@groxi.bsky.social @vaknosh.bsky.social Is there any lore ANYWHERE that reasons why the HORDE would find a Dire ORC off-putting??? But the Gnomes don't apparently?
Shouldn't the Orcs be fucking pogging that there's a 12 foot behemoth Orc who can wrestle with a Dragon?
Its the HORDE.
I've been banging on this drum for years and everyone just blew it off because "Well I want to RP my niche idea" and now they're all realising how a game without guardrails, hooks, friction or anything solid to interact with is actually really boring lol
I just have to accept WoW isnt being written for me anymore its being written for the most milquetoast legends & lattes crowd possible with the end goal being stripping the setting of anything concrete and reducing it to a sandbox slurry where "you can do anything :3"
a baby bunny full of hatred. malice even
i am not very interested in this new trend within fantasy that feels like everything is so algorithmic or easily explained ... i am made for fantasy that is bigger than itself with mystery and intrigue and deep hidden knowledge ! magic real and true ... dreamy folklore ... dark fairytales ... etc
People should be very careful glorifying Blizzard in this though, even if they hate Turtle for whatever reason because it is a -very- slippery corporate slope. WOTC nearly pulled the OGL for e.g., and Games Workshop is *notoriously* protective of their IP even from non-monetised art.
social contrast that they do not (but not a legally binding agreement, though some companies do create these for certain elements to certain degrees, e.g., D&Ds OGL or Pathfinders ORC).
There is indeed a legal similarity, but people often either do not know this or willingly overlook it because of the difference in scale (which is fine! But I do think it risks falling into hypocrisy).
Blizzard could in theory drag artists making money off their IP to Court. Its purely a-
No longer relegated to side content, the Amani now face the judgement of The Main Patch Team.
Pray to whatever God(s) you take solace in, because I can see Dawnwell 2.0 on the horizon and it fills me with dread.
Warming up
"O Radagon, leal hound of the Golden Order. Thou'rt yet to become me. Thou'rt yet to become a god. Let us be shattered, both. Mine other self."
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''No gods nor masters watch over Velen. The land is no man’s. He who wants to survive must seek his own protectors.''
#thewitcher #art
My FYP woke up and chose violence this morning 😭
i dont understand the attitude of "if you dislike whats happening in wow you can write your own stories/go play a different game" because yeah? i do already? but you sound like you are afraid of criticism and analysis which even objectively good content isnt exempt from? or is your ego just fragile?
Honestly there IS a point to be made with the Night Elves getting another blessed World Tree hahaha, especially after we've had to goddamn save the last SEVEN from Void corruption.
Fool me once... fool me twice... fool me... seven times?
in the Dawnwell as an entity. The Arcan'dor is an immensely magical thing by itself, nevermind the massive boost it would be getting from being thrown in with a bunch of OTHER potent arcane relics. The Arcan'dor is interwoven with the Ley-Lines of Suramar top to bottom.
The issue comes imho from combining Well of Eternity Water (Blessed) with a massive Arcane relic (Anasterian's crown) and a massive Life-Arcane Relic (Arcandor seed) and then the Holy Light + Umbric's own version of the Void.
There's not really any way to coherently make sense of how that results-
I think if this was in isolation you could justify it as a form of "safety measure" wherein nullified moonwell water (although still very magical and quite powerful as we've seen throughout WoW's lore time and again) was used to undo the Void damage.
"I avoid politics."
No bestie, you avoid uncomfortable conversations about politics. From the moment you were born til the day you die, you've been thoroughly and utterly enmeshed in the policies, systems, and governance of a society that shapes your experience.
You just try not to think about it.
Sigh. I can't really help you then man. You have your view and your opinion. You just want the product and to consume it and that's totally okay but we're fundamentally different Human Beings. No ill will or anything, just, there's no consensus to be found, y'know?
Escapism and Anti-Intellectualism coming to their natural conclusion.
Same people who will insist that they're progressives who champion various social causes btw until time comes to actually have a unique thought of their own.
more like a means to an end to them I think. It's not necessary for their enjoyment or player retention.
Who is correct when both sides have very valid points? WoW is £135 a month. Most expensive game on the market. People will be expecting a lot from that.
with a number of novels, novellas, cultural and philosophy teams engaged in its creation. There's going to be some of that leaking through.
Some people don't see that. To them its the exclamation mark. The question mark. You do it. You hand it in. You get the loot and move on. The story/lore is-
Which then indicates that there's a growing rift between perceptions of what WoW is between Players, right? I think we both definitely agree with that as well.
Some people are looking at WoW as something that can be intellectually stimulating (as it has in the past), after all, its a franchise--
This is one opinion among many though, right? Like the fact that there is now such a huge dissonance in reaction to the Dawnwell and Reunification storyline indicates at the very least a massive gulf in belief between the playerbase now? This is agreeable at least, no?
Are you interested in having an actual, stimulating discussion about the issues w/ WoW's story and lore currently or are you resigned to a belief that its shit, always has been, always will be and unwilling to discuss how it got here and critique what we, as consumers, can to voice dissent?
Just because we may not personally know what informed a work doesn't mean something didn't. Subconscious bias is rife in life. Part of the joy should be wondering how an author came to their conclusions and where they got their concepts/ideas from and how they interpreted them.
Complexity isn't inherently purposeful, y'know?
It's like reading Tolkien/Sanderson/Sapkowski etc. and just walking away going "well that was a fun little story about good vs evil, anyways time to go back to working and not thinking about the deeper concepts that informed the work".
quite dishonest? I don't see how you get any interest or stimulation from that. Not in a mean way, I just don't see the desire to want anything in the world to be that way. It is simply empirically untrue, its not a realistic view of anything in our world.
