The stock valve was to hurt Mike's new company. As the old regime leaves Blizzard, Mike would hire them to join his team at Dreamhaven. too many times content creators play both sides of the street in order to get ratings. No ratings. No podcast.
I want to address the elephant in the room. Making a game PVP oriented or faction based good vs. evil is only a short-lived concept in gaming. i am surprised it has lasted as long as it did. It was only meant to be put into the game to act as a cock block for your games content. The games are different now with the math nerds figuring out the perfect meta for your game and are exploiting the hell out of it.
There was a cleric on Quellious back in the day who would roleplay as an evil dark elf, and he would never rez any good aligned players in the game. Guess what now the game passed him by, and he no longer plays. I have a saying in life, "Either you evolve, or you die with the dinosaur."
Furor was the first MMO superman. Did you know superman died four times in the comics? The last time i looked he is still kicking ass and taking prisoners.