How to spot fake leaks

[ArkantosChampion]

2 new classes, Dark Ranger(they will leave Sylvana and ask Horde/Alliance to accept them) and Tinker

[thilicen]

Leaker has <10 posts

Make that literally one.

[Luk3ling]

Red flag 1: too many "key characters"
Red flag 6: it reeks of fanfiction
NO. HIGH ELVES WILL NOT BE THE NEW ALLIED RACE. TINKERS ARE NOT GOING TO BE THE NEW CLASS. THE NEW EXPANSION WILL NOT BE INSPIRED BY VANILLA.

two of these three things are false.

Any leak that doesn't include the following is fake:

A) Level squish
B) Black Empire theme
C) Massive class overhaul
D) World revamp
E) A system that mimics pre-MoP talent trees.

[Wangming]

It has a finished logo half a year before BlizzCon

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two of these three things are false.

Any leak that doesn't include the following is fake:

A) Level squish
B) Black Empire theme
C) Massive class overhaul
D) World revamp
E) A system that mimics pre-MoP talent trees.

You will probably call the BlizzCon reveal fake, just as well.

[Doffen]

Fake!!

Oh, my bad.

[Icoblablubb]

point 3 ... Battle for Azeroth is a lame name but here we are its reality

[Soluna]

How to spot fake leaks:

Look at leaks.

Literally better advise than that wall of text that justified a new thread somehow.

[Doffen]

Remember to add there "Wrath Of The Bolvar"

Which we all know will be announced at Blizzcon

[pharma]

All the OP points make sense.

And regarding Red Flag 6, now that we have Mechagones I definitely think tinker WILL NOT be the next class.

Mechagnomes already have racials that fulfill the tinker "fantasy" for those who want it. (Smart move by Blizz)

[Hastis]

All the OP points make sense.

And regarding Red Flag 6, now that we have Mechagones I definitely think tinker WILL NOT be the next class.

Mechagnomes already have racials that fulfill the tinker "fantasy" for those who want it. (Smart move by Blizz)

We also got enginering proffesion which already fulfill the tinker "fantasy"
So there is no point of having class like that. Everyone know that there are a lot of more intresting classes that could be added

[unbound]

Red flag 6: it reeks of fanfiction
NO. HIGH ELVES WILL NOT BE THE NEW ALLIED RACE. TINKERS ARE NOT GOING TO BE THE NEW CLASS. THE NEW EXPANSION WILL NOT BE INSPIRED BY VANILLA.

Yeah! There is no way that Blizz will ever do a Pandaren race! That was just an April Fool's joke!

Oh wait...

[Mendzia]

My dad works in Blizzard and said that all of them are fake.

[rrayy]

Any thread post on MMO that claims to be the next expansion.

[Wries]

Remember that the WoD leak was actually pretty detailed with character motivations, what was going to happen and who was going to do it. In fact it was so detailed that it even had SCRAPPED storyboard ideas in it, complete with the clarification beforehand that those ideas were indeed scrapped and were just mentioned for trivia.

That the real leaker has few posts is also totally OK and expected given that Blizzard in the past have gone through post history of leakers in order to get an idea on how they could acquire the information.

Anyway over to the real leak. Me! It's going to be a Northrend-based expansion. Ok. Done.

[Fistfighter]

Red flag 3: the name is lame
C'mon, Blizzard actually has professionals working on this stuff. "Sisters of Sorrow" sounds like complete ass and is not catchy at all. As a rule, consider this: does the name of the x-pack make sense to non-WoW players? Is it likely to entice them to try WoW? If the answer is no, the leak is fake. Exception: Mists of Pandaria (Pandaria only makes sense to WoW players but since it's a derivative of "panda", it was easy for non-WoW players to infer the theme of the x-pack).

Remember when the name "Battle for Azeroth" got leaked 2 days before Blizzcon and people laughted it off because the name sounded too retarded?



Also, how is it people get to post OBVIOUSLY made up "leaks" (read, fanfic) and it's ok with MMOchamp staff, but when I made two joke leak threads, I got them locked and got flagged for trolling?

Also, how old are MMOchamp users, if they keep falling for OBVIOUSLY fake leaks (like that god awful undead ships in Stormwind edit) ? Are you all like 12y old or what?

[Alanar]

I will laugh next week.

Hopefully we can laugh at you next week.

[Sencha]

Thanks for the guide! I was having a difficult time trying to assess if they were fake or not.

[erifwodahs]

Yup. I remember thinking Battle for Azeroth was the dumbest name for an expansion.

Wrath of the Lich King sounds edgy and stupid too. Something 14 yo me would enjoy But yeah, getting a name of "Darkness of the Shadowlands" would sound stupid too TBC, Cata, Legion are cool, strictly imo.

[Greengrim]

You surely mean >10 posts.

Nope, he most definitely means: < /less than/ 10 posts...

[Foxhoundn]

Red flag 6: it reeks of fanfiction
NO. HIGH ELVES WILL NOT BE THE NEW ALLIED RACE. TINKERS ARE NOT GOING TO BE THE NEW CLASS. THE NEW EXPANSION WILL NOT BE INSPIRED BY VANILLA.

I will come to this thread in 2 weeks, and will laugh in your face.