Originally Posted by
Claymore
It is absolutely devastating to see Blizzard pursuing this new double-dipping model. They're killing the entire appeal of video-games for me; to me, video-games present you with a new world, totally removed from the real one, giving you an opportunity to exercise your own work-ethic and willingness to overcome adversity, regardless of real-life circumstances. With this, they're basically saying "People with money get to have it better than anyone else, even in your 'Fantasy' world". It's such a betrayal, I genuinely hope somebody at Blizzard wakes up and stops this, because of this hits live, then I'm officially done with Blizzard and all its franchises.
Also, I get that Ghostcrawler is a gameplay designer, and probably doesn't value story nearly as much as other staff. However, it does seem odd how readily he seems to belittle the notion of having gameplay service Lore, even just on rare occasion. There is absolutely no reason that Gilneas and Ashenvale couldn't be moved back under the Alliance's banner, but he seems to almost scoff at the notion, as though it's not even worthy of consideration.