World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria
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World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria is a name trademarked[2] by Blizzard Entertainment[3]that will be the next expansion[4] after Cataclysm. MMO Champion speculated that "Mists of Pandaria" could be the name for the next expansion[3] and turned out to be correct. Kotaku pointed out that a similar early registration of "Cataclysm" turned out to be the new expansion name.[5]
A release date for the expansion was announced to be September 25th, 2012 with digital pre-orders starting on the announcement date of July 25th, 2012.[1] Details about the Collector's Edition and theDigital Deluxe Edition were included.
MMO Champion's speculation that it might be the next expansion was met by skepticism by several media outlets.[6][7][8] 1UP actually tried to contact Blizzard about this and the reply was "not ready to reveal any details at this time".[9] Strangely, a gaming and technology blogger said that there was a leak about the next expansion being focused on the island of Pandaria back in March 2011.[10]
Finally, Medievaldragon of Blizzplanet wrote a very nice, comprehensive article about the speculation surrounding the rumors and Pandaria in general.[11]
Some analysts doubted it would be released in 2012.[12] Also, in Activision-Blizzard's 2011 Q4 financials call, only Diablo III was confidently predicted to be released in 2012[13][14] with a possible second release being either Mists of Pandaria or StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm.[15][16]
In early April 2012, WoW Insider turned out to have a very accurate prediction of the end of the beta as September 27th being only 2 days from the actual announced release date.[17] Technically, they were more than 2 weeks off, however, because they placed the release of the patch at August 15th.
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