It is deplorable that the watermark

Getting a quick self portrait of your World of warcraft toon in some newly minted gear. We’ve all been there, posing for posterity. Through some diligent digital detective work, though, a group of players has uncovered something a touch unseemly — every Wow screenshot is tagged with a digital screenshot, leaving a record of the player taking the shot, a timestamp indicating when the picture was captured, and information about the realm the player is in at the time, including its IP address — which could be bad news for players who are running on private servers to escape the monthly subscription fee built into adventuring in Azeroth.

Normally invisible, the watermark consists of a series of repeating numbers that appears to act as a unique code for every Wow character. That code doesn’t include any password information, luckily, nor does it clue anyone who might be taking a look at it in to what the player’s personal IP address might be. So, let’s not all lose our senses, here, is the thing.

That said, plenty of people will have a problem of no small dimensions with this — and we’re not saying they’re measurably wrong. Luckily, according to the forum thread at ownedcore, where the news broke, the watermark is disabled in high quality screenshots, offering players a simple workaround. Setting your screenshot quality to high with a readily available command line appears to wow gold buying do the trick and prevent watermarks from embedding in the photos.