Stop trying to make a console war out of which WoW is better, you're all exhausting

I've been very much enjoying the World of Warcraft: Forever beta—and I will be the first to cop to the fact I think it's recapturing a lot of the essence of an oldschool MMO that we lost. Tongue in my cheek, I'll even join in with the "reject modernity" crowd. But, crucially, I'll be doing so as a joke.

I've noticed, skimming my hand across the surface of the discourse, a propensity for folks to be getting up in arms about which version of their favorite MMO was better and to do so loudly, passionately, and obnoxiously. These factions stand divided:

Behold, the cruel efficiencies of the Church of Retail, who believe that modern WoW's conveniences, that their hoards of amassed transmogs and mounts and player housing, are indeed the better option, and that these upstarts are merely nostalgia-peddlers.

The hard, leathery-faced veterans of House Classic, who believe that no changes are to be wrought upon their favorite game—that these …