They put more effort into releasing a new steamy romance novel every so often than they did for compelling romance. Player-focused comtent needs engagement, not set dressing. Most romances in WoW have been, “I am happy to see you again” or “I am sad/mad because you died” or “Hi, I am X and this here is my husband/wife.”
If we’re getting player housing, why not?
It would be nice to come home to see my wife after a long day of killing Gods and murlocs.
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I just want to add for everyone here…This game and its lore is all rated T but they literally have lore about slavery with the orcs, a graphic scene in the WotLk book between Arthras and Jaina WHO ARE TEENS at the time of the scene, and several times were introduced to characters committing genocide as a plot point. (Sylvanas, The Humans, Arthras and the Culling, The Trolls, The Blood elves, etc…)
But ya know, ROMANCE GUYS! THINK OF THE CHILDREN THAT THE PARENTS REFUSE TO MONITOR! /S
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Don’t speak for me.
You don’t want that kind of player around.
Subjective.
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I can see so many Roleplayers using their warband to do this already, the romance system would just add to it so well if they did it right.
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Romance can also be without the spicy stuff, too. There were hints throughout Warcraft’s story of the spicy stuff, but much of that was removed or forgotten with Blizzard’s scandals.
Romance can still be done without the naughty stuff to warrant an M-rating. Avatar, The Last Airbender had themes of genocide, death, and abuse. Was still a kid’s show.
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There’s no way you don’t know about Moon Guard…
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Advocating for excluding players with certain behavior that is actually borderline criminal?
Yeah, for sure.
Weird would be advocating for that actually.
Oh I agree, I don’t want the spicy stuff. I’m just poking fun at the people being hellbent on never having even a flirty line when /flirt exists in the game lmao claiming “Children play this game”. Okay so parent??? 
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That’s fair, lol. It is a weird pushback, but roleplay realms have a deep problem of minor exploitation, so I can kind of understand where the “CHILDREN PLAY THIS GAME” thing comes from. Genuinely, if Blizzard actually did their job monitoring Goldshire, we probably won’t have this pushback.
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I think its weird you jump to those conclusions, that says more about you than the people innocently giving their thoughts/opinions on a system that doesn’t exist.
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What behaviors?
did you misread ‘combine’ as ‘concubine’ again? sorry i know its your fifth retaking but you’ll pass the test one day sweetie |:-)
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Wife: Honey how was your day?
You: They made me pick up poop again.
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Blizzard can’t write romance between NPCs as it stands without making it cringe and dumb. I’ll pass just on that basis alone without mentioning the numerous other reasons that it shouldn’t be a thing.
Romance with NPCs won’t work because of Blizzard’s writing.
The thing about kids was SPECIFICALLY towards people wanting a Blizzard-made relationship mechanic between players. TRP already exists for people who want player RP romance and most of those players exclude minors.
Careful Mohz, THINK OF THE CHILDREN! /S
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Never played Warframe but you did compare SWTOR favorably which I did play. SWTOR had writers that are far far FAR more skilled and experienced than the WoW writing teams and even their attempts at adding romance arcs to that game were shallow and complete cringe most of the time. I can’t imagine how bad it would be with the WoW writing team attempting it.
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Nah i mean if its not a real person i wouldnt bother
To play devil’s advocate for the WoW writing team because why the hell not, the trend has always been side quests being on average better written than the main story. If an individual writer had control over a single romanceable character’s story then it’d probably be considerably better than the committee-written main campaign. Would that mean it was good? No idea, but there is some variance there.
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