All you need to know really is he is in the same category as Jerry Seinfeld. In that every now and then, he will say something generally unpleasant as part of his routine. And if even a single person doesn’t laugh, he will spend the next 6 months saying he is getting cancelled and everyone is too sensitive.
He’s done that quite a few times. He abhors criticism.
And to get back on track, Azshara’s writing in general during BfA was something I really took issue with.
Mainly because Blizzard tried to have their cake and eat it too when it came to player interaction and agency. I have complained about this before.
WoW as an RPG is one of the worst games when it comes to player and character agency over the story. Our choices are limited to, picking up a quest, or not and then nothing ever progresses or changes.
Yet during BfA, Blizzard got really focused on having people like Azshara directly make snipes at our characters for being foolish and easily fooled for falling for her plans and how we were so stupid for not seeing the obvious trap etc etc.
When, not only did alot of players already see that it was coming ahead of time, but we had absolutely no way to influence it, yet the writing acted as if we did.
Which comes across as the writers being smug rather than the character being written well.
In all of warcraft, the hubris of bad guys is a recurring theme and Azshara’s vainglory is the stuff of legends. If any villain is to be sufficiently bigheaded to trip on their inability to consider The Hero just might be capable enough to harm them, it’s her.
Even so, it’s a whole thing of how the tidestone is important and Azshara is holding the ocean at bay to yes, use our power but simply drowning us would still give her that. The heart(s) of azeroth isn’t uniquely difficult to locate and if anything makes an extra large blip on the magic radar.
Tbh at this point Im inclined to consider ‘bad guy hubris’ as bad writing in and of itself.
The response shouldn’t be ‘haha you can’t defeat me’ when the PC steps up it should be ‘oh wow jeez. Sorry, so sorry, truely, I’ll sit back down and hush. Won’t see me again!’
I realise that would make a dull game but just once I wish a villain would recognise the magnitude of their error.
This is what you want 
The Doylist reason for Nazjatar being implemented that way was the negative reception to Vashj’ir, which dissuaded Blizzard from making more underwater zones.
A bit yeah.
Well… no. I don’t -want- it as such. I prefer us being plucky low threat adventurers who work as part of Azeroth’s powers larger mechanisms - we don’t ’win the war’ we just destroy a vital bridge etc.
But WoW has canoncly made us Champaign’s, lead armies, depower magical titans swords, wreck titan equipment, punch void gods in the face repeatedly, conquer the realm of death etc.
Then we get xalatath being cocky? Like I’m sorry that doesn’t work. She’s a threat to alleria, she can strut around her all she wants but the PC? She’s an amoeba to what we’ve stomped on.
She has seemingly infinite number of fish people in her employment. Dispatching a few to search the wreckage for stuff would surely be easy. Even if champyun survived, surely it would be easier to deal with them as they float in an open ocean, rather than creating an environment more suitable for them (and less for your own forces) and trying to wrestle it from them that way.
I still maintain that vashjir was a great and creative zone and i enjoyed it more than the rest of new cata zones. The navigation and combat complaints have always felt exaggerated to me (i did that zone on ranged and melee characters).
Gul’dan had a moment like that in the audio story. “These guys hounded me across space and time, killed Sargeras’s number 2 minion and will never relent. Yeah, best to stack everything in my favor.” and we will never get another moment like that.
Granted it’s outside game lore, so I’m not all that impressed either. In game it would be pretty obnoxious for the NPC to constantly scream the meme’d “Enough!” and then I’m arbitrarily incapable of finishing the job.
Jerry Seinfeld, the guy who both thinks that comedy has become too crass and you shouldn’t swear but also believes that comedians are being silenced.
Oh and he dated a child, I think that’s also relevant.
This is why I hated Revendreth, while everyone else was going Ooo Ahh over Denathrius…
Ah yes, these Totally Trustworthy And Not At All Shady As Literal Hell Characters, I Sould Totally Be Ok Working For Them!
-sigh-
Made a Komedy show about himself, declared himself the lord high king of comedy despite the show, much like the office (both versions) being dreck and barely amusing at all.
Generally unlikeable guy all around really.
It’s a little funny when they tried to portray Maldraxxus as a place of honor and duty despite the evil looking appearance of the people there… Only to then confirm that the place where everyone looks evil is indeed filled with people who are evil. I don’t care how much coping is there about survival of the fittest or being generally misguided, it really didn’t take much for them to turn.
Meanwhile Revendreth has hot sexy vampires and everyone gave it pass for how blatant of a re-treading of the Suramar storyline. Man, I guess all you need to get away with everything is goth look, a suave voice and generally attractive for people to ignore glaring issues.
Even though his scheming was obvious from the start, it’s still better than the collection of undead, idiots and the most horrible monsters in the game’s history. He was the best of the worst, and there was no one and nothing else to it.
I mean, yeah.
But it’s easy to look ‘better’ when you’re contending with, say, the Kyrians.
AKA “If they didn’t, for whatever reason, 180 the planned plot for this zone then the writers are absolutely as idiotic as the big blue blithering idiots”.
Edit: Actually, you know what, I think the entire damn Kyrian campaign takes the fetid crown of “What even IS this?” in terms of Bad Writing.
Can someone, anyone, name me a single redeeming feature? God… I hate it.
Some people (not me) found the Stewards charming.
The Stewards are innocent bystanders.
Also not blue, bewinged, and dumb as a sack of hammers, so also not Kyrian.
(Ok, being a little facetious there. They also do kinda fall into the ‘Hey, lets make sure everyone has Cutesy Sidekicks!’ which is a trend I’m… not hugely fond of, honestly. It’s kinda trite and Very forced.)
I found them cute, but the whole “they get depressed to the point of death if they aren’t allowed to work/serve the Kyrians” is the same writing as the House elves from Harry Potter and both are horrifying.
Those Owls were up to something. They know what they did.
Oh, ew, I’d forgotten that/managed to blank that out from my brain.
Yup. Hate it, hate it all.