For me it was Warcraft 1 when the orcs sacked Stormwind
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For me it was “zug zug”. Just couldn’t look at the orcs the same.
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I couldn’t believe that they said that the Kingdom of Azeroth had “turned the land into a paradise” in the Warcraft 1 intro
“Human potential” amirite?
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I remember that. The Night Elves just can’t catch a break huh?
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Warcraft III.
What, we were supposed to believe that there was a whole continent over there the entire time?
And suddenly the Elves are descended from some other, different looking Elves? That’s a retcon! And I have been reliably informed that retcons are, by definition, bad. So Night Elves are a horrific blight on the story. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.
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World of Warcraft. There was a lot of retcons, re-writes, and asspulls in order to build up some zones and factions.
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this isn’t Sunday, so it lost me for most of WoD, and then from the beginning of BFA to the present day.
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Mists of kung Fu pandas
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When they denied justice to my boi Judicator Aldaris in favor of redeeming a genocidal maniac.
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When Thrall got married and I had to attend. Boy that was weird.
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It hasn’t lost me entirely, but the part I enjoyed the least has been the time focused on Garrosh - or “Garrosh’s Period”.
He was annoying in BC. As he started gaining prominence, he became more so. MoP is the Expansion I spent the most time unsubbed. Fighting for Garrosh’s Horde was uninspiring, and fighting for the Alliance was too. It wasnt until the Siege of Orgrimmar that I started playing with renewed interest - I was eager to cast Garrosh down.
When I heard they were removing the part where he calls Sylvanas the “b” word, I thought they were doing it to make Garrosh more sympathetic. Hopefully, we have seen the last of him. Though, there is that Exarch Hellscream in AU Draenor, hopefully he is less grating.
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WC3. When WoW started, I couldn’t even tell if WC3 ever happened or in what point in the story was the game taking place. Everything in vanilla came out of left field when the Horde and Alliance had absolutely zero reason to keep fighting.
The ogres were nowhere to be seen even tho they were instrumental in the formation of the horde and instead we got the undead, the LAST “race” the orcs would’ve taken in, specially with Thrall at the helm.
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It started when we found out Sylvanas burned Teldrassil seemingly just to spite Delaryn.
I completely checked out at the reveal that she was ****ing the Horde the whole time.
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WoD orc focus burnout.
This story sucks the most when it’s only focused on orcs.
For me, it was when Sylvanas escaped the Siege of Lorderaen (“You have won… NOTHING!”).
There were four parts of the story beforehand that made me cringe and nearly lost me beforehand;
- AU Grom being easily forgiven for his war crimes at the end of BfA.
- Vol’jin being killed off after doing almost nothing as Warchief and giving the position to Sylvanas with his dying breath.
- The “Rejection of the Gift/Fate of Xe’ra” cinematic.
In hindsight, those moments were foreshadowing akin to a huge silver line on the horizon indicating a coming thunderstorm.
Edit: After the three aformentioned points, it began with the Burning of Teldrassil and I completely checked out when Sylvanas escaped the Siege of Lorderaen.
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I lost my spirit for the Horde during a Wintersgrasp.
No matter how many buffs or gear I could get it wasn’t enough to stop the multitude of Alliance scum washing over me like a flood.
I didn’t die funnily enough but between fighting through a literal horde of players and surviving I felt very alone when I stood as a survivor. I think I was a blood DK at the time…and they where more interested in knocking out towers than expending the effort in killing a unkillable stray.
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When Blizzard added that pretty stupid idea about alternative realities, and we had to travel to alternative Draenor.
Still many mistakes with that in Shadowlads. Different threads of a soul (c) - what? Dude that is stupid…
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If the story continues its current course, Blizzard’s not done with alternate realities. They said they’re bringing back a villain batted Yrel and co, in a move I call “Scarlet Crusade 2: Elecrtic Boogaloo. Starring AU Draenei and Naaru”.
Honestly? Warlords of Draenor. We not only traveled to an alternate universe, but we time traveled into that alternate universe’s past. All because the devs thought it’d be metal to see the old Orc clans and WC2 characters again. That proved to me that the people in charge had no intention of telling a cohesive, well-thought out narrative. I was putting much more thought and passion into the story of Warcraft than they were.
Obviously I still have interest in the setting or I wouldn’t post here, but it’s nowhere near the level I had pre-WoD. That’ll never come back. And now with Shadowlands, I barely care at all anymore. My only remaining interest was seeing the development of lands and cultures I care about on Azeroth. I have zero interest in the Shadowlands and the Covenants and the Jailer and blah blah blah.
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Probably…they probably actually lost me when they didn’t have an option to stay in Darkshore and fight the Horde instead of go to Kul Tiras for allies. I get why they wouldn’t, that’d be twice as much gameplay to write, but it disconnected me so badly from the story. I tried to make it work, but looking back, that’s probably when they lost me. I didn’t actually quit until much later, but yeah, I haven’t really enjoyed the game much since then. Just my RP guild.
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