But you do get it mentioned, through those multiple singular characters. The character-driven storylines serve as part of a reflection of the general trend in the world. You’re not going to get a full zone-wide change, as Blizzard said since Cataclysm that they’ll never do this again. If at all, they’ll update the zones whenever content happens, as we’ve seen with Vale and Uldum, Darkshore and Arathi.
They have been telling, and in Dragon Isles also showing the renewal. Whether it’s done well or not is besides the point. And in the end, my argument was that how is this Golden’s problem that Blizzard did not add in more? Should character developments stay in limbo because it does not tell a bigger picture? If character stories only get made to tell a larger story, you’ll end up with hollow underdeveloped characters that you - the reader - has to headcanon their entire story on.
As someone else said, it’s meat and skeletons. You need both. Golden can do character-driven stories well, and I feel like she does manage to successfully flesh out characters, their thoughts, ideals, motivations, etcetera well. She struggles with grander narratives, or general worldbuilding. You need both. We’ll see how storytelling changes - if at all - without Golden. Hollow and shallow characters do not interest me, even if the worldbuilding is good.
Your post was about how presumably Golden (and Danuser) were tasked with making a story to reflect the timeskip decided to instead make a story about Lor’themar and Thalyssra marrying, and how they aren’t the right people to create stories for WoW. I disagreed - you need both: people who write character-driven stories, and people who writer more general worldbuilding stories.
Your assumption is weird anyway, as you’re insinuating Golden (and/or Danuser + writing team) instead of writing about the timeskip decided to write about the marriage, as if it’s a one-or-the-other thing. Maybe the story was written independently?
You then ended with saying that ‘they aren’t the right people to create the story of such a massive world where fans often fell in love with the world itself rather than the characters’. You need both. If your characters suck, you’ve done a poor job at writing the story. Remember how people hated Knaak? So, as I’ve said repeatedly - you need both, people to write worldbuilding and people to write characters, and Golden was good at the characters.
Well, apparently none of it is relevant because you’re just dismissing everything. What are you even wanting from Blizzard? For each zone to be updated with fully fleshed out questlines? Have you forgotten Cataclysm?
In fact, those ‘five quests’ did tell you a lot of story. Gilneas got reclaimed and they managed to work together with Forsaken, putting aside their differences, etcetera etcetera. Again, did you even play the game??? Forsaken reclaiming Lordaeron you can also include in the timeskip.
I’m now the one who’s actually confused with what you meant and what you want. You can disregard stories about people outside of Azeroth having a moment to heal together and say that there were none, but… that just makes you factually wrong, sorry.
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