I sent this ask and this is what I’m talking about:
Oh yeah and he wrote Dark Mirror btw the story that makes Nathanos a character and establishes his relationship with Sylvanas. It gets worse if you take the time to look through more of his tweets and some of the stuff he retweets/follows too. I am sorry to have burdened you with this information.
Please leave Steve alone. It’s possible to associate anyone’s creative works with their personal motivations and insinuate it’s a self insert by cherry picking pieces of their social media accounts. I wrote for Suramar and I’m sure you could do that for me. I’m sure you could do it for the creative director, too.
This is mockery of someone who is extremely passionate about the lore and is a mentor to many of us on the quest team. Agree or disagree with his stylistic choices, the real human does not deserve to have his work on this team boiled down to one piece of fiction and a couple tweets. He does more than I can say and is a fucking treasure of a human being. 11/10 would ride or die for this man.
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One of these days people are gonna learn the hard to stop these utterly random callouts for no better reason than “omg so cringe”.
Leave
The
Team
Alone.
My biggest problem with Blizzard’s storytelling isn’t the writers. Because I have had the privilege of meeting/knowing some of these people and they are so incredibly passionate about the story and wanting to create something enjoyable for the players.
My biggest problem is that because of the nature of the game, the nature of the business, and just that it’s an enormous MMORPG, the best things these writers come up with often gets cut and left on the floor where we, the players, never get to appreciate it.
Blizzard’s devs are people. They get excited about storylines, they have a different perspective (they know, if not how the story ends, at least what’s around the next bend), and they have their favorites.
Don’t shit on that.
I don’t like what I’ve seen of the current story. But some of the best stories I’ve ever read were ones where I threw down the book and had to go for a walk, because they were excellent, but didn’t leave me feeling good.
Be considerate – to yourselves, to the opposing factions, to the devs. Be patient. Wait until the story is played out – And I hope to God no one that was ragging on Mr. Danuser ever finds someone snarking about the things they love, because it is a shitty, awful feeling and I guarantee you he knows what you people have done.
Edit: And I know he’ll never see this, but EverQuest 2 was a fucking fantastic game, thank you Sir for contributing to that – it was a cherished part of my gaming history.
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