So, looks like the message “Join the outland in burning crussade classic the 1st june” appeared in the HOTS launcher at some point. You can find the screenshots here : June 1st? : classicwow (reddit.com)
They also closed all the beta realms.
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If that is the case then the pre patch would be here very soon, the latest next week.
Yeah, beta realms are still there but offline.
It could even be this week for the pre-patch, they may extend the restart to maintenance.
Yeah I just read that on US forums #hype.
Nowt official though, it’s all deleted.
I can only find one image of it anywhere so might be fake.
Let’s hope not.
I dont even know what to believe with all these rumours and leaks. Wish they’d just give a date or at least a timeframe.
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Yep.
There is no interaction with the community, we are learning everything through leaks or data mining for months.
And this uncertainity makes it very hard to plan ahead for players. If they gave a clear schedule people could arrange their vacations/work schedules etc. according to this.
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They should add a premium release to the cash shop where you get an exclusive mount and an early access to tbc content and if you don’t like it you don’t have to buy it
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If June 1st is the full launch date, that does not give a lot of time for the pre-patch. Considering in the developer interviews etc, they said we would get plenty of time for pre-patch and leveling the new races. The original timeline for vanilla into tbc was pre-patch Dec 5th 2006 followed by full expansion launch Jan 16th 2007.
A 2-3 week pre-patch seems cut short : /
Maybe it will come already on this weekly reset on 5th of may? Thats 4 weeks prepatch time.
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Exactly and 4 weeks of prepatch are enough.
If it’s 18 mai for prepatch and 1 june for launch i guess they will open for Draenei / BE 58 boost. If not this is Christmas for mages, bots and gold sellers.
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Tooo soon, you awoke me too soon.
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It will be fun levelling in pre-patch once again, why? Because more people, and more people means you can fill group for elite quests/dungeons. I hope they don’t release boost for BE/Draenei!
They would need to release the pre-patch this week if they wanted to release for the 1st of June.
The 1st of June gives no real time to level the new Paladins/Shamans. /sigh.
Honestly, this kind of stuff is true pretty much every single time and considering that there’s a bunch of people saying they saw it too I think it’s the release date.
That means we need pre patch next week. 2 weeks of pre patch would be a disaster for everyone rolling a draenei or a blood elf. Would be dumb as hell of Blizzard to do this.
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Doesn’t prepatch have an event with demon invasions linked to it? Maybe 1st of June is prepatch day? Or are we getting a stealth prepatch tomorow 
looks like a hoax to me though especialy the one that have more of the launcher in it screams hoax HotS is not on the things the person even have up there nether the launcher or HotS is in beta
The bar at the top is favourites, the game doesn’t appear there if you select it from the all games tab and it isn’t part of your favourites. The launcher has a opt-in beta mode which gives you the newest features of the launcher before it gets rolled out to everyone.
So sadly this screenshot could be legit.
But those races were not even available during pre-patch originally 
So either way they get a head start.
you are probbably right (allthough I have games there that I havent played in forever so I didnt think of that)