They are, New World runs on Gamelift. This comment is a bit technical, but maybe interesting if you’re curious about how this stuff works. I used to work for an MMO middleware company in the early 2010s, so server scaling was a big part of my job. I’m not in that job any more but I still keep up with changes and I…

This shouldn’t really be a hot take. Cleaning the game’s image is completely unrelated to real world treatment of employees and it’s kind of insulting both to the playerbase and employees that this is somehow representative of progress. The easiest comparison is that FFXIV is an MMO that isn’t made by a bunch of…

File these moves under “horribly missing the point”.

the joke was kind of low hanging fruit.

i am so very sorry.

“sexuality is not objectification”

the bananas were appealing.

Less titty, same shitty 

Every single thing they do to make the problem better just reinforces to me that I made the right choice in cancelling my WoW subscription after 15 years. Theyre just getting more and more tone deaf and showing they don’t get it. 

I hope the fruit dresses provacatively.

Well treating human beings in a humane and dignified manner requires you to see them as human beings.

It's like trying to hide racism but not actually stopping the racism itself at the core, which is the real issue.

o....okay.

So they’re going the demonize the body and demonize sexuality route

We aren’t demonizing sexuality. Women are free to dress any way they want to and express their sexuality any way they want as well. They want to wear the exact outfit in the painting that was editted out? Great, go for it.

Out of country tuition is such a premium price gouge. A couple universities of foreign students would dump millions more into the economy than the festival.

I feel for you, really.

The Waffler.

Perhaps because this is a gaming site and a content creator engaging in racially charged abuse is far more relevant.  The plight of the Uyghurs is certainly of great importance, but engaging in whataboutism doesn’t help in any way.

There are no babies involved in abortions.

I tried to do a clever dig, but man. Fuck you John. Eat shit.