Straight up: Blizzard hasn't confirmed any of this, so treat it as a rumour with legs, not a reveal. But the "Camelot" datamine has become the loudest WoW Classic story heading into BlizzCon next weekend, and it's built on more than one stray file.
Back in June, dataminer Stiven posted on X that Blizzard's servers held license entries for something labelled "World of Warcraft Camelot," tied to the long-rumoured Patch 1.60. "I did look more and can confirm it 100% Patch 1.60 is Mainline Camelot," he wrote. Since then, community trackers have logged dozens of encrypted 1.60 builds sitting on Blizzard's CDN going back to October 2025. In late July, one of those builds reportedly moved to a vendor server, which usually means a project has left pure internal testing.
Why people think it's Classic+
The prevailing read is that Camelot is Blizzard's take on Classic+, an evolved version of Vanilla WoW rather than a straight expansion or another re-release. The datamined "Heroic" and "Epic" license tiers point to multiple editions at launch, probably with the usual cosmetic carrots attached.
How much to trust it: Stiven is a known quantity in WoW datamining, and a year of steady build activity is harder to wave away than a single leak. That's the case for taking it seriously. The case against: none of it is a Blizzard word, license entries can describe things that never ship, and codenames get cut all the time.
The tidy part is the timing. BlizzCon runs September 12-13, and Blizzard already said it would talk about Classic's future after the Black Temple raid opened on August 27. If Camelot is real, that stage is where it turns up. If the show comes and goes with nothing, this stays a rumour. A well-documented one, but a rumour.
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