Blizzard is continuing to update World of Warcraft in the lead-up to patch 9.1.5. While some of these changes are gameplay related, others have to do with removing suggestive or inappropriate content from the game.

In World of Warcraft, players can type /joke or /flirt to have their characters say a random voice line from a small selection unique to their chosen character race and gender. However, many of these voice lines contain content that is crass, insensitive, and borderline explicit. Many of these voice lines were the target of this most recent censorship.

As detailed by Wowhead, there are a lot of changes, some of them leaving characters with as few as two lines of dialogue to cycle through. And while some are clearly the result of combing back through the archives and removing content that, in the wake of Blizzard’s current crisis, is clearly inappropriate, other cuts are simply down to the fact that it’s now 2021 and some of this stuff is either horribly dated or simply bad.

The in-game zone Mac’Aree in the Legion end-game zone of Argus has had its name changed to Eredath. The employee for which Mac’Aree was named — Jesse McCree — is also the namesake for Overwatch hero McCree. McCree, the former Blizzard game designer, left Blizzard following the sexual harassment and gender discrimination lawsuit filed against Activision Blizzard. The gun-toting cowboy that holds his name in Overwatch will eventually get a name change, too.

Since the first of several lawsuits surrounding sexual harassment and inequality was filed against Blizzard in July, eyes from both inside and outside the company have been on it. In more recent history, World of Warcraft had begun to silently change things in the Public Test Realm, from renaming quests, achievements, and items to replacing art assets.

The game’s community has been reacting on the WoW subreddit, too, with one user summing up the experience by saying “This just makes me really sad. Great job.”

Some examples of jokes that are being removed are:

•     Draenei Male: If you could get your hands on my family jewels I would be deeply appreciative.
•     Goblin Female: I’m a modern goblin woman. Independent? I still let men do nice things to me. But I stopped giving them any credit.
•     Orc Female: What’s estrogen? Can you eat it?
•     Tauren Male: Homogenized? No way, I like the ladies.

Meanwhile here are some of the flirts being cut:

•     Blood Elf Demon Hunter Male: Are you sure you’re not part-demon? I find myself wanting to stalk you.
•     Blood Elf Female: Normally, I only ride on epic mounts... But, let’s talk.
•     Dwarf Male: You look pretty, I like your hair, here’s a drink... Are you ready now?
•     Goblin Male: I got what you need. *sound of zipper*
•     Highmountain Tauren Female: Are you staring at my rack?
•     Nightborn Male: Mmmm, I wanna tap that ley line.
•     Orc Male: Um... You look like a lady.
•     Troll Female: When enraged, and in heat, a female troll can mate over 80 times in one night. Be you prepared?

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