Current Events > Blizzard suspiciously pandering in the upcoming WoW patch. *spoilers*

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pegusus123456
11/20/21 6:31:44 AM
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It requires a bit of context of the absolute shitshow the storyline has been this expansion. Basically, the Arbiter is the thing that decides which afterlife you go to after you die, but it got fucked up and everyone started going to super hell. It was pretty obvious the expansion would end with someone becoming the new Arbiter with most assuming it would by Sylvanas because a woman who committed actual-facts genocide becoming the judge of every soul in the universe is the level of writing we're at now.

Instead, it's going to be Pelagos, a character 3/4ths of the player base will probably not remember because he's only involved in one of the covenant's storylines. Going by people who did play that storyline, he has two character traits. The first is that he fails at even the most basic level of his selected afterlife and the second is that he's transgender, presenting as a female in life and choosing to present as a male in the afterlife.

I'm not one to call pandering over the existence of an LGBT person, but the timing on this is very suspicious.

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DEKMStephens
11/20/21 6:34:24 AM
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Can't wait to see which Overwatch character is made gay next

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Gooniebird
11/20/21 6:42:09 AM
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pegusus123456 posted...
I'm not one to call pandering over the existence of an LGBT person

and yet here you are

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pegusus123456
11/20/21 6:44:33 AM
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Gooniebird posted...
and yet here you are
Because this seems like an example of it.

It should also be noted that the only indication that Pelagos is trans is one text box that most people also won't encounter.


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Kim_Seong-a
11/20/21 6:45:50 AM
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Maybe they never wanted to be the arbiter, and they were only chosen because a dark wizard put their name in the Goblet of fire

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Jerry_Hellyeah
11/20/21 6:46:59 AM
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Gooniebird posted...
and yet here you are

"I don't have a problem with trans people, theres just.....a lot of them"

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Slayerblade11
11/20/21 6:47:43 AM
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I didn't know pelagos was trans and I played quite a bit of the kyrian story in shadowlands.Is this like that male dragon who turned into a female gnome?
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fan357
11/20/21 8:41:28 AM
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I thought dragons in WoW could always choose wether to be male or female? So making a dragon trans seems like a cop out.

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BlueBoy675
11/20/21 8:42:39 AM
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DEKMStephens posted...
Can't wait to see which Overwatch character is made gay next
Please be Mercy

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pegusus123456
11/20/21 8:51:48 AM
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fan357 posted...
I thought dragons in WoW could always choose wether to be male or female? So making a dragon trans seems like a cop out.
Not really a copout. They have the ability to shapeshift and can appear however they want. Chromie was born a male dragon, but prefers to appear as a female. Seems pretty trans to me.

Of course, she's only trans because they just so happened to name her Chronormu twenty years ago and ended up using "-normu" as the suffix for male bronze dragon names.

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LordFarquad1312
11/20/21 9:02:51 AM
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Who cares? That fucking company is going under

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pegusus123456
11/20/21 9:06:11 AM
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In other, funnier news, they're changing the warlock tier set from this patch because it looks like a Klan hood from the back.
https://twitter.com/WarcraftDevs/status/1461782076173139970

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Fony
11/20/21 9:08:32 AM
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If you have female friends in the UI/UX design field or that are programmers, Blizzard is hiring women like crazy right now. I know a nice rainbow haired Asian woman who just started the other day. Luckily she's working remote so she won't have to worry about getting groped in the office.

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Squall28
11/20/21 9:16:52 AM
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pegusus123456 posted...
it's going to be Pelagos

Lmao what. Dude was the biggest scrub in the Kyrian storylineL


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Fony
11/20/21 9:20:10 AM
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Another female acquaintance just got hired as an artist for Overwatch.

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Robot2600
11/20/21 9:26:54 AM
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a SINGLE example isn't pandering.

And I can't wait until they make another Overwatch character queer. I hope it's your favorite character.

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thronedfire2
11/20/21 12:17:46 PM
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I mean, it literally doesnt matter how strong or weak whoever becomes the arbiter is since all the arbiter power comes from the orb thing in the chest. It wont be Sylvanas, she has to live until next expansion when she dies to save Alleria from the void lords.

and Id hardly count acknowledging the fact that transgender people exist pandering

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Materus
11/20/21 12:25:35 PM
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Is the character trans in China? If no then blizz is still just a bunch of cucks.

