Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[therumblings]

The name is a real leak, but this is probably just someone that threw this together at work in a couple hours after reading about the expansion name leak.

The image was posted on twitter/reddit a few hours before the name got leaked

[Izalla]

It could also be someone who works at Seneca, not Blizzard, and this is just another fake leak. Or works for a company that makes Seneca's promotional materials. Why would a Blizzard employee be making Seneca product brochures? You can see there is a whole stack of them there, a customer would only receive one in the mail not a whole stack.

The name is a real leak, but this is probably just someone that threw this together at work in a couple hours after reading about the expansion name leak.

The picture was actually posted before the name leaked (though to be fair, it is not impossible someone else saw the name first and didn't draw attention to it). I would still say there isn't really a reason to not think it is legit at this point since it is just an image of Alexstrasza and doesn't imply anything outlandish.

[therumblings]

though to be fair, it is not impossible someone else saw the name first and didn't draw attention to it

That would be a legendary, I almost hope that is what happened lol

[Izalla]

The artwork is very high quality. It looks like Blizzard official art quality, whoever did it is very skilled. And it definitely would have taken longer than a couple of hours.

It also resembles a specific Blizz artist's style to the point that it was instantly recognizable as such and comparison images of his other art are spot on.

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That would be a legendary, I almost hope that is what happened lol

Still would beg the question where they got the image from to throw that together haha

[therumblings]

It also resembles a specific Blizz artist's style to the point that it was instantly recognizable as such and comparison images of his other art are spot on.

Yeah, the name + image are practically confirmed, the only thing we lack is details.

[Bsirk]

Yeah that's what I was thinking too...

Guess I'll be setting an alarm for 3am *cries in Australia*

Or....you could just sleep all night and wake up with a whole lot of news to read and watch. lol

[Benedict Donald]

Or it's not a blizzard employee at all, and Blizzard, like most companies, outsource their printing of promotional materials, and another of the printer's clients is Seneca? Seems like the simplest answer. The CYMK in the bottom of the poster also points towards the photo being taken in a printing office.

True, this is also a possibility, but it still doesn't discount the scenario I presented either.

The artwork is very high quality. It looks like Blizzard official art quality, whoever did it is very skilled. And it definitely would have taken longer than a couple of hours.

I could swear I've seen that dragon before. Isn't that the avatar Teriz has been using? He is banned so I can't tell. Alex could be recycled too.

The image was posted on twitter/reddit a few hours before the name got leaked

It's possible that it was known before those posts and just took some time to work it's way through the internet. Maybe twitter/reddit weren't the first to know about it?

The picture was actually posted before the name leaked (though to be fair, it is not impossible someone else saw the name first and didn't draw attention to it). I would still say there isn't really a reason to not think it is legit at this point since it is just an image of Alexstrasza and doesn't imply anything outlandish.

I just remember how sure everyone was about the Empire of Dragons logo. It could be real, but perfect timing doesn't guarantee it to be either. If anything, perfect timing is actually a little suspicious imo.

[therumblings]

If anything, perfect timing is actually a little suspicious imo.

Which is why it's probably an intentional leak like the Bolvar cinematic image, to generate hype.

I could swear I've seen that dragon before. Isn't that the avatar Teriz has been using? He is banned so I can't tell. Alex could be recycled too.

No one has been able to find the image anywhere else on the internet so it's either real or someone actually painted that themselves after discovering the real site leak without telling anyone.

[Izalla]

True, this is also a possibility, but it still doesn't discount the scenario I presented either.



I could swear I've seen that dragon before. Isn't that the avatar Teriz has been using? He is banned so I can't tell. Alex could be recycled too.



It's possible that it was known before those posts and just took some time to work it's way through the internet. Maybe twitter/reddit weren't the first to know about it?



I just remember how sure everyone was about the Empire of Dragons logo. It could be real, but perfect timing doesn't guarantee it to be either. If anything, perfect timing is actually a little suspicious imo.

The art hasn't been found anywhere else yet and people have searched for it. The style matches Bayard Wu very well (which is probably why the dragon looks so familiar, it looks like an art piece of his of Alex). And the EoD logo had a lot of pushback because all it had going for it was looking fancy and impressive but nothing else to support it. It's not a sure thing like the name being found in the actual WoW website, but it is way more likely than not that the Alexstrasza image is real.

