Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[ercarp]

With the discovery that the file loads pretty much anywhere...

I don't know anything about coding but this actually seems kind of suspect to me. Makes me wonder if it was put there deliberately for us to find, you know? Blizzard could just be pranking us.

But also maybe not.

[Marlamin]

That's still brute forcing. It doesnt mean some hackerman nonsense just literally throwing shit at a wall and seeing what sticks.

It's literally embedded on the 10th line of the official WoW site. This is far from bruteforcing.

[Therougetitan]

With the discovery that the file loads pretty much anywhere...

Some programmer really, REALLY messed up or they thought that no one would be thorough enough to find it.

Either way, I pray for their job.

I don't think it is that bad. Like it is bad. But we already kind of knew it would be dragons and it doesn't tell us anything more.

[ercarp]

Has this been posted already? Given the name leak today

First time I'm seeing this, but that logo looks really wonky. Also, why is this guy/girl who took the photo pasting the same poster like three times on their wall? What.

[Calfredd]

Has this been posted already? Given the name leak today

i. imgur. com / 8gDXTep.jpg

No idea what to make of this but I never considered myself a smart man anyway.

[Soulwind]

I did the same steps and I found the dragonflight stuff. But, I will wait somebody here who can say if it is meaningful or a placeholder name.

If I were to put a placeholder name that I know I'll have to replace with the real thing eventually, I wouldn't write it directly in the code, I'd load it from a config file.

That way, if I use that placeholder in ten different files, when it's time to replace it with the real thing, I only have to change it in the single config file.

[Local Ardenweald Faerie]

I don't know anything about coding but this actually seems kind of suspect to me. Makes me wonder if it was put there deliberately for us to find, you know? Blizzard could just be pranking us.

But also maybe not.

I'm thinking it's either a case of them preparing the site for the preorder buttons and just forgetting to hide it well, or they specifically put it there to generate hype. That happens all the time.

[Jmatt110]

First time I'm seeing this, but that logo looks really wonky. Also, why is this guy/girl who took the photo pasting the same poster like three times on their wall? What.

Probably print testing since there's a CMYK test pattern there too

[guro-tchai]

uhm, 17 days before the announcement? a new record, gz. usually it's a couple of days, not more than two weeks.

logo from the previous page looks exactly like i would expect: they continue to experiment with the elements, like the letter colors, to make it fresher. looks nice.

the name is so generic that it's also absolutely expectable.

[ercarp]

I think the logo is actually fake as it breaks the silhouette too much and I don't think Blizzard would do that. Does anyone know where the Alexstrasza art is from, or is it an original?

[Izalla]

God damnit I fell asleep to a slow thread and woke up to THIS?!

[Local Ardenweald Faerie]

God damnit I fell asleep to a slow thread and woke up to THIS?!

The hype train never stops!

Choo-choo!

[AOL Instant Messenger]

It's not that hidden once you know. You don't have to go to https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/dragonflight specifically, any https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/thing also has that same reference.

So it's really opening any random page in that site and opening one of the, like, 20 URLs that are in there (and it's just the third from the top).
And then either Ctrl+F Dragon, or just scroll down until you see non-obfuscated code.

Fair enough. I can see how the numbers of active searchers permits that, then.

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I did the same steps and I found the dragonflight stuff. But, I will wait for somebody here who can say if it is meaningful or a placeholder name.

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Didn't we get another leak yesterday talking about a first clue? Saying something about floating islands and going up and down. The Dragonflight leak matches yesterday's "leak" https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads...-clue-is-here!

Save for that "Dragonflight" cannot be abbreviated as "GoR".

[Nymrohd]

Dragonflight is interesting. I do hope Flight is part of it (I just want to fly without a mount with dragon wings!)

[guro-tchai]

btw, another important, but sad detail that makes the image even more credible - Alexstrasza's belly is covered. rip.

[AOL Instant Messenger]

I think the logo is actually fake as it breaks the silhouette too much and I don't think Blizzard would do that. Does anyone know where the Alexstrasza art is from, or is it an original?

The logo also seems to have the same color scheme as BfA in this lighting.

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btw, another important, but sad detail that makes the image even more credible - Alexstrasza's belly is covered. rip.

Maybe it's Heroes of the Storm? The art style looks very weird and not at all like Warcraft. I may be wrong, though.

[Skildar]

Looks like a name leak:


This is my own picture saved from the HTML source of wow's official site.

how did you end up lloki g at this file and searching for this in the first place? oO'

I'm not often fiddling with js sourcefiles so I'm quite interesting at what you were looking for in the first place ^^

[Soulwind]

I think the logo is actually fake as it breaks the silhouette too much and I don't think Blizzard would do that. Does anyone know where the Alexstrasza art is from, or is it an original?

I've done a quick Google search, haven't found either that version Alexstrasza or the dragon behind her. Maybe it's buried somewhere in DeviantArt, but... it could be legit. In which case, I don't really like the logo.

[ercarp]

The logo also seems to have the same color scheme as BfA in this lighting.

Yeah it looks very uninspired for a dragon-themed expansion. Exact same color scheme as BfA's logo. A dragon-themed expansion logo should have fire and dragon scales and horns and shit all over the place. This logo has nothing to do with dragons, it has to be fake lol.

[Therougetitan]

Has this been posted already? Given the name leak today

i. imgur. com / 8gDXTep.jpg

Okay buddy where did you find this