It's ultimately the Anduin problem again. Any good-aligned character must hold entirely harmonious beliefs with the rest of the good guys, anyone who deviates too far is becoming a villain. Now that the Amani are firmly good-aligned, they cannot deviate from the prevailing belief of Zul'jin bad.
Hey, it's a start.
They barely tried with dracthyr, but it's so stark with earthen and haranir. They have zero connections to the factions, you're just a neutral adventurer tied to a faction for gameplay reasons. And we see how the dracthyr went: not a single dracthyr NPC outside the item upgrade NPCs since DF ended.
I suspect skyriding is the culprit here. They don't want players getting caught on anything and make it ridiculously open to compensate, even more than the original SMC.
I think Legion world design was too compact but they need to move the wide open spaces outside towns, not within them.
Someone there should probably try to figure out the implications of why "self-confident hero that thinks everyone else in the cast is a naive idiot" consistently proves a popular archetype in all their games.
Something hilarious that it's unclear if Blizzard will kill off Zul'jan, a popular antihero, when their hype for the next expac comes from the return of a popular antihero they initially killed off and scrambled to resurrect later down the line because they knew he was too popular.
entire cosmic force defeated by tylenol
THE INFINITE PATHS OF THE VOID and it's open a portal 5 feet away, necromancy, open a portal 5 feet away, big laser that gives you headache if you're near it, open a portal 5 feet away, open a portal 10 feet away, loud noise that gives you headache if you're near it, open a portal
I just don't understand. Blizzard's storytelling excelled with SC1 and WC3 for their character-driven plots, now we're reduced to every character acting like an inhuman robot in service of a cosmology that they can't even commit to a coherent dynamic and rules for. What are we doing here?
They spend so much time showing paladins save a civilian from a voidwalker only for them to immediately go "Ahhh you're so Lightblinded™! Champion the Light is scary!" while you also see the constant benefits and utility of the Light, while the Void has... portals? Every magic does portals now.
This is ultimately what makes this whole plot and the broader cosmic story fall apart for me. They just forgot to write anything uniquely beneficial or redemptive of the void? It's far too late to start now. Velves and Alleria are on the level of DHs, and nobody argues that DHs make fel good.
Every single instance of whether one is worthy of remorse or redemption now has to be measured against tolerance of the Man'ari existing and collaborating with the draenei.
I've seen some people gleefully react to some modern story direction with "well at least they're making SL fit in with everything else more!" and it makes me wonder how many people (including at Blizzard) think the only purpose of the current story is to legitimize SL further.
The funniest part is how the argument for Sylvanas and not Kael/Garrosh/etc. is that at least she's sorry about her crimes, and then the next main story appearance she has since SL is her saying no regrets lol. The ruling family of modern WoW cannot ever lose their main protagonist statuses.
I had to disconnect my Twitch account from within Battlenet in the past for this bug. It said I wouldn't be able to connect another account for a week but it let me reconnect it right away and it worked, could be that it just means connecting a different account.
Why is everything the dragonriding race music now
We have 6 instances of characters asking where the nearest Windrunner is queued up first, efficient writing and all that
Modern main story writing
The assignment always assume the Horde is a nonplayable faction, but they're trying to force the Light bad stuff so much that they have NPCs watching the paladins save them from the Voidstorm and immediately going "um they're just like the Scourge when you think about it!" Zero buildup for the theme
We went from Metzen profusely apologizing for a retcon in 2006 to Blizzard employees openly going "eh who gives a shit, I want to write about something else" at the same time that NPCs regularly sound like they're delivering author's notes to you rather than actual dialogue.
He's not responsible for it and it wasn't mean-spirited, but Keith Riley just casually admitting on Twitter absolutely nothing is sacred and they will change canon on a whim to make life easier for quest designers feels like something you should absolutely not be admitting out loud to your audience.
The Sylvanas stuff from 11.2.7 onward along with how the belves are being treated has really felt like an evolution of the "not the story we wanted to tell" defense shaping into every expansion feeling like a rough draft for a different story that is not supposed to have any continuity with the past
This is another one of those instances where the point that's trying to be made is so nonsensical that they might as well cut the dialogue and just have an author's note telling you the Light isn't always good, it requires about the same suspension of disbelief to take seriously.
Scott Menville voicing both the adults and children NPCs is paying off dividends in this case
Problem: Elves are acting too much like teenagers
Solution: Make them act like children
After seeing what they did to Pit of Saron, I don't know if revamp hopers are ready for how much Scourge content potentially coming in the rest of Midnight or TLT is going to indirectly or directly be Maldraxxus content.
The energy of Ion's smug spitefulness about high elves colors the entirety of the writing now. It's a death spiral where the writers antagonize players because they view their fans as enemies, players are incensed over it, which justifies antagonizing them even more as punishment.
remember when 9.2 did the "I implore you to reconsider" gag from Kung Pow and played it completely straight
Someone over there really really wishes this was a thing instead and will boil and mulch anything in their path to get to it
I have to remind myself that it's not that Warcraft is a setting that's particularly hard to understand or get, it's just that the people in charge of it despise it with a passion and are completely delusional about their own writing abilities independent of their ability to adapt an existing canon.
