Original Post Date: 7/22/11
MMO-Champion.com has just made a news post about the WoW Brazil announcement and it's connection to the product slate leak as well.
What's disappointing about that blog article is that Boubouille, the mmo-champion.com administrator, pretty much goes on to take credit for predicting it first, leaking the Product Release slate first, and then going on to say how right he is about these leaks on his blog.
This guy needs to be dick slapped. For one, the Product Release slate was first leaked on a Chinese forum, where it was then picked up by mmogamesite.com, and continued from there to multiple news sites and blogs like mmo-champion. Second, the Portuguese translation of WOW has been known for a long time, even before the leak and before Boubouille "discovered it" by looking at the localization data.. tons of people saw that before him.A lot of people even forget about when that Product Release Schedule was first "leaked" on mmo-champion. The news post was heavily edited from the original he posted, and then he went on to admit the post was a fake, then he changed it again to "just kidding."
This isn't the first time he's taken credit for leaks from other sources or has been wrong about his own predictions. He predicted that Cataclysm would launch on November 2nd (which it looks like he just based on previous expansion pack information, rather than having an inside track). Even expansion pack info "leaked" first on mmo-champion.com was actually derived from other websites.. at later dates, though, he went on to attack these webpages; "Seriously, who the fuck takes mmowned as a reliable source to the point where news sites will just repost it without any double check? Now I'm sad, or mad, or both."
And herein lies the rub.. Boubouille just reposted the information from mmowned without a double check.
He takes information from another website, then calls it an unreliable source of information, questions people who take information from the website, then gets mad at people who just repost information from the website. You fucking are that people Boubouille.
Most recently, he has vehemently denied any legitimacy to "Vengeance of the Void". Joystiq.com has also confirmed that their "highly vetted internal sources at Blizzard have confirmed it's a fake." Wouldn't that be a punch to the face to be proven wrong when the next expansion pack announcement hits? The document is strange, but it's probably not too far from the truth.. 90 cap, no new hero classes, a couple new races, and changes to Outlands.