Mix the original movie Conan The Barbarian with the Rankin Bass version of the Hobbit along with some GOT (pre season 8) give it an NC17 and that’s more like it, but if you shorten the title and remove “and swear words” your take sounds intriguing nonetheless
That demographic at the time was teens & 20 somethings regardless of gender. (a side note: I was the mom of said teens and friends. The “girls don’t play video games” was or had lost the argument. The original Blizz made sure it stayed that way.)
The “WoW Fun Factor” didn’t lose it’s way by demographics.
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And probably never used the product or service to start with.
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that may not be what you said, but the intent was clear.
indeed.
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Have you considered that demographic is long gone and they ARE catering to the playerbase they now have (which is often non-receptive to outright-hostile to their efforts to provide entertaining content)?
As an aside, you can get a lawyer and cry libel, but good luck. ActiBlizz is at least making appearances to try and not be the frat-boy sexual harassers that they so obviously once were. You can clarify otherwise, but it sure sounds like you wish they stayed that way.
In response to your title, if you don’t like the direction of a game, why not try something else? Probably just trolling, but Sunday was yesterday so maybe you are serious–just hard to believe it’s not trolling.
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Look at this thread look who is doing the name calling, look who can’t handle an opinion that’s not in line with theirs and has to bolster their own point of view with their own alt characters.
catering to various groups is actually counterproductive in some cases.
tastes can be mutually exclusive.
you can’t please every one and you can drive away your original customers.
the idea that you can keep your base and expand with new products has proven false.
look at marvel, DC, star wars, NFL, the list goes on and on.
Blizz always makes me think of Tony Montana with his mountain of coke blasted out of his mind on his own glory…
WoW’s issue is that people were used to a quick $5 cheeseburger meal but Blizzard decided that “na that’s not what you want” and started serving weird ‘gourmet’ menu items and make you jump through hoops to get what you actually want. And yet we keep asking for that $5 cheeseburger meal while the restaurant is on fire and they turn around and blame the customers for ruining their business when all we wanted was a god damn cheeseburger and fries.
And in-between they turned out to be a bunch of hypocrites that treat their employees badly while constantly blaming their playerbase for their problems and people still get confused about why WoW players hate Blizzard.
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Most of what made WoW great has been thinned out or left due to corporate interests and greed.
It’s no longer about making good fries, burgers and shakes. Its padding out and stretching those food stuffs as much as possible just to inflate those metric numbers at the lowest maintenance costs possible, since cut backs are the go-to way to turn a profit these days for some absurd reason in the states.
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Grow a thicker skin.
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It existed. It was called Age of Conan.
It’s dead.
I disagree. WoW came off the heels of Warcraft 3, which included Female Characters like Tyrande, Sylvanas, Maiev, and Jaina. Characters that are still popular.
World of Warcraft was not entirely some Burger and Shake place. It had salads too.
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Yup. Only real response to OP is “Bye Felicia”.
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When you write about catering to a traditional, which I would rather call stereotypical, subset of male gamers, I take it you ar econcerned about the recent changes and cover ups of the sexy female characters in the game.
I agree.
Why can’t the sexy female characters in a video game be scantily clad if the company wishes them to be so? I know many people like to throw their own fragile egos down upon this stereotypical subset of male gamers, but the truth is, most men do not take their fantasies out into the real world, they do not expect the real world to function like the video games.
Considering how romance flicks determines what we consider romantic and what we would expect out of romance, and how some few percentagers in charge of beauty magazines can so easily determine the beauty standards for the entire globe, video games showing scantily clad women would be the last thing to worry about.
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Yeah, like someone could make a Conan the Barbarian MMO! I bet that’d go super well.
Aw, someone beat me to it.
I want some free range potatoes.
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No… no you don’t.
For context.
People call Lalafell potatoes.
Or popotoes.
People talk about toxic players - look whose name calling look whose making personal jabs rather than any valid argument y’all just can’t handle that someone has a different opinion, while in the same breath “claiming” diversity it’s not an argument against diversity it’s an argument for the meat and potatoes that WOW was founded on
All of those are REGIONAL.
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