World of Warcraft is fixing a major problem with the help of Crabs?
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One interesting feature coming to World of Warcraft's next expansion - The War Within - is an arachnophobia filter. Whereas other games have taken on this problem and swapped out models for vague geometric shapes or other less creepy alternatives, the World of Warcraft team have gone through and swapped out all the game's spider models with crabs. Which makes sense! This upcoming expansion focused heavily on Nerubians, a race of spider-like creatures which tick all the boxes when it comes to...

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