I bought Warcraft books written by Golden. That does not mean I like her writing. I do not go around purchasing Golden’s other works. I am purchasing Warcraft stuff that she writes.
If Blizzard paid some hip trendy person to write a canonical story - like Cardi B or Snoop Dogg or Harry Stiles - I would read it because it is Warcraft stuff. Not because I love their writing.
I would say Blizzard likes having her around enough to pay her. It seems as if the sole purpose is so they can say they have a female in a high position on the creative team. So when fans decry the way Sylvanas or Tyrande or Jaina are portrayed, Blizz can say they have a female perspective involved in that bad writing.
I never understood why people seperate others into groups within a community. We’re all Warcraft fans, we wouldn’t be here otherwise.
I like both factions for completly different reasons. Doesn’t make me strictly a Horde or Alliance fan just because I play one side more than the other
Remember when Lydia Bottegoni was declared VP of Creative Direction and then they published a post about diversity on the team and in the narrative and didn’t mention race and then I called them out and then the article was quietly edited to include race?
Good times
There are players who only want one faction to be “good” and/or “dominate”. Many.
Which is really problematic when one stops to consider the effects that mentality has on the story and the community at large. Mainly because the horde are coded as various PoC. That mentality just opens a whole ugly can of worms for all sorts of……wrong think as it were.
The reason people fell in love with the horde during WC 3 is because blizz turned the whole monster trope on its head and made the monster faction one of the good guys. But it seems they been listening to their more racist fans the last couple years and slowly walked that back.
And while that is probably true for us in the story forums because we are most invested in the story that isn’t really the case for everyone. I think there are people who did purchase it because they liked her work. And similarly, there are people who kept buying her warcraft stuff because they liked either the topic she covered/how she covered it.
She was brought on because she was fairly accomplished writer already who from a quick check shows she has written for Assassin’s Creed, Star Wars and Star Trek.
I would also point out she is pretty foundational to Warcraft’s lore, particularly the orcs considering she is the one who wrote Thrall;s stories and Rise of the Horde.
Her older Star Wars books are no longer cannon as Disney deemed them Legends content. Which is a good thing in my book. She had a terrible taste in writing Mandalorian clone troopers.
Because of how human psychology works. When there are only two options, a tribal mindset kicks in wherein people feel the need to build up ‘their’ tribe at the expense of the other guy. The outsider is to be dispersed, and seen as other. It worked well when we lived in tribes, and its something we have not shaken from our evolutionary past yet.
Case for point, Zerde. Which they briefly did in vanilla but Blizzard realized they can’t sell a two faction game that way so they made some good changes.
The one guy not even raised by Orcs and is now considered the stereotype because god forbid the Orcs actually stick to their nature like Garrosh did. I am glad Warcraft Chronicles retconned her novel.
The inability of this forum to stick with the topic at hand is quite something, how does SW have to do with the nature of undeath making one a subject less and less humane with every resurrection?
Sure even if it wasn’t the intent of a specific writer, focusing so much on the writers and not the written text takes away from the immersion.