The War Within 11.X Patches & World Soul Saga Speculation Thread

[Sondrelk]

I'd love for them to do Pride on June but so many people will LOSE IT if they do.

Possibly. But better to rip the bandaid off than let the bigots dictate stuff like this. Pride month is a big part of summer, and it would be nice to have it shown in WoW somehow.

[Nymrohd]

Actually looking forward to the new Noblegarden events btw. I hope the new boss can conjure a swarm of ducklings that "stampede" over us.

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Think of It as a New Game + feature. Could throw some achievements and rewards for doing it and that is It.

More important, I think that it could be a step to account-wide quests. If I have completed something with one character It should be completed with all my characters. Want to replay those quests with a new character? There you have Chromie time for max level characters.

This is one of the things that keeps me from switching mains. My main has literally done every single quest in WoW. If I see a quest, I have to do it. When I pop in an alt and see all those quests it just makes that character feel less grounded in the world because they haven't been there! But that's my struggle

[Worldshaper]

I'm all for LGBTQ rights, but I still hope they don't put Pride month in WoW. I see it more like an important example of activism rather than a holiday in the traditional sense. Would break my immersion too much. Next we'd have people campaigning to get all sorts of causes represented in the game.

[Nymrohd]

I'm all for LGBTQ rights, but I still hope they don't put Pride month in WoW. I see it more like an important example of activism rather than a holiday in the traditional sense. Would break my immersion too much. Next we'd have people campaigning to get all sorts of causes represented in the game.

Pride is completely commercialized these days anyway.
And the game has a Thanksgiving holiday, that is as immersion breaking as it gets

[Reive]

They should keep these topics out of the game.

[Cheezits]

I noticed on the new Noblegarden post that the duck model is flying like a flight form/dream owl, did they always do that?



Maybe a new duck flight form?

[Ersula]

Pride is completely commercialized these days anyway.
And the game has a Thanksgiving holiday, that is as immersion breaking as it gets

Pride Month is already a WoW Holiday. It's called Midsummer Fire Festival. The Stonewall anniversary in its exact middlepoint.

[Nymrohd]

Pride Month is already a WoW Holiday. It's called Midsummer Fire Festival. The Stonewall anniversary in its exact middlepoint.

Oh I never thought of it like that!

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Btw do you all think we'll get anything beyond fake patch notes today?

[Explicit Teemo Nudes]

I'm gay and don't want a Pride holiday in WoW. Not only does it represent some gay people really poorly(as in not at all), but I also want more fantasy and less real life in WoW.

[Nymrohd]

I'm gay and don't want a Pride holiday in WoW. Not only does it represent some gay people really poorly(as in not at all), but I also want more fantasy and less real life in WoW.

To this I'll say that Pride takes many forms (and there is a big difference between big city pride parades and the usual images from Folsom people use against us)

[Civciv]

I'm gay and don't want a Pride holiday in WoW. Not only does it represent some gay people really poorly(as in not at all), but I also want more fantasy and less real life in WoW.

So you're saying gay people can't exist in fantasies? are you sure you are gay and not homophobic?

[Nymrohd]

So you're saying gay people can't exist in fantasies?

Sure but would they need pride events? I hope they would not because they would be accepted. Pride is a response to discrimination.

[Civciv]

I'd love for them to do Pride on June but so many people will LOSE IT if they do.

So like you want it or not?

[justwatching]

So you're saying gay people can't exist in fantasies? are you sure you are gay and not homophobic?

You really just didn't understand his point at all and proceeded to immediately accuse him of (self) hatred. Congrats.

Anyway events tied to IRL celebrations always felt out of place. I dont think theyll ever do a new holiday as its already pretty packed and some of them are still pretty outdated but if they do it should be one that is actually tied to something that happened in the warcraft universe.

[SilverLion]

I'm gay and don't want a Pride holiday in WoW. Not only does it represent some gay people really poorly(as in not at all), but I also want more fantasy and less real life in WoW.

I'm a gay person and I do want a pride holiday in WoW. Because the idea of it being immersive died years ago, so if I'm going to hang with my queer friends I'd love to have some pets or transmog or some repeatable goofy holiday content. Funny how opinions work huh?

[Lahis]

Pride Month is already a WoW Holiday. It's called Midsummer Fire Festival. The Stonewall anniversary in its exact middlepoint.

Only thing Midsummer and Pride have in common is that they both are in June.

[Usagi Senshi]

I'm a gay person and I do want a pride holiday in WoW. Because the idea of it being immersive died years ago, so if I'm going to hang with my queer friends I'd love to have some pets or transmog or some repeatable goofy holiday content. Funny how opinions work huh?

I'm not gay and I'm pretty alright with that idea. Give us some more Rainbow Generator style fun toys too along with an Elton John Captain Fantastic (pretty sure we can easily create that in game already, lol) transmog or something.

[Darkarath]

Yeah I do not see why we cannot have a Pride event in WoW at this point. Immersion died in this game many years ago. Specifically in the Uldum questline, what a joke.

And even if WoW were still treating its own lore and world with respect, I think that they could still do a Pride event properly linked to the game.

[Raetary]

I would love to see Pride in wow!

But given wows playerbase scews older and conservative, idk whether the shitstorm and harassment that comes with it would be worth it.

[Worldshaper]

I think (most) of the old holidays work fine. Because you could argue there's something universal about Christmas, for example. Pagans celebrated the winter solstice long before there were Christmas trees and presents.

You could see things like that and a celebration of the summer solstice, or a harvest festival, as something very universal in human culture. That also means it'd make sense in a fantasy setting that draws inspiration from our shared history.

That said, I'm all for the implementation of new holidays that seem even more natural on Azeroth.