I have decided to unsubscribe based on the horrid direction of the narrative. I have been utterly exhausted by the toxicity and divisiveness surrounding Sylvannas and how her character has corrupted the overall plot and story direction of the Warcraft narrative. In my opinion, this character is simply toxic. Completely at odds with what I take enjoyment in in regards to the Warcraft universe, and more than that, has done permanent damage to the integrity of the Warcraft IP and its universe. I cannot find enjoyment in being continually bested, brutalized, and berated by this nihilistic and inconsistent character. She has effectively sapped the enjoyment out of the world and has left core elements such as faction pride (competency of the Alliance and morality of the Horde) in tatters.
So I’m pretty done with Warcraft at this point. I see no positivity coming in the future patch, just more focus on this infuriating and tiresome narrative crowbar. In my mind all they have done with this character has been a failure, and all that will come will continue to disappoint. In 2021 we can do a lot better than a nihilistic Villain Sue that is horrifically inconsistent in all capacity outside of the ability to wreck the story.
Personally I’m just here to Mystery Science Theater this nonsense at this point. At least in regards to the main narrative.
WoW’s the best in the biz for developing alive feeling worlds. And Revendreth and Maldraxxus feel like worlds designed specifically for me to enjoy.
It’s really just the droughts I can’t stand. I’m forgiving to a point here. I get there’s a pandemic still. But honest to God I’d have preferred if they delayed SL till last week if it meant a complete game with a solid release schedule.
And I’m real tired of these re-releases stealing man power. Classic was one thing as you couldn’t actually revisit it. But ish, BC is still preserved in amber as is. With the leveling revamp you can already experience it. People really have rose colored glasses for farming elemental motes to afford an epic flyer I guess.
The next expansion will probably dictate if I stick around. I think after BFA we needed a breather from Azerothian politics. But I desperately want a more scaled down story focusing on rebuilding Azeroth.
If next expansion we’re fighting shark people on the planet Outlandish who are in league with the Ancient Ones I’m done. I fell in love with Azeroth. I frankly don’t care about her weirdo friends.
I’d understand the droughts if it were just one company, but Activision has several underling studios they can throw at the problem to make up for both Dream Haven poaching employees and people having to work from home due to the pandemic.
They also charge a subscription and I know that money isn’t being put to good use by hiring more employees or paying the ones they have better wages.
They don’t really have an excuse here. They have the resources. They just aren’t using them.
I’m not in full agreement on that part, since Classic is its own sub-division and doesn’t draw employee power away from the main project. Just as well- it’s important to the game’s health to visit the past. Something happened post-WOTLK that was damaging to the game and it wasn’t just people getting older and giving up MMOs. It’s a good place to study older gameplay to apply to the main product.
I’m not even going to try and be wordy- I’m deadass just stealing this entire part. This is my sentiments exactly. My hard line.
But Dorn, she’s Danuser’s Waifu and Golden’s Cat?! Clearly the story being so invested in her can’t be a bad thing. They LOVE her. One of them may want actually make love to her based on his self insert. The other plays kissie games with her other cat Anduin. She’s the best!
The other 50,000 anti-Sylvanas threads that get posted here every single day weren’t enough for you?
You don’t get to dictate the story Blizzard is telling. We all have aspects of the story that drive us insane and make us want to walk away, you aren’t owed anything just because you dislike Sylvanas.
No, but customers do get to leave feedback about it. This is that.
I’m sorry if you’re not happy with the fact that this character has made this game intolerable for some people. Perhaps if you like this character you should consider paths to make her more palatable rather than lashing out at people whose experiences were screwed over by what Blizzard had this character do?
Oh yeah, I’m sure this is new and useful feedback for Blizzard. I’m sure they have no idea a large number of players don’t like Sylvanas.
Anti-Sylvanas types are literally the loudest people in the fanbase. They cannot wait to tell you how much they dislike her and waiting to kill her.
“Oh no, Dornheim is unsubscribing because of Sylvanas, welp better rewrite the entire rest of the expansion 6 months into it, 6 months before an already written novel, and a few weeks from a critical raid releasing” said no one at Blizzard ever.
Uh huh, so do you think these people are just pathological or do you feel that the volume of them might indicate a real concern and that the frequency of their complaints is useful data that someone might want to consider when planning future story decisions?
I don’t know, do you feel whining about the plight of Night Elves for the last 3 years has gotten you anywhere with WoW’s writing team?
Blizzard does not care about story criticisms, they never have, they never will, and 90% of the playerbase doesn’t care either. They are much more concerned with gameplay feedback and the playerbase is equally much more concerned with gameplay.
Story and lore hyperfans are a drop of water in an ocean.
Seems awfully defeatist and limited to me. But I love how you explicitly had to make this about me in the hopes of adding a little punch to your response.
Feedback is feedback. Don’t hate it, learn from it.
You’d think with the pandemic meaning there’s less to do, it would give the writers more time to work on the story.
There are parts of the story I really like - and the setting is good overall. The problems I have with the lore are the incessant retcons, the overexposure of certain characters (Sylvanas being the worst offender), the recent fixation on “morally grey” and ignoring story consequences for the sake of a new plot.
