How there are some people who will practically fanatically defend their understanding of lore, cite tweets, blue posts, wikis…
Or, conversely, cite how something is not spoken of in those tweets, blue posts, and wikis, UNTIL…
BOOM!
Vampiric elves in an ice castle! Unicorns! Pandas! Spacegoats! Walrus-Eskimo-men! Indiana Jones! AN ENTIRE AU STORYLINE TO PLAY THROUGH AS AN EXPANSION THAT ISN’T EVEN THE FIRST AU STORYLINE IN LORE TO BE CANONIZED IF YOU’VE FUCKING READ THE DAMN NOVELS!
Plus,a whole novel series of RETCONS to all that precious lore that you’ve so rabidly defended! (Don’t hate me for calling it what it is, Chronicle fans.)
And in all this time, what did this particular breed of lore-fanatic which I speak of do?
Treat other people who were just trying to have fun with a level of utter douchebaggery that brings to mind that whole quote about civilized people being more discourteous than savages because they know they won’t have their skulls split, as a general thing.
Wow. Can you even imagine what the world would be like if people gave as much of a damn about the accuracies in REAL WORLD HISTORY as they do about MMO lore? Remarkable.
There is no excuse for despicable behavior, verbal abuse, cowardice, and acting like you’re so goddam superior to another person on the basis of what you understand today about video game lore.
Which, by the way, you will only change your tune on and rabidly defend the new version of, once Blizzard canonizes new shit anyway, you puppets.
If pristine and well polished lore is something people value, I personally think Warcraft is the wrong place for said sorta of people to get up in arms about. In a different franchise I could actually back a few of their points, but Warcraft?
One only has to look how Blizzard handles the writing themselves; they’ve openly said they treat their lore as a way introduce new places and things to do. They aren’t considered with continuity or reason; it’s all about new things to involve their audience, or bringing back old favorites – because it interests the fans, rather than making a masterful story.
With that in mind, people who ‘bend lore’ to introduce new concepts are playing far more in the spirit of Blizzard than people who try to keep everything as they personally see the franchise. What’s worse is, many of the ‘purists’ openly shun perfectly canon pieces of lore to keep their own ‘perfect picture’ of canon polished. “ No, the Pandaren were a joke race, so anyone who plays those characters I won’t bother with”.
Bit of the kettle calling the pot black, as I see it. Except one side just wants to create and play , another wants to hold up their creation at the expense of another.
{Reblogging because I feel all of this so hard. Coming from a Rp server where I feel Lore eliticism harassment really seemed to help kill Rp overall, it gets tiresome real quick. Don’t be that guy.}
