I want to see it washed in blood…but I don’t think they make this game for blood thirsty dinosaurs like me anymore.
No, they make it for tweens instead of focusing on what was their major playerbase.
Could’ve been great, but there’s no point in being sentimental about lost potential.
Politics usually has a clear side that should be taken. Since Left wing stuff is so nuts, Blizz is not even that dumb.
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Good choice of race.
Your title does say it all but it is wrong.
I don’t think that they are scared.
But what do you and I know?
We don’t really need those, but otherwise I agree. The politics of the factions should be explored more. I want to see political groups, and people disagreeing with their leaders more.
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FF 14 has more political stuff going on.
haha yeah i wonder why blizzard entertainment is scared of politics in their games. 
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Big companies are now afraid of bringing any kind of “real world” politics because it may scare away potential consumers.
I don’t think they are scared but more that how they narrate storylines and how they can make tie ins. It is a lot easier to have one or two stand out characters, that way you can create books and other items to cash in on them. With political storylines you cannot do that so much because how many people want to read about the seedy underbelly of Alliance/ Horde vs how many people want to read about Sylvanas, Jaina, Garrosh, etc.
It is about money, not storylines that will move the story in a different way.
it’s so that they can just design 1 bad guy per expansion and have both sides fight it at the same time. you think they have time to make complex stories? what kind of game do you think this is? anduin and sylvanas even made an appearance in this expansion, you should be thankful of how far out of their way they are going.
There are plenty of examples of that in the game.
The entire first portion of the Shadowlands story focused on the divisions in each covenant as well as the political scheming of Denathrius.
BFA saw the Night Elves and Worgen go out on their own to seek vengeance after the burning of Teldrassil even after Anduin told them to keep their forces in the same fight. At the same time the horde was essentially having a civil war. Also, the Zandalari troll conflict between the Princess and the King. I almost forgot the BFA Kul’tiran plot to overthrow the government and take control by Lady Ashvane.
Sorry for all the edits, I keep adding political storylines from BFA as I think of them. We worked with the Mechagnome prince to overthrow the king, unite all gnomes, and name a new unified ruler.
Those are just from the last 2 expansions. I’m sure there are more.
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There are a lot of players who act allergic to faction conflict, upset at the idea that with all the knowledge the world has about threats to everything, the game would focus the players on conflicts around smaller differences. Of course, Blizzard’s also not great at writing. But you have to pick your poison.
I thought BFA’s first half (when they focused on the faction conflict, and not Azshara / N’zoth) was exactly what WoW should have stayed centered on post-Legion. I think they turned away from the faction conflict way too early. Raids as battles between the Alliance and Horde, with major faction characters taking part, was a fun idea.
Before someone says, “we don’t want fights between the major factions, we want internal conflict within the races,” well, the faction conflict probably was still the best avenue to exploring that. We’re trained as players to think of every group within the factions as being a net-benefit to their side, because all we experience is having players of that race as additions to the world. But drawn-out conflict stories can put a lens on how alliances can be strained when actually tested. (Remember the scene where Tyrande is angry with Anduin for not devoting enough resources to retake Night Elf lands, and she just takes her own forces and departs?).
Oh well, we’re now a couple major world-threat arcs past that now. At this point, the most you can really expect is a side-story once in a while giving minor updates on each race’s situation, but nothing creating a serious dramatic arc for us to play through concerned with internal politics. That’s not to say a major faction leader character story won’t be updated, but it doesn’t sound like it’ll have much of a political edge. You might get a plot, for instance, with Turalyon going off the deep end wanting a Light crusade, but it’ll be couched as a “world threat posed by the Light” story rather than approached from a more political standpoint.
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WoW could really use a Homelander/Trump type of villain. Would be chef’s kiss
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oh the original devs lore devs had no problem you can thank those who run it now.
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they really cant anymore after ccp feeds them money.
A world that is interesting, a perfect world is boring for a video game. Look at some very popular games that are very memorable. The fallout series, elder scrolls, bioshock series.
Absolutely weird and horrible things happen in these worlds and players LOVE IT.
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Garrosh brought fantasy politics into WoW. We saw what an ultra-conservative Orc would do to his own Faction, not to mention the Alliance.
He divided the Horde, committed acts of genocide and claimed it was all his right.
It took unity between the level-minded Horde and the Alliance to destroy him.
Art imitates reality.
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