Will they rename Alexstrasza for Dragonflight?

[ZazuuPriest]

A screenshot of the Warcraft 2 manual PDF:



And here's a link to the PDF itself.

oh ok youre one of those people who cant detect obvious sarcasm. 10/10 wouldn't trust you to get me 4 quarters for a dollar

[Zyky]

She's still called Alexstrasza in HoTS and Hearthstone, along with still having that name in WoW months after the dirt was released. Blizz renamed a pretty unknown Alliance named after Afrasiabi almost immediately. They did not do that to Alexstrasza despite being a far more popular npc.

And as those above me have stated, Alexstrasza was created before Afrasiabi joined blizz.

It wasn't "almost immediately". It was a year and a half later when shit went public about him being a predator. It was a PR scam to save face with consumers, which you obviously fell for.

[SinR]

Got some nice bites there OP.

Too bad you can't celebrate your victory

[Iain]

She's got to be in a boss fight where she's fighting on the player's side and provides all the Heroes of the Storm moves. Starting in human form, players have to be moving into her healing circles, players aligning mobs to her flame buffet and by doing so speeding up her Dragonqueen cooldown. The players can't just play efficiently because they have to turn her into a dragon for high intensity phases.

Seriously, her entire HotS kit works as an amazing allied boss fight.

[ReleaseDay]

What did Afrasiabi do to be memory holed? I havent played since SL launch so haven't kept up with much news either

The only thing that should be cancelled is retarded cancel "culture".

Agreed.

[Ausr]

Better rename every character that shares the same letter in Alex Afrasiabi's name. There might be overlaps.

[Auburst]

Yeah. They will call her Bowlstrasza.

[Romanthony]

???????

Alexstrasza has nothing to do with Alex Afrasiabi. Are you confusing her with Lord Afrastrasz? He was already renamed.

^ this,

Just because she has Alex in her name doesnt mean she has anything to do with the dude, she has been in the lore for a very long time, well before Afrasiabi

[Varolyn]

It wasn't "almost immediately". It was a year and a half later when shit went public about him being a predator. It was a PR scam to save face with consumers, which you obviously fell for.

Well I was un-subbed from wow for nearly all of 2021, and only came back very recently, so no, I don't think I fell for anything. He's a creep, and deserves punishment. He was axed from blizz a year prior, which is true, but you failed to read that I said the name changes occurred after the dirt was released, which is what happened. I do not view Blizz in a more positive light for doing all they did to make amends, so you're reply just comes across as a pretentious attempt to be snarky.

[Lochton]

We really need this thread closed. It is a bait thread of uninformed proportions.

[Zyky]

Well I was un-subbed from wow for nearly all of 2021, and only came back very recently, so no, I don't think I fell for anything. He's a creep, and deserves punishment. He was axed from blizz a year prior, which is true, but you failed to read that I said the name changes occurred after the dirt was released, which is what happened. I do not view Blizz in a more positive light for doing all they did to make amends, so you're reply just comes across as a pretentious attempt to be snarky.

When you're peddling the false narrative, saying they did it "almost immediately" that means you fell for it.

[ercarp]

We really need this thread closed. It is a bait thread of uninformed proportions.

Agreed. This entire thread is based on something that is verifiably not true. Several comments have offered evidence that Alexstrasza is not the namesake of Afrasiabi, and therefore there's no reason to change her name. Case closed. No idea why people are bickering in here about something irrelevant.

[Varolyn]

When you're peddling the false narrative, saying they did it "almost immediately" that means you fell for it.

Are you dense? I literally said the name changes occurred after the dirt was released i.e., when a majority of the public learned what Afrasiabi did after the lawsuit was revealed. Most people did not know the full details as to why Afrasiabi was fired, but when the lawsuit was made public, and people learned, Blizz panicked to change the names of all of these items, npcs, etc. to try to save some face.

I guess Blizz tried to protect Afrasiabi for a year after he got fired. But when the details were revealed in the lawsuit, they reacted right away after that revelation to try to save some little goodwill they had.

[xskarma]

Since this thread was started on a bad argument, closing this here, before it gets off topic.


CLOSED.