The World of Warcraft team has established internal WOTLK Gold channels for players to voice their opinions about pieces of potentially problematic content that could be worth reviewing. It's a bottom-up effort on the part of the team, with players taking note of various things about the game that could be bothering them for quite a long time but, lacking a formal way of calling attention to the material the issue was never examined with an open mind.

When a flagged item is re-evaluated, a panel of team leaders from different backgrounds as well as genders, races, and different perspectives review the content and decide whether or not it should remain as it is, altered, or taken altogether from the game. It's all about whether the material has the potential to make the game less enjoyable for players.

"That's the line we're trying draw," Hazzikostas said. "Things that are limiting from their perspective, and things may suggest it was the case that World of Warcraft and Azeroth were more suited for certain types of people than other. There's plenty of space for humor, and humor is going to find its way into the hearts of some people and not land for others. Some people might find certain things offensive to their sensibilities, but it's not the norm for the people we're trying to attract. At the end of the day we're in a T for Teen game. There are double-entendres, there are things like that which will be around for a long time. We must ensure that we are taking into consideration all viewpoints in the making of jokes, we don't make them to benefit particularly lesser represented groups."

Certain of the changes come at the request of members of the community, so the group is working at paying more attention to the concerns of those. While the content is not being changed now, Hazzikostas said fan discussions revolving around the depiction of women in Mogu and the name of the Twin Consorts raid encounter in 2013's Mists of Pandaria expansion are examples of situations where fan concerns fell on deaf ears.

"It's not as if these are just invented issues," he said. "There were voices speaking about these issues and people weren't paying enough attention. Now , we're trying to buy WOTLK Classic Gold bring that to the forefront."As well as efforts to create Azeroth more welcoming, patch 9.1.5 is a major overhaul to a variety of Shadowlands gameplay systems, many of which have been asked for by players.