on blizzard.com they even have an article on the South park episode. Even though they were being made fun of as a game so carebear that 1 guy going around actually pvping causes a whole server to stop leveling, blizzard still choose to list it on their site and say thanks to them and call their ingame characters heros of Azeroth.

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