Update 06 September:
The classic school of etiquette is now exerting its influence on the Shadowlands. Or to put it another way: With patch 9.1.5, you will no longer be able to specifically spit at players in retail WoW. Only if you type /spit in chat without a targeted player will the familiar message "You spit on the ground" appear. With a player in the target, simply nothing happens.
Source
: Icy VeinsOriginal message from July 31st:
Surprisingly, visitors to the public test server for the second phase of WoW: Burning Crusade Classic have discovered that it is no longer possible to spit at other players specifically. That is, if you type /spit in chat without a targeted player, the familiar message "You're spitting on the ground." will appear. However, once you target a player and then trigger the emote, nothing will happen.
Since this change landed on the PTR without any accompanying hotfix documentation or explanatory developer commentary, players are now speculating as to the reason for the change.
Perhaps it's because critics of the Deluxe Edition spit at users of the Reawakened Phase Hunter every chance they get. Perhaps they also want to limit players spitting at NPC Field Marshal Afrasiabi at every opportunity, who has not yet been adjusted on the Classic servers, as has happened on the Retail servers with all the Afrasiabi references
.Maybe after all the bad news and reports that have come to public attention around misogyny, suicide, sexual harassment, alcohol escapades and more, they just want to slowly start tolerating no more space for bad behavior of this kind in general. Alternatively, of course, this could just be a bug.
The community is commenting on the change in their own charming way:
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