My guess is that they tried to bank on the faction pride of yore from the days of old Blizzcons with the “Alliance, let me hear you scream! Sons of the Horde, where you at??” that Metzen did.
Metzen knew how to work the crowd, he was a good presence on the stage. He made people feel heard and spoken to without alienating or pitting them against the other side. Metzen isn’t heading this anymore and in an attempt to replicate the way he worked the crowd, they went too far and played too deep into the tribalism.
Also helped that Metzen voiced both of the main faction leaders for the longest time I guess.
On one hand, yes, people should refrain from threatening to harm the life or livelihood of a person over a video game. They should also refrain from wishing that the life or livelihood of that person was threatened, or dreaming of their life or livelihood being threatened, or even suggesting that their life or livelihood should be threatened. We shouldn’t be wishing negative consequences on anyone over their part in the writing of a video game’s story.
That doesn’t mean that I don’t think that the video game, story and all, is now trash and little more than a spectacle, and that the only joy I can gain from it is through schadenfreude and cynically making guesses about awful writing they will produce next.
I’m not going to wish anyone harm or loss of livelihood over World of Warcraft, but I am going to mock and deride the product that they have made because it’s the easiest way of expressing my dissatisfaction with the current state of a game that I devoted thousands of hours to and grew up with. Yes, it would be more mature if I just moved on, but this is my one way of engaging with a franchise that I’m still attached to without financing the bad decisions that currently surround it.
Twitter is what you make of it. You alone dictate who you follow and what kind of content you want on your feed. If there’s everywhere you look, it’s because you put it there. I heard about the incident(s) through mutuals who shared it, expressing disbelief that someone would actually write that.
actually an unironically valid argument, the only difference between the two is apparently just that one has been retconned into their state of being while the other we saw happen live
Why not? If you had a fireman who couldn’t actually do what the work required of him, wouldn’t you want them out of that position? I would.
Mind you, I am quoting you just on the part about wanting people to lose a job / be moved to other tasks. All the other stuff, e.g. life threatening etc is still wrong.
Or in a way more common example, somebody that clearly doesn’t know their job at the workplace and as such drags the whole team/branch down. Yeah, I’d want them to be moved to more appropriate tasks- Assuming they hadn’t shown a willingness to learn/try to be better or better themselves / accepted help, of course.
These developers have had a goldmine of experience, solid feedback and extensive analysis of what’s wrong with the game, how to fix the said problems, and it’s all free. But, they don’t take those suggestions.
So I would say it is definitely not unreasonable to wish that somebody would get fired/moved to other tasks, because they obviously they are not up to the task. It’s been 6 years, the results are very clear. Something’s got to give.
I would say that comparing incompetent firemen to incompetent video game story writers is something of a false equivalence, in this particular situation.
Hence, I followed it with a far more common example. We all know people like that from work (or have known). The point stands. There are absolutely people that shouldn’t be in the positions they are, and there isn’t anything malicious or evil about not wanting them there.
anduin hasn’t like, committed genocide right? we don’t really know nor care about those sigils and even primus was like ‘lol nbd let’s just fight the jailer lols’
whereas sylvanas condemned an entire race into turbohell and that’s harder to pardon with ‘oh it wasn’t actually her!!!’ because i wanna see how you explain that to the refugees of probably both factions by now
anduin hasn’t even really done anything visible whereas sylvanas (if she gets one) will be tried likely on azeroth where everyone knows her
the shadowlanders prolly also just want to kill them both off so idk
everywhere you look, it’s because you put it there. I heard about the incident(s) through mutuals who shared it, expressing disbelief that someone would actually write that.
