There are three popular theories or “leaks” at the moment: “The Dark Prophet” - a supposed leak about revolving around Zul and the Zandalari Trolls allying with the Naga under the command of Azshara, “Eye of Azshara” talking about bringing back Illidan from the Twisting Nether, teaming up with Gul’dan to ally with Sargeras, and the more recent “Council of Glades”, only showing a PDF of a trademark that is claimed to be filed by Blizzard in New Zealand.
Bashiok, a Blizzard employee, posted this today. A hint, or trolling?
Screenshots of Patch 7.0.0 clients,WoW's beta servers coming online in the last few days, logos and zone screenshots are all thrown in the mix, but when there are so many different stories going around, it’s impossible to tell which is real - if any.
It wouldn't be the first time that expansion leaks have occurred. Before Warlords of Draenor was officially announced, there were some posts around the Internet that were largely written off as just another fan-made “leak”. In hindsight, they turned out to be very accurate.
The now infamous Cataclysm leak by Boubouille that Blizzard asked to be removed is on the complete opposite end of the spectrum, showing screenshots, zone fly-throughs, models and all sorts of data from the Alpha client.
With the Gamescom trade fair opening on the 6th of August, these topics have been incredibly popular. It’s well known that Blizzard has hired out large parts of the venue, and will have their largest presence at the annual fair to date, and that Blizzard have invited a number of WoW Fansites to attend a press conference.
German World of Warcraft fansite Vanion posted the invitation they received for the event. It states that members of the Blizzard Development team will be presenting news, and that Blizzard must be notified in advance if they wish to film.
Destil from Blizzplanet further explained the situation. They will be interviewing a WoW developer specifically, but they don’t know who the developer is, or what it will be about. However, they do know that it it will be WoW-specific.
Further fuelling the speculation fire, Blizzard has historically only held press conferences for new games and expansions. The last press conference held at Gamescom by Blizzard was in 2013, where Diablo 3’s expansion - Reaper of Souls was announced.
Theories aside, this time next week should be interesting. While hope for the expansion of the next chapter of World of Warcraft is high, only time will tell what will come of it.
With the amount of unfinished story lines in WoD and huge amounts of theories floating around the Internet, what do you think the next expansion will be about? Are you hoping for a continuation of WoD's storyline, or something completely different?
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