Story and Lore Developer Live Stream

[Amaterasu65]

They could have easily talked about some stuff in Azshara patch. Teasing etc... I don't understand anymore. Why don't they want us to love the game?

[Sanguinerd]

First people cry Blizzard is showing no passion, now we see two people actually showing passion and talking with glee about what they do and people complain about that..



I do wonder why they had us submit questions though.. oh well.

[RangerDaz]

The team hopes that when Battle for Azeroth's story concludes and the "last funeral pyre is lit" players will have seen it as a great story that changed the world of Azeroth

Ill be waiting to see if this comes true lol... or if it just becomes another lore disappointment

[Nathasil]

The team hopes that when Battle for Azeroth's story concludes and the "last funeral pyre is lit" players will have seen it as a great story that changed the world of Azeroth

Ill be waiting to see if this comes true lol... or if it just becomes another lore disappointment

Especially when you consider these are the same guys who built up Grommash as a genocidal ass in WoD, just to brush his ENTIRE story to the side and let him join the good guys in the end with no repercussions for ANYTHING he did.

Going by that we will probably fight Sira+Delaryn as the final Boss of BFA, Sylvanas is on our side and the final scene is her asking to the camera: "How could any of this even happen...?"

[evaline]

[blizzquote]I've shown the proof, like the Garrosh dying in the SOO and people still didn't believe me.

But Garrosh didn't die in SoO?

[Oneirophobia]

Especially when you consider these are the same guys who built up Grommash as a genocidal ass in WoD, just to brush his ENTIRE story to the side and let him join the good guys in the end with no repercussions for ANYTHING he did.

Going by that we will probably fight Sira+Delaryn as the final Boss of BFA, Sylvanas is on our side and the final scene is her asking to the camera: "How could any of this even happen...?"

I suppose Grommash eventually got what was coming to him, it just took the Draenei 30 some-odd years. They used the Orcs to help them rid Draenor of any demonic corruption, and then they turned on the Orcs. Not with genocide of course, the Draenei wouldn't lower themselves like the Orcs had, but with a choice: join or perish.

And so, some Orcs joined, but the majority perished. A sizable few escaped to Azeroth, but in time they will face justice. Grommash paid for his crimes and Yrel planted a hammer firmly in his forehead.

[Lady Velvet]

If the current in game story is the product of years or months of planning, then Blizzard is indeed pathetic and incompetent.

[Zandalariprelate]

What the fuck did I just watch?

[Arainie]

The verbal masturbation from these guys is sickening.

Thats how I feel about the MMOC whine.

[Gref]

Wasn't this supposed to be lore Q&A? Where is the lore? I don't even ... wth?

[Ophenia]

The war between the Horde and Alliance will culminate in something deep and meaningful.

Something deep and meaningful like, let's band together against the Old Gods ?

Nobody believes the lore is written "months" in advance though. Kargath's death back in WoD is something that appeared after the Raid Testing, so at best, weeks

[Cavox]

If the current in game story is the product of years or months of planning, then Blizzard is indeed pathetic and incompetent.

This.
They're either:
1) Lying
2) Incompetent

Also I love the Blizzard Defense Force™ in this thread, like there's something to actually defend. This shit is pathetic, go play some other games and see some quality that's long gone from WoW. Stop being blind fanboys of a company that does NOT give a shit about you.

[Danuel]

The war between the Horde and Alliance will culminate in something deep and meaningful

Nah. It won't happen.

[Eazy]

What are you referring to?

But Garrosh didn't die in SoO?

They said that Garrosh is going to die in SoO, but that didn't happen. (interview in chinese Q&A or something like that, it's official because it was from the people from Blizzard, it's on youtube)

My speculation: they knew MoP was a good expansion, so they used a filler one(WoD) to prolong the game.

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Found it!

[Emerelle]

There are no black eyes. Just one Skin-Colour including black eyes. There are also no golden eyes, just a few (i guess, since i don't play h*rde) Skin-Colours including golden eyes. Looks als lazy as Tatoos worked into Skin-Colours for some allied races. I'm disappointed.

[RangerDaz]

The Process
The in game story is planned out months and sometimes years in advance.
Cinematics have always functioned as an important point in a story in Blizzard games' history, and it started with the Wrathgate in WoW.
The game can create good ambient story, but cinematics shine in telling the more emotional story points.

Cinematics, music and art design are currently the only top-notch stuff of the game. Please Blizzard, don't let these people go, they are awesome. (I don't feel the same way about Ion LOL)

Customization
The night warrior customization was a way for players to support Tyrande's transformation and vengeance for Teldrassil.
Golden eyed Blood Elves was a story choice to represent the light's role in the cleansing of the Sunwell.

I love new costumizations, which is probably one of the few things they did well in Battle for Azeroth.
My Night Elf druid as gone full Elune, while my Blood Elf priest has infused itself in the Sunwell's light.

Love the racial heritages as well! I wish getting the heritages from allied races wasn't such a pain in the a%$& to acquire... They should be acquired like the Dwarf and Blood Elf ones are today.


PS: I won't forget your promise about the Grand Finale for Battle for Azeroth ... but i'm sure i'll be disappointed again lol

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Especially when you consider these are the same guys who built up Grommash as a genocidal ass in WoD, just to brush his ENTIRE story to the side and let him join the good guys in the end with no repercussions for ANYTHING he did.

Going by that we will probably fight Sira+Delaryn as the final Boss of BFA, Sylvanas is on our side and the final scene is her asking to the camera: "How could any of this even happen...?"

What they did to Grommash in WoD was cringy as hell.
The best thing they should have done was let him die an honorable death and let Durotan lead the newly united Iron Horde in peace with the Draenei.
(Why did they even kill Durotan in the new Mag'har storyline??)

[Amnaught]

So no actual explanations for anything in the lore, then? At all? Sira says ingame "Now is not the time for those discussions" in regards to why any forsaken night elves would side with their murderers. When the fuck is it time? This story makes no sense and if it's just left like that then I think I'm done.

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You jelly because you don't get it?

Let's be real -- do you?

There are tons of unanswered questions in the game right now that look like they'll never actually be answered because "it's not part of the story we want to tell", and this is the perfect excuse for any clarification at all on those fronts. And it's not happening, because they'd rather circlejerk on how "awesome" the story is right now. It's not, it's bullshit.

[FuxieDK]

"Talanji is an example of freshly introduced character that turned out well" :^)

That remains to be seen, if she follows her father's path, or if she also turn traitor..

[pfbe]

The team wanted to let the player have some agency in the direction of the Horde and not just watching it develop.

... wasn't it the players who wanted and requested it?

[Eggroll]

[I][U]

I love new costumizations, which is probably one of the few things they did well in Battle for Azeroth.
My Night Elf druid as gone full Elune, while my Blood Elf priest has infused itself in the Sunwell's light.

Seriously, your kin is genocided, your capital destroyed and you are content with some cosmetic crap as "vengeance"? You gotta be kidding me, right?

The only retribution acceptable for the slaughter of the nelves and the destruction of Darnassus is Sylvanas and her toyboy getting skinned alive, tortured, chopped up, impaled and their intestines hanged on the gates of New Darnassus. THAT would be vengeance. Everything else is just another insult for the nelves.