"Council of Glades" trademark filled

[Shandodo]

It was busted many times, and there is no actual trademark. Only idiots believe in this.

Are we Idiots for wanting to believe in the Hype Train? I mean a trademark doesn't exist for that.

[Gormane]

Simple - makes it feel a lot less fresh. Right now 2.3 is the thing, it's the newest and biggest content update we got since RoS. People have every reason to get excited for it. If the expansion was announced, however, I bet a lot of players "could not wait" to try it out on the PTR/beta. Would they play 2.3? Absolutely. Would it feel just as fresh, new and exciting if you knew there's something ever bigger, something that will drastically change the game, coming relatively soon? I just can't imagine it.

The other thing that leads to it being a possible D3 item is that HOTS is going through a Diablo event at the moment. There is at least 1 more hero and speculated to be another hero unannounced and possibly another map for it. This much HOTS stuff should culminate in something. Gamescon was where RoS was announced, so it's reasonable to think there will be a Diablo announcement. No idea what though.

But Council of Glades, doesn't sound D3 at all. But it doesn't sound right for WoW either....

[Val the Moofia Boss]

It was busted many times, and there is no actual trademark. Only idiots believe in this.

Can you prove this? I'd love to see so.

[Krazzorx]

Diablo won't be playable at Gamescom, that basically rules any D3 news out.

Sure we could get one soon in either Blizzcon or a personal mini event like Hearthstone, but without D3 being on the demo list at Gamescom, it basically rules it out.

[Issalice]

So we are going to help Sylvanas and stop whatever is under Tirisfal Glades, about time.

I typically don't pay much attention to trademark finds, until I saw this post. Now I'm fairly hyped. Just fairly mind you lol

[Ryuda]

Can you prove this? I'd love to see so.

He doesn't like the name, and he believes that alone is proof enough, see the first 5-6 pages of his posts in this thread.

[Jokerfiend]

Simple - makes it feel a lot less fresh. Right now 2.3 is the thing, it's the newest and biggest content update we got since RoS. People have every reason to get excited for it. If the expansion was announced, however, I bet a lot of players "could not wait" to try it out on the PTR/beta. Would they play 2.3? Absolutely. Would it feel just as fresh, new and exciting if you knew there's something ever bigger, something that will drastically change the game, coming relatively soon? I just can't imagine it.

It sure would feel just as exciting, because you still are playing current content. We all know expansions are looming for WoW. Were you excited for 6.2 after 6.1 was out? I was. It's all just around the corner.

Having vague information on the expansion of Diablo 3 isn't going to shit on 2.3. If anything, it reinforces 2.3 hype. Because, you have 2.3 coming, an expansion announcement, wait for more info from Blizzcon. 2.3 is in no way affected by an expansion announcement, because of people interested in the expansion checking out 2.3. Certain people might not join just for 2.3, but if you announce an expansion with a huge patch lurking, more people try the patch and catch up while waiting for Blizzcon.

What makes sense? Is that expansion announcement for D3 is a Blizzcon event. Not because of 2.3 but for string along marketing, because the D3 expansion is still a bit farther out to release information. So we have to wait for Blizzcon for the information to be ready for the public.

[Slowpoke is a Gamer]

It is plausible at this point.

Originally we thought it was busted because of the Word tampering, but OP claims it was because he copied it, others have tried to replicate the file appearence in the same word processor and could not do it, even when just copying. The last remaining piece that screamed fake was the fact that the trademark was filed on a Saturday in New Zealand, which is against the rules/law, however, that has now also been determined to happen on several occasions by another user. Basically, we are right where we started.

Short of somebody dropping $40 to search for it, or another Trademark appearing, we may not know until Gamescom.

[FenixAU]

Apparently even performing a preliminary search on the trademark is considered to be part of the application process. I could go ahead and fork out the $80 to search for it - and pray my wife doesn't kill me - but I wouldn't want to be committed to registering a trademark (or even the registration process) if it were a hoax.

