Iâm reading through this thread and little is focused on the feedback and most are so fixated on the word being removed.
I mean the feedback is already hypocritical to begin with given all the stuff that we have in the game or lore in general.
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Still killing, murdering, violence=ok, one singular word meaning female caninge=not ok. makes me doubt someoneâs parenting skills or lack of common education. Perhaps instead banning and cancel culture - a parent should explain the word, context and what is good-bad in it.
⌠while also explaining what is genocide and why Sylvanas character is evil and what she does is not ok and then teach them something about actual history too.
had to change wording because some moderator may not have liked the too direct reference to Sylvanas actions and certain era in EuropeâŚ
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This reminds me a lot of Assassinâs Creed. When they first released AC1 the CEOâs child played AC1 and said that the game was completed too quick. Back then there were no side missions whatsoever. It was all about the main story. And because of that the CEO got the developers to implement side quests and collection achievements overnight before release.
I mean side stuff isnt bad in itself if its optional. AC1 was just generally boring if compared to AC2 and onwards.
I suppose it depends on how you look at it, but as someone who has done these quests I still remember doing this particular one without knowing about the language beforehand and when I first heard the line I was like âwait, what?â and I had to look at the dialogue to confirm what he just said. Nothing else in the game has ever surprised me like that.
Like I said, I really donât care either way. I think most people who make a big fuss about this are driving their own political agenda, thatâs what it feels like to me. After all, this is a very insignificant change. Itâs one word. No matter how you look at it, itâs not a big deal. I didnât think it was a big deal when they had in the game either. The language was just out-of-character for the game if that makes sense. Thatâs why this in particular stuck out in my mind. I will say that that gave it extra shock value, which was good for what they were going for originally.
âWard does this too, but the difference is that he can write the official fluff and therefore gets to declare that his interpretation of said army is the âcorrectâ one through the books he writes. Those heroes you may have liked before now seem like entirely new people, and the armies you liked before now seem to be an entirely different force you never wanted to play as.â
Many Horde players lately have felt quite the same.
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Do i really have to link you all the books, comics, and even quests that are related to the game and have this word in? You cant say âthe word is out of characterâ dam it its Garrosh how can you say its out of his character he say this word many times in the novels you have just no idea of what you are talking about
And if you react like âwait whatâ do this then i must tell you welcome in warcraft
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We complain about blizzard being hypocritical. Or well this particular staff guy since his dear waifu got insulted. The phrase that this word seemed out of touch while the very same word has been used frequently or even worse words (npcs in wotlk literally calling someone else a very cheap night time profession worker. Thats merely one example of many) and not only by Garrosh but other prominent characters such as Varian and Rhonin
The reasoning behind the removal is flawed on every level and thats what we complain about.
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About kids its just excuse. Mostly thinks its a new AB politics smooth out all sharp corners.
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Yes, but how many times does he use the word in game?
Blizzard do not design WoW expecting people to have read all the novels to understand characterisation, and for good reason.
Fact is if it were a core of his character heâd say it as much in game, but he doesnât.
Besides they said it felt âout of place in the gameâ not âout of place in the entire Warcraft combined novellas, graphic novels and game universeâ and the fact remains Garrosh does not use language like that anywhere else in game whatsoever. It IS out of place for him. In every other instance he intimidates people with direct threats or goads to combat, yet her he calls Sylvanas names. Itâs stupid.
There is still the thing where we have phrases in the game that are worse than someone using the b-word.
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Agreed, the language across the game isnât consistent, my interpretation of the tweet (which may be me taking liberties) is that it didnât fit how Garrosh was portrayed across the game (which is true, it doesnât) as opposed to âthis language isnât consistent with the rest of the gameâ.
Swearing does take place in WoW, thereâs plenty of british swearing terms thrown around and where they are theyâre reasonbly common and used by the people that use them with some regularity. However Garrosh never swears in game in any manner whatsoever except this once instance.
As said as well, I donât think it fits him (this may the VA). Heâs a brash brute who typically threatens people with violence or the threat of death. The way the VA portrayed the comment came across to me like a snivvely child throwing a curse word onto the end of a sentence in order to appear menacing. It was just tooâŚforced?
Now if he had screamed it in her face, or was holding her by the neck when yelling it at her, that would be totally different. Either way iâm not particularly fussed whether itâs there or not, but I donât think the VA made it as impactful for me as it seemed to for others.
SooooâŚGarrosh in a nutshell?
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Fair comment, haha.
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Itâs quite hilarious how triggered people are over such a trivial thing. You know, the same kind of people who always accuse others of being triggered, hypocrites or âstop being offended all the timeâ. Get over it.
Itâs hilarious how people defend a decision with no consistency.
If they are removing Garrosh speech to Sylvanas, because itâs too much for a kid.
Have the decency to retcon the entire Teldrassil event.
Night Elves players, didnât like their city to be destroyed and their civilians to burned alive.
I didnât like the Horde being villain batted again because they thought it was âcoolâ, âshockingâ.
After all thereâs nothing more exciting than to make kids watch people screaming while being burned alive right ?
/S
Cheers.
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Dramaqueen much? You do realize that none of that is real right? I know how hard some of you like it to be though, comparing it to real life and what not. Perhabs seek profesional help if you canât distinguish between the two.
Same can be said to you white Knight.
A fictional character insulting another fictional character isnât real.
Cheers.
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Oh no, the good old white knight âinsultâ. I guess Iâm gonna call you a triggered snowflake from now on then.
Since youâre not that smart it seems, let me help you. Itâs not about a fictional character insulting a fictional character, itâs the language used that stood out from the rest of the game. Imagine being so triggered because they removed a curse word. Iâm sure youâve lost many hours of sleep over it.
Fake outrage as usual, looking forward to what you guys will be âupsetâ about next week.
Cheers.