This isn’t some silly sunday thread. I’m genuinely curious. And I don’t really consider Nathanos an option since he’s nowhere to be found for 2 expansions now.
Honestly the only time I got sus vibes from the writing was when we almost got that “make sure alexstrasza is abused” timeline daily. The rest I haven’t really been eye rolling like some folks.
I just see folks saying he’s bad but I never see actual details.
If “he did cringe rp responses on twitter” is your answer. A LOT ( heck almost all ) of creator types do silly stuff like that. Heck I do that all the time with my characters. It’s fun.
The echo chamber doesn’t do reasons. They just all tell each other what they want to hear and become convinced that they speak for “the players” because they mistake the “echos” for exponentially more people.
That’s not just here. We see that in lots of internet forums and even cable news networks.
If you are changing canon, your writing abilities are vastly limited. See Disney Star Wars, Amazon’s Rings, The Witcher series as prime examples of bad, while The Boys as an example of good.
Its rare for someone to come along and change what exists for the better because you need to be able to stay within a box created by another person which is why so many end up making things worse as its a different mind, with different views of what it should be.
Its better to just come up with something completely new, where you have no boundaries as a writer. However, as most writers are weak, they are going to try to take the easy road and use what already exists and hope that member-berries will distract enough that they can use the popularity of it to propel their weak work.
Asmongold described the most successful WoW narratives as “big, sweaty guys fighting big, sweaty guys” in epic battles. A lot of people agree with him.
It’s boring, it’s “safe”, whatever you want to call it - it’s “Vanilla” flavor tailored towards little kids when the playerbase is increasingly older/not little kids anymore
Obviously it hasn’t been received well considering they’re bringing Metzen back to somewhat assist/carry
Hello, I see you posted a thread about horrible writing. There have been so many threads over the years about the horrible writing and now you suddenly need people to explain what has been explained countless times before, both here and elsewhere, haha!? That’s so weird! A better question would be, “what exactly is so good about Danuser’s writing!?” Funny enough, not only do you never see posts like that, no one ever can answer it in any thread, positive or negative, haha!
