What if People could write books in game

[Mysterymask]

or some unholy combination of the two

Sooo Lovecraft?

[Cynical Asshole]

Nah. 99.9% of them would be trash, references to real world politics, porn, real world religious propaganda, and various musings.

You would need a team of GMs to read through all that crap, and then pay them psychotherapy bills. And Blizzard doesn't even want to hire a couple more GMs to watch the regular bot farming areas and ban bots.

[KOUNTERPARTS]

Nah. 99.9% of them would be trash, references to real world politics, porn, real world religious propaganda, and various musings.

You would need a team of GMs to read through all that crap, and then pay them psychotherapy bills. And Blizzard doesn't even want to hire a couple more GMs to watch the regular bot farming areas and ban bots.

Essentially this. As cynical it may sound (BAZINGA!) this feature would rife with the polar extremes. Whether it be positive or negative, because there would be so much trolling of the feature, Blizzard could not in good conscious keep it.

Now, hypothetically, they could implement this with some form of word censors, or sentence censors, or some sort of blacklist to prevent certain things being said... and in the end they just would end up be massively criticized for implementing a feature that is so heavily regulated... what is the point of it to begin with?

Not a can of worms I think Blizzard should invest it, lmao.

[Mysterymask]

Essentially this. As cynical it may sound (BAZINGA!) this feature would rife with the polar extremes. Whether it be positive or negative, because there would be so much trolling of the feature, Blizzard could not in good conscious keep it.

Now, hypothetically, they could implement this with some form of word censors, or sentence censors, or some sort of blacklist to prevent certain things being said... and in the end they just would end up be massively criticized for implementing a feature that is so heavily regulated... what is the point of it to begin with?

Not a can of worms I think Blizzard should invest it, lmao.

I mean even then...

Archive of Our Own exists.....has none of those blocks has a staff that's only job is to police (which they mostly enforce tags and with deadly efficiency) and doesn't require you to boot up a god damned game and offers a way better reading experience.

Hell his thing with leaving little messages I will say the souls series has a god damned M Rating, practically invented the system, and even they don't let you do fully custom messages

[mbit2]

There are RP addons where people write ERP books about themself... How do i know?
Once i was young and naive and visited goldshire with an rp addon before i knew what goldshire was about.

[Lolites]

Sooo Lovecraft?

i never read anything from him, so i wouldnt know
i do have one of his books (tomb?) but never got to it, how is it? compared to lets say LOTR

[Mysterymask]

i never read anything from him, so i wouldnt know
i do have one of his books (tomb?) but never got to it, how is it? compared to lets say LOTR

Well I haven't either it's more the unfortunate fact that most of the Cthullu mythos and greatest horror books were inspired by his crippling fear of black and Jewish people


So mind literally an unholy combination of 50 shades (mental torture) and Mein Kampf (blatant racism)

[Ghostile]

And Blizzard doesn't even want to hire a couple more GMs to watch the regular bot farming areas and ban bots.

It never ceases to amaze how people think this is a valid solution, lol.

[MrLachyG]

Dear Diary,

Today some fuckwit of a hunter pulled an extra 3 packs during a mythic plus so I had my entire guild report him.

[Sauredfangs]

Nah. 99.9% of them would be trash, references to real world politics, porn, real world religious propaganda, and various musings.

You would need a team of GMs to read through all that crap, and then pay them psychotherapy bills. And Blizzard doesn't even want to hire a couple more GMs to watch the regular bot farming areas and ban bots.

good point

Edit: Maybe the "invisible hand" would decide which book gets attention by what players promote. The shitty ones, or the negative one, wouldnt get as much attention cause players dont promote them.

[Relapses]

It never ceases to amaze how people think this is a valid solution, lol.

Monkey's paw:

>get your dream job at Blizzard
>you're paid $9/hr to sit in front of a PC and press the "delete bot" button once every ~25 seconds, eight hours a day

[Ghostile]

Monkey's paw:

>get your dream job at Blizzard
>you're paid $9/hr to sit in front of a PC and press the "delete bot" button once every ~25 seconds, eight hours a day

It would be worse.

Youd have to manually browse code to see if theres automation going on.

[Soon-TM]

Trade would be filled with books about some filthy things or straight porn fanfics about Tyrande's momma. No thank you.

Trade channel is already a disgrace, it cannot become any worse.