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HairyQueen
11/20/21 12:32:59 PM
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Remember there are only two genders:
Cis
and
Pandering

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Trumble
11/20/21 12:38:25 PM
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A single case of putting a trans person (if that even really counts as trans?) in a significant position isn't pander--

*sees posts about all the other pandery stuff WoW has done*

Okay maybe TC has a point.

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Robot2600
11/20/21 12:55:16 PM
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Deuceswild posted...
We talking about WoW?

They've renamed or removed many quests to "adjust to the times", replaced pictures of women with pictures of bowls of fruit, and hired a woman co-ceo (who is qualified on her own merit to be fair) in order to use her as a prop to show how inclusive they are.

I also do not like removing sexy pictures to put fruit in their place, and I think everyone is a prude, in general.

I'm not sure people have a problem with sexualization, but companies require solutions to problems that don't exist.

Video game characters, men and women, should be sexier in general. They haven't been sexy at all recently. A response to how stressed out everybody is.

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BlockAddition
11/20/21 12:56:53 PM
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Buzzard have been pandering for years



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thronedfire2
11/20/21 12:57:13 PM
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Robot2600 posted...
I also do not like removing sexy pictures to put fruit in their place, and I think everyone is a prude, in general.

I'm not sure people have a problem with sexualization, but companies require solutions to problems that don't exist.

Video game characters, men and women, should be sexier in general. They haven't been sexy at all recently. A response to how stressed out everybody is.

female plate armor in video games being literal bikinis has always been a problem. Its just such a male dominated industry that no one who could change things actually cared about it before a couple years ago

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Humble_Novice
11/20/21 12:58:15 PM
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Blizzard should just sell its IP to Square Enix.
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AssAssasin69
11/20/21 12:58:37 PM
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Robot2600 posted...
a SINGLE example isn't pandering.

And I can't wait until they make another Overwatch character queer. I hope it's your favorite character.
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Robot2600
11/20/21 12:59:52 PM
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thronedfire2 posted...
female plate armor in video games being literal bikinis has always been a problem. Its just such a male dominated industry that no one who could change things actually cared about it before a couple years ago

The women should have chain mail bikinis and the men should have leather harnesses and maybe some spike bracelets.

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thronedfire2
11/20/21 1:00:37 PM
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Robot2600 posted...
The women should have chain mail bikinis and the men should have leather harnesses and maybe some spike bracelets.

all leather pants in video games should be assless chaps from now on

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creativerealms
11/20/21 1:02:01 PM
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They are trying to distract from all their company's dark secrets.

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brotrrwinner
11/20/21 1:34:28 PM
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Blizzard suspiciously pandering

What do you mean, suspiciously? It would be suspicious if they DIDN'T pander

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YoungMutual
11/20/21 1:41:34 PM
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I mean it's your own fault for still playing WoW, supporting the game and the piece of shit developer and publisher.

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Prestoff
11/20/21 1:42:40 PM
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thronedfire2 posted...
female plate armor in video games being literal bikinis has always been a problem. Its just such a male dominated industry that no one who could change things actually cared about it before a couple years ago

Skimpy clothing only gets into the "sexist" territory if it's the only option for females while male characters get to wear practical clothing. Either make both genders practical... or make them both have skimpy outfit for the best of both worlds.

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s0nicfan
11/20/21 1:43:32 PM
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thronedfire2 posted...
female plate armor in video games being literal bikinis has always been a problem. Its just such a male dominated industry that no one who could change things actually cared about it before a couple years ago

Square doesn't discriminate:


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PesticideDream
11/20/21 1:56:14 PM
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Companies need to go woke so you forget all their mistreatment of employees and sexual misconduct allegations and all the predatory consumer practices like lootboxes. None of that matters when they put in a LGBT character to stick it to them Repub fascist incels.
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greyfox747
11/20/21 1:57:30 PM
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Gladius_ posted...
Yeah, there's nothing wrong with trans characters but the fact Blizzard did it as a single line is cowardly and just so they can point at something to claim they don't have bias.
And yet, if they went more in depth with it and wrote more than a line, everyone would be out here complaining about how blizzard was shoving it in their face

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WingsOfGood
11/20/21 1:57:33 PM
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So do you still love WoW?
Or why even care to know anything about it if you don't?
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WingsOfGood
11/20/21 2:02:08 PM
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It is like:

Unabashed Blizzard fan: defends blizz
Ubf: buys game
Ubf: wtf this sucks wtf
Others: umm yea, same thing happened 10x before
Ubf: shut the fuck up
Ubf: defends blizz
Ubf: buys game
Ubf: wtf this sucks

Rinse repeat.

