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Male Blood Elves Get Pumped Up
Kotaku reports that the Male Blood Elves, from the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion Burning Crusade, have been made more masculine by their Blizzard overseers. Which totally makes sense, because when I think elves I think paragons of masculinity. From the article: "You changed it because your constituency is a bunch of capslock-riding asshats who are threatened by bishy player characters. The reason Blood Elves were Horde in the first place is because everyone was whining about all the Horde races being ugly juggernauts. The point of Blood Elves was to inject some swish into a very physically intimidating set of races. They're not exactly chunky now, and I do not begrudge a game company making prerelease aesthetic changes, but their reasons for doing so are pathetic. " Before and after photos are available in their post.
Male fantasy character stupidly over-muscled, film at 11.
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Trivial aspect of cult game tweaked, hardcore fans up in arms, continue paying monthly fees.
From the "who gives a shit?" department.
It's official. Most of you are morons.
It's really obvious why they did this; the character looked gay and Blizzard hates gay people. They've banned guilds from advertising sexual preferences, and they don't do anything about in-game gay bashing. If they didn't hate gay people, Blizzard would give players an option about which design they want their character to be instead of just forcing the more "masculine" one on them.