and the dawn of ucnertainty for MMO's as a whole if you ignore ff14

I really wanted to play classic

but all these happenings rubbed me the wrong way

Well you can now

WOW classic is cancer

the direction, the layoffs, the core team fucking off

the increase in censorship to the point where it's worse than communist europe pre 1989

in very unironic terms

WORSE

any speech is hatespeech in blizzard games

Eh... I don't play games to be political to begin with so I don't see the whole censorship and stuff

I do believe than Banning Pepe for Overwatch e-sports was just pathetic

Then again... E-sports is a joke for the love of god.

no

blizzard has redoubled their efforts

it goes beyond political speech

they outright censor you for normal non political, non religious and nonsexual speech

they want everything 100% controlled

more sterile than the Stasi

these people are mentally ill

If you dwell on wow forums sure. The china system point there is as obvious as the shining sun

yeah

if you put it that way, China is seeping into western blizzard services

from speech censorship to covering up women to the point where you can only see their heads

this would explain a lot

Imagine being a company that loves the Chinese market so much, they'd be willing to get fucked in the ass with their restrictions and conform to their laws for that sweet money..

The very definition of whoring yourself out

the fact that they removed skeletons from fuckign classic

that was the last nail that convinced me not to play the game

silly reason

but pisses me the fuck off

call it wow china instead of wow classic

skeletons are there so you know the person released from their corpse AND revived nearby

so you know to prepare again for engagement

this all started in WOTLK

when they censored Bonewhatever Marrowgar

and put flesh on him

to make him look even more horrific

as opposed to letting him be bony

We should nuke China...

But considering how perverse that decision turned the Japanese... It will only make them worse 🤣

or game companies shhould actually provide services for the regions they state they do

instead of unifying everything so everyone gets irked