There's no end to it

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Okay, enough. I’m actually reaching the point where I can’t take it anymore.

You took our jokes. Why? They weren’t that bad. Are you going to replace them? Probably not.

You took our funny puns and innuendo. I get that many of them are juvenile, but come on. They are so minor.

I guess “consort” is an offensive word now, because you’re retconning lore for no apparent reason.

You removed interactions with negative emotes. Goodness forbid somebody fart.

You removed the charm from key moments in Warcraft history. Because burning well over a thousand citizens (including children) and animals alive and damning them to the Maw is acceptable, but the b-word is just a tad too far, eh?

Even referencing the idea of curse words is too far for you. You do realize this game is rated T right?

And what takes the cake - you’ll replace Kael’thas’ voice actor for allegations that are, in comparison to what can be laid at your feet, minor. Now I’m not defending what he did, or saying that he’s innocent. But I am saying that what has gone in your company is a thousand times worse, and you’ve cut ties with employees for far less.

I’ve tolerated a lot. I stayed through Warlords of Draenor, I stayed through Battle for Azeroth. I was willing to stay through Shadowlands, purely out of my love for what this game was and can be. My friend, rightfully, pointed out how silly that was. And I was already thinking that I wouldn’t stay through another BfA or SL. The storywriting has been worse in the last few years than it has been in prior expansions, and as a roleplayer it drove me nuts. But I tolerated it, purely out of my love for this game. I was willing to continue giving Blizzard my business despite the sexual abuse allegations, because I knew the actions of a few did not represent the many.

At every turn, I have tried to just let it go. Many of these things, aside from the sexual abuse, are decidedly minor on their own, and that’s why I could. But they just pile up, and pile up, and pile up. And every time I think it will stop, it doesn’t.

I just can’t put up with this anymore. You don’t know when to stop, but I do. If this continues, I will walk.

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Yeah, it’s gonna keep happening. Time to acknowledge that, unsub, and move on to a better game.

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While I agree with a lot of what you are saying - we do not know why the actor was replaced. There could have been a number of reasons the dialogue was changed.

  1. You may be right.
  2. There may have been contractual issues.
  3. There may have been a scheduling conflict and they wanted to have continuity.
  4. There may have been a salary dispute.
    and more.

In truth, we do not know why the actor was replaced.

:cookie:

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You’re completely right. I’m just pointing out that they seem very quick to distance themselves from people who come under allegations, yet they’re far dirtier than any of these voice actors.

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Isn’t gonna stop me from playing. Only snowflakes leave bc of these changes.

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Actually, it’s the snowflakes that are the ones making these changes. So…

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But the changes were made for snowflakes…why would they then leave when they got what they wanted?

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Takes one to know one?

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Gordon Ramsay voice: I’VE HAD ENOUGH
throws salmon on to the wall

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these changes suck. just straight-up, they suck. i wanna keep playing WoW (and i will) but these changes are making it harder, and harder to play. i liked those /jokes and /flirts… knowing that they’re going away hurts.
it makes me wanna quit- i won’t! it has’nt reached a tipping point for me, but… that point is inching closer and closer with every funny little thing they remove in their T for teen game.

just… good lord, these changes are getting dumber and dumber…

edit: woah… did’nt expect to get this many likes on this comment that’s also a true-fact.

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Yeah, sure.

Finding out Blizzard allowed sexual harassment to go on for years is okay but minor changes to the game is beyond bearable.

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Reading is hard.

But unlike the sexual allegations, these changes do reflect the opinions of the devs, and they’ve said as much

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Quit, I did.

Stop supporting this mess, the best thing anyone can do that likes the Warcraft franchise is just quit.

Once blizzard learns that even the most die hard and loyal fans are over it they will have be forced to rethink their actions.

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Yet here you are.

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When they subvert every avenue of escape and there’s nowhere left to just be left alone, they’ll still ask “who radicalized you”

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Remember guys, flag for trolling and move on. Don’t bother engaging.

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to me it really has no bearing on the game in any way shape or form aside form the fact they are wasting dev. time/resources on something so mundane.

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But something so mundane as you put it, probably does not require much dev time. This seems like intern busy work.

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If you dont think the game is being adjusted for you, then just quit. People acting like this isnt just a video game that you escape life from really just need to find another outlet. Thats what most of us do when the game isnt that fun anymore or just need a break from the game/want to exit it totally.

Or else you watch yourself go crazy – lurk around the forums to always post about how bad WoW until you realize that you’ve been doing the same thing for years and while the game has moved on – you havent.

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math doesn’t add up. literally any time or resource wasted on things like this is taken away from better things they could be doing.

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