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Hooray for guest writers! Today’s new rules come from Shintar of Priest With A Cause. I’ve said before that if you ever wanted to know what I thought about anything ever you could just read what Shintar has to say. I don’t think there’s any blogger out there that I agree with as often as I do with her.

New Rule – No more six-month content gaps

I know, I know, making quality content takes time, but let’s face it: one of WoW’s big appeals is that it’s always changing. If nothing new gets added or drastically changed for six months, things get stale regardless of whether you’ve beaten Arthas on heroic yet or not. Then people get bored and stop playing and it plays hell with any kind of attempt to keep doing large-scale group content on a regular schedule.

More and smaller updates, please! I want to keep raiding, but I can’t do it with half my guild cancelling their subscriptions because if they have to wipe on Putricide one more time they’ll want to kill themselves.

New Rule – We need more character slots per server

I can’t believe Blizzard encourages us to sink hours of time into levelling and gearing up alts, the upcoming Cataclysm changes are supposed to make people want to play with their friends more than ever, and yet they clearly don’t want us to do both at the same time. Ten character slots per server is simply not enough when you’ve been playing this game for four years or more! I really want to try out Goblins and Worgen when Cataclysm comes out, but the way things are now that will either mean starting on a brand-new server with no money and no friends, or deleting some of my beloved characters on my home server. Show us altoholics some love!

New Rule – The word "go" will automatically be removed from all chat by a spam filter

Can’t talk about your favourite Chinese board game anymore? Tough. As for the act of moving, that can be described just as well with verbs like move, walk, fly etc., which are all clearly too long to serve as substitutes for the annoying gogogo-ers in instances. Typing out more than two different letters? No time! Waiting for the healer to catch up? No time! Waiting for the tank to pull? No time!

It’s even spilling over into other parts of WoW right now; the other day I saw an advert in trade chat that said "Lf1M boomkin for VoA gogo". Because that will make people respond faster…? Just, no.