WoW Classic players furious at addition of controversial item, Blizzard says it's a necessary evil in the 'unwinnable war' against bots, scammers, and RMT workshops
Blizzard has announced it's adding the World of Warcraft Token to WoW Classic, an item that can be bought with real money and used for either 30 days of game time or sold in the auction house for gold. This is an item that has always been somewhat controversial among WoW players and, when we're talking Classic, it is exactly the kind of thing some players hoped never to see. Essentially the WoW Token allows players to swap real money for gold, without going through some shady third party dealer, and some folk think this just shouldn't be in the game.
It gets especially acute because players have different ideas of what 'Classic' should mean. Over on the r/ClassicWoW subreddit the conflagration was absolutely spectacular, with longtime moderator ZeldenGM absolutely going off on Blizzard and overturning rule 4, which prohibits discussions about private servers and cheats.
«We’ve upheld a rule against discussion of private servers and cheats on the basis of a good faith that Blizzard would be running Classic to a certain standard,» wrote ZeldenGM in a now-deleted post. «The standard has been pretty fucking low for a very long time but it’s clear today that the mask of integrity has totally fallen from the face of greed. As such feel free to discuss other options to play all versions of Classic in a way that has a higher integrity than what Blizzard has to offer.»
Subsequently, ZeldenGM has stepped down from moderating r/ClassicWoW and rule 4 has been re-established. They did return briefly to comment in a stickied thread titled 'Clearing the air' announcing all of this, saying:
«There’s a long list of grievances, some that are unknown to the wider community, but the bottom line is the spirit of Classic is totally dead for
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