I’ve always known blizzard to be like this, although I didn’t really game until around 2010.

The first thing that comes to mind was/is the World of Warcraft subscription cost that still doesn’t include all of the expansions. A base subscription is almost $200 CAD/year alone. They are also now selling mounts at $32 CAD each. Personally, especially if I was paying $200 a year, I wouldn’t want to be pushed to pay even more money for content.

Part of me kind of wishes that I could have seen the era you’re talking about.

I wonder if they’ll make a smart speaker version for this one too

It’s only anecdotal, but a lot of the people I know who were hateful like that while growing up actually did come out as LGBTQ+. Some were trans, some were gay, some were bi, etc.

Some of them are just a-holes though. One dude complained about a gay classmate. He never liked it when I asked him why he was thinking about what the other guy was doing with his bits so much. I’ve always thouht it was a fair question. I never did get an answer, though.

If true, I hope that they leave some of the goofy bugs and ai in the game. I think the weirdness of the interactions between NPCs is part of what made me love the game so much before.

O: “Heard any news from the other provinces?”

M: “Nothing I’d like to speak about.”

O: “Good day.”

M: “Go.”

O: " heLLO! "

M: “Hi.”

I also loved how the guards would try to attack through through space and time, with a lively “Beuaregeh!” as they hit absolutely nothing.

Other times, you’d see a guard kill someone, only for that same guard to go up to the body, gasp and shout “there’s been a murder!”.

I loved some of the messed up object physics too.

I’m already there