This isn’t “censorship” it’s design change. Censorship would be if they cancelled/muted your account for saying something. So your title should be “Solution to unpopular design changes”
Are you by chance vegan?
These changes aren’t about players, they are about the Blizzard staff not feeling comfortable and safe with these things in the game.
sooo, if something is completely removed instead of being too-heavily policed…then it isnt censorship? right, ok
Yes, exactly!
Hard copiuming
Well there IS something else you can do.
Unsubscribe/stop playing.
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You should go look up the meaning of some words when you get time.
editing out old content to fit a personal world view is censorship. changing focus of the game’s direction would be design change. this is a pig wearing a hat
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Retain the consortships!
So many people are authorities on discussions from meetings they weren’t invited to. Why be 90% ragebots, instead of just waiting to see how this plays out? I can guarantee these changes don’t change how you play the game. The decisions won’t end the world (of Warcraft) the way we know it. The people who irrationally leave over this are not the kind of players ABK wants to retain.
I don’t think you understand how blue the hair of these disgusting fiends who work for this company really is.
Look at their twitter and you will understand why they must destroy comedy and anything that may be misconstrued as objectifying women. God forbid a woman ever gets offended by anything!
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I have emote macros set up because I used /joke and /flirt so much… It was great for comic relief in raid groups
I also have /greetings /farewell /confused /thanks /laugh /mourn /angry and a few more. I really like using my characters voicelines to talk
They didn’t remove those emotes. They only removed some of the audio lines. You will still be able to use those, just maybe /spit and /fart won’t do what they used to.
You literally called people that make the game you play fiends, how are you not banned yet?
There are lots of fiends in the world!
You need to understand what censorship is.
Censorship is when another party (often a government) steps in and forces someone (whether that be an individual or a company) to not say something that they want to say or take down something that they have written. A great example of censorship in the modern day would be when the Trump administration ordered the EPA to take down its climate webpage. That was censorship, as the EPA did not want to take down that information, but the Trump administration, who was stacked with climate change deniers, did not want that information visible to the public.
The other form of censorship is self-censorship. That is when an individual or company doesn’t say something they want to say out of fear that they may be censored, intimidated or lose their jobs, with the idea being that if they say nothing, then no negative attention is thrown their way and they can move on with their lives.
What Hohnzo said is accurate. This is a design change, brought about by the developers who are no longer comfortable with many of these small things that are in the game. So arguing that it’s censorship is foolish, no one is imposing censorship on Blizzard.
Im just saying it does affect my gameplay, I might end up removing the emote macro on some of my toons if it ends up just cycling a couple of the meh jokes after the patch. Some races really got screwed by this.
It may not be the end of the world, but some players really like emotes and having a lot of them taken away is gonna sit poorly with those players, especially when there’s also a lot other problems with the game right now.
And lets be real a lot of the jokes being removed were not out of place in a T rated videogame, and were genuinely funny. There was a couple that make sense to remove because they were a little gross and cringe, but most really should have been left in the game.
Good news nobody can hear or care about your emote spam anyway so it doesn’t really matter in the end.
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Specifically because this is NOT being done for the players… the Devs have explained this is for them and their workplace… it is right on par with why wow is in so much trouble, they have made a bunch of changes THEY want to make without considering the players.
I sympathize with the developers on this, they have had to put up with some very bad conditions and I fully support blizzard management being held accountable. What I am against is arbitrarily making these decisions and changes without thinking about how it will affect your customers… No successful business can operate that way for very long (this is only one incident in a long line of mismanagement, the design of SL, the defection\war on prominent content creators and now the censorship debacle).
What the Devs fail to accept is that to the customer “blizzard” is an indivisible entity, you are all homogenous to players (unless you are at the top of the org chart or are a public facing figure/CM). As customers we should not have to feel bad about the inner workings of blizzard, as human beings we do feel sympathy for your plight.