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[protoncat]

jesus fucking crist 6 pages of being pesimistic whether or not a leak is real, as if you're not gonna find out in 2 months anyway

stay retarded wow cumunity

[Powerogue]

I'm putting my money down now: AI-generated fake leak. Everything about that face looks off.

Genuinely surprised it look this long for this to get started. Someone make one for World of Warcraft: Hello Kitty Island Adventure.

[Bwgmon]

Someone make one for World of Warcraft: Hello Kitty Island Adventure.

If I had access to one of the good generators, I'd love to see what they could do. Alas, best I can find for free is Craiyon, which doesn't exactly produce high-quality stuff, but what the hell, here's what I got from a few prompts:

Character-focused shots (also featuring the big bad of the expansion, "Goodbye Cat the Grizzled One"):



Environmental shots:




Upcoming mounts:


I will note that, for how wonky Craiyon is, I kinda love how it renders environments that look like the PS1 Spyro games.

[Powerogue]

I will note that, for how wonky Craiyon is, I kinda love how it renders environments that look like the PS1 Spyro games.

I love this. It feels like it's also drawing the WoW art from Hearthstone which makes everything look even more bizarre.

[Cheezits]

FYI, Bellular just did a video on this leak that got personally taken down by Blizzard themselves. So it's probably real.

[Kiivar86]

FYI, Bellular just did a video on this leak that got personally taken down by Blizzard themselves. So it's probably real.

Are we sure its Blizzard? I only ask as I have seen fake take downs in the past elsewhere.

[Cheezits]

Are we sure its Blizzard? I only ask as I have seen fake take downs in the past elsewhere.

Blizzard Korea apparently.

[Kiivar86]

Blizzard Korea apparently.

That strikes me as odd that it'd be them instead of Blizzard proper. Which is why I'm a little dubious.

We'll find out eventually I guess.

[Sinstrike]

Looks like it was the frostfire fridge cutscene that got the vid flagged, not the leaked image - as per Bellular's twitter.

[Kiivar86]

Looks like it was the frostfire fridge cutscene that got the vid flagged, not the leaked image - as per Bellular's twitter.

Hah, well that's anticlimactic.

(Link for those that are curious)

[Woggmer]

Kinda weird and oddly specific for WoW Korea to go after a cutscene from WoD since that expansion is getting close to 10 years.

[AudibleEscalation]

That strikes me as odd that it'd be them instead of Blizzard proper. Which is why I'm a little dubious.

We'll find out eventually I guess.

The big scandal is that anyone at Blizzard actually watches Bellular. smh.

[flan1337]

Looks like it was the frostfire fridge cutscene that got the vid flagged, not the leaked image - as per Bellular's twitter.

that is still kinda odd right? I wonder if someone could try that out by re-uploading the whole thing and see if it gets taken down.

[UndedoKoleda]

Looks like it was the frostfire fridge cutscene that got the vid flagged, not the leaked image - as per Bellular's twitter.

That actually is the most/only sensible way to do it.

I doubt that Blizzard could just flag the video because he used some random picture from the internet, without providing evidence that it's part of their IP.

If anything, I'm now inclined to believe that this really is a legit leak.

[Pinksocking]

That actually is the most/only sensible way to do it.

I doubt that Blizzard could just flag the video because he used some random picture from the internet, without providing evidence that it's part of their IP.

If anything, I'm now inclined to believe that this really is a legit leak.

same

them claiming it was some dusty content from WOD confirms that for me

[GabrielKnight]

If I had access to one of the good generators, I'd love to see what they could do. Alas, best I can find for free is Craiyon, which doesn't exactly produce high-quality stuff, but what the hell, here's what I got from a few prompts:

Character-focused shots (also featuring the big bad of the expansion, "Goodbye Cat the Grizzled One"):



Environmental shots:




Upcoming mounts:


I will note that, for how wonky Craiyon is, I kinda love how it renders environments that look like the PS1 Spyro games.

Considering the current art direction of the game, these are the most credible leaks so far.

[Baraden]

With AI, you can never be sure if something is a true leak or not.

That being said, everyone keeps saying Drogbar or Mutated Orc, to me it looks more like a Gargoyle type creature with bat like ears, like from the Shadowlands, which screams Sire Denathrius to me.

I do not believe it will be a Shadowlands type expansion, but I do believe this could be showing Sire Denathrius and the Dreadlords orchestrating their plans and starting the cosmic war all those millennia ago, leading into the void like expansion.

If they have any sense Shadowlands will be as memory holed as WoD

[Vairum]

I seriously think this is Gul'dan.

[edit: maybe grommash hellscream? Reincarnated with death/necro magic? They did just bring back a new model of gorehowl which Grom used]

[huth]

I seriously think this is Gul'dan.

[edit: maybe grommash hellscream? Reincarnated with death/necro magic? They did just bring back a new model of gorehowl which Grom used]

That drops from Grom himself.

I don't think this is any Orc. They don't have their chin jutting out like that.

[Yunravel]

I feel really like it's his visage form really