Chromie Fairytales and Fable SPOILER

[Finninbas-moon-guard]

Are you being ignorant on purpose?

[Zerde-sargeras (Zerde)]

@Baalsamael-turalyon

I mean this simply wasn’t a priority for blizzard. Having proper black, asian, or Brown Nondescript™ humans with comparable range of phenotype and hair styles to real life wasn’t a priority, nor was having LGBT characters.

With regard to LGBT character we know they were not a priority because Blizzard was not exactly that embracing of them in the first place(to the point LGBT guilds were banned)

We do have one character but not due a disability and just simply due to old age, |Drek’thar uses a wheel chair.

@Baalsamael-turalyon

We could speculate why. Was this something regularly suggested but always shut down by a higher up? Was this always on the back burner and the majority of the team just didn’t care? Was there simply not enough devs from Other Backgrounds And Identities until recently that cared about this?

I don’t buy the engine excuse because other games have had this for years with similar engines, so that’s a cop out.

I’m guessing more because art priority was always focused on other expansion feature.

@Finninbas-moon-guard

Dont need to make a character that is female trans though.

A character that should have just been trans all along.

[Finninbas-moon-guard]

Why should it be trans?

[Baalsamael-turalyon (Baalsamael)]

@Zerde-sargeras

With regard to LGBT character we know they were not a priority because Blizzard was not exactly that embracing of them in the first place(to the point LGBT guilds were banned)

Don’t get me started on the language filter too, more words are banned in other languages that refer to people from the US than words that denote racism in English.

Banning of LGBT guilds was a mess, I’d forgotten that

[Finninbas-moon-guard]

@Baalsamael-turalyon

I am confident there are many members of the dev team with disabilities too.

I wonder what it is that leads you to think this way

[Zerde-sargeras (Zerde)]

It was literally a male looking dragon with a male name that turned into a female character.

[Finninbas-moon-guard]

It had a male name in one instance after 2 expansions dude.

Chromie has been in the game since the game launched.

[Skaniev-wyrmrest-accord]

And Chromie’s given name is something she literally tells players in Vanilla

[Baalsamael-turalyon (Baalsamael)]

@Finninbas-moon-guard

I wonder what it is that leads you to think this way

? 1-2 people in every 10 people have some sort of disability you weirdo, we are common globally and any group of 100 people should statistically have around 15 people with a disability.

People with disabilities exist lmao

@Zerde-sargeras

Drek’thar uses a wheel chair.

I demand Gazlowe make Drekthar a mech suit with orcish motifs

[Finninbas-moon-guard]

“Break the legs of characters you bigots!”

[Sarm-malganis (Sarm)]

Orcish wheelchair but each wheel is just 8 battle axes welded together at the shafts.

[Finninbas-moon-guard]

Oh that way we can chop more limbs of people Brilliant!

[Sarm-malganis (Sarm)]

Now don’t be coy. You also said it would be a good way to create more disabled people.

[Finninbas-moon-guard]

I thought that was the goal?

[Baalsamael-turalyon (Baalsamael)]

@Sarm-malganis

Orcish wheelchair but each wheel is just 8 battle axes welded together at the shafts.

BATTLE MECH WHEELCHAIR IS WHAT DREKTHAR AND THE HORDE DESERVE

[Finninbas-moon-guard]

What wow truly needs is better characters. Blizzard adding or making characters into Trans or whatever else just because the game needs more representation is transphobic if the characters are terrible.

You shouldnt care about x character because of what they are but for who they are.

[Faelia-ravenholdt]

@Baalsamael-turalyon

How is a trans woman less interesting, pray tell, do explain

Because she’s trans and trans people aren’t sideshow characters to be used as props.

Do at least try to be more sensitive to the LBGTQ then that.

[Baalsamael-turalyon (Baalsamael)]

@Faelia-ravenholdt

Because she’s trans and trans people aren’t sideshow characters to be used as props.

How is Chromie a sideshow character? And why is her being trans make her less interesting than as a cis woman, which you didn’t answer? What about her trans-ness makes her less interesting?

[Skaniev-wyrmrest-accord]

On one hand having the trans rep being a dragon falls into the “gender variance is okay on faerie type characters” but also I feel a bit hypocritical for me to whine about on an elf

[Finninbas-moon-guard]

She is not a woman. She is a dragon.