I have not seen any leaks about the mythic skin or anything really and not on par with how it usually is at this time before a new season.
I have not seen any leaks about the mythic skin or anything really and not on par with how it usually is at this time before a new season.
IIRC a streamer has only leaked stuff once over the last year, which was Bogur who accidentally opened the press/playtest client (TBF to him, Blizzard doesn’t even have a different logo for the playtest client) on stream last season. Most other leaks have been from Blizzard themselves or news outlets.
Streamers generally have a lot more to lose (Nothing to gain, no streamer ends up getting popular for leaking stuff) from leaking and try to be much more careful. If anything they get hate for being stupid/leaking stuff if they accidentally/intentionally leak stuff. Since it’s just them responsible for leaks they can end up getting blacklisted even if it was a mistake.
News outlets are the ones who accidentally end leaking a lot more (Tbf a lot more people are involved so more room for error) and when they do fuck up they get shown a lot more leniency because they can just say “Oh we’ll just change the people behind the scenes so the same mistake doesn’t happen again” and the studio doesn’t take action.
Most leaks come from official sources (Blizzard, Sony, Xbox, Nintendo) because there are a ton of people (Different countries and language barriers are a big issue as well) behind the scenes working on the promotional postings and someone somewhere fucks up the time and date.
Nah, Stevo leaked Illari a few days early. No idea where he got the images from bc he isn’t one that’s been given early info by Blizzard
I don’t think Stevo counts cause he wasn’t a part of the playtests, he didn’t get the info officially from Blizzard. He didn’t break his NDA cause he wasn’t under one. He probably got the info from another streamer friend, broke their trust and leaked it.
He also doesn’t stream anymore (don’t even know if he plays the game anymore, last time he tweeted was almost 2 months ago), so he isn’t even a streamer. I think he wasn’t in a good place mentally when he did that. I think his numbers were getting bad and he was upset about that, then Blizzard probably started excluding him from playtests (they have limited slots, Stevo is a very old streamer with low numbers, they probably rather include new smaller streamers Instead), so he lashed out and leaked the info (probably got his friend in trouble). He gained nothing from it, which as I said is what happens when streamers leak stuff.