Decisions, decisions. I've been tossing this up for the last 8 hours. It's the only way to know for sure, one way or another, before Gamescom. I've gone so far as to completely fill out all forms, just indecisive on hitting submit >_>

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Short of somebody dropping $40 to search for it, or another Trademark appearing, we may not know until Gamescom.

It's $80, you need to do a search on both classes 9 and 41, as it's part of the application process as I just outlined above. $40 per class.

[Gnarilex]

Can you prove this? I'd love to see so.

It's circumstantial evidence that's sketchy at best. Every theory has led us back to the beginning in some way or another. We really won't know until Gamescom so might as well keep an open mind to the possibility of them announcing the next WoW expansion there.

[Shampro]

No, and we won't know until Gamescom.

We will know before. (Or have a pretty damn solid basis for it)

They won't annouce a damn expansion without any hype whatsoever. That makes no sense.

We need a concrete and filled trademark (it will show up on the front page). That hasn't happened yet.

Tick tock.

[FenixAU]

We need a concrete and filled trademark (it will show up on the front page). That hasn't happened yet.

Madrid protocol says otherwise.

They'll definitely want to start the hype rampup if they're going to announce anything, though.

[Jokerfiend]

It's circumstantial evidence that's sketchy at best. Every theory has led us back to the beginning in some way or another. We really won't know until Gamescom so might as well keep an open mind to the possibility of them announcing the next WoW expansion there.

We kinda know, that to make the deadline for an expansion announce, we had to have the information today.

I have no opinion, either way. It's fun to speculate though, like buying a huge jackpot lottery ticket. Fun to dream and wonder.

[Shampro]

Madrid protocol says otherwise.

They'll definitely want to start the hype rampup if they're going to announce anything, though.

Should probably make the emphasis on the ''showing up on the front page part''. Boub will ABSOLUTELY report it if the trademark starts to fill in on various locations, like he has in the past expansions.

[Gadzooks]

Apparently even performing a preliminary search on the trademark is considered to be part of the application process. I could go ahead and fork out the $80 to search for it - and pray my wife doesn't kill me - but I wouldn't want to be committed to registering a trademark (or even the registration process) if it were a hoax.

Decisions, decisions. I've been tossing this up for the last 8 hours. It's the only way to know for sure, one way or another, before Gamescom. I've gone so far as to completely fill out all forms, just indecisive on hitting submit >_>

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It's $80, you need to do a search on both classes 9 and 41, as it's part of the application process as I just outlined above. $40 per class.

It's not nearly substantial enough to spend money on, unless you're a .dom billionaire. I'd hate to see a troll waste $80 for you.

[Splatter]

Should probably make the emphasis on the ''showing up on the front page part''. Boub will ABSOLUTELY report it if the trademark starts to fill in on various locations, like he has in the past expansions.

speaking of Boub, where is he? he was in one of the leak threads yesterday mocking its validity

[FenixAU]

Should probably make the emphasis on the ''showing up on the front page part''. Boub will ABSOLUTELY report it if the trademark starts to fill in on various locations, like he has in the past expansions.

Oh the minute it shows up as filed on a public trademark database, it's legit. There'd be no reason to refrain at that point.

[Shampro]

speaking of Boub, where is he? he was in one of the leak threads yesterday mocking its validity

Idk he talked about how he doesn't think they'll announce it at Gamescom (and I'm on that ballpark aswell tbh). But he hasn't been keeping up with much of WoW or the site for that matter. Bu that cat seems to have an all seeing eye for these things.

[Gnarilex]

We kinda know, that to make the deadline for an expansion announce, we had to have the information today.

I have no opinion, either way. It's fun to speculate though, like buying a huge jackpot lottery ticket. Fun to dream and wonder.

Yeah it's definitely within the window where an official trademark would be made. Maybe it's a troll who thought everything out really well, but there's always that chance it's a real trademark. I'll remain mildly hyped up until Gamescom, and then we'll see if that goes up or down with what Blizzard does there.

[FenixAU]

I find the fact that it's such an out-of-left-field expansion name somewhat compelling. If it were Eye of Azshara/Dark Prophet/etc it'd be easier (for me) to dismiss.