I feel like you are blowing this way out of proportion. Someone wrote an article on a site that can’t even get advance copies of games anymore and there’s a few people writing good-natured twitter posts bemoaning the ‘loss’; but you’re acting like someone bombed Nintendo’s offices over this. Get back to us when…

As the article explains, there’s some pretty obvious queer coding for these two characters specifically. The “statue of one riding the other’s back” is weird, but not too out there for a Zelda game. But “bending on one knee to give his ‘friend’ a ring” is basically unmissable.

It’s not like they’re actually rewriting the content though. What happened is part of long-term Warcraft Lore. That someone had the idea to create a quest focused on the heroic players ensuring that it happens, and no one on the creative team gave it a second thought is what is in question.

Also they just fired a dude for a quest poking fun at corporate practices, but now they’re putting in this shit?

You’re arguing that if murder is on the table, then rape should be as well. I guess that you’re using some sort of ‘badness point’ framework, where if Murder is the high score, anything else can’t be ‘worse’.

Under no circumstances though is the team at Activision-Blizzard in any way qualified to be depicting this kind of messed up situation

It’s absolutely possible to have dark content in games, if you’re going to treat it properly. The problem is that the caliber of writing that Blizzard has simply does not and honestly has not ever been high enough to tackle these sorts of things well.

The “super short and rough” of it: In Warcraft, all dragons are fully sapient, have cultures, cities of their own, etc etc. There’s different kinds, but the red dragons have a fairly utopian society and their favorite profession in life is to be a doctor/healer (explained to set up what sort of tone we’re dealing…

Basically, the fanbase that doesn’t like ActiBlizzard but continues to support them by playing their games, don’t like to be reminded that ActiBlizzard had been a-ok with sexual assault because their executives do it.

Jesus, it’s like when white people don’t want to be reminded of their very cultural history, but want…

I think the real problem here is that company recently surrounded by a giant cloud of sexual assault allegations having a quest whose objective is making sure a sexual assault continues to happen is just a tad gauche.

I’ve scrolled though a lot of comment sections on a lot of stories about this quest, and I have never seen so many people purposefully misrepresenting the concern over something so they can throw in their take on why it should be left in, how the people concerned are snowflakes, lament “dark” moments aren’t allowed in…

I can’t imagine why Blizzard thought this was a good era of the timeline to revisit.  WoW definitely doesn’t have the type of tone to successfully navigate such a story.

Man, I hate to get all boomery, but I really miss when this game was just about killing 15 fish monsters so a guy would give you a hat.

I have to disagree entirely with the assessment of FFXIII’s battle system. Woof. That battle system was even more of a reason I stopped playing it than the endless, overbearing hallways.  I just could not have any kind of fun in that game, and I tried for over 10 hours.  XIII-2 made it a lot less painful and I…

Tell me FFX is your favorite Final Fantasy without telling me FFX is your favorite Final Fantasy.

Just gonna say at the top I don’t think this acquisition is good for the industry long-term and I think it should probably continue to be blocked.

That said, Sony’s continued temper tantrum increasingly gives away the game, which is effectively “we are already pretty anti-consumer, but if you do this, we’ll get even…

Translation: “We see an opportunity to make more money and we’re going for it.”

I have to admit, while acknowledging that tastes are subjective, seeing FF12 listed there really took me by surprise. I actively have to hold back on making a snarky comment about that as from a story perspective it was a pretty huge mess and had one of more complicated development histories of the games.

I don’t see why; at least it’s consistent, and there are plenty of “just movies” out there already. People who like that stuff know what they’re getting, and people who don’t know what they’re missing.

Yeah, that’s definitely a big part of the problem, the Universification of everything. Franchises can be great within reason. There’s a lot of trilogies and such that I love, and as much of a mess as it was I generally enjoyed the Star Wars Expanded Universe. But sometimes my favorite stand outs are stand alones. Look…