WotLK was just a copy/paste of another popular story. Doesn’t take a writer to do that.
MoP was ok.
Legion had some horrible aspects.
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What happened here? Quoted me but im not Raelhorn. Lol. Weird
Not to be petty, but if you’re going to start a thread about writing, proofread your headline before posting.
simple. Have us lose. That is how I want “WoW” to end if they ever decide to make a WoW 2 with a new engine and everything else.
Have it turn out that this timeline was not the primary timeline as thought by the bronze dragonflight. We the heroes were killed, the factions are making their final stand against the void or whatever and will lose, we focus on the bronze dragonflight in a time bubble discussing what has happened and that they failed in their duty of protecting the primary timeline. They made a mistake and now this alternate timeline that WoW has taken place in is finally collapsing. This is the moment the infinite dragonflight is created and the moment murozond told us of being the “true end time”. The final shot is of a small planet. A new azeroth. The true timeline.
Enter WoW 2. it starts over following the events of warcraft 3. Basically reset to the start of vanilla and do the story right this time with all the storytelling improvements they have made over the years. No wasting characters like kael’thas because the most awesome thing they can do with a character is make them a boss for us to kill.
In WoW 2 to also show this is still a continuation from the original WoW the bronze dragonflight wouldn’t exist in this timeline. There was only 1 across all of time and they are now the infinite flight. We may encounter random bronze dragons every now and again however they will always be from the past. Also soft retcon the infinite dragonflight into not a clearly evil group but instead still trying to fulfill their duty of protecting the primary timeline. All those attempts to change events in the original WoW were them trying to get rid of the alternate timeline. It wasn’t evil. It was them doing their job.
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Legion was pretty good. The story arc was cohesive enough: fighting against the Burning Legion.
It also had progression that made sense. Part 1, we get wrecked. Part 2, we gather forces to fight back. Part 3, we take the fight to the Legion and ultimately win.
It be feeling like that sometimes, as if ideas were thrown into a hat and folks did a blind pick out of it and was made into a story. It’s why I question some of the decisions and actions taken (or not taken) by characters.
The quote thing seems to be buggy lately. Not the first time someone other than the intended party has been quoted/tagged/etc.
Christie Golden isn’t even a WoW writer - people just assumed she’d be on WoW team when she joined Blizzard because she has written novels for the game. She’s actually on the Story & Development team which does the cinematics and cut scenes and works on stuff for all the games not just WoW.
My guess is the game developers are the last ones to write story. First is the cinematic team, looking for a great cinematic moment. Then writers for the long term story elements and character agendas. With the developers trying to fit in some story to match the questing.
I really wish they’d focus on worldbuilding and smaller-scale, individual stories again, for precisely this reason.
BFA’s leveling zones have shown that they’re still really good at it. Each and every one, even my less favorite, have a fun arc, with lots of twists and turns, that doesn’t overstay its welcome - in fact, the only time they ever seem to slip is when the main plot rears its ugly head (eg. Horde invasion into Brennadam).
Blizzard’s focus on sweeping, ‘epic’ plots has been nothing but a detriment, and it seems clear to me that their writers are much more inspired to write these smaller plotlines. There’s almost a sense of fatigue with the bombastic main plots, in comparison, despite their high production values.
Edit: That’s not to say there’s no room at all for big, epic plots, of course, but they need some time to breathe. The entire world needs some time to breathe.
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“If you lock chimpanzees in a room with type writers for any length of time eventually even they’ll type up something golden like J.RR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings.”-Aristotle through Arthur Eddington on the historical Infinite monkey theorem.
This. THIS! It’s called “World” of Warcraft. Not “War” of Warcraft. Leave the ‘epic warfare’ to the pvp nerds.
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Because it is written by ‘devs’. So to speak. The core storyboard and narrative is done by the lead devs through brainstorming. Lead writer also has some say… then the writers have to make it work. Not everything will be to your taste.
yes. the higher ups are too obsessed with these big epic storylines. BFA especially has shown that the lower level devs are good at writing especially smaller scale stories.
I really liked the questline with the creepy child in drustvar.
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I haven’t been that scared of a child since “Redrum” was a thing 0_0. tea shudders
Am a PvP nerd, still agree.
Would be totally okay with HvA taking the sideline, plotwise, for a while - I have fun in PvP at the expense of the plot, not because of it. Heck, turn BGs into ‘war-games’ and I’d barely blink an eye.
Funnily enough, this is the exact example I was thinking of! It was short, sure, but just really entertaining to play through. I’d take a hundred of those over five minutes more Magni…
Hearing “CHUMPYON!” sends shivers up my spine.
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Am I the only one who notices how everyone is complaining about “bad writing” but never actually says what IS bad writing?
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I know what you mean
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What? Surely “Hey, given what Jaina’s version of the Flying Dutchman did to the walls why didn’t she just keep firing and end the fight?” never crossed your mind. 
I was still confused as to how the Alliance could show up to Blight Central without any plans for dealing with the Blight.
Followed by “how did Jaina even know the Alliance was there?”, like did she plan on blowing up the Undercity by herself and just happened to show up at the same time as Anduin?