Is the female Draenei depiction in-game insulting?

[dope_danny]

Both dranei and blood elf females are a little too different to the art for my tastes. The dreanei, being eredar, have this sort of 'regal' look to them in art but in game they look like something from ratchett and clank. Then you have the blood elf women that in art have figures like lara croft, curvy but athletic, but in game have the figure of a crack ridden celebutard.

I dont think they are over the top and 'insulting', but they are certainly a "first expansion" level design that really kind of blows when you see modern models and stuff that actually looks like the artwork.

[achromatickang]

When I think of Demoness I think of a sexy, seductive Succubus type of chick. I've never envisioned female demons differently, but to each their own. Realistically I don't think Draenei's even existed in lore prior to their existence in the game. I don't recall reading about them, or seeing artwork of them prior to The Burning Crusade, so if anything it's the Artist's renditions of them which are not accurate.

[Deleted]

They're a digusting manifestation of Male Gaze in the media, and a slap in the face of feminism. I make it a point never to group with any female dranei.

Not sure if serious? Never heard a man say he won't group with male characters because they make males look good to women. Such insecurity we only hear from women, it's kinda poisonous hysterical running in circles mentality, women are really the worst enemy of women.

they are supposed to look more demonic, because that's their whole theme. They should look no different from the man'ari eredar, except for fel eyes and a red skin.

No, ingame they look just right, the size of your horns look out of place. When creatures get hit by fel energies they change appearance and some things grow n loook more aggressive...like red orcs with huge teeth. Also, your tails look too big. They need to be visually different than common demonic creatures, even though they have similar features, otherwise they won't look like good guys that they are. So that's why they are scaled down.

[Austilias]

Absolutely not; incomprehensible as it is to the internet's resident band of motley feminists/SJWs that a female can be sexy and effeminate, shock horror. I wonder if Blizzard implemented Troggs as a race, with all their "natural beauty", if these people would be happy. That said, OP's avatar is a Night Elf female; a mere stone's throw away from Draenei females. If they were serious, they'd be playing a Dwarf/Worgen female or something equally...err...respectful to females.

[Yarathir]

No, ingame they look just right, the size of your horns look out of place. When creatures get hit by fel energies they change appearance and some things grow n loook more aggressive...like red orcs with huge teeth. Also, your tails look too big. They need to be visually different than common demonic creatures, even though they have similar features, otherwise they won't look like good guys that they are. So that's why they are scaled down.

No, draenei had these demonic-seeming features even when still Eredar of Argus (non-man'ari Eredar) so the artwork is in fact the more legit one. The only difference between man'ari eredar and draenei is the skin color and eyecolor. (possibly red skin and fel green eyes)

[KIRSTYBELLE]

Socialise more, get out of the house and play less video games...its clouding and warping your perception of things..lol

[razorfire]

I agree, the portrayal of female draenei in this game is insulting...so is the portrayal of male draenei... this is largely because if not for a massive retcon that went as far as to change the cause of sargeras turning evil THE ONLY DRAENEI WOULD BE THE BROKEN!!!! they had no LINK to eredar until blizz couldn't think of a race that would make sense for alliance back in BC, they had no real reason to be anything more than the (admittedly deformed looking) draenei you saw from WC3 frozen throne until BC and now there's complaints that they aren't pretty in the right way? be glad they aren't flat chested with faces that look like they've been flattened by a steamroller. that said, no offense meant but it's a fantasy game which (USUALLY) avoids the "the less it covers the more it protects" tradition of the genre...as portraying female characters goes it could be much worse.

[kosridge]

I'm neither of those however I don't really feel the races are quite portrayed the same in artwork as they are in-game, especially the older ones. Most of the in-game models are old, perhaps the new models (whenever they arrive) might be more like the artwork.

I wonder though if they will include the BC races in the new race models they are doing. I definitely can see them saying that they are only going to redo the vanilla races models. I really hope they do update both blood elf and draenei as they are both some of my favorite races in game.

[Airwaves]

In-game is a sultry, horny little goat with the perfect female body, from big breasts and a very small tail that looks nothing like as it should.

I think you may need to take a break from rule 34 warcraft art.

[Yarathir]

I wonder though if they will include the BC races in the new race models they are doing. I definitely can see them saying that they are only going to redo the vanilla races models. I really hope they do update both blood elf and draenei as they are both some of my favorite races in game.

They have already said they will include the TBC races in the update. Only Pandaren, goblins and worgen won't get an update. Funny enough, goblin and pandaren models will be the most outdated after that, with way less bones in the face.



Sadly, the model updates won't mean anything to those who want a better depiction in game. Blizzard has said they want to retain the feel of the old model. Giving it different, more exotic faces, horns and longer tails would sadly, be too big of a change, I feel. Besides, too many people who want 100% prettyraces.

[K i s u]

The majority of art designs and lore are off from what we get in-game as far as playable races are, It's a shame in some cases but I've decided not to be too nit picky.

[Yarathir]

The majority of art designs and lore are off from what we get in-game as far as playable races are.

True, but it's still pretty jarring that they would give us an alien race, just to make it seems like a pretty azerothian race cosplaying like an alien. It's not insulting or anything, and I won't talk about it being misogynistic, because that's silly.


But it is disappointing to me.

[Resentful]

Dayum OP being doing that rule 34 shit or that goldshire moonguard thing? I'm just asking a question!

[Tiago]

I remember a waggle appreciation thread back in Cata.

Where did it go?

[Arrashi]

Given the fact that they look like watered down ripoff of daemonettes from warhammer i wouldnt consider this deciption insulting at all.

[Deleted]

I could get behind a model that looked like this, she looks alot more fierce while still keeping some of the allure the Draenei already have. I really like that the face is not just cutesy and looks more like the male ones.

Yeah well some of us like females not having manfaces.

Draenei didn't exist in lore until BC... so how is the depiction in game (their introduction) insulting?

they were there in warcraft 3, they just were really ugly

[Yarathir]

Yeah well some of us like females not having manfaces.

they were there in warcraft 3, they just were really ugly

Manfaces? That -has- to be exaggeration. Just because they don't have animu babyfaces doesn't mean they have manfaces. ._.

[Aleksej89]

Soon old races will get new looks, so it might be better.

[Deleted]

Manfaces? That -has- to be exaggeration. Just because they don't have animu babyfaces doesn't mean they have manfaces. ._.

Well it looks like that guy wants female draenei to have manfaces

[Whiskra]

Draenei female are fine.

Except for the awkward way they wear shoulderpads on.