The leak comes from a datamine of a new Warcraft 3 Reforged client on Blizzard’s CDN (content delivery network). The datamine revealed what appears to be the final, or nearly the final version of the Warcraft 3 Reforged client and menu system. This includes the opening menu, settings, as well as options for joining a Versus match and starting a replay. The Campaign, Custom matches, and a Collection section remain darkened and unavailable.

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Speculation assumes that this leak indicates Warcraft 3 Reforged’s closed beta is soon to start, if it hasn’t already begun in a limited capacity. The fact that Versus and Replays, the two modes that must be enabled for a multiplayer beta, are included in the client very heavily supports this theory. And if any further information was needed, several files within the client reference a looming beta, with filenames including “w3_beta” or “W3_PRERELEASE_MESSAGE”.

Taking the leak and subsequent speculation to its natural conclusion, many also believe that Warcraft 3 Reforged’s full launch might be just a matter of weeks of way. BlizzCon 2019 starts Friday, November 1, making it the perfect event for Blizzard to debut the full game at. Alternatively, the Warcraft 3 Reforged beta client update went out a bit early and Blizzard is planning to launch the full beta at BlizzCon 2019. Either way, excited Warcraft 3 fans are certain to have news to look forward too soon.

Some are questioning the timing of this leak, with reference to Blizzard’s recent controversy. Yesterday Blizzard released a statement regarding its punishment of Blitzchung, a pro Hearthstone streamer, who has been suspended for voicing pro-Hong Kong sentiment on an official broadcast, as well as two casters. Despite the poor timing, it seems unlikely that Blizzard developers would time a content push for those reasons. The teams are likely preparing for BlizzCon, and really there’s not going to be any better time to start preparing.

Warcraft 3 Reforged has no current release window and is coming to PC.

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Source: Wowhead