I can't wait to see this have absolutely no effect on the community at all :)
I'm gonna be honest. Absolutely none of this means anything until they actually hire GMs and more CS that can handle reports/deal with problems in the game. For further proof of how little this will be enforced, they removed the ability to type /spit before removing the ability to type a certain racial slur in the chat. So forgive me if, given the above, I see no substance to this.
So basically, the only thing that's different here is that they outright force you to agree to not be a gold seller. Everything else up there was already stuff you're supposed to follow anyway, regardless of what you're doing. Don't be a piece of trash and play the game; simple as that. I hope this also pegs guild advertisers who're too stupid to realize there's a guild recruitment channel. /4 exists, so stop spamming your generic guilds in trade. You are just as bad as the armchair warriors arguing about politics in trade chat for spamming unrelated content in a channel meant for trading. Not like people even trade stuff in trade chat anymore anyway.EDIT: Wow, I did not see page 2 of the comments. Classic Wowhead comments section. My two cents regarding that topic; I hope the social contract also pegs "political" content as spam too. I want trade chat, not server-wide general chat. Got nothing against folks of any representation, but seriously; take that talk to general chat. It's not trade chat material, and never was. I would say participating in that sort of chatter in trade is as bad as political discussions in terms of how disruptive it is to the intended function of that channel, but I'm sure someone will get mad at me for implying that.
This is dumb, are they going to refund anyone that does not want to follow this?
"blah blah blah, accept"-most users
I just find it funny they say "Hey, if you see a group out there, maybe help them?"Cus now you know someone will report you for not healing them even though you didn't see them, nor should you have an obligation to do any form of group activity while playing solo and farming herbs.
Ha, so they issue a challenge right when you load in?
I fully agree with some of you and totally disagree with the others. This new so called social contract is so social and snowflakey it burns my eyes and soul. If i see bad players f up i tell them what they did wrong but if they get mad about it and wish me cancer or whatnot even though i have so much proof, nothing will happen to them. Blizzard wants us to just be one sided, tolerate people with funny beliefs, if we call them out on something we get banned i.e. saying they f up ingame mechanics or w/e and if they do the same to us on any other thing they manage to survive anything and everything. Pretty sure we'll be obligated to hit Agree on that thing otherwise we cant play the game which also means they're controlling us meaning they're taking away our freedom. Look at this lunacat user, look at the thing he/she says, gets mad and calls the other guy names ie freak, bigot, piece of crap for having different opinions. Don't they know it should go both ways? I tolerate people, i don't have to accept their crazyness and have them all over me. It's like if i say i'm pro lgbt acceptance i get greeted by some and made fun by many others, if i say i don't care about them its not my pot i get greeted by many more but also get my comments deleted and called names in private messages, pretty funny. These people demand everything but are willing to let go of nothing.
"If you harm your fellow adventurers with any of the above behaviors, you are subject to punishment up to and including suspension of your account." This can be very lengthy because who decides if what has been said is so harmful, even a mere thing can mean huge to someone yet absolute nothing to another. Can i be banned for not wanting to explain something to someone because the expansion has been going for 2 years and the guy gets mad i tell him that? Can i be banned for saying i don't care about someone's beliefs because it has literally nothing to do with me or what i care about? Because these are the things people get offended about and demand our heads if we don't say something that agrees with their beliefs. I have been threatened with wowhead ban for such a small thing i don't even wanna say it cause as i said people get offended way too easy, feels like they're amber heard 2.0 infinity, and i just don't wanna get banned. Cause it is well known we're either with or out of the picture.
The people complaining about this are only complaining because they know their days are numbered.It's not hard to play this game without being an ^&*!@#$ to total strangers.
I'm waiting for "Reported for not saying 'Hi' when joining group".