WWI Teaser Solved?

Posted 23rd Jun 2008 05:27 PM by Elly

Nkara, her of keen eye and inquisitive mind looks to have solved the splash image currently gracing Blizzard’s site which we reported on earlier.  It appears a rune from an image for Lich King is also present on the splash.

The portion from the WWI Splash is from the left hand side.

Blizzard often offer a series of splashes on the run-up to an event and if we took this image to mean WWI is all about Lich King that’d leave Stracraft 2 out the picture and that’s definitely not the case.  If this is the rune from Lich King take it as meaning Lich King is at the event, not that nothing else is (read Diablo 3).  Hey, come on, I’m trying to keep the hope alive here. Work with me on this.

Source: Worldofwar.net

Update: Doing at admirable job at keeping the hope alive Davidus and jlane both point out that the rune doesn’t look dissimilar to a Shael rune as seen in the image below.

 

I can certainly see the similarity but I’d have to say the splash image is slightly more like the Lich King than the Shael but when you’re using runic artwork in both games it’s that much harder to decipher where it’s from.

The only thing I can say we do know for sure is that we don’t know for sure.




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Elly
Posted 23, Jun 2008 09:53 PM
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I hadn’t read the Peter Lee site or I’d be thinking the same thing as you. Nicely caught.

I wondered when hyrda would rear its head again.

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Thyiad
Posted 23, Jun 2008 10:05 PM
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Friend of mine (mungo) has an interesting theory; not Diablo 3 but a new Expansion for D2.

I can see his points:

  • It would be a lot cheaper to develop than D3
  • Has an existing fan base of D2 players (no HG:L disappointment)
  • Is much more likely to generate revenue as the current fanbase ‘upgrades’

You may now *point* and *laugh* and grab a tin foil hat.

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Elly
Posted 23, Jun 2008 10:23 PM
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/points
/laughs
/grabs tin foil hat

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rwj
Posted 23, Jun 2008 11:36 PM
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The following website http://suicidalzebra.blogspot.com/ have a very interesting theory about the whole deal including a hiide image: http://us.media.blizzard.com/232309/_images/04.jpg

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Elly
Posted 24, Jun 2008 12:03 AM
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tengobotas has pointed out this end of LoD movie on YouTube.Com, specifically 1:50 seconds into it when there is an explosion scene.

<object height=“344” width=“425”>
<embed src=“http://www.youtube.com/v/phYVUcMw9JY&hl=en” type=“application/x-shockwave-flash” height=“344” width=“425”></object>

Here’s a snapshot of it and you can see it’s not unlike the colouring of the splash which should help dispel the theories that anything blue is either SC2 or Lich King.

http://www.diabloii.net/gallery/data/500/lodmovie.jpg

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vikkz
Posted 24, Jun 2008 12:35 AM
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I’ve done some work in Photoshop to strengthen the partially hidden symbols, here’s the awesome results:
http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/7908/ice1lv1.png
To me it looks like hell froze just like PC Gamer said.

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jlane
Posted 24, Jun 2008 12:58 AM
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[quote=fractalbit;6562919]


I have posted screenshots to show the now passworded/changed Peter Lee website containing the gallery mentioning Hydra, and homepage saying it will be online on the 28th.

Vikks, that photoshopping kind of makes it look like it is rippleing, like when Tyreal destroys the worldstone and you see it ripple before exploding.

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Severoth
Posted 24, Jun 2008 01:10 AM
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From this site: http://suicidalzebra.blogspot.com/

Another interesting fact is the URL: http://us.media.blizzard.com/232309/_images/ice1.jpg

Why 232309? If we assume that the numbers correspond to the letters in the alphabet we get 232309=WWI ... ring a bell? grin World Wide Invitational
23 = W
23 = W
09 = I
Anyway the “hidden” picture is called 04.jpg. (http://us.media.blizzard.com/232309/_images/04.jpg)
My guess is that tomorrow we’ll see a picture called 09.jpg, then on wednesday 01.jpg ....

Today is 04.jpg = D
if Tomorrow will be 09.jpg = I (if its not, maybe not diablo at all Smiley
Wednesday will be 01.jpg = A
Thursday will be 02.jpg = B
Friday will be 12.jpg = L
Saturday will be 15.jpg = O (June 28 WWI 1st Day, Good to announce here also.)
Sunday will be 3.jpg = 3 or three.jpg or whichever. = (June 29 WII 2nd Day, and B-day of Diablo, more better to announce here.)

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S Z
Posted 24, Jun 2008 01:48 AM
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Elly, I believe that when it comes to the colour-scheme most people refer to Red as the iconic colour of the Diablo series, just as Blue was the colour of Starcraft and browns/greens for Warcraft. I’m not sure that ‘hah, look at this movie, it has a blue explosion’ isn’t clutching at straws right now.

Only a few hours now until the next teaser image is due (Midnight GMT?).

[QUOTE=Severoth;6563211]From this site: http://suicidalzebra.blogspot.com/

<3

Page Updated.

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Elly
Posted 24, Jun 2008 02:43 AM
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Yes I know that.

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