Well...this new mini campaign is utter dogshit in a lot of ways.
But I'm going to skip over how insane it is having Danath 'zug-zug zapper- Trollbane talk about how he preached tolerance and mercy while operating internment camps.
I'm going to skip over how retarded it is the Orcs gush about how they forgave the humans for being put in said camps while not mentioning the continent wide chimp out they engaged in to earn their place in said camps.
I'm going to skip over how the Mag'har orcs have fucking settled in the heartland of humanity and nobody has an issue with that
I'm going to skip over how you dont even kill the bad guy at the end of this shitshow because 'it would make us as bad as them'
I'm going to even skip that one armed nigger Blizzard keeps forcing me to tolerate.
I'm instead going to focus on the most important part of this questline, the introduction of the Red Dawn, and how they FUCKED IT in one easily avoidable step.
You know why the Defias Brotherhood and the Scarlet Crusade were so beloved in vanilla? They had a point. They were justified. They were factions the players could see themselves joining if things had just gone a little different. The Defias were victims turned revolutionaries. The Scarlets were survivors turned zealots. One wanted to destroy the corrupt nobility that had destroyed them, the other sought to reclaim their homes from the tide of the undead.
They were not black nor white. They were a nice, interesting sort of grey.
And Blizz had a moment with this new combination of them. A shining moment of narrarive complexity for the Red Dawn. The Alliance, exhausted from foreign wars and expeditions afar, were failing to provide for their citizens. People were starving-and yes, this has been the status quo for Alliance citizens since vanilla Westfall, but its a classic for a reason- Anyway. The Alliance can't provide and so a populist uprising is growing as people turn to those that can.
Excellent. This is a good setup. One that, if executed properly, will have fans debating in forums for years to come.
But then it turns out the Alliance actually IS providing food. The Red Dawn are just stealing it.
And thus any justification or moral complexity this nascent group may have had dies in its crib. They're just evil. No legitimate problem they're addressing. No wrong they're aiming to right. They're just the next batch of saturday cartoon mooks.
I am MATI, not because Blizzard failed, thats the status quo.
I am MATI because Blizzard was so close to succeeding.