Wow has been adapted to children

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Wow has never been a dark fantasy, like warhammer or Diablo. it has been somewhere in between. But now recently, specifcally from what i´ve seen from Dragonflight and thier cinematic alike.

The tone has drasticly changed to the worse imo, the cinematic feels targeted towards children, both indicated by the disney like music, bright colors, and ever happy ending.

If i were to write draonflight, it whould´ve taken a very different turn.

In the first Cinematic, the random stone man whould´ve come crashing unto the floor leaving only pieces of him from the fall, at the same time as
dramatic/sad music is playing, and the camera back slowly away from him as it starts to rain.

In the next clip you will see how everything starts to take a dark turn, dragons fall to thier death by invaders impaling them in the air. Others are being trapped and screech in agony. As you are watching this you will get a hint of who may be the final boss, as you will hear a voice of him has he narrate hes story and how and why he will destroy the dragons and see the world burn.

The first time i watched that i knew he whould be saved by a dragon, indicated by the music and general tone to it.

Back to this most recent cinematic, we are seeing two races of opposing factions having the best time of thier life together as they are flying through the zones of this new expansion.

With no intent of either capturing or killing eachother, but rather appearing as best friends.

Friendship across factions can be done well and make a good story out of it, however this cinematic did not succeed well into doing that.

I have a hard time imaging Thrall and Jaina doing the same thing, even though they can be considored friends.

A video that succeded well into doing that is the Mists of pandaria cinematic, specifically (Bottoms up) when a human and an orc is hanging out in a bar and the orc has blacked out from the booze, in which the human tries to take hes mug.

The tone there has a more realistic approach whilst still keeping the classic lighthearted wow humor, that we all know and love.

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Im 44 and I enjoyed the movie.
I like cross factions friendships
I think it’s a good and positive thing.
I myself would never kill a hordie in open world. I would love to help and interact with them.

Thats how i view the movie. Ppl can choose not to hate. To show the world is not only war, strife and hatred.
I think it’s a good positive vibe

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Children will be a good market, we are dying soon.

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I am not against cross faction friendship either, and i never kill the opposing faction either in world pvp, but this was executed badly.

I whould much rather see lets say an orc and a human that are friends spar with eachother, whilst still being serious and knock each other down and not being so gentle, to mess with eachother.

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I heard this kind of doomsaying before. During Pandaria.

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Well taste is different and I accept your view. I just liked it… a lot :slight_smile:

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Additional, we are cheap, children have parent that pays their salary and gaming addiction.

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Honestly i think it was refreshing.

I’m tired of Demons, void, darkness and evil, we had those themes so much.

Dragonflight just seems like a fun adventure.

The two characters are supposed to reflect our player characters and what awaits us.
It’s not so much of a lore cinematic.

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I am so happy you are not writing the game :slight_smile:

If being an adult means i still need to be diving in to that dark teenage angst, then im happy to be adult but then again if being children is all the nice things in the cinematic and so forth, im sad to be adult but its ghreat its only phtsical. I can take good things and be happy with it.

I like when people get along, when people work trogether towards common good and i love it when things go a good way. Life in real world can be a pain you know so its a nice thing to have games where good things happen. To get an escape of reality every once in a while.

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you know the original age for the box was 12+ right :smiley: it was always a children’s game

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Every expansion has the doomsayers tbf. Their particular reasoning varies, but always this time for sure everything’s going down the drain. Yet here the game is, at its 18th anniversary.

It’s right there at the bottom of this forum if just scrolling down even.

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it’s just cata 2.0 with discount deathwing :smiley: fitting that they offering a 12 month sub they did for cata too :smiley: but people wanted this expansion so i guess the rest us just have to accept that or unsub

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i remember people was doom saying swtor on day 1 at the forum and its still here too

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People also said that SWTOR would kill wow.

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i’ve always maintained that only wow can kill wow and they are working hard at it under ion the inept

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Pretty much every new MMORPG with good exposure or a strong IP have been the next “WoW killer”. New World was the last one iirc? :face_with_hand_over_mouth:

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bad leadership killed new world though i never played it because they was bricking 3090’s and i liked my graphic card :smiley:

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The game was destined to fail the moment people hyped it up so much.

Wasnt there a newer one recently?

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I don’t think their Doomsaying, could be wrong but it didn’t come across that way to me.

WoW, to me has never really been “adult”. Just having sadness and death everywhere is pointless without that “happy friendship” stuff and hope. I think if WoW was just death and darkness I’d lose interest. I’d think the writers were just trying too hard to connect to the teenage angst listening to my chemical romance. Does that reference still work?