World of Warcraft has a problem with its new prop hunt-style mode, Decor Duels, and Blizzard left the door wide open for it. The PC-only MMO’s latest patch brought the mode out just a day before this report, but players quickly found that the "track humanoids" ability still works inside it. That matters because Decor Duels asks players to hide as furniture in a city, and free x-ray vision turns a sneaky contest into a race to follow dots on a minimap.
Quick Facts — World of Warcraft
| Developer | Blizzard |
|---|---|
| Platform(s) | PC |
| Genre | MMO, Prop hunt-style mode |
Decor Duels uses housing decor, so the whole point is to blend in and read the room, not scan for an outline through the usual rules of the game. Blizzard also added an invisible AFK timer for hiders if they sit in one spot too long, which should stop people from camping forever and collecting rewards without playing. But that safeguard doesn’t mean much when Hunters get "track humanoids" for free, and anyone else can activate it with a Blackened Worg Steak consumable item. For players who expected a fair hide-and-seek match, that’s the kind of oversight that kills the mood fast.
About Decor Duels
Blizzard’s new Decor Duels mode sits inside World of Warcraft, and it runs on PC. The mode turns players into furniture inside a World of Warcraft city, which is a very different ask from the usual MMO routine of questing, raiding, and optimizing a character sheet. That shift matters because the fun comes from reading tiny visual tells and convincing other players that a suspicious table is just a table.
According to the report, Blizzard has never made a mode like this before, and that inexperience shows in the rough edges. The article also notes that the patch with Decor Duels arrived only a day before the report, so this is still very fresh ground for the studio. Fresh doesn’t always mean polished, though, and this one already looks like it needs another pass.