About 20% of World of Warcraft players are women. So why does Blizzard assume everyone will play like a dude, asks Made2Game's Mellanie Moore
Blizzard writes: "After careful consideration over the last year, we at Blizzard have made the decision not to hold BlizzCon in 2024. This decision was not made lightly as BlizzCon remains a very special event for all of us, and we know many of you look forward to it. While we’re approaching this year differently and as we have explored different event formats in the past, rest assured that we are just as excited as ever to bring BlizzCon back in future years."
How about you not hold Blizzcon anymore period. You fucking POS company. I really hope Blizzard would just die.
Microsoft has 'let Blizzard be Blizzard' following the acquisition of the veteran developer according to World of Warcraft's executive producer.
Diablo 4 storefront being a cash grabbing shitshow does unironically attest to that, kudos.
Microsoft needs to be guiding Blizzard to be what it USED to be, not allowing it to continue to be the greedy bastardization of itself that it has become.
Okay i will be interested if they become old Blizzard but might as well be dead.
They will never be old blizzard. Most of all the OG's left from developers to those on the top (even some decision making folks left).
Shame most of the people that made Blizzard what they were, have already left a while ago.
I was about to say this. How can they be blizzard when they're no longer blizzard from yesteryear?
Exactly. Blizzard hasn’t been Blizzard for a long time.
Oh how the mighty have fallen.
Were you expecting Microsoft to hire everyone that had left Blizzard long before they purchased the company...
Microsoft has let the Blizzard company they purchased continue to be the Blizzard company they purchased.
Wow, PassNextquestion,
You fully understand what that saying means, unlike some people on here who just have to say negative garbage talk.
When someone says, "Just let *blank* be *blank*, "they are just letting them operate how they operate.
It's pretty much how Sony "let Bungie be Bungie."
This comment section is full of outright haters, but you have to "let N4G be N4G"
I don't think people commenting are necessarily blaming MS for anything here, this is just collective longing for what Blizzard/Vivendi was before Activision's meddling.
Blizzard Entertainment has announced the opening of beta registrations for “World of Warcraft: The War Within,” inviting players to explore new subterranean worlds beneath Azeroth.
This is a really great article, Mellanie.
Back when I used to play WoW, despite being a guy I played a female Draenei with very little clothing and kept getting hit on by horny dwarves. The issue of (whisper it) sexism in games is quite hot at the moment, and certainly goes hand-in-hand with the similar issue of how sexuality is portrayed in comics. I guess developers still believe that all people who play games are teenage boys who also read comics, and that for some reason, in the eyes of this imaginary demographic, the best protection against a hail of bullets / magic fireball / six-foot broadsword is a chainmail bikini.
Even as a guy with an average level of appreciation for the female form (i.e. I like boobies) a looking forward to the day when developers (and, indeed, comic artists) realise it's perfectly possible for a woman to save the world without her navel showing.
Mick
My only qualm with WoW's females is the artwork style. There's just something really odd and... well... ugly about it.
The male characters, on the other hand, fit the artwork style perfectly.
I stopped reading at "If you are in a 10 man raid, two people will have Y chromosomes". How can I take the author seriously if she doesn't even know what chromosomes she has?