The OP might have used the wrong term to describe what devs are doing, but anybody with any Warcraft or WOW experience can see it is ugly and sweeping loads of stuff under the rug.
No, you're wrong.
When you start, after the starting zone, you get thrust into BfA, the story about the Alliance versus Horde war, with a sleazy and lazy attempt at removing any of the motivation behind starting the war (such as a genocide) removed from it. This is pretty much a textbook case of moral whitewashing.
If they wanted to make the Horde follow a better path, they do that after BfA. They don't brush BfA under the rug and retroactively paint them as goodie two shoes.
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Nah. It's not the wrong term.
Moral whitewashing is a thing, no matter how many people here clutch their pearls over it. Otherwise, yes, you are right.
These new intro lines are beyond disgusting on so many level. Its incredibly sad and hilarious at the same what is happening to the WoW story.
@ Jinpachi
Who cares about one of the worst and most idiotic character arcs in the whole franchise. Its not a good or even half decent basis for anything. Bad isn't the proper word for describing Saurfangs story arc.
Yeah, it's all done to homogenize the races as much as possible to give them less work to do in all ongoing stories since if everyone wants to save the world for identical reasons and is just a palette/gender/height swap you only need to write for one situation.
We've reached the endgame - me and Trassk are actually in agreement about Forsaken and Horde.
Dickmann's Law: As a discussion on the Lore forums becomes longer, the probability of the topic derailing to become about Sylvanas approaches 1.
Tinkers will be the next Class confirmed.
In fairness to Blizzard though, you won't get many new players choosing the Horde if their past deeds were clearly exposed during the intro (unless the player is a sadist, psychopath or sociopath.)
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I mean, I know Blizzard had quite a shock and hastily scrambled to brush this whole war thing under the rug fairly shortly after 8.1 because they realized writing a war requires a lot more than just le epic marvel cinematic universe yass kween moments and that you can't just throw atrocities left and right for shock value and then act like they never happened when you have to deal with the ramifications of them, but I didn't know it was this bad.
You learn something new everyday.
Even though your term of whitewashing is completely and utterly, horribly, wrongly used, I know what you are trying to imply.
The issue is, the only ones that don’t make sense are the Forsaken. Not sure why Blizzard would put them as “protectors of humanity” while leaving quests in showing they have fields of humans planted like crops. Hell, they still have a racial called Cannibalize.
I really hope not. It’s putting an Alliance aligned character in charge of a Horde race. I can see a lot of hatred over something like that happening.
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What do you mean? 3rd time Orcs description was changed or 3rd time a variation for it has been used?
The Orc one is pretty straightforward as they did arrive on Azeroth (albeit slaves of the Legion) and are now just trying to live there instead of return to their dying world.
That is just udder nonsense!
On topic though, I don't like it either. While I don't want the Horde to be just pure evil and villains, being heroic protectors is more the Alliances thing. Horde should be anti-heroes like they've always been, often using questionable methods.
Yet another reason I happily dropped BfA for Classic.
Sorry, still suggests they might not hold ice cream socials and charity bingo to raise money to save lost puppies. The memo clearly states the Horde has no past wrongdoing. You aren't contradicting the Party's stance on the Horde, are you, citizen?"For years, the forsaken, raised into undeath by necromantic magics, originally controlled by the lich king, then later lead by the maniacal sylvanas windrunner, before her betrayal of the horde. Now leaderless, the forsaken must find their own path in a world that fears them, carving out their own destiny"
Why no, people don't just like Sylvie for T&A: https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads...ery-Cinematic/
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Well at this point they've gutted every bit of the origins of this game. Makes me sad to see all the old lore and flavor thrown away in favor of this SJW garbage; because that's what it is. The game was always a parody of something. It used to be Warhammer, now it's kind of a scary parody of the same kind of homogenization being forced down people's throats in real life. Race, culture, heritage, faith, gender, etc lose their meaning and you're left with a boring generalized concept of "good guys" vs "bad guys", with the concept of "bad guys" being anyone who doesn't go along with whatever the "good guys" are trying to accomplish.
I have had my ups and downs with this game for years, but thankfully it's only a video game and I don't really care that much. It kind of gives me the same feeling of the Marvel movies. Loved it at first, but by the time they got to Endgame I didn't care that much, and whatever else they have coming out in the future just doesn't interest me in the slightest for many of the same reasons.
I don't think people, atleast new players would pick horde to play different colored humans. Because thats what this looks like.