05-10-2006, 09:54 PM
Monkey,May 10 2006, 04:47 PM Wrote:The irritating thing here isn't that the change in lore will affect myself (or any of us, really) in a real-world way. Tomorrow the sun will rise and the world will continue. But we expect better stewardship of the lore from Blizzard. Lore Geeks expect that Blizzard's devotion to continuity means that they won't go back and have Greedo Shoot First, if you will.
For those of us who enjoy the deep lore behind WoW, this breaks the immersive quality in the same way that seeing the cracks in the structure of Azeroth breaks the immersive experience of the game. Sargaras and the Eredar aren't real, but we want to believe the stories we've been told about them to be accurate and solid, not malleable at each turn of the plot.
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Actually, it didn't break *anything* for me. I thought they explained it nicely. :P
Before this, we knew the Draenei were on Draenor. We just had no knowledge of their prior history, or that the Eredar and the Draenei are connected. Oh, sure, call it a hack job if you want, but, it's Blizzard's story, let them tell it. I didn't see any contradictions in it....
--Mav