That movie was…
Yea it shouldn’t have happened lmao
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I asked Christie Golden this once on Twitter and she said that even though her team was responsible for story development, they weren’t actually in charge of plot decisions. That is apparently done by people above her, one would imagine that being the Blizzard C-suite.
When pressed, it seemed to come down to her popularity. She was too popular for the suits to just kill off, and although they sort of soft tried to replace her with Calia Menethil, that was super unpopular and they just abandoned that plan.
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Times change
Hmm. A mixture of arcane powered Goblin and Gnome tech. Mechatorque and Gazlow super sup chair. Would fit the comical but edgy themes all in one.
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Dragonflight didn’t have much narrative friction or “edge” to it by design.
War Within though?
Xalatath is trying to usher in an apocalypse by opening the way for an unspeakable void horror to come in and eat the world.
And Xal herself is a pretty great as a villain so far.
So I think we have plenty of fantasy darkness at the moment. And things will probably get worse for the world as the story goes along.
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Legion was just the peak of WoW
It didn’t help that the entire backstory of why there was even a war to begin with was not shown in-game
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The only stand out moment I can remember from my admittedly very short experience with DF was when Fyrakk dragon-deth’d the Niffin village. That was pretty hardcore when you deal with the aftermath. There was some fairly (by NuBlizz standards) bleak imagery.
She was only trapped in a blade for millennia. She cant be that great a villain if she was stuck in a literal knife.
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Because the writers of content many think was good aren’t working at Blizzard any more and haven’t been for years.
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Those Niffins deserve that fate, they are far too adorable to be left unscathed.
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Look, I completely disagree with this Andrew Tate-inspired “we need bros who are jacked, and hot woman, and just non-stop killing. [Insert something unnecessarily hostile].”
However.
WoW doesn’t have a great north star when it comes to what it wants to be. Is it a game for people who want to adventure and explore and be heroes? Does it want to be a cutesy fun-loving game that is constantly winking through the 4th wall? Does it want to be an eSport that relies on graphs and sweats but somehow not pvp?
They move the goal posts way too much. And that’s what makes it hard. They do it with class design too. Somethings you can’t change because we’re an MMO and that’s what they do. But othertimes, screw it. The world has changes and so will WoW.
Diversity and inclusion doesn’t bother me. But doing whatever the Dev team wants in the moment because of how their feeling is not a direction for the game. Inside jokes aren’t game design.
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Screw tate. not everything is about an alpha agenda. But anyone can see how milquetoast and soft the story has gotten. My eyes were opened with Jaina in BFA “Hey mum! I’m home. Pls bond with me and dont throw me in prison…”
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This. 100%
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…Ok, what is the problem with that storyline?
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Basically because everyone who made wow is gone.
Lol. Wow as grimdark at any point in its history is funny. Maybe the original game in the 90s where orcs were eating human captives.
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We spent far too long reconciling that mother-daughter bond and got shafted with a lackluster void arc as a result.
Such a good movie. One of my favorites.
Screw it, let’s get the H.R. Giger faction in and turn this game into Phasmophobia.
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It’s just a completely different generation of people working on the game and not quite understanding their demographic.
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