There are no actual Black, brown or Asian characters in the game (excluding Wrathion’s visage form, of course). Adding skin tones at the character customization screen is one thing, but actually doing the heavy lifting of writing BIPOC characters into the story is another. And to be totally honest, I do side with the players that Kotaku condemned re: complaining about the new skin tones. This was a welcome addition for player self-identification, but beyond the surface it’s really nothing but a cheap appeasement.
How about adding an expansion focused on the South Seas, where presumably there would be more melanated characters? If you look at the last names of the characters in Lordaeron and Elwynn Forest, they clearly point to English and Germanic-inspired origins. What about actually writing in a Black story into the game’s lore?
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Tell us you didn’t play cataclysm and BFA without telling us you didn’t play cataclysm and BFA
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Well that’s alot of word salad.
Why’s melanin matter that much to you is the real question…you’re the one making this about race.
There’s multiple races and customizable options already for humans too. This seems like a bait troll topic most likely.
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Azeroth isn’t Earth.
Provide an explanation as to why it must necessarily reflect what you see around you in real life.
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I’m guessing you didn’t play alliance, not even the intro.
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it’s a fantasy world not real life it shouldn’t be relatable or need anything =/
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While there is some kind of argument to be made about people having different skin tones based on geographic location (i.e. Zerrikania or Ofier in Witcher for example)…
I feel like the moment where a character’s skin color or gender means more than their actual character traits/qualities? You’ve reduced a character to tokenism.
The thing is that WoW is fantasy and it doesn’t have to be a 1:1 match for our world. People say they want to see themselves on screen…but I hate to tell them that unless you grow long ears or tusks? Chances are you aren’t going to see yourself on screen anyway. If you want to see yourself on screen there are humans…
WoW is already fairly diverse in terms of it’s different races. You have the Kul-Tirans who are not only physically different to those found in Stormwind. They also have a distinct accent. The Nightborne and Nightelves while similar each have their own cultures and customs. Same with a Mag-Har orc versus a typical Orgrimmar Orc. Your Zandalari trolls are also going to be different from say a dark spear troll.
But if we look at humans? You already have a fairly wide range of skin tones including Black and white and various tones in between.
As for you asking why Blizzard doesn’t do a “Black” story? Are you sure you really want that after the writing we had in Shadowlands?
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I’m not saying that at all. The fact that there are Black character customization options implies that there are Black characters in Azeroth. But so far, none have been written.
Can we just have a fun game in another universe without injecting politics into it?
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So we want WoW to become disney and the M-She-U?
No thanks… fans already complain about Mary Sue’s such as Sylvannas… imagine if we had something as bad She-Thrall!
Please dont start with that woke stuff in games too.
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Maybe cus it’s a fantasy game and make believe which shouldn’t be representative of reality? Ever think of that?
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We have plenty of race diversity.
We have the mirage raceway. The Azshara tracks. Rolling down the great wall of Pandaria. The vehicles of Darkmoon Isle…
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I kinda do just so “anti-woke” losers can continue shunting themselves out of society.
I know this is just a troll but for any casual observers, this is objectively false. There’s a new black commander in the new Alliance intro, along with her son.
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Holy crap, that was a refreshing comment to see out of the hundres or thousands of politically motivated posts i see on this platform! Too bad Blizz let that thought slip away a long time ago.
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That’s 80% of comments on threads like this.
Problem is, everyone has a different opinion on what “politics” is.
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I honestly cannot tell what is satire and what isn’t now.
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she comes back and has quests in DF as well, only saw her in the first quest hub so far though, but as a horde player i never really pay attention to the alliance races tbqh
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