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[Rumor/High Speculation] Supposed disgruntled ex-Blizzard employee leaked a lot of Blizzard details back in June. Predicted Vulpera & Mechagnome. (Diablo 4, Overwatch 2 also related)

Speculation

https://i.imgur.com/gxHgbzw.png

Just tossing an old chunk of information into the rumor pile. It's not photoshopped; I remember when this got posted on 4chans video games board and thought it was just trolling/fantasy like a lot of these wannabe Pandora's Box posts, but when Vulpera and Mechagnome were confirmed recently, I remembered and tried to find it again.

That combined with the Overwatch 2 logo leak, Diablo 4 whispers and supposed 60 level squish, it seems like it could have some legitimacy aside from the subjective tantrum throwing due to how old it is. Either that or Vulpera/Mechagnome was a wild guess that ended up paying off.

Posted Oct 27, 2019, 9:54 AM UTC

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Kharaaz•

My grandma could've predicted vulpera and mechagnomes back in June.

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Kotouu:alliance::warlock:•

Yeah I'm all for believing in leaks(I still sorta believing in the Helya ships at Stormwind Harbor leak) but even I can say EVERYONE knew Vulpera and Mechagnomes were coming out and it was just a matter of when. Was painfully obvious considering their popularity(Well..mostly Vulpera popularity) Overwatch 2 and Diablo 4 are also quite obvious considering they were both quite talked about to begin with.

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Wahsteve:alliance::mage:•

The Helya/Stormwind "leak" also got the next raid wrong and explicitly said we wouldn't fight N'zoth in BfA. In theory there's still a nonzero chance that the whole "everybody dies at Stormwind" thing could still happen in 8.3.5 or a prepatch event like the War of Thorns, but Siege of Stormwind as the final raid looks super unlikely now.

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Rowvan:alliance::paladin:•

I remember this one, out of all the leaks this was the most hilariously fake. Its a lot of angry neckbeard ramblings with little to no information at all. Everything that is actually talked about had been mentioned before by other people.

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MLGVergil:alliance::mage:•

The style he writes the stuf is just like he hates blizzard and every game except for Classic Wow

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klineshrike•

Yeah but someone who actually got fired would likely post like this. The leaks that always are chock full of JUST THE RIGHT info that JUST HAPPENS to be what everyone wants are what is unbelievable.

This sounds like someone who was real talk working in the gaming industry and only knew a few major facts about shit by being in the office.

Not saying it is real, but I believe this over the ones that seem to know literally everything, or yet another sideways dimly lit logo.

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MLGVergil:alliance::mage:•

OW2 was leaked by one guy who also leaked previous OW blizzcon stuff and he said its a PVP / PVE game so this is fake.

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Leycris•

Overwatch was a massive fail so they decided to create a new one and grab the bucks, one more time, for the same game. Man...sounds like WoW Classic :))) When you have no more ideas, just save the same product all over again. It is nice Blizzard has the ability to do this but, at the same time, is a little humiliating.

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Secret_Wizard:alliance:•

This reeks of funny business. They say Diablo 4 is a mad scramble to get back in the fanbase's good graces, then say that it's a first-person shooter?

They claim a coworker is hyped that Overwatch 2 has no white people in it, but say that Tracer, Widowmaker, and McCree have large story developments? Setting aside the shitstorm that would result of killing Tracer's girlfriend in the first place.

They expected players to come around on Sylvanas? Curious, when she sent assassins after Thrall, called the Horde "nothing," and fucked off into who knows where.

The rest are broad blanket statements or statements with plausible deniability.

I don't buy any of it.

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[deleted]•

The "anti-white" and "anti-straight" stuff is the OP of the thread playing to his audience.

/v/ is filled with people who think the industry is full of big bad SJWs out to get their games, and this guy is just feeding that. It's also the easiest way to tell this is fake.

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loljoeh•

This reads like neckbeard fan fiction. Doesn't hearthstone literally shit money for Blizzard?

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Thrent_•

Was among the top 10 pc games in EU/Na in profits, along with wow last time I checked the superdata rankings

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Petrovah:alliance::paladin:•
  • Level squish being tested for 9.0

few lines later

  • Next expansion level squish to 60

That was some quick testing

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TheDivinaldes:horde::shaman:•

If predicting mechagnones and vulpera back in June is enough to convince you heres a spreadsheet I made in may https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mNGz7Qk7y8z6bgnxyQFwCBitz_1ulc88bdQf-2q-Lk0/edit?usp=drivesdk

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Icy_Concern:horde::deathknight:•

Full of shit

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Darktbs•

https://i.imgur.com/gxHgbzw.png

What kind of internet garbage i just read?

That combined with the Overwatch 2 logo leak, Diablo 4 whispers and supposed 60 level squish

A leak.

One thing that everyone under the sun knows will happen after the Immortal shitshow.

And something they already confirmed will happen.

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This means nothing.

Either that or Vulpera/Mechagnome was a wild guess that ended up paying off.

Even Ion on the 8.3 reveal said "To nobody surprise". before revealing the 2 races.

We saw Vulpera coming since they were datamined.Its no wild guess.

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wizizi•

This is such an obvious trolling I can't even

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rayden202:horde::hunter:•

Sounds about right when servers like A52 feel empty. Makes me want to resub to ffxiv. Probably will once I’m bored of Classic.

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zzzornbringer•

interesting read. this could actually be real. who knows what plans have already changed since then though.

having a first person diablo would be very interesting as well. i doubt this will happen but i'm very curious. we won't see anything about that at blizzcon though. at least if you want to believe that other leak. only a cinematic. that they're working on it should be clear and they should fucking show gameplay to win back the fans. but i think the streak of blizzard disappointing their fans will continue on for a bit.

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paradox_jinx•

Diablo 4 never had a first person build. The original build had a third person over the shoulder view, more like WoW but with slightly different angles. That, from what I know, was scrapped over 2 years ago though.

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