A small, secret change has been sneaked into WoW Classic . And it has to do with how letters work…
Actually, World of Warcraft Classic aimed to remain unchanged as much as possible and stay close to the original version of the game. However, over time, some details have been adjusted, such as the strong Goblin guards or the behavior of skeletons of killed players. Now there has been a new change that was quietly introduced with the restart of the realms. Letters no longer work as they used to.
What has changed? Those who wanted to could always make a copy of letters in World of Warcraft and receive this as a “Plain Letter” into their inventory. This letter could then be passed on to other players and shown around. This is no longer possible, as Plain Letters have become soulbound since yesterday, meaning they can no longer be transferred to other characters.
This means that you can no longer send nice letters or memories of this kind to a bank character, but they must always remain with the original recipient.
Why was this change made? It is not clear why Blizzard made this change, as there has been no statement from the developer regarding it. However, players suspect that Blizzard wants to tackle various spam and troll actions with this. For many years, there have been jokers who sell letters in the auction house and then write a nasty message like “Haha, you idiot, you really bought this”.
Other players think that Blizzard wants to prevent various kinds of lotteries in the game, where the “operator” simply hands out letters with certain numbers as tickets.
Roleplayers are particularly disturbed: This change particularly affects roleplayers. They often use letters to serve as flyers in roleplay and hand them out to other players in RP – for example, as an invitation to a specific event or as an announcement of a certain development within the story. The removal of this option has caused discontent among players.
Especially strange: In the retail version of WoW (that is, Battle for Azeroth) letters are still not soulbound and can be freely traded.
It would therefore be possible that this is merely a strange bug rather than a conscious decision.
What do you think of this change? Is it good if it helps prevent spam and fraud? Or has such a thing always been part of World of Warcraft?
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