me either, he was way to focused on surface details over story.
I’ve been trying to finish Stormrage for over 3 months because I get so bored reading it.
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I think this really is the true news of the day. By November, surely we’ll be post-9.2, right? This is pretty definitive proof that people who thought that that Blizzard quote implied Sylvanas’ arc was ending in 9.1 are dead wrong. Looks like she’ll be hanging around until the end.
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Roux is good at storytelling and I loved Shadows Rising, but I think Golden is better at building her characters.
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Not if it’s just a book explaining things that have already canonically happened (which is my impression).
Golden is good at building her characters, she’s just dreadful at building everyone else’s characters.
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Maybe, but that’ll definitely be strange. Seems unlike them to admit “okay, let’s run through everything that happened and retcon the past so that it’s smooth.” They tend to just mow over internal inconsistencies, like with WoD.
Or maybe it just feels weird, since it would be over six months since the community saw her story end, and probably moved past it. I’m still going to say a 9.1-death is in the sub 5% likelihood area.
At this point, another six months is an annoyance, but I wouldn’t be shocked if they dragged this out forever. In 2030 they will write a book that retcons this one, and people will argue on the forums about whether Sylvanas was evil or not.
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I guess Sylvanas must really move merch.
At first my knee jerk reaction was, “I cannot believe they’re going to try and milk this character for another book again.” Even though I shouldn’t be surprised.
But after thinking about it for a few minutes, I’m pretty excited to see the trainwreck that is retcons trying to fill out her incongruous and nonsensical motivations and actions after 20 years of nonsense.
The Illidan book was great not because it was good, but because it was Blizzard shoving square shapes into round holes trying to explain away the complete nonsense of his role in the actual game.
I can’t wait for them to do it again now. Also to see Anduin steal a third of the book most likely and have even Sylvanas fans upset about it.
It’s going to be fun.
The crappy thing is that people are going to hate the novel not because it features an awful character who ruins the franchise, but because online people hate Christie Golden (For reasons that I’m sure aren’t totally obvious), who is a perfectly fine and acceptable writer for the WoW franchise. And so immediately criticism of this novel’s’ story will be swept under the rug as haters on the internet.
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Christie Golden is a fine writer. Her input has certainly been better than 95% of the ideas that come from the forums (not a high bar I know but what are you gonna do)
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Yep, I would say she is their most marketable character. That is one of the reasons they won’t kill her off, she sells too well.
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Sidenote:
“Hey, should we show the motivations of the character who is literally the main impetus of both this expansion and the previous one?”
“No.”
“Well… What if we put it in a book instead of in the game for the majority of players to see? That way, most people will still be confused.”
“Hmm… Okay.”
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what you you think the decision means?
I don’t think it’s about Anduin, it’s not a big enough twist, besides it says when she’s at the point of winning she has to make a choice. I wonder what that’s gonna be about.
Christie Golden@ChristieGolden3h
At last It is revealed! Also, this is my first lock at the cover and could no be my excited!!! This is a tremendous responsibility and a great honor. worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/236…
Oh come on. REALLY? The book tweet is a giant typo?!?
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Lmao, I thought you intentionally mistyped all that.
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Twitter is hard, more so on a phone.
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This is a fairly typical thing that’s been happening in a lot of spheres co-opted by corporations. It’s a way to generate even more money off people, it’s basically the lore version of DLC. Star Wars, the new sequels, also did this same thing. Book after book each time, not companion pieces or supplementary things but lore and context actually required to get what they considered the whole picture.
All that said I’m really starting to pity the Wowpedia editors.
I used to be a Wowpedia editor until I realized that the only people who read Wowpedia are Wowpedia editors.
My tipsy 1am hunts through articles to make sure a new character’s backstory makes some sense say otherwise.
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I stand corrected. The only people who read Wowpedia are Wowpedia editors and drunks.
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