Are there only toxic players in World of Warcraft? Not at all. One player has given away over 500 gifts – making many people happy in the process.
Christmas is celebrated not only in the physical world but also in World of Warcraft in the form of the Feast of Winter Veil. While all players can pick up their gifts under the Winter Veil tree, some take the time to make other heroes of Azeroth happy as well. Some give away individual gifts, while others take a whole different approach – like a German YouTuber who has given away around 500 gifts worth about 20 million gold.
Less pleasant, but at least curious, things happen often in WoW:
What did the YouTuber do? The German YouTuber GarroshTV aimed to “give back a little” to his community and therefore farmed a lot of gold in the game for a long time. The result in the end: A whopping 20,000,000 gold pieces that he could spend on gifts to distribute across all realms of the European version of World of Warcraft.
The gifts mainly include mounts and rare transmog items, but pure gold gifts were also part of it. To really make all the recipients happy, he first checked on the website “Simple Armory” whether an account still needed the corresponding gift.
How he went about it and how positive the feedback and reactions from the recipients are can best be seen in the video – even though the language barrier on the French and Russian realms led to some reticence:
A beautiful story that shows that it’s often not as toxic in World of Warcraft as one frequently reads on social media. Those who give away a little joy usually receive that joy back.
The earnings that GarroshTV generates from YouTube in December, by the way, he also wants to indirectly use for a good cause. He buys “Reven packs” from the WoW shop with that money, which he then gives away to the community. The money from these packs is in turn donated by Blizzard to CureDuchenne and is intended to help find a cure for the disease that also affected Mats Steen – a deceased WoW player, whose life and influence on his friends were captured in a documentary.
