Just remembered, Rob Pardo designed a card for the Magic: The Gathering 2015, any chance he might be following another passion now?
Just remembered, Rob Pardo designed a card for the Magic: The Gathering 2015, any chance he might be following another passion now?
I love comments like this.
So because your world has been normalized for people like you, you see no reason to normalize it for other people. Amazing.
Let me guess - you don't care about the lack of representation of non-white people too? rofl...
Please don't pretend to be an ally if you aren't one. That's just half-assing it. If you don't know what the big deal is, do some research and employ some empathy. You don't know how life is for people who are not yourself.
IDK I've been trying to figure this one out because I want to understand what the problem is:
Characters can't have sex in wow, other than via ERP and that's not limited to... anything really. So it's not that.
Yeah, the women in wow are attractive but I assume the men are too? They're certainly buff. Is it the difference in armor that's the problem? Maybe that's it.
Or is it that few if any NPCs are openly gay? I mean, they aren't openly straight either, but maybe everybody just assumes they are? Who can tell whether the Innkeeper is straight or gay? The cook in the Inn? The stable master? Heck I don't know, but maybe it's a problem?
Star Trek (for example) is famous for pushing controversial topics on society, and maybe people think WoW and/or video games in general should be too?
All I do know is that I don't buy or play games that beat me over the head with anything - anything at all - because my entertainment money is for just that - my entertainment. I also don't see movies with messages, normally. Same reason. I'll watch 'em on Netflix streaming but I won't go out of my way to have a DVD of them sent to me and I certainly won't see them in theaters. Your message may be important and that's fine, but you should then be spending your money to share your message with me, vs. me spending my money in order to receive your message from you.
I will ask my gay friends their point of view on this but even then it's not like a few people represent 15% of the population. Still, it'll be interesting.
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Ah! You've rendered my previous comment moot by explaining the problem! Thank you!
Exactly, oversee. Which means appointing the people who will actually be designing the game, further coming down to the judgment of the person. Similarly Todd Howard doesn't do the nuts and bolts programming when coding Elder Scrolls games anymore (used to during Morrowind), but Skyrim is effectively his vision and wouldn't have been the success that it is had he selected the wrong people.
Rob Pardo actually apologised for selecting Jay Wilson (who later resigned) to head the design team for Diablo 3 given he was the executive producer of the project, hence his name being associated with the outcome of the game.
Logic... reason... I agree though find your own thing, do it and if you aren't happy find what makes you happy.
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-Raises hand.- I'm not really on the side of forcing sexuality on characters... The main story characters often are heterosexual buuut the amount of fucks this gay guy gives is about.. 0. It is a game, a story, and honestly I feel happy just playing as I do.
Oh rly? Care to provide any type of source as to how you can say Chris Metzen, creative director is suddenly the Marketing Producer on Wow? Do you honestly believe Blizzard is lead by like 3 people that does everything from game design, story telling, marketing, sells, art direction, music direction, project coordination, production management.
You have no clue how a game studio like Blizzard runs.
What more probable is that the marketing team which came out with the idea of the choppers decided to use the most recognizable faces at Blizz, which are Sam and Chris.
If you think Chris Metzen spend his worj time finding new business strategy to make more money instead of making a good game. Youcare just wrong.
As for the topic: I think that whatever really happened, it's a huge hit to Blizz future success.
I disagree. A CCOs vision matters, but it's ultimately a collaborative position. It's also potentially beneficial to shake up a creative culture every now and then.
All because they can't just make a character like anyone else and learn how to RP. As far as the wow story containing lgbt characters they do exist. Not to mention whatever hero you created is part of the main story. So if you are one of the types that uses your hero to put yourself into the game then your hero would be portrayed as gay? Really childish to want to molest a developer because you lack imagination.http://borderhouseblog.com/?p=2896
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RIOT: please hire this guy immediately.
I don't believe for a second that he doesn't know what he's doing next, he totally has an exit strategy and a new job lined up.
This news has shocked me. It's amazing how many people have answered and seem blasé about this, this IS the biggest departure from Wow since its start and it's a very very bad sign. This guy was a large part of the game's inception and was part of the heights this game reached when it was actually good. You can't replace people like that. It's like having a hit book or series of books, then someone else comes in and tries to write more but it's not the same. Last two expansions have felt like that though, it's just not the same.
Also, it's staggering how many people don't understand the meaning of hyperbole. And then you have people agreeing with the people that don't understand its meaning. No wonder this site has such a bad reputation.
Sad to see him go, I had high hopes seeing him back on the team for WOD after how lacking some of the expansions he hadn't worked on felt compared to those he had.
Are they?
I'm not super into the lore, but as far as I'm aware there's not THAT many characters that are explicitly hetero, you have Thrall with a kid, but for the most part characters seem relatively asexual in their activities.
Which is probably how I like it.
I really don't care what 99% of lore characters do in their bedroom and they can keep their sex life to themselves - it rarely, if ever, seems to make for interesting story telling and in a game with regular activities being saving the world from old gods or world ending dragons, your sexual orientation seems pretty minor and not something I was a player want to have thrust at me by the story, it's petty in scope.
Me too.
Contrary to cheesy US movies, when your life and world is on the line, sexuality is (or rather should be) one of the last things in your mind.
Humping the queen comes AFTER you save the world and since in Warcraft a new menace arises instantly whenever you've put one down, that poor queen will have to exercise a lot of patience.
Chris and Samwise were chosen to be part of that because they're faces fans recognize. I'm pretty sure the Blizzard Marketing department came up with the Chopper idea and Chris and Sam were roped into it.
I'm sorry, but I work right next to Marketing folks and I overhear most of their projects and initiatives. The minute I saw the Chopper thing, it smacked of a marketing push.
A Farewell to Pre-Cataclysm Azeroth (video)
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdlhcVG2p7M
WCM: http://www.warcraftmovies.com/movieview.php?id=168677