The Azeroth Ethicist: Special I.W.I.N. edition
In reading the commentary on the site concerning the brouhaha surrounding Martin Fury and The Marvel Family’s steamrolling of raid content, there were a lot of assertions made that left an impression on me, but the overwhelming feeling I had coming away from it was the players were treating it as a TOS issue when ultimately it’s not. For obvious reasons, Blizzard doesn’t spend a lot of time creating specific rules for what happens when players get ahold of items that are not officially supposed to exist. I do, however, believe it to be a moral issue. Was Karatechop wrong to use the shirt, or just wrong past a certain point? Someone made of stricter stuff than myself would probably say that it was wrong to use the shirt at all, but I have to admit — I don’t have it in me to condemn Karatechop’s initial impulse to try it out. GM items don’t officially exist for players; we know about them only because they’ve been data-mined, and you’d have to be a fairly frequent habitué of Warcraft fan sites to have any inkling that they’re in the game at all. If I’d been in Karatechop’s position, like many players I would’ve believed that Martin Fury was a joke when I first saw it. Who honestly expects to run
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