Nope, I don’t.
I’m arguing for the content to remain as a time capsule, rather than simply be dust binned because someone has paper thin skin and thinks an ancient ( community spawned ) joke about blood elf males and the celestial steed is something more than it is.
Perhaps they should deal with it instead. Do you see how stupid this line of reasoning is? How circular and pointless the argument becomes? This is the death of discussion.
The design of the game already funnels people away from things like Johnny Awesome. A new player is never going to even see him on their first character. But his mere existence is disgusting enough to remove?
Same with most of the /silly and /flirt lines, odds are they won’t even hear them unless they go out of their way to explore the archaic chat system we have, and how the game mutes other players emotes unless they’re in the same instance or party as you.
On that we agree.
Blood Elves are minorities now? I thought they were a fictional race.
And I know you’ll come back to this with “It’s a joke about the LGBTQ+ communities”.
To which I will simply say: No, it is not. It’s a joke about Blood Elves, coming from the community of WoW’s own voiced opinions about them spanning years.
Is it dumb and cringe? Yes. But it’s still just a joke about Blood Elves as seen by 2010’s WoW playerbase.
Are you certain about that? It’s my opinion based on the twitter posts made by WoW devs who were vocal about these changes. How am I strawmanning my own opinion.
Vixi, I really do think you’re a nice person. Truly, I do. I want to stress that here and now because frankly I don’t want bad blood. Our niche hobby is small enough as it is without us going at each others throats.
And that’s fair enough, but that is the slippery nature of humour. Like, I’ll use an example of my own to support your point and add my own thought on the end.
There’s a scottish comedian out there who, frankly, I think is hilarious. But he regularly dunks on the English. Sometimes I find that incredibly uncomfortable.
But I’d rather he still told that joke than have someone come around later and edit it out because it was offensive to me.
You’re not. Warcraft’s developers basically are by removing and editing these jokes out.
Basically my overall opinion but I am trying to be as eloquent as I can in trying to explain and explore my opinion on the subject. I am sad that these are going, because to me they were harmless.
I won’t change my opinion on the warcraft developers and what I believe to be their reasoning behind these removals, I truly think they are lacking in character if they see something as harmless as a Ceelo Green written song reference being recontextualised as a flirt and go “I don’t want that in this game anymore, it makes me uncomfortable”.
By this reasoning, all media should get the ol’ nip and tuck. Which is frankly illogical and, imo, needlessly destructive. I know you’re not making that point, I am as a logical outreach of this stance.
Thanks, I try to engage the old almonds.
I don’t, but I can draw on my own experiences and compare to what has been publicly stated. Evidently, it’s affected them so badly that they must nuke it all from orbit to be sure.
I’d rather they stand as part of WoW’s history, rather than be swept away in a tidal wave of petty vengeance.
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poop.