No, I’m spending time asking for less customization in a topic that happens to be about dark skin tones in particular. I’d be doing the same damn thing if the topic were about yellow or green or plaid skin. Don’t make up narratives
Don’t even try to take the high ground here. If you actually cared about stuff like this you’d be out there protesting police brutality, not demanding representation in a video game about magic and demons
I agree with these changes; Blizzard already said they would have added these options back in the day if they could. There’s no reason not to add them in the era of #somechanges.
Actually no, racism has nothing to do with it, it has to do with lore and climate, they aren’t in a warm latitude, so it stands to reason their skin would be fair, this is the same reason people get annoyed at shows like the legends of tomorrow dipucting Asians or African skin tones in places and times you wouldn’t ever see them. It’s not racism it’s logic. I wouldn’t want a lilly white night elf.
Quelthalas is the same latitude as Teldrassil…?
And it was established that night elves skin grew dark thanks to the moon well, the highborne where fair skinned also established in lore, what’s your point?
Yet they do in retail, is there suddenly a warm latitude that pops up and causes thousands of years of evolution within a few years?
No, it was clearly an oversight caused by the original wow team being formed in time where casual racism was acceptable in America. Are you truly advocating that this game, which is already ‘all changes we can think of’ needs to remain firm on only one thing, their old racist standards?
he’s also ignoring the fact that land was orignally forrest troll land… not ice troll land.
People are confusing the word as hatred towards X when in reality it was simply; seeing X as the norm so ignoring everything else… it was an oversight… just correct it. its 2021
Because it’s not racist, the changes made where inclusive for inclusive sake
Africa has forest regions btw… Forest=/= cold.
You’re grasping at straws- why does it matter to you so much that dark skin tones are kept out of the game? If you hate black people so much, why not just ignore it and not use it and let people who prefer to be represented have the extra customization options?
That would still be going out of their way. They are just reusing the stuff that already existed and the only new stuff has a price tag on it. I don’t think they would add more customization to classic at all and if they did they would likely charge you. It’s a sad reality, but it is reality nonetheless.
The old I must be racist argument, it’s very tiring very old and I don’t really care. There is no lure at all and world of Warcraft that would give blood elves highborn any of them African skin tones anywhere. As I already said it’s inclusivity for inclusivity sake it makes absolutely zero sense in the lure and it is simply done to appeal to the woke mob. And I oppose anything wanted by the woke mob the bunch of idiots
Good lord. How do such obvious troll threads get this kind of traction?
because troll or not, being accused of racism is an extremely sour spot for people, myself included. I’ll admit it’s easy bait
Applying a modern racial lens to a non-racial situation…definitely par for the course for someone who makes a thread “Bolvar probably smells awful”.
Well that’s a lie, if you didn’t care you wouldn’t be here aggressively advocating for no dark skin tones like this. Instead, you’re taking time to declare you don’t want dark skins in WoW.
No, it’s customization that people want that has nothing to do with you. What you’re doing is arguing against it for the sake of arguing against additional customization in a game that’s already had many, many changes.
So you’re proudly being racist out of spite? Well that makes everything different.
Have you tried not being so angry about the thought of other players getting dark skin tones? It is baffling that the suggestion of black blood elves in TBC- what this thread is- has gotten so many people angrily against it. This doesn’t hurt you in any way, unless you feel pain just seeing someone else with a dark skin tone.
Come back when you actually address my previous post to you, you haven’t done that yet. Or refuse and continue to make yourself look like a fool
Opposing things doesn’t make you racist.
Making decisions and conclusions solely based on racial qualities is racist.
The reasons why some people are angry…
These pushes come off as politically charged activism against fantastical racism that doesn’t exist.
It’s only one set of colors that are making this push, meanwhile all the other races and colors of the spectrum that exist in the world treat this game like a game and not a political battlefield.
They were dark trolls… it was already dark… if anything it got lighter from lack of sunlight into pink,purple and blue.
Wokeness wasn’t a thing in 2007.