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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 7663161" data-attributes="member: 2067">Intentional by the leaker, of course, but not intentional by the people who have the secret (in this case, WotC). Those people presumably are not happy about secrets being revealed.It's not naive to imagine that this is exactly what WotC claims it is, and just because leaks have been used for marketing in the past does not mean that this leak was used that way. All you have is a hypothesis without evidence that it is otherwise. There's something wrong with people presuming that a leak represents reliable marketing information. Because those things are not the same thing.The idea that this is a &quot;negative&quot; result is counter-intuitive, since basing your expectations on a leak is basing them on the thinnest of bits of hints. You're setting yourself up for disappointment if you treat leaks as always reliable.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 7663161, member: 2067"] Intentional by the leaker, of course, but not intentional [I]by the people who have the secret[/I] (in this case, WotC). Those people presumably are not happy about secrets being revealed. It's not naive to imagine that this is exactly what WotC claims it is, and just because leaks have been used for marketing in the past does not mean that [I]this[/I] leak was used that way. All you have is a hypothesis without evidence that it is otherwise. There's something wrong with people presuming that a leak represents reliable marketing information. Because those things are not the same thing. The idea that this is a "negative" result is counter-intuitive, since basing your expectations on a leak is basing them on the thinnest of bits of hints. You're setting yourself up for disappointment if you treat leaks as always reliable. [/QUOTE]

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