I am starting to think they may have monoplozied some kinda masochist matket.
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IronWolf87
11/20/21 2:23:09 PM
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WingsOfGood posted...
It is like:

Unabashed Blizzard fan: defends blizz
Ubf: buys game
Ubf: wtf this sucks wtf
Others: umm yea, same thing happened 10x before
Ubf: shut the fuck up
Ubf: defends blizz
Ubf: buys game
Ubf: wtf this sucks

Rinse repeat.

I am starting to think they may have monoplozied some kinda masochist matket.

Pretty sure anyone still playing WoW at this point is just addicted to it. Like "I smoke 2 packs a day and I can barely breathe but I just can't quit!" addicted.
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Tyranthraxus
11/20/21 2:27:54 PM
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The writing in blizzard games has been total shit ever since Warcraft 3. The last good story they had was Brood War.

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s0nicfan
11/20/21 2:31:10 PM
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Tyranthraxus posted...
The writing in blizzard games has been total shit ever since Warcraft 3. The last good story they had was Brood War.

The end of this WoW expansion is supposedly going to tie directly into Warcraft 3 by introducing a whole bunch of plot points that reframe what happened in that game, so they're actually going back and ruining the last good thing they wrote.

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pegusus123456
11/20/21 5:23:20 PM
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Robot2600 posted...
And I can't wait until they make another Overwatch character queer. I hope it's your favorite character.
I am gay btw.

YoungMutual posted...
I mean it's your own fault for still playing WoW, supporting the game and the piece of shit developer and publisher.
I don't, I'm just enjoying watching the house burn down.

greyfox747 posted...
And yet, if they went more in depth with it and wrote more than a line, everyone would be out here complaining about how blizzard was shoving it in their face
Not me. I don't even necessarily mind that they only mentioned it in a missable text box because it's not like WoW has too many ways to organically include it. My issue with this is that Pelagos is a relatively minor character to suddenly become the most important figure in the universe.

s0nicfan posted...
The end of this WoW expansion is supposedly going to tie directly into Warcraft 3 by introducing a whole bunch of plot points that reframe what happened in that game, so they're actually going back and ruining the last good thing they wrote.
Oh, no, they've already done that. Kel'thuzad was never working for the Lich King, see, he was secretly working for the Jailer all along. And the dreadlords were never really working for the Legion, they were created by Sire Denathrius.

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ChocoboMogALT
11/20/21 5:37:50 PM
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Gladius_ posted...
Yeah, there's nothing wrong with trans characters but the fact Blizzard did it as a single line is cowardly and just so they can point at something to claim they don't have bias. It's similar to "Dumbledore is a homosexual" but Rowling did nothing on screen to imply that he was and it's strictly through word of mouth. It's still cowardly.
There's subtext on Dumbledore from, like, book 5 and I remember calling it out and getting slammed CE for it.

I only played 9.0 and remember Pelagos pretty vividly. Did people just forget about him? He feels more like a Yrel pick that just wasn't written out, like many issues right now.

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UnholyMudcrab
11/20/21 5:44:20 PM
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DEKMStephens posted...
Can't wait to see which Overwatch character is made gay next
Make Pharmercy canon already, Blizz

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YellowSUV
11/20/21 5:56:08 PM
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s0nicfan posted...
The end of this WoW expansion is supposedly going to tie directly into Warcraft 3 by introducing a whole bunch of plot points that reframe what happened in that game, so they're actually going back and ruining the last good thing they wrote.

Most people who worked on WC3 are long gone, so of course they will have no issue shitting on it.

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dave_is_slick
11/20/21 6:00:08 PM
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thronedfire2 posted...
female plate armor in video games being literal bikinis
Literally where? I legit have never come across this, ever.

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Ubergeneral3
11/20/21 6:01:04 PM
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Transphobes are funny. A there could be 23940780783 white characters but the second a trans character is made it's "pandering"

lol go to hell no one cares.

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