This has been regurgitated a million times before but the writing hasn’t changed and it seems like Blizzard doesn’t get it.
For example: Why do the 4 goblin cartels get along so well? They’re just perfectly fine living in harmony with one another? No issues with trade disputes? Haven’t the steamwheedles been asking for players to kill venture co goblins for years? They’re all just friends now?
And don’t get me started on Gazlowe. He hears Laslo, the guy he put in charge, was killed by Gallywix and he just wants to forget about it? Because he’s ‘done’ with Undermine? He’s spineless. And what about the Kaja’coast? Gazlowe casually drops that he’s aware Gallywix had taken over the place, threatening the Horde’s relationship with the Zandalari, but he does nothing about it? Does the Horde even care? Does the Horde even exist anymore?
This is just a very recent example, but it’s an example that stretches across all of Blizzard’s recent writing. Blizzard has melded all the major ‘good guy’ characters and faction leaders into this one personality type, where they’re all united, they’re all part of the same faction, and they’re all these selfless heroic people who just care about beating up bad guys and being good. It’s like the writers are scared to have their characters be anything other than a hero or a villain. You can’t have world building if all your characters are carbon copies of each other.
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Maybe there is a larger enemy atm, that has everyone else under his thumb.
Maybe they are temporarily uniting against a bigger threat oppressing them all.
I don’t know.
Just spit balling.
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Just childish boring writing, not much else to be said
After DF I have 0 interest in a Blizzard narrative
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I personally like when everyone gets along and has a happy ending
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They weren’t getting along together at the start.
All the cartels hated Gallywix but their hands were tied up in other problems that kept them from acting until the player comes in to solve all the problems.
At the Kaja’coast, Gazlowe does do something about it. You know, sabotaging their entire operation and then digging deeper to find out why the other princes weren’t able to openly support him (surprise, there were hostages used for extortion).
Venture Co tends to be pretty nebulous with the whole “no central leader” thing so killing them at one point and partners the next was just business. You know, turf wars and all that.
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There’s lots of conflict
We have Thrall battling himself
We have Anduin battling his past
We have Jaina battling everyone who annoys her
We have Alleria battling killer migraines
We have Xalatah battling her footwear
We have Goblins battling our patience
We have jazz music battling our sanity
We have all male NPCs battling incompetence
I don’t know what game you’re playing but there’s a lot of conflict
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I will note that I’ve only done the first few chapters of Undermine but from what I can tell the cartels are working together for the sake of profit. Your average Steamwheedle and Venture Co may have beef over something that happened across the world but I doubt the leadership of a cartel particularly cares. Business is business. The conflict seems to be between cartels that want profit at any costs and cartels that want to at least have a sense of morals and ethics about it. It seems the direction that Blizzard is going with Goblins is the direction DS9 took Ferengi.
As for overall writing, I came back after WOTLK to DF and rather enjoyed the story. I just never put much weight into their writing chops as their work has always been goofy AF and over the top in one direction or another. It’s either goofy in an “I’m 14 and this is METAL” way or in the “The power of friendship conquers all!” way trending the former.
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Jazz music is amazing. My sanity is doing just fine.
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Someone needs to watch Platinum wows video on goblins in why they can work together and kill each other like nothing
Also gazlowe does do something, we literally help him fight back.
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Tell me you didn’t pay attention to the story without telling me you didn’t pay attention to the story. I won’t say the story is top-tier writing by any stretch (I’d argue that neither will the writers themselves, since the devs generally have a ‘gameplay first’ philosophy), but your whole OP is kinda just…wrong.
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Who says art doesn’t reflect real life?
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Yeah, goblins are my favorite race because they’re the closest we will get to real life human nature.
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We will fight the big bad until we find out they were being mind controlled by an old god.
Then with the power of friendship and understanding we will unite to take on the even bigger threat!
BFA was the last good conflict.
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Except we didn’t get to actually kill Jaina or the gnomething.
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It’s ok driving around town but in the raid it’s like hours of the same song playing over and over and over…and over.
Really? It changes a lot and I love it!
That power was always inside of you. wind chimes fireworks
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Half the people I see who’ve complained along the OPs lines seemingly never paid attention to the story or done the side quests.
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