Warcraft loses 1.3 million subscribers over the last 3 months.

[Ualaa]

Handicapped players are likely a very small minority of the player base.

Look at the posts by the few blind players, who were using follow (in conjunction with specific sound effects and teamspeak/ventrilo) to do battlegrounds with their guild mates.
There were a couple of stories like that, on the Blizzard forums following the removal of follow.
Definitely also a minority case.

But follow was removed, despite the negative press received and the impact upon the minority.

If Blizzard decides the IWT/CTM combo is helping bots/boxers/whatever-their-target-is and that its removal would be beneficial to the majority, they're not going to care that it was a feature put in to help a very small minority have an easier time with their game.
Their track record proves that.

[Mickthathick]

+1 Ualaa

The amount of people who need CTM to play due to health/mobility reasons would have to be a tiny tiny minority and one easily waved off by Blizzard PR as a causality in the war against bots.

[TRoN]

Removing IWT/CTM is a major mistake! Lots of players use it when playing solo and would be against that decision, the few multiboxers still around will definitly quit WOW and bots will keep growing...

[EaTCarbS]

Removing IWT/CTM is a major mistake! Lots of players use it when playing solo and would be against that decision, the few multiboxers still around will definitly quit WOW and bots will keep growing...

Thats what happens when you create a game that greatly rewards/requires mindlessly doing the same menial tasks over and over again ^.^

[ebony]

Removing IWT/CTM is a major mistake! Lots of players use it when playing solo and would be against that decision, the few multiboxers still around will definitly quit WOW and bots will keep growing...

who what where and when is iwt/ctm being removed? this has not been removed as far as i know in any patch as i been checking on the ptr. and as far as am told there is no plans to remove this.

[JohnGabriel]

Companies (not saying Blizzard in particular) make such a big deal about features for the handicap. I think there was even a news program about a guy playing WoW with one of those tubes you blow into to move the mouse around. They have their press releases, gather all the good publicity and take all the praise from the public.

But they never really lose that praise when they get rid of those features the handicap use. I would say luckily it also effected boxers so caused a bit more noise in the forums and maybe they lost a bit of that praise they stole.

I am handicapped myself (deaf) and most of you probably will never understand, but that's OK, its our cross to bear not yours. I have never had problems with WoW but once I had to contact a small indie game to try and get them to add visual cues when certain audio events are fired that were necessary for game play. It was very very quickly added to the game and they worked really hard to help, but I have a big sinking feeling that I wouldn't be able to get that level of help from Blizzard.

[Fat Tire]

who what where and when is iwt/ctm being removed? this has not been removed as far as i know in any patch as i been checking on the ptr. and as far as am told there is no plans to remove this.

Same thing when follow got removed


Can anyone confirm iwt/ctm. I cant check since my accounts ran out a number of days ago.

[Khatovar]

No one has said they are removing or have removed CTM/IWT. Tin said they should remove it to kill bots and it snowballed from there.

[ebony]

No one has said they are removing or have removed CTM/IWT. Tin said they should remove it to kill bots and it snowballed from there.

i was going to say as am using it fine

[SaraiE]

As of June 10th 2013, I would have saved $75X3. Wife and family a bit happier too!

1.3 million unsubscribed, wow! I am happy to be part of that number.

SaraiE