never with shadowlands writers
But MSNBC is.
Yea I know. Youre like my boomer dad. He still thinks MSNBC is trustworthy and thaytconservatives watch fox news.
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Imo characters like Xal are just that.
And folks like Faerin. Forces like the Arathi.
Theyâre planting the seeds for the next âgenerationâ of WoW storytelling.
It takes time to build up a character with meaningful payoff- that just doesnât happen in one expansion.
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You mean the people who used to work for Blizzard 30 years ago but havenât worked there for decades? Management has always been bloated at the company, increasingly so over the years. I guess youâre into the Alex Afrasiabi style of management.
i literally have no idea what this message is trying to say
half the games on this are on the wrong side
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Theyve people have convinced themselves that hiring based on race promotes merit.
They are legit racists.
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Thatâs pretty much the joke.
People complain about politics in games when most of the classics are highly political. Games like Final Fantasy 7 arenât even subtle about it and shove it in your face in the opening minutes of the game, but itâs still considered one of the greatest jRPGs of all time.
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I like you invent an imaginary problem.
No man the current video game devs are a problem. The old ones were great. They made great games.
You need to touch grass dude. Get off twitter.
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Look in the mirror, dude. Every time you guys see that a black woman has been hired you have an apoplectic fit.
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True enough.
The best applicant is the one that is best at the job. Simple as that.
Lets say you are hiring nurses. Pretty important position, peopleâs lives are on the line. This is typically a female dominated field, most of the people going into nursing are female, most of the people coming out of schools and training for nursing positions are female. Now your boss comes to you and says âwe need 50% of our nurses to be maleâ.
Just the numbers alone mean you will have to pass over lots of better qualified female applicants to hire more male applicants with lower skills and and talents. Not sure I would want to be one of your patients at that hospital.
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Gee its almost like thats a rational assumption when every company is hiring unqualified people based on their race and gender.
You guys literally brought this on yourself. And we WARNED you this would happen but you didnt listen.
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What, this makes no sense some of our greatest works were written before games were ever a thing. As a person who reads and has read a lot I donât agree with this take at all.
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Building up characters in WoW takes a lot more time compared to the âold guardâ who had their start in the RTS games. The latter can establish their narrative bad-assery in a campaign or two whereas the latter might take several expansions.
Nazgrim and Admiral Taylor are two characters who come to mind when you talk about multi-expansion character arcs. They couldâve gone on to do great things, but Blizzard killed them off, which was a shame.
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I disagree.
They managed to make Sire Denatharious cool enough to get his own hearthstone expansion. And he was only around for 1 season.
Admiral Taylor deserved better than to be killed off before the player even gets there.
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I get whay youre both saying.
I think he means someone who loves both writing and video games will be better at writing for a video game than a typical hollywood writer who doesnt love video games.
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Why everyone repeat this fallacy like it is true? LMAO
Stop repeating things like a parrotâŚ
Open your youtube, type âGaânarâ âDenathriusâ âBwosandiâ.
Quality > Time
Thrall has been devolped for 3 decades and is a garbo character.
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I had high hopes for âZappy boiâ to become someone of importance, what ever that troll shaman name was but after his heart to heart with Saurfang i havenĘťt really noticed him in the stories anymore.
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Okay, I will take that when it comes to writing for games.
This goes back to the issue of no feedback in a timely manner, lots of good authors donât have the best takes the first time around, and if youâve heard stories of writers like Robert Stevenson, H.P. Lovecraft, Tolkien, etc⌠youâd be shocked to realize how much they had to change and revise from the initial versions of their VERY publicly beloved classic works cause an editor or proof reader sent them back and said: âThis is dishwater writing, fix such and such.â
WoW lacks this critical feedback step because we went from a 2 year release cadence with multiple expansions being worked on in 4 years to a 3 year cadence thanks to expansions being 1.5 years long now.
And they do work on expansions 2-3 ahead, so that leaves them very little time to pump the brakes and make changes last minute (If any time whatsoever).
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