Big number on purple site

And then all the standard shady alt-right bollocks around elevating fuckos that say racist shit. Bannon probably pays his bills

He gained popularity by being a WoW streamer.

I don't play wow and I hate him and never watched anything or any wow content

But the way he became THE wow streamer is by making content that was "to the point" and as short as possible

Like imagine "how do you make money in wow" and the video is 1m20s with the most effective method and 0 clickbait nonsense or "hey guys here, wowguy82 with another video about blah blah blah"

Allegedly he wasn't always batshit maga alt right but as someone who does not do anything wow related it's hard to imagine that

Should check out FFXIV with all the other WOW refugees, it's a good game

If you don't mind trading the endless progression treadmill for actually fun content then Guild Wars 2 is where it's at. Genuinely the chillest, most helpful community and the best open world content in the genre.

I think most of these people are on PvP servers. I'm currently playing on PvE in the Forever beta and it's pretty good.

My time playing MMOs has been just like my time in metal music. Either the biggest raging assholes or the nicest people with very little in between.

Classic is especially bad about this since it requires a much bigger time commitment than retail. That tends to attract a very degenerate crowd (in additional to the more normal people)

Retail has a lot more furries from what I can tell

This is also the Warhammer 40k experience.

That's a fantastic way of describing RuneScape too.

Some of the most toxic people you will ever meet and some of the nicest people you will ever meet.

So 4chan, but with elves and orcs and shit

I feel like this is just every nerd fandom now

Perfectly describes TF2, not uncommon to see Genderqueer furries and Nazi incels on the same server.

reminds me of runescape

ACK MY KNEES

They're trying to make it good this time?

First it’s not exactly 30 year old content. There seems to be an actual effort to make a new WoW game based on the things fans like about the older content. There is a lot that is still “classic” but they have added a decent amount of changes.

To answer your question though, IMO they are using the Beta for a few things:

1. An end of Q3 money grab with just enough delay to push the “release” into Q4
2. A hype machine for the actual release.
3. A test of their new server infrastructure. The game is now “realmless” so it is essentially a mega server only separated by your chosen play style ( PVE, PVP, RP, Hardcore). I’m not even sure if they are going to separate regions (NA/EU) or if they are trying to make it more or less a global server.

everyone should just cancel en masse.... companies hate losing money, so make them lose money instead of trying to block things