People seem to love to insult the lead narrative designer

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I believe Steve Danuser is probably a very nice person. He seems a nice enough guy in the few interviews I’ve seen.

But if his job is Lead Narrative Designer, then he is objectively bad at his job.

That’s nothing against him as a person. And he probably has talent related to storytelling. But I don’t think he’s excelling in his CURRENT role. And unfortunately, we’re seeing this evidenced even in Dragonflight, where people have unfortunately pointed out that the timeline for when the Dracthyr were supposedly created doesn’t line up.

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Danuser was head of narrative throughout the design and implementation of SL in its entirety from conception to present day. Only the blindest and most gullible of fools will hold that man blameless for the unprecedented dumpster fire that is SL.

There are so many casualties of horrid writing in this expansion. SO MANY. The story is DEAD now. Not damaged, not stained… but DEAD. It’s irreparably destroyed; that’s how devastatingly annihilated the story is now. We are all going into DF just NUMB from grief, shaking our heads still in disbelief at how badly wow’s very soul has been mangled.

Yet you and those like you want to stand in defense of the man who has been in charge all this time of the very story whose dead soul we now grieve.

That you would defend Danuser to any degree, let alone with steadfast conviction in the face of every compelling reason to hold him accountable – e.g., every casualty of horrid writing in SL, of which there are many – is ludicrous.

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We don’t know the full story of the Dracthyr since there are missing cinematics and cutscenes and movies tied to the questline.

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I mean, opinions on Danuser and Wow’s story aside…this is just nonsense.

I don’t know how to fly a helicopter, but if I see one stuck in a tree I have enough knowledge on the matter to say “hey, that’s not supposed to be there.”

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Oh really has he where is the evidence? Because tell by the writing in shadowlands he doesn’t seem to care about it. But in Dragonflight the writing seems like effort was put into and has a lot more depth and stuff. If we want to include 9.2.5 story well that part seems to have effort placed into it.

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We know quite a lot, based on quests available in Beta.

And we know from 18 years of previous betas, it’s rare for story content to change from beta to live. It HAS happened, don’t get me wrong. But rare.

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Its kinda like how Gordon Ramsay is really sweet and supportive to kids who are just learning. Versus adults who should know better.

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You don’t need to be a world class chef to recognize a bad dish. You don’t need a New York Times Best Selling Author to recognize a fanfic writer who just self inserts into the story and can’t reconcile all the story sub threads into a single narrative.

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You are mistaken. I don’t have to be a “better” pilot to tell a pilot that regularly crashes their plane that they aren’t doing a good job.

Criticizing the narrative doesn’t require that you, yourself, have to be capable of making a better one.

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Gordon Ramsey was dealing with professional chiefs that had years of experience. Versus that of kids that were getting their feet into the kitchen.

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That was my point.

Say with writing you got fanfic writers yeah? They’re practicing. So of course criticisms will be gentle towards them.

A paid employee making a bad story? Whole other ball game

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So which part of his team do you work for? You seem to be making an awful lot of statements that seem pretty close to home.

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I’d love knowing this too.

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*WOD, CATA, TBC
BFA is mid

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Well, if people wanna judge wait till Dragonflight comes out since this expansion is all his and his first official debut.

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lol…so glad I blocked the troll.
“Ion must be great since his denouncers cant do any better”
L M A O

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Exactly. If I suck at doing it, that dont mean the current guy sucks any less doing it.

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Why ask that question when I don’t work for blizzard entertainment? I am coming from a perspective of a book reader that have somewhat of an understanding of how story are told. And written and under any new management or author or narrative lead the writing tend to shift from author to author in this case narrative lead to narrative lead.

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Cool. I read books too. I can still distinguish between what I consider good writing and bad writing.

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So the same perspective we all have here.

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