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Official WoW website housecleaning coming our way

Sarah Pine
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Friday afternoon Community Manager Zarhym took to the official WoW forums to let us all know that Blizzard will be removing some of the lesser-used features they track on the official website. The reasoning behind the decision is that these particular features are laborious to maintain, their pages are not well-trafficked, and you can either look up the same information in-game, or there exist fansites that track the same things just as well as the official site. The following pages have been put on the chopping block:

  • Pets & Mounts Gallery

  • Factions

  • Professions

  • Guild Perks and Rewards sections

  • Character Pets & Mounts

  • Character Hunter Pets

  • Character Professions

  • Character Reputation

The full blue post is after the break.


Zarhym
Like any good webmasters, we look at World of Warcraft site stats on a regular basis, and we're always evaluating which aspects of the site people find most useful. Over time, we've identified a few areas that players don't really seem to visit but that still require a bit of effort for us to keep updated each time we release a new content update. For most of these, it's pretty obvious why they don't draw a lot of attention-they tend to focus on things that are simply more compelling to look at inside the game, are a "given," or are already well-served and readily available elsewhere, like on fansites.

Early next week we'll be doing some cleanup and removing the following rarely visited, higher-maintenance sections from the World of Warcraft website:

Game Guide
Pets & Mounts Gallery
Factions
Professions

Guild Profiles
Perks and Rewards sections

Character Profiles
Pets & Mounts
Hunter Pets
Professions
Reputation

Here are just a few fansites that provide a wealth of information on the above topics, as well as a whole lot more!
Wowhead.com
WarcraftPets.com
WarcraftMounts.com
WoW-Petopia.com