Sad. The only one who deserved to be fired was Madeleine Roux.
I enjoyed Christieâs books.
Ok, now I lost all faith for WoW lore becoming good again.
Sure, we still have Metzen. But Christie Golden is one of the best authors I know.
Thatâs terrible news. Christie Golden was present in Warcraftâs lore ever since first novels started pouring in. And their quality over time were becoming better and better.
Her latest book âSylvanasâ was her best work so far. For me personally not because of the plot, but because it is the closest thing that we get to cross section of an entire nation. That novel alone gave us better glimpse at how Thalassian Elves operated and what was their culture than all other previous media works combined.
A damn shame.
Surprised, while not everything was a hit for me⌠most of her work I enjoyed and I fear with her departure that things might go worse.
Without a doubt: a better person and writer than that Madeleine Roux one.
Also, classy Blizzard. Letting people go when they are going through something.
Blizz living their values to the full laying someone off at a time like that.
It wouldnât have hurt them at all to see her through the tough patch. It just goes to show all their âvalue statementsâ and words are meaningless when these types of actions permeate the organisation.
I donât understand this decision. Makes no sense.
She wasnât writing lore anyway, mostly directed voice actors, wrote dialogue and songs.
But we could return to metzenâs on brand ânothing personnel kiddoâ dialogue style, which is sad
Eh, she was (according to the WoWhead article) integral to the production of the BfA Cinematics, which were definitely all good. You canât tell me they were bad.
Mind to elaborate?
I like golden, but yeah she herself said that she is mostly responsible for dialogue and not main plot points or story direction
Compare writing of conversation before BFA and after, like this is when golden started to write https://youtu.be/NDj2aaxixxo?si=pPZY4HJjtUxf_pkU
And this is legionâs âmetzen styleâ writing https://youtu.be/Td0pUwrBWjc?si=VjtjIAC62zkFbtpV
Its just exchanging one liners with each other, each person in the room wants to sound more cool than other person
Oh, in that case⌠I will not have said anything. Christie is still very good at what she does. But if that one-liner writing is Metzens handwriting, I actually prefer his form of dialogue. It is more laconic.
âThe drums of war thunder once againâ , I hope they can bring back that atmosphere again. Where dragons are dragons, heroes are heroes, villains are villains, factions are factions, war is war! We will see how it will be in the next expansion.
The fact they kept gaslighting hypocritical trash like Madeleine Roux while letting go of ChristieâŚ
Looking at the lore over the last few years i would replace all people that got involve with the lore. It has been going downhill ever since WoD. Far to mutch peacecraft going on and a lack of WARcraft of the past with serious fantasy themes. Everything these days is about jokes and making fun of the franchise.
Thatâs because clowns in colourful attire wearing kitty ear headbands and sparkle wands took over⌠you know the kind Iâm referring to.
Blizzard has been a soulless entity for a long time. Shareholders are paramount.
Incredulous, what is this, some make-good on the quarterly profits? First the major layoffs, then Blizzcon gutted then also the writers?
Blizzard youâre not going further offend them by offering a freelancer contract right? I hope that if you do they accept it by taking 5 times the freelancer rate with benefits attached to it.
I mean, Christie Golden was behind writing the cinematics alongside Terran Gregory, and by the looks of it, not a lot of people actually enjoyed them. She can still be commissioned as an author for a book, given thatâs how her history with Blizzard has been for a good chunk of her carreer.
What I mostly fear is who theyâre going to end up replacing her. It can only get worse.
Freelancers? Thatâll cost money⌠to cut corners theyâll go free fanfic!
It makes Perfect sense.
Why keep writers on payroll when chat gpt can write quests for free.