With beta coming out on Tuesday I started to think about my Warcraft opinions. I’m still a little salty that Ion apparently thinks that all WoW players are brainwashed lemmings just repeating the takes of the ‘popular kids’ (aka parroting feedback from influencer videos). Anyway, I had a nice little rant about that and then started to wonder why it had got under my skin so much. I started to wonder if maybe that’s because I feel trapped? Constrained? Voiceless basically. I’m not on any of the ‘usual’ social media places (I’m on tumblr and I watch some videos on YT but that’s it). I’m not sure if discord counts as social media but I’m not in anything that the WoW devs are looking at.

The WoW forums scare me. When I’m really looking forward to something, I’m enthusiastic, eager etc. I’m not good at waiting and I try to still immerse myself in the thing. I’ll watch loads of videos on it for example, and I want to talk about it! This is usually when I make the mistake of checking out the forums and the relentless negativity and name calling upsets me everytime. Seriously looking at the ‘comment section’ on YT videos (or anywhere) is always such a mistake. It’s sad and it’s scary. If anybody expresses anything vaguely positive then they are a ‘shill’. It’s like the only acceptable thing is to ‘love to hate’ and that’s just so sad.

I don’t know what I’m going to do about beta because I desperately want to give feedback. Blizz are turning addons off and creating in house versions, and it probably won’t do any good but it’ll make me feel better if I can tell them what’s good, and what needs work.

Anyway! This post isn’t about beta feedback because that hasn’t started yet – it’s about something I wouldn’t touch with a ten foot bargepole, controversy.