Datamined race intros shows Blizz set on whitewashing Horde.

[Varodoc]

https://twitter.com/SteveDanuser/sta...22932771086336



Danuser may have just got himself some fans with this.

What did he mean with "content not yet playable"? They want to update them in the future, maybe when Calia becomes leader of Forsaken or something?

[Nagawithlegs]

What did he mean with "content not yet playable"? They want to update them in the future, maybe when Calia becomes leader of Forsaken or something?

New Horde intro on the ship is not playable yet. Those lines are used in the scenario.

[omeomorfismo]

https://twitter.com/SteveDanuser/sta...22932771086336



Danuser may have just got himself some fans with this.

rotfl
maybe we can even dodge the calia bullet
but now sylvanas is doing even more meta narrative than before, im clinging to hope! xD

[Super Dickmann]

Don't disappoint me, Danuser. Your waifu is on the line. I want two shovel quests as an apology for this travesty.

Cheers fam

[Aucald]

What did he mean with "content not yet playable"? They want to update them in the future, maybe when Calia becomes leader of Forsaken or something?

Probably meant to be part and parcel of the flyover event, the intro before Exile's Reach and/or the starting choice. Most of that content is still NYI.

[omeomorfismo]

Don't disappoint me, Danuser. Your waifu is on the line. I want two shovel quests as an apology for this travesty.

Cheers fam

i would be happy even just with Ardenweald skippable. not even customized lines of dialogue, just ignore that druid stuff.

[Renedric]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitewashing_(censorship)

To his defense, that term nowadays has been used in the media to represent a whole different matter. Modern times use "whitewashing" as a term to describe appropriation and favoritism that benefits the caucasian race. He's not wrong here and neither is OP. It's a little clickbaity if you look at it from a modern standpoint.

[Ardenaso]

i would be happy even just with Ardenweald skippable. not even customized lines of dialogue, just ignore that druid stuff.

even Vol'jin's questlines there?

[Combatbutler]

even Vol'jin's questlines there?

So that blizz can elevate a character ,they killed off for no reason and chose to ignore for years on end, to a loa, who most likely will then be ignored again? I can see why people wouldn't want to bother with it. On another note I do hope they make the Tyrande Ardenweald Alliance specific, her working with horde characters is just too much.

[Quaade]

....How does this have ANYTHING to do with whitewashing?

Whitewashing is more than casting white actors in coloured roles. Whitewashing is also pretending that some historical events never happened. Such as the Panama Canal was built. What's whitewashed is the fact that many people died making it, it was a huge economic drain, mass displacement to have the room for making the Canal and that Roosevelt put immense pressure on Panama to make it build the canal so that the US would have little to no expenditure on an immense construction they stood to benefit from.

[HitRefresh]

To his defense, that term nowadays has been used in the media to represent a whole different matter. Modern times use "whitewashing" as a term to describe appropriation and favoritism that benefits the caucasian race. He's not wrong here and neither is OP. It's a little clickbaity if you look at it from a modern standpoint.

The media? You mean Twitter users

[Soon-TM]

I love how Blizz has the constant need to give the Horde an identity crisis.
Just let the Horde be the Horde, if someone doesn't like the theme, the Alliance is over there.

Exactly, Ally fans complain about "lack of narrative focus", but they sure af don't want the kind of "narrative focus" the Horde has been given as of late. Talk about double standards

[Yarathir]

https://twitter.com/SteveDanuser/sta...22932771086336



Danuser may have just got himself some fans with this.

Great.

Now when are they adding the motivations for the faction war new players are directly thrust into after the starting zone experiences rather than just an ambigious note of "tensions arose."

[omeomorfismo]

even Vol'jin's questlines there?

nah, if nature and druids arent involved its fine, isnt like i care so much from a rp perspective, but i still like troll stuff

[Combatbutler]

Great.

Now when are they adding the motivations for the faction war new players are directly thrust into after the starting zone experiences rather than just an ambigious note of "tensions arose."

Knowing Blizz, well ........ never.

[Yarathir]

Knowing Blizz, well ........ never.

Call me pessimistic, but in my eyes, I'm thinking the displeasure he wants to quell most is that of the Forsaken fans who now feel like their fantasy of playing an edgy zombie got squished by this new text.

Just as he looked at all the displeasure surrounding BfA's story and decided to reassure the Forsaken fans that they would get their dedicated little choices to support Sylvanas so that they wouldn't feel alienated.

[Soon-TM]

They can just change the tiressly protecting the living and it would be fine.. that only works if you are an undead priest

An undead non-shadow priest, I might add. Shadow priests literally torture their enemies' minds, which certainly doesn't befit a "good" aligned character... Not in the slightest.

[Jujudrood]

Can we just get an intro that says:
"Welcome to Azeroth, populated with dozens of different races, with some evil, some good, some selfish, some noble, and all of them fucked up in their own way!
Let's see what wild shenanigans they get into this week as they scramble to retain their faction allegiances in the face of all of their own stupidity and fuckery!
Enjoy the ride!"

Then we can treat each expansion as just another season of a show that should have called it quits several seasons ago.
It's like Walking Dead.
It's been awful for years, yet, for some reason, people just can't tear themselves away from it, no matter how butchered the characters are or how ridiculous the premises of each storyline become.

[Shadowferal]

Lol at this reddit post. Pretty spot on:

I played mostly Alliance...but that pic made me throw up a little bit.. I can understand if they decided to create internal factions, but overall I have to think that they're doing the Horde an injustice...

[Aucald]

Since it's already been unveiled that these intros are a work in progress and not representative of the finished product whatever it might prove to be, and the thread is already troubled, let's just close this out and move on to other more productive topics.