Originally Posted by
Trassk
that sums it up for me. My main and most played alts are orcs. Well I have other alts like trolls, tauren, goblin, worgen and draenei, its orcs I'm most held by in the lore, and my argument all this time has been how garrosh has been dragging the orcs down the road of bad guy just made me hate the character.
You know what is? The very reason why warcraft appeals to me, when compared to any other mmo game franchise out there, is how wow gives you a faction where unlike any other, you get to play the monsterous races, but its done in such a way they are not monster, but people, who struggle to survive in a world where humans and elves are constantly at war with them. THATS more interesting then any other mmo or rpg theme out there, with its cut and paste 'play the pretty boy/girl races and beat up the bad monsters'.
Thats what drew me to the horde, and what drew me to the orcs most of all is how orcs, having been a race in any other franchise protrayed as monster, in this, they were people, with a background, developed characters and culture, and even a story of overcoming there dark past in the hope of having a better future..
That was until garrosh came along and fucked up the major aspect of the orcs story. People have cast aside any logic in this, in the orcs overcoming the dark past and growing as a race, and just opted for the same cut and paste bullshit of having the orcs go WAAARRRGGG and fight with humans yet again. What they had as a unique and really fasciating concept for a story, has devolved into the having the 'noble yet savage' orcs turned into the used and reused stereotypical orcs like in any other rpg setting.
I love roleplaying an orc, because they have more conflict in themselves and the world around them then any other race, but it also makes for a far more intresting story, when you can roleplay an orc that overcomes his rage and hate for humans and other races, or one that learns wisdom before just being another tool for war.
So no, I do not get any joy out of this current patch, running around killing orcs, having to storm the capital city I once use to defend constantly (before cata gave flying mounts to vanilla zones), its not fun. For an orc player, this is hitting at everything about there orcs, and leaving the question, what the fuck happens now after garrosh and so many orcs are killed off? Why are they repeating the same formula of 'orcs are bad, we need to take them down', when they were meant to be beyond this?
And more so, why the hell is this going to teach, what lesson comes from this? That war is bad, even though its unlikely the war will stop. That dealing with dark powers is dangerous? Because we sure didn't know THAT before all this -_-.
Blizzard systematicly fucked up one of the most unique features in wow that made it appealing to me, and given the thin ice they've been walking on... well, guess we're wait and see won't we...
---------- Post added 2013-07-01 at 12:17 AM ----------
how is it weakness, when as a neutral character, comes in to try and stop her from killing hundreds of his own, risking his own life against her rampage, and even not being strong enough to withstand it for long, he doesn't give up trying. He is even miserable at the end of losing his close friend after all thats happened.
its not weakness, its just your own bias leaking though in judgement of the character rather then seeing the act of what he did. And thats pretty annoying and weak itself.