They are doing it for the ESG score. Nothing more. Because without a good ESG score, your company is excluded and black listed from everything like financing, advertisers, to everything you as a company can now do to survive this nonsense.
Not wrong. They ALL also throw around the word bigot, dumb, stupid, and a whole host of putdowns if you do not agree with their preferences!
But anyone that disagrees with you, makes them a bigot right?
Thats the bottom line.
So basically “How DARE blizzard not let us be bigots openly!”
If you are against even “seeing” gay people in game, then you are a bigot. Its very simple. Next time you want to whine about a persons sexuality, ask yourself “Would i be whining if this guy was talking about his wife?” And when the answer is unequivocally “no”, its because you are a bigot.
When it’s overrepresented and distracting from actual events going on, to the point that it feels more like the writers are just trying to tick some kind of checkbox instead of write a compelling character? Yes, they absolutely would be complained about
How is it over representative. Have you personally added up every NPC in dragon lands, and done the math? And again, where is the line? Youve never stated it.
They are side quests. Dont need to be compelling.
Excellent post, imo. It becomes pandering when it breaks my immersion in the world.
Majordomo Selistra is done well - she (she?) is doing her job and being Alex’s majordomo and just happens to use a female visage.
Thomas and Miguel Bright are pandering. When I’m blstong through quests without reading and STILL get it shoved in my face that these guys are GAY, and there are blatant emotes about squealing in delight at shiny things, and I have to wait for one to flirt with the other before I can continue the quests, that’s pandering.
I didn’t like being Thrall’s wingman in Cata, either, for what it’s worth. That was incredibly stupid and disruptive.
For anyone who doesn’t want to see it, no story would be good enough for them to see it as anything but pandering. It could be really well written, the characters could be good rounded characters, and they would say it’s bad.
Meanwhile mediocre stories for straight couples, or white people etc, never receive the same amount of pushback.
And how often do you have to see it? Every single day? Hour? You may have your own opinion on pandering, but it’s wrong.
People existing and being allowed to exist in peace is proper.
PUSHING ones views onto others, going beyond just sharing ideas, is where the line gets crossed.
I haven’t seen a straight couple story in WoW that hasn’t had pushback. Let’s get a zone of Flynn running around “Shaw my dear! Where are you!”
It’s like most of WoW fans are asexual and would just rather be murder hobos - like me.
It’s not the same sort of pushback. People don’t say “I don’t want straight couples shoved in my face”. Or act like straight couples can’t exist at all unless the story is perfect.
If bad stories can be everywhere when it comes straight couples, white people, etc, then other people can have stories too without needing them to be perfect. It’s never truly about the stories anyway. I’ve seen more about “this is being shoved in my face!” merely because the story just exists than any feedback on the stories themselves.
I had to do a quest chain where centaurs FORCED me to HUNT. HUNTING was shoved in MY FACE. Blizzard is PANDERING to HUNTERS.
Damn those California radical LIBERALS shoving their HUNTER AGENDA in my FACE.
Like I said above, I don’t want ANY relationships or sex in my murder games. To me everything that goes on in Goldshire would be permanent bans…
This is a role playing game. If you want a murder game go play call of duty or Hitman or like, mortal kombat. Heck, in that game you can rip out a dudes spine
It’s an mmorpg. It’s got stories, which is why some people play it. Not everyone sees it as a murder game. It’s also not just your game.
I am sure there are games you can play that have no story and just involve killing everything.
Why do right wingers always out their facism so easily?
Every zone has at least one questline where the main characters besides the player are in a relationship. Most of them have multiple. And while I certainly don’t remember all of them, of the ones I can recall only one is straight, and most of them would still function perfectly well narratively if the two characters involved were siblings, or work acquaintances, or hell even just 2 random dudes that happened to be in the same place at the same time
Isnt that exactly how it should be?
Yes, but it’s not. And again, it’s not a problem that gay couples exist, it’s that there’s a distracting amount of them often in places where they serve no tangible purpose to the narrative that makes it feel like the devs are just trying to tick a checkbox
Why do gay people need to have a purpose to the narrative? Do you say this about the hundreds of straight quest givers that served no narrative purpose?