Tbh what I suspect is that your issue is more to do with modern day’s internet culture of people getting upset and demanding for things to change instead of allowing stories and such to stick to the authors/writers vision. Which is a fair point as well, I think we need to see things out to it’s conclusion.
However in this case I think that it was a weak attempt on the writer’s part to fully see through the theme. If we consider a typical heroic fantasy, or like a good RPG, usually you’ll have different actions or dialogue options that can reflect varying levels of personal choice and morality.
That’s my hope for this. Like give another dialogue option, or keep in mind for heavier themes that people might rate themselves on some moral alignment and having some dialogue options with that in mind is objectively a good thing.
That is hilarious. You invent back stories for people you know nothing about to explain why they disagree. We all have fun in our own way, I suppose.
You act as if no one can have a life experience unless they rant about it on social media like a drug addled buffoon. Some people can keep their experiences out of lore discussions, and discuss the lore as it is.
Your mother yelling has nothing to do with other people finding these quests distasteful.
See I’m in agreement this is a tone deaf story. I’m happy that Blizzard is listening to complaints and making ammends.
What gets my goat is the utter insulting comparison to SA and Warcraft 2.
If somebody in dire need of a psychiatrist see’s themselves in a duck mothering kaiju then, I’ll just have to make peace with their existence.
But as someone who has to console someone who still has night terrors about being cornered by her cousin, multiple times because nobody ever believed her;
YEAH. I’m a little touchy about comparing THAT to this;
For me I’d rather just see better writing and RP quality. I think having to make amends and such is going a little too far. I think this is where I would agree like we need to be very careful about where fictional/writing issues bleed into IRL matters because these things can potentially ruin someone’s job or start creating an environment where writers become over sensitive about what to write about and then become overly safe.
I’d say WoW writers need to be more inspired by things like ESO’s writing tbh. Not all the way though. I think they tried following FF14 MSQ style, and it failed so it’s never a good idea to just copy and paste another style, but ESO has this thing where you have specific outcomes, but you have different dialogue options as a way to RP your character’s personality.
E.g. if a quest leads to you having to kill someone, you have options
A). No, that’s terrible, I don’t want to do this… and then the NPC does it anyway, or
B). Oh ok, so how much gold will I get from this?, or
C). Are you so weak that you can’t deal with your own problems?
I feel like these things bring agency back to the player, even if a dark theme has to happen.
Blizzard looked at the conversation and thought better about what they initially displayed. They listened to passionate fans that care about the story, gameplay, and franchise. Thankfully.
As opposed to listening to people like you, who exult in their own real life drama as if it is some shared experience that guides every Players understanding of the lore.
You’ve to admit, it would be objectively hilarious if with no warning Blizzard just decided to recreate an entire scene from a David Lynch movie.
If you don’t find that funny, give it time, life will twist every ounce of joy out’ve you until you can only find these sorts of things funny.
This is why I like old folk’s home. Try shocking someone who grew up in 40s Warsaw. They got nothing but laughs.
Because they get it, you see. They understand. Life is a prank. Your only true instinct is to survive, and your only true guarantee is that will you not.
In the words of Voltaire;
“God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh”.
I really hope you come to understand how absolutely embarrasing you sound, and every attempt you have made to shame people for finding this quest distasteful makes you the example cited below an English language idiom encyclopedia’s definition of the phrase “pot calling the kettle black.”
… I literally in agreement with this quest decision.
I just think people comparing IRL horror to a half remembered D&D module hastily rewritten in a stinky 90s developer room are sheltered little cherubs who are going to shatter like glass when life inevitably comes around and smacks your pretty face.
The forced breeding was mentioned in the Day of the Dragon novel, regardless of your weird insistence that we can’t criticise this quest because of Warcraft 2’s art style and tone.
Custer’s Revenge being 8-bit didn’t stop a single bit of controversy either.
