PTR Spoiler/Discussion Thread (Part 1)

This is also why “working on a way for it” sounds really really sketchy and like they got something actually bad in mind.

Because just putting them on a vendor for a couple of copper at the starting zones & or exile’s reach would be so easy, obvious and quick that it would have already been done.

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It’s quite optimistic to think WoW will actually reach patch 12.1. I think we’ll be lucky if we get a 10.0.

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Hooo hee… Haaa haaa hee…

They’ll put the simple warhammer in the game any day now

Any day

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Patch 9.2 ends with the fall of Danusermud, leading the way for WoW 2: Legends of Sylvanas.

They’ll excise Greenskins from the lore but keep Blackbloods.

They replaced the instances of that slur to phrases like greenhide or barbarian / other similar negative terms and maintained NPCs named Greenskin where the term wasn’t used as a slur against orcs

it’s almost like if the problem is warhammer trademark and not the ess jay dubs censoring their slurs :crazy_face: since they made up a new slur to replace it

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noooo but why would blizzard care about a lawsuit with warhammer when they’re a megacompany nooo it has to be that madeleine roux who’s at fault instead nooo !!!

“Greenskin” isn’t even trademarked in the UK or the US, though - you can publicly search who owns what trademarks

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Genuinely not Gamesworkshop, for once.

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Do you sincerely believe that despite being in the game for years and despite it never having been an issue before that it’s suddenly a case of :exclamation: COPYRIGHT ALERT :exclamation:? Doesn’t the timing - greenskin being removed while Blizzard’s crusade of corrections is on-going full-throttle - make you think that it’s part of those morally motivated corrections?

Extremely strange take. But perhaps the more comfortable one?

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  • Greenskin is not trademarked
  • It’s one thing entirely to bully your content creators in youtube, and a whole another thing to bring up a CaD to a company that has more revenue in a quarter than you make in a year.
  • Greenskin is used by the whole industry, so even if they applied for it now they’d be too late as it’s become common ground.
  • The theory was pushed forward by peanutbrain WoWheaders who disabled all comments.

JFC these mental gymnastics.

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GW’s never really gone after anyone for using ‘Greenskin’ and they don’t have it trademarked, it is not the bad Warhammer/GW boogeyman in the slightest, bigger reach to claim it is than Halo Reach tbh (and that was a hugely good game!!)

I’m not at all the type to refer to anyone as SJWs but it is absolutely not Games Workshop/Warhammer in the slightest and the suggestion alone is pretty ridiculous

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Love how it’s proven multiple times thats it’s not trademarked, there wasn’t ever proof that it even was, and still people take that as the truth.

Personally I think Blizzard is removing skinbased specie… racism because they’re deadly afraid smoothbrains will make the comparison to RL skinbased racism.

I will bet you a hundred bucks that they removed it because a handful of devs thought it sounded too close to redskin.

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The sheer amount of copium some people consume on these forums is off the charts.

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its definitely very clearly about the word skin, that much is obvious

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With the release date being so soon there isn’t much time to really push much else into the patch, but hopefully we can see some more stuff in smaller patches rather than having to wait almost half a year (or more) for another one.
Quality of life changes and little additions here and there.

Also to throw it out there again, if you’d be so kind feel free to help make some noise about getting some much requested rp features or add your own ideas to the list, the more the merrier!

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Looks like they absolutely have got nothing worthwhile to announce that would warrant Blizzconline. They’ll still announce, but on a scaled down level.

Honks a powerful horn memeingly.

Looks like the pandemic excuse won’t work here regarding all IPs they wanted to announce. The production must be really far back.

Tinfoil hat on

They don’t want to hold any event with public channels where they could be shamed and mocked for their clownery.

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Wait are people still using the pandemic as an excuse

lol