Are you feeling superior about something? Despite your inability to see the truth.
Who said anything about liking the perspective thing There is a Difference about saying “yeah this book is perspective” and “ALL OUR PRODUCTS ARE FROM THE POV OF SOMEONE ELSE”
All Danuser is saying is that Basically the Chronicles book is written from the same perspective of a god in our universes ability to see our Galaxy. The god isnt aware of other Dimensions or realities.
The only thing that he was saying is that basically “maybe the scourge was good from a certain pov” or “maybe the breakers/Arrakkoa had good motives for doing x” etc but it is literally observing a war from an alienspov.
Danuser just wants to keep the possibility of an unreliable narrator in his back pocket in case he ever wants to retcon something, or if he makes a massive lore mistake.
It’s literally just a way to avoid accountability while also keeping doors open for shallow pandering.
The most quoted example is from the final boss of the old kingdom dungeon where the old god minion says that his creators cannot die. A lot of posters take that obvious propaganda as fact.
Dafaq?
Making a good story with proper foreshadowing and pay offs is the best way to keep your audience engaged. Just providing baseless spectacle after baseless spectacle is how you get Michael Bay movies. If Danuser actually meant that, he needs to go.
That’s my interpretation that may or may not be true. Fits in my mind, but english is not my native language, I can miss stuff, etc. The full quote is in the quote block, and there might be link to the original somewhere in the blog post which mentioned Danuser’s thoughts on the theme.
So, after a quick look. The blogpost which I’ve read https://ilkohall.blogspot.com/2021/02/shadowlands-empty-manipulations-with-no.html
mentions
In the past, Steve Danuser had a personal blog called “Mobhunter” and it stopped existing somewhere in 2016, I believe. Gladly for you and me, it’s saved on Internet Archive and we can get an insight into his work philosophy.
“I think the role of the content designer should be to provide compelling hooks for player storytelling. And by compelling, I mean both interesting and well-executed. Players should be drawn in by the quest and incentivized to undertake it, but the quest itself should be mere manipulation to get players interacting. It might be through cooperation, competition, or some kind of symbiotic relationship where both sides benefit in different ways.”
I’m too sleepy to interpret the stuff in any details at the moment.
Heyy, I resent that!! I didn´t lambast no Treng!! I wasn´t even familiar with the thread (why wasn´t I? must had happened in the break I took from the game I suppose).
A LOT of posters will have to indeed offer their apologies. Danuser not only kept that convenient “lore is relative and no narrator is reliable”, he literally doubled down on it and started to “make questionable” supposedly fiable lore sources like Chronicle.
It´s official; lore is “relative” and anything and everything IS possible. SF basically became a relic of the past and even the World´s End Tavern may very well be “canon lore” ffs.
I´m afraid this petition will go the way of the Dodo (at least as long as Danuser stays in charge… or whoever is making the choices above himand pushing him to take this route).
Remember when Ion admitted to intentionally gutting and nerfing brutally demo at the end of WoD because Demon Hunters were coming and they didn’t want people playing demonology warlock