Maybe You need a psychologist, sir!
I mean, it could be that I started counting quests and looking in Azure Strand.
Or the writers could be saying that straight people love A) soup and B) fishing.
And here in lies the problem … They aren’t trying to give a realistic impression of the world. They are trying to shove it in your face. I have zero problems with non-traditional relationships existing in game. I have a problem when it starts to feel like an agenda. and it starts to feel like an agenda when everywhere you look there’s another one. I can go out into the real world for an entire day and , out of the thousands of people I might see, maybe see 1 or two obvious homosexual relationships. In game I run around for 10 mins and see 5 of them. That’s an obvious agenda …
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I’m aware. It’s interesting to see how logic gets twisted. And occasionally you get someone who legitimately hadn’t thought it all the way through and you can help. If I choose to engage in a discussion at all, I do so honestly for the chance it can actually be fruitful. If I think it’s a lost cause or I’m not interested in that chance, I don’t start the conversation in the first place.
I am a thrown back: Up until DF We had minimal marriage in game, minimal relationships, beyond what was obvious. (Tyrande/Malfurion, Arthas/Jaina/Kaelthas (Triangle,) Let’s not forget our fan favourite! Mankrik and his wife.)
Now it seems as though… Political propaganda? (Not even sure the word to use lol) Is being thrust into our faces at an expedited rate. (The two horde NPC who got married, we were told the ceremony would be boring so its not an in game event. (I agree lol)) But beyond that, seems like it was here is this and now… Here is all of this/that.
That aside, DF seems like its possibly able to sit up high amongst the classics, with Legion. Keep the love making and relationships, (That we have seen thus far,) in side quests like they have been. (That includes any openly cis relationships in game.)
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Literally couldn’t care any less. Why do you all care so much? Genuine question.
Do you go speak to everyone you meet in your thousands of people? Or do you walk by casually? You only recognize people as “obvious homosexual relationships” because you speak to them and they use very common statements like “I’m looking for a gift for my husband” And you then notice it’s a male NPC.
Go TALK to people and you’ll find a lot more LGBTQIA+ folks than you think are there. Likewise, play WoW without talking to any NPCs and I bet you never notice the relationships you’re so bothered by.
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If you use the phrase “shove it in your face” you have more than zero problems with non-traditional relationships. No one except conservatives say that stuff and we all know they hate us.
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1 same sex relationship is too much for these people. Don’t give them a platform, you fake gay person, you.
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Dwight Schrute said it best: FALSE
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I think the quests and representation was fine, just that fine. It could be better, it could have been less forced, sure.
I’d take this over none anyday, and you saying you are a homosexual man doesn’t mean you speak for all of us. Stop playing identity politics and just enjoy the game.
Your arguments should stand on their own no need to mention your own sexuality by your own argumentation you should know this.
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so your unhappy and complain when not included and when included it is complained
about. Im starting to wonder if all you want to do is find something to complain about like the rest of the look at me generation
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The love stories in general are just in your face and flat-out boring. I would rather be doing a quest about fighting a dragon commander than making a potion for someone’s lover. They were put in the game to simply follow an agenda so Blizzard doesn’t get backlash for not including LGBTQ content. I would prefer if there weren’t any of these cringy love stories at all.
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That’s great for you.
It actually does not bolster your point.
It only feels like a lot because the past level of occurrence is 0 (or the VERY rare coded pair, or the like single one in SL.)
You literally don’t even have to scroll to find whining about this.
You should have put this on one of those posts.
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we should probably count up all the heterosexual couples too just to make sure that this tally is absolutely ridiculous and a complete waste of everyone’s time.
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Did you receive your honorary commemorative flag and discount vouchers for Whole Foods? If not, my in-law can hook you up 
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I imagine this is how it went down at Blizzard HQ.
Scene: Quest designer meeting, large conference room, Blizzard HQ, sometime in 2021.
Project lead: Ok, we need more diversity in Dragonflight’s quests. Who here is gay or identifies as at least one letter in the acronym?
Designer 1: I’m gay. Well, bi. We should be represented because of bi-erasure.
Lead: Cool. You’re point person for the gay quests. How many gay quests do you think we need? Two? Four at most?
D1: Um, maybe eight. Throw in a handful of NPCs who go out of their way to tell you they’re gay.
D2: What about asexuals?
D3: What about allies?
D4: I thought the A meant “androgynous”?
D5: What about demisexual genderfluid?
Lead: Whoa, whoa, one at a time! This expansion we’re focusing on L and G. B gets covered by default, and Chromie has T covered. Margaret in statistics says at the given growth rate for the acronym, we should have all bases covered by 2030. We’re going for SLOW pander… uh, representation so it isn’t jarring.
D6: What about player housing?
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How do you know that 8% of the NPC are not gay? That big guy standing there wearing a ton of armor holding a huge battle axe may be looking at you as more than someone who will do his quest.
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What does real world percentages have to do with gay NPCs in a game? Frankly I think long living races and undead races would a more varied view on love and companionship. I still say Tyrande should have married both brothers but WoW tends to be very prudish and I’m pretty prudish.
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Now take your numbers and do WoW as a whole. I guarantee you WoW isn’t to the 8% and no more level you’re calling for.