No, no, it is not a private server thing.
Deadmines is VC.
Dire maul is DM.
Effective the minute dire maul goes live.
Anyone who disagrees is wrong, don’t @ me.
I mean people usually use DM:E, DM:W, DM:N, or Tribute runs anyway. The DM+ is over redundant.
DM is Deadmines.
VC is Victor Cunningham
DM:(something) is Dire Maul.
These are facts.
See? I can do it too!
The difference is that yours are wrong, and his are right.
It was called DM for deadmines and back in the day when people did Dire Maul they would use DM North or whatever section they were doing.
True but my server has a LookingForGroup channel and DM was easily extinguished when Diremaul wasn’t out yet but it is today.
As obviously displayed by pretty much the simple fact this whole thing creates arguments on every place it’s brought up, be it the LFG channel, Westfall Channel, and even the forums now…
So yeah. I say he’s not right just as easily as you say he is.
People think the earth is flat and argue about it.
Doesn’t mean they are right, as they aren’t, but golly, they just keep coming in, insisting their nonsense is truth.
Kinda like what you’re doing here.
… You are doing the exact same thing. You are quickly replying to me to tell me I’m wrong, and I’m quickly replying to you telling you that you’re incorrect.
Kinda like what you’re doing here too?
Sorry + is just a filler was thinking regex logic
Next year’s April 1st patch notes:
Deadmines has been renamed to VanCleef(VC) to end the debate once and for all.
I haven’t argued or called right or wrong? /confused
Only crazy people don’t specify DMN/E/W/T. Its very easy to tell if someone is running Dire Maul because they have to say which wing they are running. Deadmines is always just DM. Also, you can shift click someone and itll tell you their level.
The “everyone will assign a wing to it so DM is fine” argument doesn’t hold water when most casual conversation doesn’t give a direction. Such as:
- My favorite dungeon is DM
- I’m over in that zone next to DM
- He’ll be ready once he finishes DM on his alt
See what I’m getting at here? VC makes it so there is no confusion whatsoever.
Sorry, forums aren’t my main cup of tea, that was meant in reply to the Retail Pandaren posting.
Edit: To also be kind of honest about things, while I’m in the Deadmines=DM camp, I actually never abbreviate dungeon names when looking for groups. Just to avoid sparking these exact discussions. Heh.
I think the biggest conclusion is that its highly dependent on the server / faction. This will always probably be a debate with no winners. Just like how a person grows up in a neighbor hood with different slang than the next neighborhood
It depends on where you came from. On Elune Alliance, it was called VC. Other servers seemed to take a different naming convention.
But I think we can all agree the moderates are the real villains here. The people who say “LFM DM:VC” Pick a side, damn it.
Yohko and Voidheart are accurate, I believe.
I started in vanilla and played on two different servers. Both these servers did the DM=Deadmines and DM:() thing because Dire Maul released after Deadmines at the time, and people were already calling DM Deadmines.
And me being a old fogey pretty much insures I’ll sit here on my porch yelling at the young whippersnappers who want me to change.
DM is deadmines, calling it VC is a dead giveaway you started later in WoW.