Expansion Leak From China - Knights of the Frozen Throne
Disclaimer: Everything below is from the official Chinese website for Hearthstone. The name may be different in English. This has technically not been official unveiled, however, with an official host of Hearthstone having this up on their servers, it's legit.
Well, it finally happened. Blizzard was keeping a great secret and then less than a day before the reveal, the official Chinese Hearthstone website run by Netease managed to leak assets.
It looks like our Heroes have all died and become.. Death Knights! At least from the image below that's what it looks like. Whether or not that's actually the case, we'll soon learn.
Spotted in the image:
- Top of Icecrown Citadel, home of The Lich King.
- Frostmourne.
- The Heroes of Warcraft as Death Knights. Note the skin tones and blue glow in their eyes.
Domain
knightsofthefrozenthrone.com was registered on GoDaddy on April 26, 2017 - quite some time before today's leak. Seems excessive for a promotional link when compared to ungoro.com or gadgetzan.com, but it could just be brand protection. Currently it has a GoDaddy landing page for the url, but if it changes to point towards Blizzard DNS later today, this would further confirm the name of the expansion.
Animated Banner
You can see in the middle card at the bottom a glimpse of the cinematic.
More Images
Source
- Wreyrwy on reddit found the update on the site.
- LiriX on reddit translated the logo.
- SHIT_PROGRAMMER on reddit found extra assets.
4 am alarm clock squad :DD
It is much better for Russia (Moscow), tho. 5.00 AM.
So yes. Thank you. =)
China playerbase manages the strings of all game content, sorry bro, the tiny dick army rules the world.
ARTHAS CARD HYPE!
Hoping they don't screw up the Lich King card...
Like Illidan
Hoping there is a Lich King card...
That's for sure. However 100% it would be a meme card :(
Well, that's now halfway of getting to return to Hearthstone. Now give me some good cards and mechanics, and I'll be there!
On the one hand, China YOU HAD ONE JOB!
On the other hand, MY FIRST HEARTHSTONE EXPANSION THAT I'M GOING TO EXPERIENCE IS GOING TO BE THE ONE ABOUT THE LICH KING! WOOOOOOO!
This isn't just any expansion. It's the first Adventure-Expansion hybrid, so you'll experience the massive content of expansions, with the single player missions of Adventures.
WHERE'S GUL DAN
Well, technically no one has seen him since Un'goro...
Look carefully ... or read before posting...
Bottom left in the cape
So....
Who's up for Hearthstone removing official Chinese support from the client?
Edit:
To the downvotes, they broke NDA by leaking this information, and are likely in breach with their contract with Blizzard. I expect no less than Blizzard to come down on them like a ton of bricks.