Originally Posted by
A dot Ham
My personal belief is that the game and everything you need to play should come from no other source... except Blizzard.
This includes guides, wowhead database, armor, logs, etc.
But that hasn't been the case since the beginning, so why should we come to expect anything different?
What it does though is it gives deniability to Blizzard. No matter how sophisticated or thorough our fansites or data collection gets. Blizzard will ALWAYS (even it isn't true) be able to say "Well OUR internal testing show something different."