I’m supporting their freedom as we speak. Raised 1200 dollars already this morning for the person who will empower them.
#LongLiveJaina
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And these are just examples we know of.
Who knows how many women Blizzard has ‘dressed up’ before actually releasing them for gameplay?
All of that just for the money… it makes you wonder where we’re headed.
Identitarian polítics are really cursed but anyone need their own time to discover why.
Thing is that when the values of who does a product are bad their product gets bad too.
Blizzard art really reflects that.
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I think it is way simpler than that.
I think Blizzard let all of the talented artists go and hired novices.
(So they could pay them less.)
Just like they did for Card design.
They’ve truly fallen from grace and can now only bow to their overlords.
You can’t blame them entirely, but they certainly aren’t deserving of support when it comes to the way their art has degraded over time.
Some will say that the art in HS is what makes the game stand out in the card game scene, but that’s only because the foundation was already established.
The new team hasn’t managed to create anything of value since taking over; instead, they’ve just degraded the entire game.
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One of my favorite cards ever. I try to make her work once in a while even though she’s mostly garbage now.
I was actually happy when they gave the default Jaina portrait a camisole. I started playing a month or so prior to the change, and I thought the original portrait was really weird. I’m not opposed to sexual imagery, but it seemed gratuitous and aimed at heterosexual male gamers
It doesn’t matter who it was aimed at.
There’s truly no excuse for dressing women up in this way.
The ones who need a reality check are those who lust after these portrayals.
Sexual education should aim to create men who can manage their emotions (to some extent) and not be overly aggressive when it comes to sex.
The solution is never to dress women in a certain way.
They should be free to wear whatever they want, and the ones who need to learn are those who harm women because of how women choose to dress.
The same applies in the opposite direction, obviously.
My opnion is that you can be goofy without being childish and they fail that task.
Last time we got a character who fits It was guff.
You can hate his card but the character is a really good piece of art.
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I agree.
The art really reflects how the company has overall degraded over time.
The entire card collection looks like a blur, with no card standing out.
They all seem like identical images. All lifeless.
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I agree with this completely. I am only talking about my personal reaction to the character given her context. I also had no experience with the WOW universe before playing Hearthstone. But Jaina isn’t a woman with wants. She’s a fictional character
I played mostly mage when I started, and had only the default portrait, and I didn’t want to be showing my cleavage
Fiction influences reality as long as it stimulates the human brain.
This was never about Jaina as a character.
I was so mad when they didn’t make this specific art a hero portrait. I was gonna main druid
Either these are contradictory, or they’re a euphemism for something worse.
Erotic imagery, in the form of scantily clad women, is a tool for men to manage their “emotions,” in much the same way that one manages using the restroom. Instead of people having to deal with his crap in public, it’s handled in private.
Yet this system doesn’t work if women never are dressed in a certain way.
What’s really going on here, is a little culture war over gaming would or should be a private-ish male space similar to a locker room, or a public-ish space where women can feel included.
As far as culture wars in gaming are concerned, I think everyone should win. I think the single biggest problem with gaming today is NOT political messages, but a mismatch between budget sizes and playerbases. Do I think that games like Concord have a playerbase? Yes. Do I think that playerbase deserves to have great games? Absolutely, they should have fun. Do I think that playerbase is large enough to justify a $400M budget? Lol no. It’s when games (or any other entertainment products) become too big that they start to become pushy with their ideology, because in order to recoup costs, distributors have to turn to game “journalists” and marketing to artificially expand playerbases.
An example of a very well made game, with significant progressive messaging and an appropriate budget for its playerbase, is Undertale. Small team, great design, appropriate length, awesome music. I understand that when most conservative types are thinking of “the opposite of Concord’s failure” they’re thinking of Space Marine 2 or something, but I don’t think that’s a good comparison because they’re not for the same kinds of audiences. Instead, I’m thinking the opposite of that failure is Toby Fox. But then again, I think every gamer should win the culture war.
I am not against scantily clad women in video games. But I’m also not against games that are against them. If you don’t like it, don’t buy it; if you do like it, buy it. Everyone can have what they want, they just can’t have what they want everywhere.
Support indie game devs. Especially if you’re weird. It’s okay to be weird.
I love being weird. It’s fun
I’ve heard many good things about this game and bought a copy for my nephew a few years ago. He seems to like it. I keep meaning to play it myself
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Honestly, I’ve never played it myself either. I’ve watched my son play it though, from start to finish, multiple times. (Probably at a younger age than was appropriate, a timing oops on my part.)
It’s a great game.
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The problem with censorship here is when you treat they trying to please the target audience as something bad.
If it was something that degrades the characters to please that target audience i would even agree.
But get censorship over a bikini and a cleavage is really just misandry.
Basically censoring because a man could like to see rather than because of the implications of the character wearing it.
Because not using that not dignifies anyone.
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My entire experience of GTA is watching my nieces and nephews playing it at a likely inappropriate age and enjoying it very much. I didn’t give them the game
Well if they played GTA you probably don’t care, but content-wise Undertale contains dating simulator minigames, and tackles themes of lesbianism, depression and genocide, depending upon the routes taken.