Cle, almost everything you've posted in this thread has not held up to history. Not trying to hassle you, just educate on why there is so much speculation and why this thread is so large. I'm not saying I know exactly what will happen at Blizzcon this year and The Dark Below may very well not me the xpac, but leaks HAVE happened. BC is the ONLY xpac we didn't previously know about (we knew 3 out of 4 beforehand so far, good track record). Just because it makes sense that a large company might not want leaks does not mean they haven't happened. Since they have in the past, it stands to reason it is possible in the present and future. Yes, they may have corrected certain information security issues, but we don't know that for a fact just as we don't for a fact that the leaks are fake.
It boggles my mind that no one has done a simple search for "trademark fraud" yet. There isn't one lawyer on this bored with the faintest desire to say, "you guys are all idiots"?
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No no no... I meant "When, exactly, has Blizzard outright denied anything that leaked - but was actually true in reality"?
The most they do is throw out red herrings to try to make it seem like something it's not, like the extra Halloween masks - and now, this.
I would tend to agree with mvallas. They said that MoP could be anything and that we are blowing it out of proportion, but they did not specifically say it was not the xpac and that it was fake. Blizzard has performed misdirection and even deception when it comes to information they wish to keep secret, but they rarely if ever blatantly deny or lie about it.