AdamSavage wrote:It's funny how blizz said while back to no focus so much on the expansion and yet there just pumping out all this info about it lately. I can't wait till beta comes out. That's when floodgates of info will come.
I think Blizz learned a lot from the wotlk info website that popped up during the Wrath F&F alpha. The massive leaks that happened meant that they basically lost control of the way information about the expansion was presented for a while - most people were getting their news from the datamining and alpha forum leaks that were going on, and Blizzard weren't in a position to freely clarify misconceptions. Once the beta opened up, Blizzard were able to make things much clearer.
They postponed the Cataclysm information glut until after the Lich King had been available for a while (and downed on 25-heroic at least once, I believe) to help keep the focus on ICC and the pinnacle boss of the current expansion, but now that the beta is just around the corner, I imagine they wanted to release some of the major class mechanic changes before the datamining sites get a crack at the beta client downloads. This gives them better control of the message than would have been the case if they had just started right up with the closed beta.