“The fallacious sense of “slippery slope” is often used synonymously with continuum fallacy, in that it ignores the possibility of middle ground and assumes a discrete transition from category A to category B. In this sense it constitutes an informal fallacy. In a non-fallacious sense, including use as a legal principle, a middle-ground possibility is acknowledged, and reasoning is provided for the likelihood of the predicted outcome. Other idioms for the slippery slope argument are the thin end/edge of the wedge, the camel’s nose in the tent, or If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.”
If you’re going to argue against a feature, actually talk about the feature, not some doom prophecy you’ve made up in your head that will happen because a feature you can’t argue against comes into existence.
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Pretty much everybody is aware of the slippery slope fallacy, some people just think it’s justified because retail already went down that path once before.
The fact that Blizzard announced some changes then promptly decided 3/4 of the changes should just be to introduce micro-transactions really doesn’t help matters.
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"Insert failure to learn and history repeats itself quote "
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A lot of people throw around the names for the various logical fallacies, but from what I can tell, they typically don’t know the definitions. They just see the words being used, and in turn, use them themselves.
So what you’re saying is you’re OK if they were to add the WoW Token to TBC:C?
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But… what if it’s hungry??? 
Oh you’re not gonna get good feedback on this post. But I am here for the chaos.
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I hear 85.79666% of statistics are completely made up
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You know just because you’re proud of being wrong and saying illogical things doesn’t mean you’re not wrong or illogical.
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Wow.
So I see you’re OK with them eventually adding 70 boosts too.
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Wow I see you’re a moron.
0/10 bait.
Yes. Add them, would that shut you up? Probably not.
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All I know is you used to be able to smoke on airplanes and now you can’t even smoke in a bar. Sounds like slippery slopes are real to me.
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It’s called an observed trend. If someone standing near you in a crowd starts punching random people, it is logical to fear that you might get punched soon because the odds have gone up. So you might want to gtf outta there.
The slippery slope fallacy “argument” from people asking for game design changes is one of the dumbest things on the internet.
If we observe a trend of a game designer changing something in a certain way, then the odds of them making similar changes in other areas go up.
If Vegas was taking bets on whether Classic would introduce WoW token in the future, they would set the odds higher now than they would have before paid boosts were introduced. Because the chances of it being introduced are higher now than they were before.
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Why would they need to do that? We have a timeline of the changes blizzard made, Vegas would go all in in a heartbeat cause I assume it is 100% garunteed the token will be added at some point.
Give me logical evidence we can discuss that points to that.
Slippery slope arguments are a logical fallacy. They don’t abide logic.
You can argue it because that’s how you feel about it- much like how betting on something happening is based entirely on how someone feels, which has no real data or truth behind it.
That doesn’t mean I’m not going to call a gambler, and the guy crying about slippery slopes, both illogical.
It’s about observing someone’s current behavior - in this case, the game developer - and using the information gathered to predict future behavior. Are you saying this is not possible? We do it every day in the real world.
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If we’re talking purely about the odds of them adding it, I’d say it depends on the change in question.
The WoW token is much more likely to happen than other stuff and the justification for it will be that so many people are buying gold from third party sellers anyway and the WoW token combats it(if that’s actually true or not is irrelevant, that’s the reason that’ll be used to defend it).
I’ve seen threads of people suggesting they’re going to start selling raid gear though, which is completely insane. They don’t even do that in retail.
Apparently deduction and extrapolation are all a logical fallacy.
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