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World of Warcraft The War Within Shadow and Fury Trailer Lets Xal'atath Lay Out Part of Her Plan | M

SystemSystem Member UncommonPosts: 12,599
edited June 2024 in News & Features Discussion

imageWorld of Warcraft The War Within Shadow and Fury Trailer Lets Xal'atath Lay Out Part of Her Plan | MMORPG.com

Xal'atath's presence was once bound, and later, unknown, but now we look ahead to her major role in The War Within, World of Warcraft's next expansion, with a new teaser ahead of tomorrow's closed beta.

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  • emperorhades1emperorhades1 Member RarePosts: 422
    You can tell the writers went on strike.
  • AngrakhanAngrakhan Member EpicPosts: 1,855
    Yeah I don't feel like I know any more about what is going on after watching the trailer than I did before. Very vague. Some void elf chick wants my fury. Grrr? Am I supposed to be scared now or something? Anyway the Dragonflight trailer was just as nonsensical, so I don't think this was a result of the strike, just lack of good writing. ChatGPT could do better.
  • RobokappRobokapp Member UncommonPosts: 155
    edited June 2024
    two months later, Angra is in trade chat spamming for some crafted gem every minute.
  • cheyanecheyane Member LegendaryPosts: 9,407
    I have completely lost touch with the lore. It's just gone on for too long and ceased making sense any more.
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  • FrodoFraginsFrodoFragins Member EpicPosts: 6,059
    Angrakhan said:
    Yeah I don't feel like I know any more about what is going on after watching the trailer than I did before. Very vague. Some void elf chick wants my fury. Grrr? Am I supposed to be scared now or something? Anyway the Dragonflight trailer was just as nonsensical, so I don't think this was a result of the strike, just lack of good writing. ChatGPT could do better.
    I had no idea who this character is.  And so it's a horrible trailer in terms of creating any excitement for someone not already playing

    I disagree that the Dragonflight Trailer was just as nonsensical as what I remembered was the giant protectors on an island of dragons were being woken up due to a threat.  While that isn't particularly informative either, it was certainly far more informative than this new trailer.

    After looking it up she appears to be a harbinger or emissary of the Void,  Or something along those lines.  I do know that the Void is the big threat after the Legion. 

    I haven't played retail since Legion and a tiny free sample of BFA.
    ValdemarJ
  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,476
    cheyane said:
    I have completely lost touch with the lore. It's just gone on for too long and ceased making sense any more.
    If you made it this far you are several years up on me. :)
  • Elidien_gaElidien_ga Member RarePosts: 418
    WOW and ESO lore now for me are simple:

    Some bad entity wants to do bad things to some new area of the map. We need to stop the bad entity. The end. :)
    ValdemarJScot
  • AngrakhanAngrakhan Member EpicPosts: 1,855
    Robokapp said:
    two months later, Angra is in trade chat spamming for some crafted gem every minute.
    Well first of all I didn't say I wouldn't play. I was just commenting on this trailer which isn't very good as a trailer. Maybe as a teaser. Second of all the last time I played WoW was the first month of Shadowlands, so my last login was back in December 2020 maybe Jan 2021. The suggestion that in spite of my criticism I'm going to be playing anyway is definitely not based on my play history. 

    I may actually play this one depending on how delves go. If they're worthless like Torgast ended up being the yeah I'll continue piling on the years since I last logged on. Definitely not a WoW junkie. I for sure was back in Vanilla days but life has changed quite a bit for me since then. Wife, kids, career and all that.
  • JeroKaneJeroKane Member EpicPosts: 7,098
    emperorhades1 said:
    You can tell the writers went on strike.
    What writers?  At most they just abuse some cheap interns on rotation that write something.

    WoW's Lore and overall writing fell off a cliff many years ago.
    ScotRobokapp
  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 24,476
    edited June 2024
    JeroKane said:
    You can tell the writers went on strike.
    What writers?  At most they just abuse some cheap interns on rotation that write something.

    WoW's Lore and overall writing fell off a cliff many years ago.
    Don't posters remember when Blizzard did that video about a new dlc and they went through the entire conception and finished with "then we send it to the writers". After uproar they said "we liaise with the writing team right though the process". As some players pointed out "what writing team, name them". But my favorite quote about the "writing team" is "can we send them to college"? :)
  • TalraekkTalraekk Member UncommonPosts: 298
    Don't exactly know whats going on here.  Read most of it, but still, most relevant characters nowadays are almost ad libbed in.  I've long hated the "They gonna betray you" trope of WoW, but really I need more context to care about these... no-names?"
  • XiaokiXiaoki Member EpicPosts: 4,050
    Elidien_ga said:
    WOW and ESO lore now for me are simple:

    Some bad entity wants to do bad things to some new area of the map. We need to stop the bad entity. The end. :)
    Yes, a new bad person that wants to do bad things badly to a heretofor undiscovered area is 100% completely unique to WoW and ESO only.

    Yep, no other MMO in the history of MMOs has ever used this trope before.

  • RobokappRobokapp Member UncommonPosts: 155
    Xiaoki said:
    Yep, no other MMO in the history of MMOs has ever used this trope before.

    does it matter?
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