The name and possible theme for the next Hearthstone expansion have leaked thanks to, of all things, a shirt. User roughschematics on Reddit posted about a T-shirt you can buy from the Blizzcon site, and it completely spoils the next HS expansion. The link in the Reddit post will now lead to a 404 page, but the internet never forgives, and thanks to the WayBackMachine, we have the page archived!
Unfortunately, linking to the page directly doesn't work. What you have to do is go to the WayBackMachine site, paste the link bellow in the page, and select one of the dates for when a snapshot was taken. There's only one option, on the 16th of October, so that's what you click. Here's the link
- https://gear.blizzard.com/products/hstnmt0022-hearthstone-showdown-in-the-badlands-t-shirt?variant=44009765830905
Azeroth Gothic
The shirt in question is a recreation of the American Gothic painting using two Undead. This plus the "Showdown" part of the name might hint towards a western interpretation of the Badlands region, much like Gadgetzan was turned into a pulp-crime setting. The expansion was likely supposed to be announced at Blizzcon, so we're getting this about two and a half weeks earlier than expected.
What do you think of this theme? What do you expect to see in the new expansion? Let us know in the comments below!
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Will there ever be an expansion when nothing is leaked before?
This is getting stupid.
I mean, yeah? From what I can remember, March of the Lich King had DK leaked. Then before that, I think Bearon Gla'shear was leaked before Alterac Valley was announced. And before that, the logo for Scholomance Academy was leaked?
That's 3 leaks I can think of in the past 3 years, out of 10 expansions. It's certainly not "every expansion". This is also the first leak this year.
I'm too lazy to look the sources up again, but there were definetely more leaks than that in recent times
Out of the expansions I listed here 58% were part of or included some kind of information leak.
Cowboy set, let's go!!!
Yeee-haw, pardner!
There's no way they're going to announce the expansion at Blizzcon. Tavern pass for the current expansion expires on 13th November and that always means that the expansion releases the next day which matches with Tuesday. If they announce it at Blizzcon it means they'll only have 9 days to reveal 145 cards and probably less than that because the patch needs to happen at least 5 days before the launch as it usually does. For the Titans it patched a whole week before the launch.
My guess is that they'll announce the expansion tomorrow and at blizzcon we'll either get the final reveal or they will announce the new single player content hence the demo site on Blizzcon.
I'm honestly kinda scared if they are going to announce the next expansion before Blizzcon. Blizzard did a similar thing for HotS where they announced Deathwing as a playable (and extremely cool) Character just a couple weeks before Blizzcon. This meant that for Blizzcon they would either announce:
Spoiler: They didn't announce anything for HotS during the entire Blizzcon. I'm not even sure if they even mentioned HotS there.
If they really announce the next expansion before Blizzcon, then I hope that they have "something even bigger" ready for Blizzcon. At least the potential is still there, with one hidden "Spell locked" left on the Roadmap. Though the last time they had something even bigger than a constructed expansion (Mercenaries mode) it didn't end too well.
Honestly I don't expect anything big on blizzcon. The best we can get is either a single player mode like adventure or dungeon run style or maybe a whole new mode but I doubt that. I feel like Hearthstone will be there just because it's a Blizzard game. Their focus will be WoW, Diablo and maybe some new project. I don't think it's a big deal if Hearthstone doesn't get anything exciting, it has been on pretty predictable road for the last 2 years and their production and marketing for the Titans expansion has been super underwhelming. I'm just glad the game is still having content if I'm being honest. Card games are in a pretty bad spot right now and have returned to be completely niche.