Well, I think we know why now…
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This entire setting must be purged.
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Fun fact; Danuser has had female coworkers state he was highly supportive of them and wasn’t involved in the scandal.
The fact he went back and removed Garrosh calling Sylvanas a B****h do to thinking it was dated sexist language and seems to be trying to go backwards and undo the damage Alex did to the setting makes me more supportive of him
Seriously the hate for the guy at this point is overblown. He made a joke about being Nathanos and gets lambasted for it.
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While this is great to hear, it should be expected for people to be acting to decent one another. Him being a good person doesn’t make the way the story is being told any better.
The biggest issue I have, and it seems to be persisting even under his watch is the, wait and see approach; things happening, characters doing stuff, that isn’t explained and won’t be explained until much later.
Now with everything we’ve seen and heard this week, the person(s) to blame might be above him, which would really be awful that it’s mandated to tell the story in such a terrible way.
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Thats fair. Steve got the unenviable task of fixing Afrisaibis mess. I’m gonna personally hold off judgement until he gets to head an actual expansion from beginning to end since its very obvious this ones mostly been trying to fix Alex’s mess (and Alex headed it right up until launch)
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I didn’t mean all of the female harassment scandal. I meant the WoW story …
It harms the story and, for example, the obsession with Sylvanas only confirms that.
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Well, given the state of the Shadowlands lore and what was going on in the process, not really.
He might be a nice person. But that does not mean that he is not the “nothing is retcon, all is PoV” guy, who was leading the mess we have out of the lore currently, and who do not seem to care about what and why people liked about the game to begin with, but instead just uses the existing IP to push his own ideas, that barely fit what made WoW what it is for the fans IMO.
It’s this post Afrasiabi narrative team that blessed us with the wonderful Shadowlands story, starting with dismissing older lore on the afterlife topics, and continuing with the “here is a bunch of mysteries instead of a story!” approach.
You’re free to do what you think is right.
One note though: this expansion is the one that is made by the current narrative team from the scratch (story-wise), and their push to go to cosmology stuff, etc. (they do talk about making the thing “from the ground up” halfway through the interview)
gl hf
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I’m not going to suddenly forget the hack job that is the Night Warrior storyline and the continuation of Tyrande being the designated Alliance dunce just yet.
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Danuser is of course in JJ Abrams’ unenviable position of having to fix a mess and since he is on a tight schedule with low amounts of help due to most of the workers being slackers leaving to play Call of Duty his attempts to fix things are rushed and crude.
Fixing stuff like this requires 2 things:
- Learning from the Prince of Persia’s lesson(“No. You are right, I have been like a child, naive and arrogant, always rushing to undo my mistakes. Never facing the consequences of my actions. No more. I accept what I’ve done and all that it implies!”) by not backpedaling all crudely!
- Atrus once stated that Gehn’s work was piecemeal and yet if there was structural integrity(which he refused to do because he wanted to save on Ink which apparently was low enough for him to not dare waste it) he could have reconciled the gaps between the shockingly unrelated passages in Riven’s Linking Book. WoW needs structural integrity so that it can reconcile the gaps.
I think he said he did this because a parent complained to him about it given that it’s one of the only serious swear words that really appears in the game, it definitely does stand out. I’m not sure if it was ever a sexist issue.
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