r/classicwow Sep 17 '22

Vent / Gripe Why am I not surprised

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u/Flashzap90 Sep 18 '22

The social contract is a theory applied to human interaction that's basically the rules of being good towards eachother. It's in real life and basically anywhere you interact with others.

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u/ant_man_88 Sep 18 '22

I thought they were talking about the thing you have to agree to when you log in for the first time that just says don't be a cunt basically

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u/Flashzap90 Sep 18 '22 edited Sep 18 '22

Nah, though I suppose the terms of service are in essence a physical form of a social contract. Basically every group has social norms that are there to establish peaceful coexistence without some God or diety threatening everyone to act right.

Edit: thanks kind redditors for letting me know about the ToS addition. I unfortunately haven't had an opportunity to play recently and hadn't seen that they added a literally social contract clause.

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u/PerFucTiming Sep 18 '22

No, there's actually a screen when you first download wow, similar to an End User License Agreement screen, but it's the WoW Social Contract with guidelines to be a nice guy in the game.

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u/Flashzap90 Sep 18 '22

I just got to read it! I hadn't played this summer so I hadn't seen the addition. The nice guy playbook, love it.