It reminds me of a post I read in the Star Wars Galaxies forums in the fall of 2005. The guy claimed he had an "uncle" who worked for Sony Online Entertainment. The poster claimed the game would reduce the professions to eight, make Jedi a starting profession, totally rework combat to make it "twitch based," and rework the entire crafting system.
We all thought he was nuts. "How could they do that before the launch of a major expansion?," we said. Until, of course, it actually happened.