8.3 is just more proof that the team at Blizzard is very lost, and they need a map to get home. Their playerbase is filled to the brim with people who lack good representation, and so dearly clutch to other forms of media to find it. So when the promised form of representation is… not there, it’s very obvious what’s going on.
It’s a lie to keep people paying. As long as Blizzard answers to China, the representation we seek will likely be a pipe dream. It took me a while to realize who I was, what I was. When I came to the conclusion, it became particularly egregious to see how easy it was to NOT represent a large and growing section of the world population.
They’re able to ship off straight romance with ease, even if it’s cheesy and as poorly executed as the rest of the content, but the prospect of making at least one somewhat important lgbt couple seems more far fetched than us getting a decent story. Even throwaway npcs can only be slightly implied.
So much of Warcraft is romance, even if people want to deny it. The amount of quests that rely on relationships in my experience is… quite vast. You’d think they’d be able to make at least one of those LGBT, and it’d be fine. Fear the almighty dollar, because even one is too much. They’re fine with making more undead and just covering them up, but when it comes to the gays? Impossible.
Like… there’s gotta be an agenda there. They’re fine with making content that’s seen as taboo in other countries and just covering it up for their release, but they just aren’t willing to give gay representation to cover it up for other releases?