Discrimination Debate Rages On

The heated debate over discrimination in WoW continues to grow. Ferrago.com  and PRWeb both report today that Chinese players, in particular, are reporting more & more instances of discrimination in-game, with one Chinese web site that reported on the story logging over 7,000 complaints from players who feel they have been unfairly mistaken for gold farmers & harassed, simply because of the language they speak.

With over 5 million subscribers, one thing is for sure, WoW will continue to be a multi-cultural virtual melting pot, the likes of which we've never seen before. Blizzard likely did not foresee many of these issues while developing the game, but it will be interesting to see how they address them, because, judging from the amount debate this controversy has stirred, this problem likely will not go away on it's own.