So ... Lorthemar is good as dead?

[Alispie-drakthul]

So, ol’ Blizzard killing off all the NPCs.

Arthas
Garrosh
Neltharion
Illidan
Varian
Vol’jin
Malygos
Sylvanus
Lor’themar
Stormstout
Kel’thalas

[Dommont-saurfang]

@Illaandra-gilneas

You’re talking about a manga magazine.

I’m talking about a video game company.

Blizzard does actually do polls, but they’re not going to do a poll every month to see what people think of characters. A game is not the same as a manga, mate.

They are both publishing stories to entertain an audience.

@Illaandra-gilneas

Yeah… You have no idea what you’re talking about. Not even sure you got what I meant.

All I’m saying is, authors/publishers normally don’t try to make a character popular. They write characters and put them out there. If they are popular, great, give that character more airtime. If they aren’t, get rid of them.

Blizzard is unique in that they very often try to force the popularity of a character. LOL And it’s very obvious when they try to do so. Audiences I don’t think appreciate it much as they feel like they are being manipulate - which they are.

[Illaandra-gilneas (Illaandra)]

@Dommont-saurfang

They are both publishing stories

Through different mediums, with different constraints and limitations, with different methods, reaching vastly different audiences.

By this logic driving a motorbike is equivalent to driving a tank because both are vehicles.

@Dommont-saurfang

authors/publishers normally don’t try to make a character popular. They write characters and put them out there. If they are popular, great, give that character more airtime. If they aren’t, get rid of them

Except in this case, the narrative is Blizzard’s. Outside of insane lashback, they’re not interested in needing to constantly pivot the story to adjust to characters coming and going like it’s a popularity contest.

@Dommont-saurfang

Blizzard is unique in that they very often try to force the popularity of a character. LOL And it’s very obvious when they try to do so. Audiences I don’t think appreciate it much as they feel like they are being manipulate - which they are.

Blizzard isn’t manipulating you by consistently using characters that exist within their world and plot because you dislike those characters.

Blizzard also isn’t unique in keeping plot-relevant characters.

[Tiffany-ravencrest]

@Dommont-saurfang

• Blizzard’s fetishisation of race is honestly quite disturbing.

Well if you think that is disturbing, just remember, our species, H.Sapiens evolved in Africa. Those are the only original people. So unless you are one of them, you would be the fetishisation of race, what ever that means.

[Akston-area-52]

@Dommont-saurfang

All I’m saying is, authors/publishers normally don’t try to make a character popular. They write characters and put them out there. If they are popular, great, give that character more airtime. If they aren’t, get rid of them.

Blizzard is unique in that they very often try to force the popularity of a character. LOL And it’s very obvious when they try to do so. Audiences I don’t think appreciate it much as they feel like they are being manipulate - which they are.

To me this just says you don’t read many books.

I have never read a single books where I saw this happen.

I have read countless stories where the author wrote and just did what he want with the characters.

Your only example seems to be some vague manga magazines

[Dommont-saurfang]

@Tiffany-ravencrest

what ever that means.

Putting race on a pedestal. Give it an unusual amount of importance.

[Myfwyc-wyrmrest-accord]

@Dommont-saurfang

Call it a suspicion of mine. When Blizzard is pushing some character pretty hard, they are trying something.

Yeah just like how Alleria became queen of Quelthelas in TWW.

Wait, no she didn’t.

[Illaandra-gilneas (Illaandra)]

He’s the son of Alleria and Turalyon. He’s a half elf.

Is calling him a half elf an undue assigning of importance, or is it calling things what they are?

[Quenya-shadow-council (Quenya)]

always about race with you, isn’t it.

[Syegfryed-tol-barad (Syegfryed)]

@Imrockhard-area-52

He’s the longest serving Horde leader remaining, so he’s overdue for being deleted. It would make sense for Arathor to replace him, as an Alliance leader being installed into Horde leadership has already happened before with Callia.

It also happened before with Baine

[Illaandra-gilneas (Illaandra)]

@Quenya-shadow-council

always about race with you, isn’t it

At this point I’m just waiting for the acronym to rear its head.

[Dommont-saurfang]

@Illaandra-gilneas

Is calling him a half elf an undue assigning if importance, or is it calling things what they are?

I never said that. But Blizzard does seem to try to elevate such characters more … again look at Med’an. This feels like round 2. Or even round 3 if you include Faerin and all the Arathi.

[Sendryn-sentinels]

@Dommont-saurfang

Controls both the Light and the Shadow

I don’t remember hearing about this.

@Dommont-saurfang

Blizzard does seem to try to elevate such characters more … again look at Med’an.

Where is Med’an in WoW?

[Illaandra-gilneas (Illaandra)]

@Dommont-saurfang

I never said that

@Dommont-saurfang

Putting race on a pedestal. Give it an unusual amount of importance

Your thread centers on Arator.

What the hell else would it be about?

@Dommont-saurfang

But Blizzard does seem to try to elevate such characters more … again look at Med’an. This feels like round 2.

I read the comics Med’an featured in. No, it’s not even close to the same thing. Med’an is also not canon.

@Dommont-saurfang

Or even round 3 if you include Faerin and all the Arathi.

The Arathi of Hallowfall are what they are. They’re an offshoot of the original Arathi.

Do you have a point, or is this a weird way of dancing around the acronym I’m imagining you want to actually use?

[Greenguy-zangarmarsh]

@Dommont-saurfang

Call it a suspicion of mine. When Blizzard is pushing some character pretty hard, they are trying something.

Funny thing is it almost never works.

Instead of seeing what players like and going with that, they try to push a character they want on us.

Oh, you mean like Taelia and Faerin, both of whom people were so sure would be “forced” upon us as Queen of Stormwind because they had any positive interaction with Anduin? And then nothing happened?

[Tiffany-ravencrest]

@Dommont-saurfang

I never said that. But Blizzard does seem to try to elevate such characters more … again look at Med’an. This feels like round 2. Or even round 3 if you include Faerin and all the Arathi.

Every race in WoW is a race that evolved from something else. Humans evolved from the Vrykul race, elves evolved from the Trolls, etc. This is true on Earth as well.

About the only thing that is not an evolution or blend of something else would be simple prokaryotic cells and even they seem to have evolved from complex proteins.

[Koraar-moon-guard]

Misinformation, strange choice of hangups, and doomposting?

This is a shi*post if I ever saw one.

[Elylvannia-moon-guard (Elylvannia)]

I don’t know why are you are assuming Lorethemar’s gonna die, but I am not going to take you seriously, because you were all like “Biracial” like it was some gotcha moment?

I don’t even get what you were trying to say there, but I don’t think he will die.

[Rakham-bloodsail-buccaneers]

@Tiffany-ravencrest

Every race in WoW is a race that evolved from something else.

Not all the races. Especially the beast races like Tauren, Pandaren, and Vulpera.

[Tiffany-ravencrest]

@Rakham-bloodsail-buccaneers

Not all the races. Especially the beast races like Tauren, Pandaren, and Vulpera

The Tauren evolved from the Yaungol. The Druids claim the Pandaren and raccoons had a common ancestor. It is unlikely that the First Ones created the Vulpera so they evolved from something.

So all the races of Azeroth are blended or evolved from something else. Why are these new blends any different?