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I may or may not have lost my mind at someone in Elwynn Forest general chat after they were pushing this idea that people only started calling Deadmines VC on private servers. I have not been completely immune to this madness. "DM is Deadmines, all the way," he proclaimed. Kevin Jordan, an ex-Blizzard game designer who worked extensively on the original World of Warcraft, fielded the query during one of his Classic Twitch streams. The controversy that's gone all the way to the top. It's even received the haughty Steven Crowder "Change My Mind" treatment.
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The term, " Actually, we called it VC," has been co-opted as a parody of old-school players eager to mansplain dungeoneering lingo to younger players, in a very "you need a high IQ to understand Rick & Morty" kind of way. In-game, there is at least one instance of a player quitting a guild after they were informed by his entirely well-meaning guildmates that they were a DM organization, not a VC organization. The whole thing has become an internalized, contentious meme among World of Warcraft Classic denizens. "Deadmines was VC," writes another player, linking to a picture of their original WoW guide. "VC is stupid as fuck and if you think DM is somehow going to be miss understood(sic) as you are as dense as a brick, but who the hell cares it's just 2 letters to refer to a fucking dungeon call it MD for all I care," writes one player. Searching "Deadmines" on the Classic forums (or "DM" on r/Classicwow) returns hundreds of threads of players debating over the topic-and responses can often get quite heated. During my journeys through Classic, I have witnessed firsthand these General Chat flame wars over correct abbreviation habits, and the battle constantly spills out into forum threads which leave things permanently unresolved. Craggiehackkieīut now, as World of Warcraft Classic has welcomed a new flood of players unaware of the stupid diction nuances we established in 2004, there's a simmering language war happening in the Alliance capital cities of Ironforge and Stormwind every night as DM abbreviators and VC abbreviators go at it in each zone's General Chat. VC is stupid as fuck and if you think DM is somehow going to be miss understood(sic) as you are as dense as a brick.