I don’t think my post said anything about children and was instead about the nature of WoW’s setting making it entirely unfit for a topic like this.
While WoW has at times managed to very very briefly harness a more serious tone chromie is not a character that enables this, instead making the whole thing feel like they’re playing it for laughs.
Or this expansion’s entire tone for that matter, except for certain points in Aberrus. It’s a little jarring to go from from “lmao murloc azeroth” and “what if the Horde and the Alliance never stopped at fighting one another and they were like super post-apocalyptic and mega campy!” to “Hey, so, we need to literally enable past Alextrasza getting abused to save time-space continuum. We’ll be doing this in a daily basis for rep.”
It’s just really weird that the writers went for this instead of literally ANYTHING else to cause a little conflict between the Alextrasza and the Bronze Dragonflight out of all things they could’ve picked.
I really don’t see why they didn’t go with something like the corruption of the Ruby Lifeshrine and Krasus’ sacrifice, which would be another very traumatic experience for Alex without all that baggage.
Or heck, anything related to Malygos could work.
It’s telling that we usually direct the blame at the writers rather than the characters, and have since at least BfA.
This tells us that, to paraphrase Tolkien, the Secondary World failed us long ago, and we’ve been back in the Primary World ever since, looking at the abortive little Secondary World from the outside.
They wrote the characters and the story. Who am I supposed to blame, Mary Magdalene?
Besides, they did just fire someone for making a joke character spew out lines that hit a little too close to home to Blizzard Executives, only to turn around and do this.
They could’ve thrown in us telling Ysera about Malfurion walking in an ambush, in Legion Val’sharah, thus being the reason why she died which would also explain how she died before her time, instead of Malfurion.
Instead of throwing in this quest about Alexstrasza… I mean her sister dying because of Bronze intervention would surely strain her relationship with the Bronze, no?
Eric Covington got fired a month or two ago for making the greedy goblin NPCs from the Forbidden Reach do joke lines referencing corporate greed, yatch-buying and quarterly profits.
That they thought that like three nameless NPC lines were a little too offensive and close to home to instantly fire a dev that had been working in the game for more than half a decade, but don’t find anything wrong with a patch’s main story plot being related to something like this after all that was revealed about Blizzard in these last three years is a little telling, if not really damn weird.
Tbh mans did the bronze dragon levelling quests in df so clearly nothing of value was lost but really this was just a dumb ah move on his part, everyone knows the yacht snipes are @ Bobby.
I don’t know what stroke of genius possessed him to start sniping his own employer in said employer’s product.
There’s a pretty big difference between addressing dark topics in stories and Blizzard (the company that’s infamous for sexual harassment at this point) deciding to revisit sexual assault while also thinking it’s a good idea to make the players complicit in the act. That goes a bit beyond ”dark” into outright disgusting territory.
This company shouldn’t be given the benefit of the doubt with these kinds of stories, especially not after the Diablo IV script issues (which admittedly occurred before the harassment news broke, but it’s still relevant). That’s without mentioning the whiplash that is going from fighting a goofy eyepatch-wearing grimdark AU version of the Alliance to… this.
Even if you think Blizz can tell these stories, this is not the way to do it.
Just look up ”Diablo IV Sebastian Stępień”. It was reported in the Washington Post, but the tl;dr is: an earlier script had a character whose whole thing was essentially being a victim of SA, to the point it made the other devs working on the game uncomfortable. They worked pretty hard to have it removed.
It sure feels like Blizzard listened to the General Discussion gremlins about how the game is all sunshine and rainbows right now, so they decided ‘aight bet, the player characters will be complicit in r-word now’.
All part of an expansion-wide slip from exploring a new, pretty land into grimdark á la pandaria because it is truly pandaria 2 just like I said it would be.
Pandaria started out with grimdark dichotomy at least, where in the first quests you just mowed down orcs in water and whatnot. Dragonflight to my knowledge didn’t really have a lot of it in the first patches.
I’d even say that while the subject matter is very dark in the Alexstrasza quests, it’s still presented as some goofy silly little thing in the quest text.