too much for the game
would of loved to see them turn it into a giant statue of a bowl of fruit.
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can I have a quick recap?
Basically it goes like this;
Blizzard depicted the statue of Sylvanas in ruins, because well, The Alliance did wreck the joint, because thatâs what you do to statues of the enemy leader when youâre doing the devastation Tango through their lands. Thatâs just a âthingâ that has been around for recorded history.
So, this was at the start of BfA, so long before the Court case against the Frat Boy culture. Even longer than we think, because that will all have been coded during the last patch of Legion.
So fast forward a few years, and the Court case became public, like, this year.
Some nonsensical moves were made by Blizz, including removing the word that is a synonym for a female dog, in a VA line that Garrosh said to Sylvanas during Cataclysm. Cataclysm, because it apparently offended an employeeâs child. The irony being that they left -in- quest dialogue using far worse swearing, in both Silverpine, and in Twilight Highlands. So obviously double standards. Now, assuming said child is 12+ (which they should be, to play Warcraft) then unless they live in a hyper religious commune, they will have heard that word anyway, if theyâre younger than 12, then thatâs just bad parenting.
Then they started to do weird stuff recently, and bizarrely generating more outrage than if they hadnât. All of this designed to deflect attention from the Law case, renaming locations, turning pictures of women into pictures of fruit, that most people wouldnât have noticed existed, but now most certainly do⌠removing/renaming vanity npcâs from game (To my opinion, Vanity NPCâs are a stupid idea anyway, and just an ego stroke) whilst leaving in, a Racist Sexist, who is female.
Again, Double Standards on their part, and producing an outrage such as we see now, despite the Sylvanas statue being destroyed being an odd take on this, because that was demolished as a statue to a âdespoticâ leader by invading forces, introduced waaaay before all this storm occurred.
TL:DR? No, the wrecking of the Sylvanas statue was nothing to do with the current poopstormâŚ
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apparently the court case was 2 years in the making when it was announced so it could of existed back then at that time ⌠tbh
what is mainly concerning to me about it allâŚ
is that blizzard seem to of only done anything to address it after it was made public⌠before it was public it was life as normal ?
a bit suspect
makes me wonder what else is going on there which has yet come to light.
me:-
trust in blizzard 2005 =100%
trust in blizzard 2021 = 0%
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Think BfA was announced at the 2017 Blizzcon, and released in 2018, so again, kinda 3-4 years, and it would be a weird take of them to remove Sylvanasâ statue but then have her a focal character in BfA and Shadowlands. Admittedly moreso in SL than BfAâŚ
If it was to do with the Scandal and the Court case was known by them that far in advance, youâd have thought these things would have been done in BfA, if they were trying to deflect attention. Instead, all of them were done -after- their removal, which then drew everyoneâs attention .
Just seems a) very counter intuitive of them, or b) that their PR department really havenât got a clue, which is admittedly, a possibility.
The recent changes, yes, that is botched PR, I donât think the Sylvanas statue being destroyed, I mean Brill is uninhabitable now, the Alliance are not going to raze Brill and leave a hossing great statue to their dire enemy intact are they?
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Now sylvanas has 0 statues in game
And Alleria has 3
MUH KWEEEN 
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wot ? 
Sylvanas had a statue ingame?
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I spent a lot of time in the Undercity and tbh I canât remember it either 
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Madeline Roux, directly named such in Maldraxxus as an NPC. Now Vanity NPCâs are a ridiculous concept anyway, and should never happen (If you have to tell people you are important, then you probably arenât)
Hers however, is a calumny that will not go away. She is an ill-educated hypocrite.
âMathias and Flynn are Bisexualâ Cool, says the none knuckledragger playerbaseâŚ
âWhite men are scumâ She says.
People righfully get angry " How can you say that, you have never met me, why are you defining me by my skin colour and gender?"
Blizzard support her.
âWhite people need to stopâ
Thatâs the exact phrase she used, not cropped. So need to stop what, precisely? Stop what they are doing? That could cost them their jobsâŚstop breathing? Thatâs pretty much genocide. There was no explanation, because of course it was on Twitter. âCovfee feeâ
Then the genius move (And I use âgeniusâ in a sarcastic term) âWhite people need to stop!â When referring to a mixed race couple who had named their cat âAbracadbraâ Which shows a colossal ignorance of history, that frankly, I would have expected better from, from someone who writes for the NY TimesâŚOr maybeâŚI should not have⌠Then said on Twitter âOh no, I upset peopleâs precious Fee-Fees, you could play other gamesâ
Wow. âWow, I upset people by being racist and sexist, go play a different game!â
Astounding. That NPC is still there, so I guess racism and sexism are back on the agendaâŚ
It was in Brill.
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She has a few advantages that make her words not count. 1 its against men. 2 its against white people. 3 she is a white women in the US, which is probably one of the most protected group of people on the planet.
Still absolute hypocrisy. Sheâs still a sexist, sheâs still a racist, and she mocks those who disagree with her being a sexist racist. And Blizzard support her.
Theyâre completely missing the point, soooo, Sexism is OK? Racism is OK? I mean you have a vanity NPC named exactly for a person who is a sexist racistâŚso, thatâs OK now is it? But we canât have Garrosh calling someone a (female dog) who frankly is a (Female dog) because it offends their child?
Still sounds like bad parenting to be honest.
What next, we have Roy âChubbyâ Brown as an NPC, or Bernard Manning.
They should hold her to the same account that they hold the male NPCâs vanity NPCâs in the game. To do otherwise is completely missing the point.
She also needs to learn some history, as she is woefully mistaken on a few issuesâŚ
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I had no idea she had a statue, but Iâm glad its gone.
Also, Iâm with Brig about that hypocritical issue.
Itâs a war. Of course the statue would get destroyed similar to the Danath Trollbane statue during Cataclysm.
Or the Night elf statue in the temple of Elune.
Alleria on the other hand, her statues still stand. KWEEEEN
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