For those of you that are unaware of this issue, Garrosh his dialogue from the quest “the Warchief cometh” has been changed recently. No longer will Garrosh utter the B word (rhymes with stitch). Some of you may argue this is a good change, you have that right.
I for one, felt that it was unneeded, even more so when you see the reason provided by the team at Blizzard.
A team member sent feedback that he enjoyed playing the game with his kid, but when they encountered Garrosh’s line, it stuck out from other language in the game.
You have a team member, involving his/her child with a game, that he’s not allowed to play because of the age rating the game has. I thought a team member would know the game better than to involve his kid into this game if he/she knew about it.
This is a massively multiplayer online (MMO) role-playing game set in the imaginary world of Azeroth. Players complete quests in order to “level up” their characters, while gaining powers and better weapons/armor/accessories along the way. Quest objectives sometimes involve using magic and hand-to-hand combat to defeat various creatures, enemy soldiers, and occasionally other characters such as innocent villagers. Some attacks can result in splashes of red blood or small bursts of flesh and bone falling to the ground. Certain quests require the player to drink alcohol, resulting in the character’s impaired vision (blurry screen, pink elephants) and movement. Players can interact with scantily clad characters, listen to provocative dialogue (e.g., “Is that a mana wyrm in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?”), or view sexually suggestive dance routines performed by elves and other player-characters. One quest requires players to search for specific creatures among a landscape covered with piles of brown feces. The words “axs,”“bastard,” and “bxtch” can be heard in the dialogue
Second of all, you have a game full with cannibalism, genocide, racial conflict, and much more gruesome matters if you involve yourself into the lore, and you’re going to take issue with Garrosh saying the B word against Sylvanas? What if your kid is going to see the cinematic where the Night Elves get burned alive?
Third of all, are we going towards a future where team members can just change ingame content as they see fit?
Note that I do not wish to witch hunt any of these people involved.
