World of Warcraft: Current Year
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Daidraco
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I'll wait till next season to play again, maybe. This season doesnt look very interesting to me, personally. But I am not surprised that the same people that push DEI as their "creative outlet" are pushing that Goblins.. capitalists from the very beginning of time, have a sect that closely resembles every other goblin faction.. but is very democratic, and thoughtful. No common sense person should be against those ideals, but damn if these "creative" types dont make you want to be on the opposite side of every single thing they do/want.
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Penance
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The problem with modern writing is nobody wants to create flawed characters. Everything is black and white. Fake and gay.
Shit is boring.
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Palum
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It's not just flawed characters, it's humans generally. They can't imagine anyone who doesn't exactly believe 100% of current thing.
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Wombat
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It's both conception and execution.
1) Anyone who doesn't 100% comply with rightthink is The Enemy (witness how they turned on the Emilia Perez tranny that made... factual statements). Since every character therefore has to have the same opinions, they're all the same character.
2) Any 'minority' having any flaws is dangerously one or more -ist. Nothing they've done in the past or currently can ever be wrong. So their actions are all the same - the only variance left is how The Enemy oppressed them into their starting condition. (How the obviously wrong Enemy consistently has the upper hand prior to the protagonist entering the story is a contradiction that is rarely addressed.)
Therefore all 'good' characters must think the same and act the same at all times and are therefore not actually different characters.
1) Anyone who doesn't 100% comply with rightthink is The Enemy (witness how they turned on the Emilia Perez tranny that made... factual statements). Since every character therefore has to have the same opinions, they're all the same character.
2) Any 'minority' having any flaws is dangerously one or more -ist. Nothing they've done in the past or currently can ever be wrong. So their actions are all the same - the only variance left is how The Enemy oppressed them into their starting condition. (How the obviously wrong Enemy consistently has the upper hand prior to the protagonist entering the story is a contradiction that is rarely addressed.)
Therefore all 'good' characters must think the same and act the same at all times and are therefore not actually different characters.
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Why would anyone want to play in such a sterile boring world?
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Old Man Potter
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In 2017 an company email leaked that showed then Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime created a DEI hiring program for Blizzard. At the time 21% of Blizzard employees were female. That wasn't enough for Mike. He wanted more. He also instituted an LGBTQ advisory council at Blizzard which has input on workplace hiring and in-game content. This is why body type replaced gender in the character select screen and other insanity.
Since 2017, the quality of writing has deteriorated in Blizzard games. In 2025 Blizzard is full of cucked soy guzzling beta males, pinked hair obese feminists, and trans weirdos. Thanks to DEI, these people have zero talent, so they write about what they know: their fucked up fetishes and faggotry. Blame Mike Morhaime and his woke wife Amy for all of this. Both of them destroyed perhaps the greatest video game studio of all time.
The moral of the story is that if you have a receipt for success you stick to it. You don't mess with the recipe and expect your product to remain the same. Blizzard made the best games when they had balls-to-the-wall foul-mouthed men making games for male gamers. Garbage in, garbage out.
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Old Man Potter
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Absolutely right!
The DEI agenda demands representation. But, they only want good representation. It's okay for white males to be the convenient villains in almost every video game, but you'll never see a trans villain or a Jeffrey Dhamer mass murderer in a video game. Spousal violence in the LGBTQ world is disproportionately higher than in the hetro world. There's a recent epidemic of trans violence in the USA, not against them but perpetrated by them. Every LGBTQ character must be an angel of virtue with no faults in Blizzard's game worlds. Mary Sues and Gary Sues.
If Blizzard wants true representation, they should give us plenty of enemy NPC minorities and alphabet people so players can kill them and take their stuff. Try posting this suggestion on the official WoW forums and see how long it lasts without the person getting banned.
jayrebb
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M+ hotfix nerf slated for first week.
Numbers must be tepid to abysmal for group content right out of the gate.
Hearing PUGs are being absolutely DESTROYED in 2 and 3 keys right now. Blizzard's action is consistent with that information. Most tuning are targeting lower keys.
Massive catchup event coming.
I might wait and jump in for the catchup since nothing has really pulled me back in yet. I'm down to put some time in possibly, but not Season 1 time. Catchup will solve that.
Numbers must be tepid to abysmal for group content right out of the gate.
Hearing PUGs are being absolutely DESTROYED in 2 and 3 keys right now. Blizzard's action is consistent with that information. Most tuning are targeting lower keys.
Massive catchup event coming.
I might wait and jump in for the catchup since nothing has really pulled me back in yet. I'm down to put some time in possibly, but not Season 1 time. Catchup will solve that.
Palum
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Didn't they claim that under 10 was going to be way easier to ramp up difficulty? How did the fuck up that bad?
Daidraco
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Ffs I hate Kelani's voice so much. As soon as I click play and hear "Hey folks this is kelani" I instantly close that shit. Im sure his videos are very informed, just from what I can gather from his intro - but blegh. So I just looked up the changes instead.
You know, I used to think it was funny that the team continues to try "new things." But they end up just repeating the same steps they did in previous expansions. Who in their right mind thought it was a good idea to half ass implement corruption again, for one?
They added additional paths to get gear. Anytime they do that, they "think" they need to reevaluate the difficulty. They have some kind of time metric that is derived from difficulty and gear acquisition. This isnt even mentioning the fact that scaling is fucking aids, and basically requires them to test and debug every single mechanic over each tier.
jayrebb
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This plus Ion obviously being told to fuck off by team leaders was apparent. Just imagine Ion holding a meeting with 5 project leads on M+ and them all shitting on anything he wanted to discuss. As long as the people who built these systems and maintain them stay in positions of authority nothing will change. The PUG obliteration in M+ is worse than ever. And Ion was a pretty big douche himself 10 years ago hiring everyone he could from elitistjerks forums-- those same guys wouldn't take 2 seconds to tell him to get fucked. There won't be any good faith internal discussion until there is some house cleaning.
In any case, all that smoke about disabling WA and hooks amounted to nothing as Blizzard has decided to instead directly compete against WA and other addons head-to-head until the third party add-ons are irrelevant. That's a mixed bag and far from the smoke Ion was huffing about taking add-ons to "war".
Blizzard's official WA rollout is slated for 12.0 I believe the leaked build said.
It'll be nice not to have to update WA, but again far from what was promised. Maybe Blizzard's version is going to have enhanced functionality and a stellar GUI.
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Foggy
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Keys in general are much easier this tier. Anybody getting farmed by 2s and 3s should stop playing video games altogether.
Cybsled
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FF14 team needs to up their game - it's clear Blizz read all the shit FF14 players complained about and decided to add those features and more. Z axis placement and also rotating on the same axis? Changing the size of furniture? That's pretty awesome
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Daidraco
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I just loved how it was a big fuck you to all the people that spent 5 million gold. Roughly $436 dollars worth of gold.
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TJT
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On some level I get it.
At this point in my life $90 is nothing to me. Spending 200 hours grinding gold to buy it straight is something I just can't afford.
It is very detrimental to the genre though and it shouldn't exist. Classic Wow is something special.
