The US is as divided on this topic as Europe is. You cannot compare a place like Los Angeles where Blizzard happens to be headquartered to deep red rural Alabama and the Florida Panhandle when the former is arguably more progressive than most nations in western Europe.
As for your second paragraph I think most people are still unable to see past a characters homosexuality is games, particularly this one because it’s still relatively speaking very unusual. This veeery short thread and the much longer on the US forums is testament to that.
This couple and their introduction could not have been more innocuous and we still have people coming in here/there acting as if the sky is falling down and the PC police is coming to strip away everything that made this game good.
I’m 90% certain you’re talking about the Oscars requiring diversity, which isn’t law. The Academy is a private organization and can have any rules it wants. Like I said - provide evidence. Don’t make stupid baseless claim and then be all like “it’s not my job to educate you” like a little tumblrina. Provide evidence for your wrong claims. Go ahead. We’re waiting.
Somebody’s embarrassed that they were called out on their 4chan-tier takes that they have no evidence for. Get informed, mate. Reality isn’t according to your prejudice. The fact that you were willing to believe that claim without ever seeing evidence of it shows how far gone from reality you personally are.
Thrall and Aggra are a straight couple and their wedding was in a quest in game. Tyrande and Malfurion too. You’re right they should keep it out of the game, I am offended by all this straight propaganda!
I really like what you wrote in there, and you couldn’t have said it better. For the record I just had a look at the US version of the same thread and it’s even worse than I thought.
People indeed can’t see past a character’s homosexuality because they haven’t been taught to. They’re nowadays exhorted (not to say forced) to excessively love gay people (gay prides) instead of simply accepting them as being as normal as anyone else, alledgedly all for the sake of tolerance and equality, and whenever there is gay stuff anywhere, people feel the need to emphasize that as something incredible and extraordinary, when it’s instead supposed to be ordinary.
The result is a phenomenom contradictory to the very principles they’re trying uphold : gay people are not “normal” anymore, they’re special and putting them anywhere you can is cool, neat and whatnot.
That’s because it was a well written quest. Same as gay people in real life, it wasn’t shouted out like some spasm, it was written in the story as a very natural relationship.
Anyway I think it’s too risky to include sexuality in a game. If they end up banning it, I’ll be super sad. I’m excited for Shadowlands with all the Customization and stuff and those Vulpera uwu
