Yesterday Blizzard revealed the new Twitch drops for World of Warcraft’s latest Dragonflight update, Guardians of the Dream, and it’s led to a small bit of controversy among the community.
If you haven’t used Twitch drops before, players need to tune into the platform and watch WoW streamers for a specified amount of time. Once that time has been hit, you can get the rewards. This month that includes Dottie the baby alpaca pet from November 7 at 10 am PT through November 14 at 10 am PT, which then changes to the White Riding Camel mount from November 14 at 10 am PT through November 21 at 10 am PT. In this case, players need to watch four hours of Wow: Dragonflight content.
Typically there’d be no reason for anything other than excitement with Twitch drops, but as it turns out the Dottie pet was originally released in December 2019, as part of a charity campaign with proceeds going to Make-A-Wish Foundation and WE Charity.
This has prompted a massive thread on the Blizzard Forums, with many players saying adding what was supposed to be a charity item to the Twitch drops “leaves a bad taste.”
The big worry here, according to some players, is that it could potentially alter the effectiveness of future charity campaigns, as players now know those items and pets will likely be made available for free sometime down the road. This could influence some to not donate toward the charity at all, and rather wait.
At the same time, others think that since the charity run is long done there’s no reason Dottie can’t be used for other purposes. According to Wowpedia, the pet was available on the in-game store for $10 until September 17, 2023, likely because of its planned inclusion in the Twich drop.
This whole event is likely nothing more than a drop in the bucket for WoW at large, but it has raised some discussions between the community.
