Two Years and this lie is still floating around? Blizzard has never said Sylvanas was morally grey, that’s something the player base just made up.
The real quote is
“Azeroth is a world of grey; it’s never been a world of black and white.”
Said during a Q&A in April of 2018
https://youtu.be/AUik9-2ygS8?t=3578
With that powerful beard comes wisdom!
She has gray skin … But no morality… at all
I bet Blizz expected more people to just be on board with whatever Sylvanas does. Turns out most people don’t want to be the Saturday morning cartoon villain.
Not taking a side, but how did Blizzard lie about Sylvanas? This is a genuine question.
No, but Travis Day said she “is not evil” and that she’s not really “acting in a cruel, mustache-twirling evil way.”
Source:
I remember seeing that ‘morally grey’ thing (or something like it) in reference to the tree burning, around the time the identity of the burner was supposed to be some great mystery.
BfA doesn’t win the award for worst character development (that goes to Grommash in WoD, from warlord And enslaver to “Draenor is freeeeeeeee!”) But Sylvanas as a character is honestly dead to me. I was hoping that BfA would be the chance for her character to become a true member of the Horde; instead, we got MoP 2.0 done infinitely worse than the first time around. And she looked so much more ridiculous as a threat than Garrosh ever did, because she wasn’t even a big threat for a while. And her power growth being largely off screen is absolutely ridiculous.
The constant lies regarding the story worsened the whole expansion for me. First the tree (even when it was revealed at BlizzCon, I remember hearing more audible groans than cheers) and then the “morally gray” peddling, it felt like the writers were mocking the players. I’m sure they weren’t, b it they really didn’t consider the impact of their lies on how players would receive the story, and now you have a good number very unhappy with the over all narrative.
Sylvanas has been front and center for more of WoW’s life than virtually any other character; she needs to go, and she needs to go as soon as possible in Shadowlands. She won’t, because she’s the lead writer’s Queen, but she needs to to salvage this laughable story.
The thing is we still have no real concept of Sylvanas’s motives.
Everything strikes me as her being written to appear the villain but in the end will actually turn out to be more of an anti-hero.
They might think that’s what they’re writing, but it’s going to be very, very hard to find a motivation sufficient to justify Sylvanas’s actions in BfA.
She basically has the same goal Arthas had and that is remake the world of azeroth in undeath. maybe they’ll do a redemption of Arthas in the maw and he comes back to end here in the 2nd to last raid like Illidan did to Guldan.
I still remember when people were speculating on if it was even going to be The Horde who burns Teldrassil.
The best and most outlandish Horde cope theory I saw was Genn being responsible for a false flag attack.
Would have been better if it was azshara trying to rile up tensions.
Her story isn’t done. I believe she’s going to be redeemed in SL.
“There are no Old Gods in BfA.”
"We think corruptions were a great success."
You legit cannot trust anything this company says these days.
Well is sure fueled all the speculation about who was responsible for the “Burning”. I loved all the wild theories about who could have done it while over looking the most obvious person.
I wouldn’t be suprprised if, after telling us MULTIPLE times that the Jailer was the end boss, they went SYKE!!! and it turns out the Arbiter is a corrupt tyrant that must be destroyed.
The Arbitjailer Windrunner will save us all.
bfa was a low point for me. They made a bastardization of one of my favorite characters. Be that as it may, even if they were to somehow redeem her in a way that isn’t as contrived as it sounds, there’s no way she’s ever rejoining the forsaken.
It makes me sick.
Shoot I mean I it is obvious they painted Sylvanas as evil in BfA, but I imagine they will attempt to do some kind of redemption in Shadowlands. Either way though I doubt it will do more then turn her from the dark evil villain to a inky grey one at best.