The undead protect the living and the orcs "shed" their bloodthirsty ways...Despite the entirety of BfA being the complete opposite, but okay...
Sunshine, lollipops and rainbowsEverything that's wonderful is what I feel when we're togetherBrighter than a lucky pennyWhen you're near the rain just disappears, dearAnd I feel so fineJust to know that you are mineMy life is sunshine, lollipops and rainbowsThat's how this refrain goesCome on, join in, everybodySunshine, lollipops and rainbowsEverything that's wonderful is sure to come your wayWhen you're in love to staySunshine, lollipops and rainbowsEverything that's wonderful is what I feel when we're togetherBrighter than a lucky pennyWhen you're near the rain just disappears, dearAnd I feel so fineJust to know that you are mineMy life is sunshine, lollipops and rainbowsThat's how this refrain goesCome on, join in everybodySunshine, lollipops and rainbowsEverything that's wonderful is sure to come your way'Cause you're in loveYou're in loveAnd love is here to stay
Horde’s whitewashing is unbearable. Hate all of this “your perspective” bs. Blizzard, you, the one who writes the literal lore of warcraft, should at least try to provide the players with actual facts and let THEM see things in their own perspective. Not all orcs/undeads want to fight for justice/protect the living (lol, the forsaken literally say “death to the living”). If demons were to be a playable race as well, it wouldn’t be a far fetched guess that blizzard will introduce them as “kind and innocent people trying to protect the universe”...
Most of the other one are fine. The Undead one needs work.Like for real
"Renouncing the savagery of the other tribes, you and your fellow Darkspear trolls protect Azeroth with cunning ferocity."What do you mean renouncing the savagery? Been savage is exactly why I play troll
Who wrote this trash?Did they tell someone to write a script and had never played the game?Who is going to see this when playing WoW and have that influence their decision?
As others have said, there's a lot of irony and whitewashing in the new lines.
removedC'mon, guys. It's a bit of flavor text for a video game; flavor text that basically nobody pays attention to.removed
DID PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THAT THIS INTRO LINES ARE POST BFA?This is the last part of the develop lore, every single sentence means what those races are fealing right now.The Forsaken are the last one that literally, after being ditched by Sylvannas, are literallly living without homes, under fricking cactus and forsaked by their beloved queen. Now what? burn them all in stakes?, thats what the Forsaken players are up to now, trying to find a meaning for their suffering and because you are the champion of azeroth, people hate you because you are undead... yet you are the one saving them from the monsters of the shadowlands.Its not hard to understand that people.And in before you say... BUT RAIZOKA NEW PLAYERS STILL PLAY BFA.Yeah no sh*T, they are going to experience how DARK the storyline gets for the Forsaken until the final "ditching" from Sylvannas. So what now, their story ends there? or they will try to find a redemption arc.....the answer its simple. These lines are really good and explains a future that the game its going now and i love it. 15 years not updating anything and now we have updates even for sw and orgrimmar.
I dunno about you, but I know some extremely thirsty orcs.
It's nice to see that they are even updating smaller things like this, really excited to see what else Blizzard is gonna rework at this point, hope this goes on starting with shadowlands but not ending with it.
That troll one is going to be so outdated when the new customization options let us be Forest, Ice, Sand and Dark trolls. The Undead and Orc lines just lack that ommph for those races.
In some alternate reality the races of the horde sided with Garrosh. Instead of turning against him during war, we stood next to him and became a little more savage. Maybe instead of finding power with an old god he found power with the races that stuck together with him and never decided the true horde should be his orcs. Perhaps they could have even had thrall not piss off and run away and actually give Garrosh a good story instead of throwing him away and possibly making him a little less savage (either way works). I don't understand having a faction war expansion with ending said war with peace. Do factions mean nothing now? I'd honestly rather have the whole, "We team up for the end of an xpac and then go back to being enemies thing." I'm pretty sure I remember an npc saying we work together every now and then and that's all it should be. These intros feel like there's literally no faction conflict anymore whatsoever so I don't understand what the point is of even having factions if they're at peace with each other. I know its an armistice right now so what? Are we just going to wave our hands and sing together when we see alliance players in the open world. Man this is disappointing. There were so many options to take and they went with this route. There was a guy who was posting the different intros talking about how the vanilla one was soo great and the others sucked (I never played the new classic and don't care about it.) and I thought to myself, "Oh here we go another vanilla boy," until I actually read them and realized, wow what happened with blizzard. There was so much care for the races identity back then and now its being thrown out for this weird universal peaceful honor treaty that is tearing down the wall for even having factions. Might as well just have the race choice in character creation on a single panel (or I guess bubbles in this case now) because the only difference is the races starting locations (if you aren't a new player). Whats gonna happen when all those new players play through all the faction conflict stories (most of them won't even remember the race intros but still). Things were a hell of a lot more simple and worked a whole lot better when the faction conflict was a "part" of the story, not the central idea.And boy they should have really gone with champion of the horde/alliance, not hero, saying hero just lumps all the races together removing faction identity.