So people who are dark skinned IRL can be represented in-game? Lol. You’ve got to be trolling. It’s strictly an appearance thing, that’s it, stop reaching for it to be something more than it is.
Pleeease stop. Their randomly generated appearance is not important to their identity. Were you complaining when they updated the NPCs in WoD? Their faces completely transformed. Tgis is such a non-issue, you look insane.
So you’re saying race only matters if that race is not white.
If you’re white race doesn’t mean a thing, but if you’re not white it’s a core part of who you are and not being represented is a capital offence.
They weren’t though. They just got more polygons.
I thought this was a effective and respectful way to do it.
Then they changed the dwarven innkeeper in Stormwind, an innkeeper my four of my characters use pretty consistently for the blacksmith area, and so of course ‘know’.
It’s a bit unnerving, to say the least.
I wish they had stuck completely to changing unnamed NPCs in the past content, and instead choose to incorperate them more integrally in future content.
Sylvanas did. Because the technology improved. That’s how MMOs work.
it’s insensitive to change someone’s skin tone to one like mine who was previously a different skin tone.
She didn’t though. She was always an undead high elf.
So which of the NPCs in Stormwind walked up to your character and said “I am canonically white, please don’t let them change me?”
Insensitive to who? To the NPC? Are you serious right now?
All of them, by being very visibly white and not using any of the already existing darker skin tones.
And Sylvanas was very visibly a night elf. Because that’s how the technology worked back when she was put in game.
insensitive to people of color changing tons of NAMED white npcs to ones of color, it’s essentially black face and it would have been way more respectful just to change either random civilian NPCs with out names or just to add new NPCs of color.
No, that’s you projecting your own thoughts onto them.
No she was very visibly a dead elf, using the night elf animation rig.
It’s not projecting when you have photographic evidence, as shown in the OP.
No she had a Night Elf model because Blizzard was to lazy to change it.
You are out of your mind. Black face would mean they put makeup on. The changes are made nunc pro tunc.
And that’s what the tech at the time could do. When they got new tech, they changed it, just like now.
So either
No to both, and to you.
and we’re seriously to believe that we never saw anybody from those settlements despite spending over a decade exploring all over the very territory they lived in?
Sorry but that’s equally as absurd as changing the race of a trivial NPC that was already there.
I honestly think the people who get upset about this are afraid of erasure, and don’t realize it. It’s weird, to me. Like all Blizzard did was:
“Here are some black/Asian characters, they’ve always been Black/Asian.”
I feel like it was the best way to handle it. What where their other options? Remove and replace all the NPCs with new ones? Then what happened to those npcs? Kill of the old NPCs? I feel like that option is way worse.
like i said “essentially” not “literally” changing white people to black/brown/etc is horribly insensitive considering the history around it in real life.