Interesting PCGamer article about the cinematic

I expect the article to say:

NEWSFLASH : GAMER CULTURE IRATE THAT A FEMALE GETS FOCUS IN A GAME. WATER IS WET. THE SUN WILL RISE TOMORROW.

MORE AT 11 !

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That assumes people watching have a youtube account and are logged in. I watch plenty of youtube vids but have no way to express my like/dislike.

I hate that horde lost edgy part. Forsaken are sad, orcs just green humans, elves got scolded for arrogance, trolls are comic reliefs etc.

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I never played Horde to be a “good guy”, and yet they’ve scrubbed most of the things that made them chaotic-neutral into blandness.

I want to play cannibalistic trolls who practice the dark arts and worship nature gods.
I want to play elves who consumed dark magic and turned themselves borderline demonic.
I want to play undead that are so obsessed with self preservation they create the plague and ravage the lands of the living to do so in a depressing bout of hypocrisy.

I don’t want to play an orc but lolracials, but even they’ve lost their warmongering brutality that made them antagonistically fun.

Now the Horde is like 40% human-lite with anime blood elves, and now they have purple blood elves but french. Could have at least gotten the Felborne, but… nope.

Can’t complain about Vulpera though. Scrappy dudes at least fit and work as their cute race.

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I’ll never understand people getting so bent over a video game story

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I normally gave these white knights the benefit of the doubt taking them by context of each thread instead of referring to their history every time they made a post.

Nope. Hasn’t helped at all. It’s like they’re mindless drones vomiting the same filth.

Can’t say I disagree with the article but it’s not going to stop me from enjoying the game.

RP what you want, but NPCs in the game are going to assume you, the Horde Champion, participated personally in the attack on Teldrassil because the game’s coding can’t handle otherwise. The Alliance and Horde Champion canonically participates in all major operations regardless of if you actually have the cheevo for it (we are the best of our faction, remember). So, yes, every Horde Champion torched NE civvies.

I hate it as much as anyone else.

Anduin is clearly not in control of his mental faculties. Sylvanas absolutely was. Anduin did not choose to serve, his will got subsumed. Sylvanas bent the knee.

She chose damnation and villainy, let her have it.

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I’m a woman, and is funny to me that Sylvanas fans are trying to create this narrative if you don’t like her or the current history you are a misogynist. Is the same argument all the time. Maybe ppl dislike her because she committed genocide and her history is bad and not because she is a woman?

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Also, being critical of the current story beats doesn’t mean people hate the character either.

Personally I think they are doing the character a major disservice leading us to think there has been some master 4D chess plan this whole time (which we still don’t know what that is) and then having nothing to show for it.

Also, one day her MO is free will / choice, and the next day it’s stripping that choice from anyone and everyone around her. It’s just inconsistent writing.

I like the character and feel the current plot beats of the last few expansions are a major disservice to her as a character.

Years of cliffhanger “wait and see what her plan is” and then there was no plan is just… bad.

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I guess it’s confirmed that her 4D chess move was her arrogance to advice the Jailer on what he could or could not do.

Just want to point out to you that I was able to be critical of the story, with specific reasoning, while being civil.

That’s not the wow player way

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Why would you tell me that? Seems completely unrelated.

I’m sure you know why.

After months of waiting, Sylvanas’s controversial storyline has taken another annoying twist.

Hm, that sounds like opinion, what kind of article is this?

Let’s see:

If I’m not mistaken you’re attempting to bring up cross thread posting history to make yourself look…whatever it is.

Let me tell you something friend:

The very fact that I responded to your post in that manner indicates that I respond to every person based on the context of the thread.

Trust me, you wouldn’t get such a polite response if I considered your posting history in other threads. So be aware that your attitude is a double edged sword.

my attitude? Ok. Have a good day.

Yep. YOUR attitude.

Trying to lecture someone based on some other thread. You know it’s weird.

I know the majority of her lore–and a huge swathe of WoW lore in-general.

The story in this expansion is poorly written. That being said, the majority of WoW’s stories aren’t written particularly well. This isn’t exactly a new phenomena. lol

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