Originally, I wasn’t even think of it from that perspective. My first line of thought was It’s just a elf teaching a single troll to read and write
But as the discussion went on and I actually stopped to think, that was when I was like Oh….it’s a white dude teaching the native and I get why the optics of that is super horrible.
It is a word that can drive people mad depending on who says it and how. There was a whole poem featuring it. I might get banned even for quoting it! But, quoth the raven :
“nevermore”
I guess that poem really hit home to Blizzard. Use the word at your own peril!
WoW blocked any other MMORPG from being viable, and most didnt learn anything from WoW, trying to avoid WoW hallmarks lest they be called a “WoW clone”.
If GW2 had a 2 faction system with world pvp on rppvp servers, and a slightly more stylized aesthetic, it would actually be a vastly superior MMO. Also, take away the microtransactions.