Okay, so the writing is bad, let's just put that on a shelf for a moment.
Here's the thing: nobody in WoW would sanction either of these actions - at least, not as a collective. Yes, I am sure that there are zealous members of both factions who will chest thump to the contrary. But, overall, I think both sides look at the way these two so called "morally grey" situations are being written, and have the same basic response: I don't want any part of that, and my character would neither approve of it nor participate in it.
While there is no risk of WoW ever becoming a sandbox, or even edging even SLIGHTLY closer to being a sandpark, what we're seeing with 8.0, and now, even moreso, 8.1, is the limits imposed by the rigid theme park - if your writing blows huge, lava-like chunks of last night's pot roast and bile over the expanse of the living room, it's the players who have to live in it. And they don't even get a bottle of Resolve (or even Febreze) to mop up with. Nope - it's puke city, and they're swimming in it.
This would be different if a group of players - say, a powerful guild - in a theoretical MMORPG decided to get together and run their kingdom as an evil nation, doing bad things, working slaves to death in dirt mines, raising them as ghouls, etc. Other players, in such a scenario, could choose to fight back. But WoW doesn't provide the players with the ability to even do so much as choose evil. ALL choice in WoW is an illusion. And while I don't agree with that even when the writing is passable, when it sinks below the putrid waterline, it becomes an insufferable yoke to live under.
Death camps; Vulpera kill squads; Sylvanas with any power at her beckoning that she can dream up; fleets and armies and cities being annihilated without any regard for consequence or end goal - players have a right to be pissed. It's like bad fanfiction. But the thing about bad fanfiction is that you can just walk away. And while a lot of people ARE leaving WoW (for this any many other reasons), those of us who stay are obliged to labor under this cloud of stupidity... and it seems to just be getting darker.
I just hope I can stack the Vulpera, like cords of wood.
Our death camps have singalongs and s'mores. Why wouldn't somebody want to be killed there?
10/29/2018 11:50 PMPosted by SuccorbenothOur death camps have singalongs and s'mores. Why wouldn't somebody want to be killed there?
Taking "Death by Chocolate" to a whole new level.
The vulpera kill squads are gone from the Alliance version. You're told to use a totem to scare them away from supplies they're transporting on the Horde's behalf. The death camp is still present in the warfront, and freeing the Forsaken there is a stage for the Horde's version of the scenario, though now it's just Faranell and Belmont.
10/29/2018 11:53 PMPosted by Azivalla10/29/2018 11:50 PMPosted by SuccorbenothOur death camps have singalongs and s'mores. Why wouldn't somebody want to be killed there?
Taking "Death by Chocolate" to a whole new level.
Hmm, that reminds me:
I wonder if you feed a Worgen "too much" chocolate, in the Worgen form, if it dies?
That is an idea for you, Horde!
10/30/2018 12:58 PMPosted by Kypookins10/29/2018 11:53 PMPosted by Azivalla...
Taking "Death by Chocolate" to a whole new level.
Hmm, that reminds me:
I wonder if you feed a Worgen "too much" chocolate, in the Worgen form, if it dies?
That is an idea for you, Horde!
Yes. Yes it does. Particularly if it’s Dark Chocolate!
(Giggles and rubs hands together while gleefully awaiting the delivery of free chocolate!)
10/29/2018 11:48 PMPosted by KypookinsI just hope I can stack the Vulpera, like cords of wood.
One of the creepiest sounds in this game is the laughter of the female gnome DK (and I say that as a gnome partisan and someone who has a fem gnome DK, Agnrey).