Not saying you are wrong. But I'd just like to remind you that we have these debates about every expansion title. Cataclysm didn't refer to the actual villain unlike TBC and WotLK, so people doubted it. Mists of Pandaria referenced a location, so people didn't believe it. And so on.
Again, not saying you're wrong, but I don't think we can read too much into old expansion titles.
Yeah. WoW doesn't have a consistent naming scheme for expansions. Indeed, they're very inconsistent, as people trying to "crazy wall" their way to one have shown.
So it may well be fake, but that's no a good reason to think it is (the oddness of the rest of the screen being blank is more pertinent, for example).
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Cataclysm was still obvious, it referred to the event of Deathwing coming out of Deepholme causing the world to tremble causing a world wide event.
MoP was basically the events about Pandaria and if you want to get artsy, what the mist was hiding(The Sha and such)
WoD: The leaders of the Orcs on Draenor. All that stuff was more or less obvious/in front of us.
#TeamLegion #UnderEarthofAzerothexpansion plz #Arathor4Alliance #TeamNoBlueHorde
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By all means, Fummockelchen. Explain why "Tides of Vengeance" would be a problem while "Legion" would not.
Legion competes with at least 3 other things simply titled "Legion" that I can think of.
The hook, the thing that separates them, is that Blizzard didn't try to trademark "Legion". They trademarked "World of Warcraft Legion"
http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfi...08:rlvv4p.2.13
By slapping their full product name onto the trademark (In this case World of Warcraft: Tides of Vengeance) they sidestep the issue that there's a TCG named Tides of Vengeance.
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This^. This is what I've been trying to say the whole time. The titles are so inconsistent that finding any set pattern only works 'til an expansion comes along that it doesn't work for.
I'll give you WoD without an argument. Mists was about events that happened in Pandaria and as a result of Pandaria. And pandaland was the setting. But prior to it's existence "Let's name the expansion after where it is" had never been done.
And Cataclysm did, obviously, refer to the events that happened in the expansion itself. No one is disputing that. We're saying that Tides of Vengeance could have no meaning at all, yet, until the events in the expansion itself occur in the same fashion.
Hell, before Cataclysm that was never a 1 word expansion title. I'm sure that raised some eyebrows, and triggered "FAKE" cries as well.
There's not enough of a link between the different expansion titles, not enough of a pattern, to say that any new expansion title is fake on it's face. Well. Unless it's something obvious like "Wrath of the Swifties"
Mmm the whole point of marketing is to make it generic enough for an audience to go 'oooo' and get a general connotation of the word. I could totally see blizz use the word 'vengeance' in an expac title lol. As long as it fits the theme/its explained in the official trailer, ppl will get it.
A lot of ppl (including myself) who weren't into the lore didn't know who the 'Warlords of Draenor' were, until they watched the expac trailer and saw some official artwork.
Blizz can assign whatever meaning they want to the expac title as long as they explain it with where the story is going (as a hook to play the expac as well. Something fresh, new, and hopefully not predictable.)
I hope we'll have a way to skip ALL RP and Ultraxion's trash in 8.0 !