Currently, WoW is rated T for Teen. In light of the removal of the extremely evil b word that Garrosh calls Sylvanas in the undead starting area, I was wondering when Blizzard will be dropping the games rating to F for Family or C for Children because this game is clearly intended for children now. If the audience is not mature enough to see hear/read the extremely evil b word, then the audience is also not mature enough to see blood and gore, crude humor, the rest of the mild language, suggestive themes, and use of alcohol and violence.
Is there a date set or an estimated time frame for when all of the above will be removed?
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I guess that WoW was for children before Cataclysm before we had Garrosh calling her that.
and given the crying about it on the forums at the time, it was for children after Cataclysm too because of kung-fu pandas.
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Well, I don’t know about before Cataclysm as it was still pretty violent during the classic - wrath of the lich king era, but it’s definitely a game for children now. I just wish Blizzard would change the rating of the game and remove the violence, etc so it reflects their actual target audience.
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Attempted genocide: Now for children!
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That part has to be removed. If their audience is not mature enough to see the b word, then they’re not mature enough to see attempted genocide.
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The point of my sarcastic comments is that if you think about it rationally for like 5 seconds, it’s pretty obvious it wasn’t removed because “the game is for kids”.
Despite the crying of the forums that the game is constantly being turned into a kiddie game.
Because a genuinely evil person burning down a tree with thousands of innocent civilians and forcing the survivors to watch as their whole life comes crashing down upon them, or
Allowing her and her people to plague the fighting forces at the Wrath-gate and kill hundreds on the both the Alliance and Horde, or
a lot more other genuinely heinous war crimes she has committed recently, on top of the massive carnage already put on display in this game… is somehow more acceptable than an angry dude calling her exactly what she is.
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Why was it removed then? The only logical reason that it was removed is because some SJW at Blizzard thought it was too inappropriate and offensive.
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Wow should be 18+
We are adults
I dont know about you but I dont much want to talk to 13 year olds
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I am trying my absolute hardest to not let such a minor thing feel like it’s a bigger deal than it really is.
So I’m just going to follow in grumblez’ footsteps and hand out free cookies to everyone.
Only instead of cookies, I will be handing out undead bunnies. Just like regular bunnies, but they all scream T-rated vulgarities. I call them b[REDACTED] itch bunnies.
Let’s be honest. The only reason the writer removed the word is because he’s the Nathanos self-insert.
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We probably wont know the reason unless Blizzard makes a statement(and even then if it doesn’t line up with people’s preconceptions they’ll claim it’s a lie anyway).
It very well might be the offensive thing but trying to make the game inoffensive isn’t really the same thing as making the game for kids.
That’s more that Canada and the US has this weird thing where culturally sexualization and bad words are somehow viewed as being worse than violence.
but anybody who seriously thinks they’re making it into a kids game needs to step back and actually consider the themes in the game for a second.
If they were actually making the game for kids they’d need to remove 90% of it.
Sadly, WoW does not fit an 18+ rating anymore because all people 18 years of age or older would be able to handle the extremely evil b word and it would not be inappropriate to them. Blizzard strongly believes their audience is too immature for that word, and therefore, not 18 years of age or older, which is why they went back and removed something that’s been in the game for over 10 years.
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Crawwwwwwwwwwwwwllllllllllling in my skiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin
These wounds, they will not heeaaaaaaaaaaaaaal
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gives Snikrot one of my bee word bunnies.
You can murder thousands of people, but if you say the B word, you’re crossing the line bucko.
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And they do need to remove 90% of it because anyone with more than one brain cell knows that the extremely evil b word is not more offensive than burning down a giant tree that’s home to thousands of men, women and children. Just think of all the children that Sylvanas burned alive when she did that. If the extremely evil b word is too offensive for their audience, then they NEED to redo the majority of the game because their poor child audience are probably traumatized by the horrors they’ve witnessed with this current expansion.
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On one hand I wish they’d just up the rating to M and make the content more mature (probably 90%+ of their playerbase has been playing for years and is in their 20s and 30s–or even older–anyway.)
On the other hand I don’t really care though.
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It’s also very likely not too offensive for the audience. After all it’s been in the game a decade and nobody really complained about it.
But the overly PC culture isn’t about fixing stuff people actively are offended by. It’s about going around and removing anything that might be offensive.
As for the violence thing, I can’t say much other than welcome to the US/Canada. As a culture we apparently consider violence to be more acceptable to show than sexualization or bad language words.
I don’t think it makes any sense either, but it is what it is. We’re not going change the culture of multiple countries by crying about a voice line on a video game forum.
Well, I think Sylvanas being a b word and burning men, women and children alive might be offensive so I won’t stop until they do one of two things:
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Comb through the entire game to remove everything that might be offensive and adjust the games rating to reflect their proper target audience of children instead of false advertising with their games rating.
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Put the extremely evil b word back into the game and the employee who removed it in the first place must be given a proper lecture and reality check about game ratings, what they mean and how they work before he/she can be allowed to work on Blizzard games again.