Gawd…it…isn’t…censorship.
Nothing is being suppressed or prohibited. They are changing things, taking some little set of pixels or sounds and changing them. At best, its editing.
These changes come after input from their own employees and that input would be pointless if they just gave it an on/off switch. And if you really want to emote at someone using something removed from the quick-type emote system, just type it out manually. You can still do tht.
They have no “social justice values”. It’s all about appearances, style over substance.
No, that would not be a win/win.
This is not about you. It is about the company demonstrating to the courts they have taken steps to change their work culture, including the content of their product, in hopes of mitigating damages.
That is the only win they care about and your self-interested solution would not support that. It fact, it would be the opposite.
If you want to offer a solution to something you see as a problem in the future, you might want to understand the reasons driving it first.
I’m so glad removing 15 yr old cringy jokes, flirts and pixel boobs will stop the developers from molesting interns.
Well, and probably they remove some other things, according to forum wisdom.
IT is against the law and protested over by thousands the fact that some put animals to eat products made with their own kind.
I think soon your pets wont attack their own kinds, and wont eat meat from their own kind.
Again, according to forum wisdom.
Or, this is just a load of crap, and half of what people say is making believe “a bunch of pixels is a real boy”.
…what? Is this their spin on it?
It’s Blizzard trying to make easy, do-nothing changes to try and turn their deteriorating public image around. This honestly should offend anyone - especially employees of Blizzard - who are sensitive to these kinds of things and are victims.
People who care about these meaningless changes are 100% neckbeards.
Go outside.
That might really be the “solution to censorship” … lol
Originally I thought this too, it was all for show but now I think its actually who the new generation of Devs are. They would rather make a game that reflects their values than make a game the established fanbase enjoys… ie when push comes to shove, they would rather scrub old content to reflect their morals and values rather than put out entertaining, great content. Read the twitter of the Devs (the fact they use twitter instead of their official games forums probably says it all).
And this is old as hell …
How do these EXTREMELY MINOR NON-GAMEPLAY RELATED CHANGES affect the game at all?
How are these changes ruining the game for you people? Y’all are just making up a Boogeyman and cowering over literally nothing.
Again, quit being neckbeards and go outside.
The current devs are the same ones who were part of the frat boy culture at blizzard for years. The idea that they have suddenly acquired morals that require scrubbing the game of innocuous words like “damsel” is not credible.
They got together and decided what needed to be done without input from outside their office, and without consideration of what players might think. That’s exactly how they have been designing the game all along, no consideration of what the paying customers might be willing to pay for.
now we’re in the process of removing voice lines from jokes and flirts… In an ideal world it would pave the way for them to revoice new lines to replace the ones being removed but at the moment this seems unrealistic. Most races will be left with next to no jokes/flirt lines and honestly a lot of them have always made me giggle over the years.
Some of the devs have made snappy tweets about how theyre the ones asking for this… what about what’s left of the playerbase. Are these references in a cartoon video game actually that offensive? Im honestly not sure if im just desensitized because I grew up on the internet. Theyre relatively harmless since the world they reside in doesn’t exist.
It’s not that the changes are ruining the game for me personally. It’s what the changes are and why Blizzard is doing it. As I said earlier, they’re easy do-nothing changes to try and turn their plumetting public image around. Again, any actual victims should be offended by these changes because of how shallow and transparent they are.
The changes themselves don’t have to be outrageous to be seen in a negative light. Your replying here and telling people to, “go outside” and ignore what Blizzard is doing is just showing you’re the type to suck up what Blizzard is trying to do - you either don’t care or give some semblance of care for it.
The people complaining about the removal of the picture and emotes cant see THEY are the snowflakes, the “self anointed”, the “virtue signalers”.
Because they are too much indulged by a media that shows “two teams of snowflakes” as one SJWs, and the other the “whatever gang”.
It is hard to demonstrate that BOTH do the exact same thing. And both will call you the “opposition” even if you are against both sides.
In what way does saying, “Hey, these changes do nothing, and are obviously just to try and save face after you’re being ripped apart by lawsuits” make us the snowflakes?
Why are people not allowed to criticize a company for censorship of an established product that doesn’t actually have a negative impact, but gets censored anyway?
No toggle because everyone needs to be absolutely 100% aware that mild potty humor is extremely bad and you are bad for thinking its funny.
They’re doing these changes because of internal polling.
In early August, we set up internal channels where the WoW team could share feedback on content that doesn’t represent who we are as a team today.
People who work at Blizzard asked for these changes, and they’re listening to their employees.
Show me the evil in that.
I don’t care about these changes, you are correct. They don’t impact the game at all. Literally zero percent. The sky isn’t falling because you can’t /fart or /spit on people or because they changed a single painting in an instance
Sounds kind of like an excuse. And, again, easy do-nothing changes to make themselves look better.
If their employees want it, okay. That doesn’t make it good and it’s still pathetic.
Correct, they’re meaningless with no impact. And it’s laughable that they’re doing it. We can be against the premise behind it even if the changes themselves don’t matter.
You don’t seem to understand why and what we’re not happy with.
What changes do you expect them to make? Fire the president of the company? They already did that. What else do you expect them to do?
I literally don’t. I cannot fathom why any of these changes would upset anyone.