(also Teriz is using an image of Wrathion I believe)

[therumblings]

I bet there are Blizzard folk browsing these forums getting a good laugh out of people discussing whether or not this stuff is real

[Izalla]

I bet there are Blizzard folk browsing these forums getting a good laugh out of people discussing whether or not this stuff is real

Guaranteed. Remember Ion's comment about "do the eyes make sense now?"

They know people are going bonkers over this.

[therumblings]

Guaranteed. Remember Ion's comment about "do the eyes make sense now?"

They know people are going bonkers over this.

Now we just need them to name a dungeon or patch after Explosion of Dragons

[Varx]

That Alex image is 100% legit, let's be real....

That same imagine isn't found anywhere else on the internet and the quality is just too good. Plus why would a fan randomly give her a staff when she's never ever carried one.

Honestly it's like the people who claimed the Bolvar shot was fake when it clearly wasn't.

[therumblings]

Honestly it's like the people who claimed the Bolvar shot was fake when it clearly wasn't.

I didn't think it was real, only because a cinematic or logo was never leaked before (except for the WoD accident), so SL kinda changed the leak game up quite a bit. I do remember people saying it's fake because his elbow wasn't anatomically correct or something lol.

[Khaza-R]

I didn't think it was real, only because a cinematic or logo was never leaked before (except for the WoD accident), so SL kinda changed the leak game up quite a bit. I do remember people saying it's fake because his elbow wasn't anatomically correct or something lol.

The eye color was the main argument I remember against the Bolvar image but that was pretty silly.

I'm pretty sure every legit leak gets called a fake at some point. Some people claimed the BfA logo was fake because it was too dark.

[Izalla]

I didn't think it was real, only because a cinematic or logo was never leaked before (except for the WoD accident), so SL kinda changed the leak game up quite a bit. I do remember people saying it's fake because his elbow wasn't anatomically correct or something lol.

It was his weird chonky wrist haha

Sorry, to clarify, the part of his arm people were pointing at was his wrist. I think they were calling it his elbow and claiming it was wrong but it was actually just a really thick wrist.

[Varx]

The eye color was the main argument I remember against the Bolvar image but that was pretty silly.

I'm pretty sure every legit leak gets called a fake at some point. Some people claimed the BfA logo was fake because it was too dark.

Funny because the eye color is what made it obvious.

Like why would a fan make a detailed fake but have his eyes a different color. That's only something blizz would do for story reasons. Fans stick to established shit when making believable fakes.

Classic nerd psychology

[Izalla]

Funny because the eye color is what made it obvious.

Like why would a fan make a detailed fake but have his eyes a different color. That's only something blizz would do for story reasons. Fans stick to established shit when making believable fakes.

Classic nerd psychology

At this point people have caught on that the real leaks always have things that make no actual sense until you have the bigger context. So you now get fake leaks that are a bunch of random gibberish like "Khadgar turns into Kalec and flies away" because they know the more random and not based in anything we would assume, the more likely to be real. But they get way too outlandish with it. "Vol'jin is an urn" was silly and random but not ridiculous. Khadgar being evil and turning into Kalec is just stupid.

[Mferna]

It could also be someone who works at Seneca, not Blizzard, and this is just another fake leak. Or works for a company that makes Seneca's promotional materials. Why would a Blizzard employee be making Seneca product brochures? You can see there is a whole stack of them there, a customer would only receive one in the mail not a whole stack.

The name is a real leak, but this is probably just someone that threw this together at work in a couple hours after reading about the expansion name leak.

Bro do u understand how high quality that art is? Not only is it similar to one of the artists blizz frequently uses (his name slips me atm) this piece would take weeks to complete. So the fact that this leaked alongside the name off the website WITH an entire new logo concept for WOW. If this was a fake the person would copy the exact concept of all the wow logo’s over the past 8 expacs as they’ve all been the same style, this one is modernized and going in a new direction. This cannot be fake stop smoking whatever you are lol.

[Zankai27]

Bro do u understand how high quality that art is? Not only is it similar to one of the artists blizz frequently uses (his name slips me atm) this piece would take weeks to complete. So the fact that this leaked alongside the name off the website WITH an entire new logo concept for WOW. If this was a fake the person would copy the exact concept of all the wow logo’s over the past 8 expacs as they’ve all been the same style, this one is modernized and going in a new direction. This cannot be fake stop smoking whatever you are lol.

Wei Wang? Definitely looks like one of his. Incredible stuff