Blizzard in 2060: We couldn’t be more honored to know that our player base has stuck with us for decades now, in over 50 World of Warcraft expansions!
Blizzcon 2060 Audience: *roaring applause*
Blizzard in 2060: And we’re happy to announce that with the latest upgrade to our graphical engine, World of Warcraft now looks more cinematic than ever! When you log in today, you’ll be surely blown away by our photo-realistic DirectX450 rendering! It’ll look something… Like this.
Blizzcon 2060 Audience: *earthshattering screams of joy*
can we just stop tumblr’s ‘if you don’t reblog posts about every catastrophe that ever happens on the planet you’re a bad person’
people cannot emotionally handle talking about every crisis ever. social media can just be talking about fun, dumb shit, and if that’s how you choose to use it you’re not a bad person who’s selfish or whatever.
absolutely, if you have money to spare donate to causes you believe in or share information about them, but if you want to keep your blog lighthearted, it’s not a bad thing. “this only has 300 notes, guess no one cares about x thing, you’re all monsters” is guilt-tripping, and you don’t have to listen to it.
Better to post late than not at all! On August 2nd my boy Raam and his wife Arine had their baby girl, after the horrific burning of Teldrassil: Alani Nalua Clifforton, a tiny little periwinkle dot of hope amidst the ash and fire. The pregnancy was all done in real-time, and the schedule we’d planned just happened to line up a little too perfectly. The Chaotic Stupid Duo went to Azuremyst to help assist the refugees pouring in from Darkshore, and the stress was just enough for a water-break. Surprise! I’m excited to see where this new road takes them and even more excited to let everyone hold the baby.
Sonebee’s (Arine’s mod!) lines, my colors. (please full view, I can’t get the dimensions to stop blurring)
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.
Look who I picked up from the shelter yesterday. This is Leo, my 1 year old Great Pyrenees mix. His previous owner was a fuckhead who neglected him, that’s why he’s so thin. Not to worry, though. He is now a happy dog eating as much as he needs living a great spoiled life. I’m gonna start picking up meat patties from the in-n-out I work at everyday after my shift just for him.
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