Several emotes removed in recent PTR build

[Hastis]

new expansion leak world of warcraft wrath of the censorship
New features:
-Female heads now are replaced with random fruits which you can change at barber
-No emotes cuz something can hurt other ppl feelings
-Deathwing name is changed to Lifewing cuz death is too cruel to read
-No more blackwings now they are named as blockwings
-Lvl reduced to 1 cuz someone can be upset if his lvl is lower than other players
-Chat is disabled because something can hurt other guys
-Every enemy has 1health to kill toxicty in m+ raids if someone is dealing less dmg than everyone in group
-Every enemy who has bones or blood are changed to fluffy birds with flowers on head
-Undead has now animal costume on themselfs
-No more pvp because everyone should love each other
-Achivements are now server wide that means if someone earned achivment everyone on the server got it to make everyone equal
-No new areas now we are gathering woods, mine ore, pick flowers to rebuild world after cata

[thottstation]

Gnomes look like adults

Using old man gnomes as your example is transparant.

Have some official Blizzard™ artwork.







Bertie. Adult gnome, former Gnomeregan soldier. [Wowpedia]

[Razorice]

I'm not getting the outcry.

Like, literally they could remove all emotes and it wouldn't affect the game-play in any way.

[Delever]

I'm not getting the outcry.

Like, literally they could remove all emotes and it wouldn't affect the game-play in any way.

Its not so much the effect but the reason and what this entails for the future of the game and to a greater extent narrative choices. They ve been making nonsensical changes back to back and a lot of them are so beyond over the top that its becoming hard to distinguish parody from reality.
While these seem harmless in the current context you have to think that the future of the game and its narrative is now restricted around these "new" values which involve absurd puritanism and censorship. This will ultimately lead to a soulless product with no flavor.

[thottstation]

Which someone could find me the quote that Blizzard made those particularly to appeal to women.

It was from The WoW Diary: A Journal of Computer Game Development by original WoW designer John Staats. According to market research, player's girlfriends wanted a "non-creepy femme race" to play Horde-side.

Many years later, nothing's changed:



Dead last: Kul Tiran.

I wonder why...

[Akka]

They seem to put more efforts in pointlessly sanitizing the game than actually fixing bugs. Pretty sad to see them bothering to implement such meaningless changes, while we still have bugs on Classic that were signaled in the beta, over two years ago.

[Ihavewaffles]

Using old man gnomes as your example is transparant.

Have some official Blizzard™ artwork.







Bertie. Adult gnome, former Gnomeregan soldier. [Wowpedia]

U mean official hearthstone, not wow art? Yes they are adults, hell they look like what passes as adults now

*looks over at purple haired millenials*

Sure gnomes r immature, but they don't look like toddlers like ff14 lanafels..from ur pictures more like teen/early adult (or 30 year old millenial)

new expansion leak world of warcraft wrath of the censorship
New features:
-Female heads now are replaced with random fruits which you can change at barber
-No emotes cuz something can hurt other ppl feelings
-Deathwing name is changed to Lifewing cuz death is too cruel to read
-No more blackwings now they are named as blockwings
-Lvl reduced to 1 cuz someone can be upset if his lvl is lower than other players
-Chat is disabled because something can hurt other guys
-Every enemy has 1health to kill toxicty in m+ raids if someone is dealing less dmg than everyone in group
-Every enemy who has bones or blood are changed to fluffy birds with flowers on head
-Undead has now animal costume on themselfs
-No more pvp because everyone should love each other
-Achivements are now server wide that means if someone earned achivment everyone on the server got it to make everyone equal
-No new areas now we are gathering woods, mine ore, pick flowers to rebuild world after cata

I lol'd

[Delever]

U mean official hearthstone, not wow art? Yes they are adults, hell they look like what passes as adults now

*looks over at purple haired millenials*

Sure gnomes r immature, but they don't look like toddlers like ff14 lanafels..from ur pictures more like teen/early adult (or 30 year old millenial)

Looks like a child to me bro.

[LordVargK]

Looks like a child to me bro.

It doesn't look realistic. Neither look like an adult, nor a child. WoW characters are more realistic than that, the artstyle is completely different.

Does the Orc in picture 3 look adult to you? If yes, what age would you assign him?

OT:
It's not like I ever use emotes. Still, removing something to inhibit player interaction is always bad. I won't say this will break an MMO, but Blizzard will not change the players by changing the game. Removing something is never good.

[Delever]

It doesn't look realistic. Neither like an adult, nor a child. WoW characters are more realistic than that, the artstyle is completely different.

Does the Orc in picture 3 look adult to you? If yes, what age would you assign him?

he doesnt look realistic but he doesnt look like a child. He looks like a caricature of a young adult orc.

[Frolk]

How long till they redo character models, quests and dungeon/raids to remove "problematic" parts?

This is beyond dumb, and blaming the 50people in asmongolds chat who /spit on people with store mounts is even dumber.

[Xilurm]

new expansion leak world of warcraft wrath of the censorship
New features:
-Chat is disabled because something can hurt other guys

Actually believeable when you got people in Blizz that take days off because they were called trolls in chat.

[LordVargK]

he doesnt look realistic but he doesnt look like a child. He looks like a caricature of a young adult orc.

give him an age please and give the gnome an age. I think they are both pretty ageless, not children, not adult, not teen.
also I think you associate pixar movie kids with the gnome of the first picture. In the other pictures the gnome looks not as cartoony.

[thottstation]

blaming the 50people in asmongolds chat who /spit on people with store mounts is even dumber.

It baffles me that people both here and at Blizzard HQ hate Asmongold so much, they gave him power to change the game.


Imagine Asmongold sitting back and thinking "with a tweet, I changed the game."

And Blizzard saying "You only have that power because we gave it to you. Because we hate you."

It perplexes me.

[StillMcfuu]

Wows devs are a joke, they don't deserve your time or money.

[LordVargK]

Actually believeable when you got people in Blizz that take days off because they were called trolls in chat.

That has to be a fake.
But if that's the kind of staff working in Blizzard's QA, then we know why Blizzard hasn't released a popular game in years.

[Delever]

Actually believeable when you got people in Blizz that take days off because they were called trolls in chat.

Imagine being allowed to take a day off to recover from being called a troll. How are these people able to find jobs????

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give him an age please and give the gnome an age. I think they are both pretty ageless, not children, not adult, not teen.
also I think you associate pixar movie kids with the gnome of the first picture. In the other pictures the gnome looks not as cartoony.

Based on what I see there? I d say the gnome is like 10-14 and hes like 30ish.

[Varodoc]

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How did society become so weak and pathetic? I guess the saying is true:

"Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times"

[Orby]

You know by constantly forcing out toxicity in this way only creates toxic positivity in its place...

Actually believeable when you got people in Blizz that take days off because they were called trolls in chat.

As someone with mental health issues, I aint gonna judge her... she is most likely paraphrasing too so its probably more affecting that she is sharing.

[Delever]

You know by constantly forcing out toxicity in this way only creates toxic positivity in its place...



As someone with mental health issues, I aint gonna judge her... she is most likely paraphrasing too so its probably more affecting that she is sharing.

I am a person who struggles immensely with performance stress which has led me to seeing a therapist the past couple months and I will judge because this literally feels like a mockery to serious issues. How is someone allowed to take a day off to recover from being called a troll in general chat in a video game?