Seeing this ending as ‘good’ is a serious narrative issue. It undoes everything built and makes Zul’jarra treat her brother with disgust and superiority, repeating a pattern Blizzard applies to female characters lately.
As a woman, it feels insulting.
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She got spared and Sylvanas gets a hug but Zul'jan dies
What lesson am I meant to take? What is the story they want to tell? What do the devs believe in?
Because so far it's nothing Good. It is in fact deeply Ugly.
Why are you people acting like assisted suicide is a valid choice in this case? All the dude needs to do is find a doctor who isn't a fucking retard and actually cares about bettering his conditions.
In case you didn't know, all of the allegations of sexual misconduct, abuse, harassment, and "frat boy culture" was entirely fake and the state of California even admitted that there was no evidence substantiating any of the claims.
The ENTIRE controversy around Blizzard was setup by California to force the company to stop hiring White men using MeToo allegations to strong arm them.
Some of these accusations were so bizarre and insane that they included:
- Theft and consumption of breastmilk during work hours
- A "rape room" named after Bill Cosby
- Sexual harassment to the point of an employee ending her own life
All of these claims were essentially a theatre performance over the fact that ONLY 1-in-5 of Blizzard employees were women.
As a result, Blizzard agreed to pay roughly 18M in fines and setup HR hiring practices that would discriminate against White men.
Internal messages between California Civil Rights Divison officials showed that the entire thing was a ploy to "send a message to the industry" to literally ruin videogames.
It was SO FUCKING FAKE that Brack and Kotick literally PAID THEIR OWN EMPLOYEES TO STAGE A WALK OUT.
After Blizzard capitulated and announced it would discriminate in its hiring the state walked back from a billion dollar lawsuit to a 55M settlement and announced that all the allegations were false.
BLIZZARD: Se el villano odiado que queremos que seas sucio y verdoso anti-colonialista buscador de poderes extremos y peligrosos para salvar a tu pueblo, al contrario que otros elfos que hemos escrito IGUAL que tú y son héroes
AMANI FANBASE: NO Zul'jan 4ever hagáis lo que hagáis
I’ve been looking at this cinematic, and it really makes me think about Blizzard’s current internal writing problems—problems that are clearly reflected in new characters like Zul’jan.
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Luke warm take: The Power of friendship is not a bad thing.
How authors use it is what makes it good or bad. Warcraft has used it pretty damn well for ALOT of its lifespan.
its just that more recent uses.....suck?
I think it should be studied how Arator was mishandled and meant to be the "Golden Poster Boy" for Midnight & just wasn't well received as wanted.
And somebody like Jan who probably wasn't meant to be seen this positively is actually the "Golden Boy" for the expansion for many.
They really ignore the fact the elves and trolls have grown thousands of years apart from eachother they are their own thing with little substance that links them together.
For that they make the only person to bring up valid points be the bad guy.