is that we want more frequent, slightly smaller updates to the game so that content keeps coming. Since Firelands isn't quite ready yet, we've made the decision not to hold back the other 4.1 patch content for it. Instead, we're going to release patch 4.1 with the content that's ready to go so the majority of players have more things to do, while also putting some finishing touches on Firelands so we can ship it out in 4.2 shortly thereafter. We're not arbitrarily holding back Firelands. On the contrary, we don't want to hold back other content updates for Firelands.
You can read Zarhym's full post here.
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