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.

Comments

congratulations, blizzard

[blackcoot]

you've taken characters that were previously more like sensitive, artsy types and made them look like hulk hogan in drag. bravo.

Re:congratulations, blizzard

[blackcoot]

because there's a sensitive, artsy type amongst the editors that resents being forced to look like hulk hogan in drag?

your guess is as good as mine.

Re:congratulations, blizzard

[Anonymous Coward]

So they're like Mac users who converted to Windows?

Re:congratulations, blizzard

[bryanb80]

...because Blizzard's market share is larger than Apples?

Re:congratulations, blizzard

[99BottlesOfBeerInMyF]

Unfortunately many more people find this minor tidbit of information more interesting and relevant than a tedious discussion about program controls for a minor platform. /i>

Yeah. Those people are called "nerds." Oh well. I'm sure I can half-heartedly pay attention to a horribly misinformed discussion about these features in ten years, when Micrososft gets around to copying them.

Re:congratulations, blizzard

[gardyloo]

Oddly, I can access gaygamer.net just fine.

      Well, isn't that just... special

(not that there's anything wrong with that)

so...

[mmmmbeer]

So a bunch of whiny pansies are bitching about Blizzard giving in to a bunch of whiny pansies? Will that make them change it back?

Changing content based on customer feedback?

[bunions]

THOSE BASTARDS!

Re:Changing content based on customer feedback?

[99BottlesOfBeerInMyF]

Make love, not Warcraft! :P

Hmmm, "Lovecraft" a new MMORPG where you build a custom avatar (male, female, andro, or herma), dress it from our selection of fashionable apparel, and then have to build up your sexual prowess and skill by boinking everyone else and NPCs. I see a new market. Now if we can just keep it from being populated with Cthulu fans I can make a mint.

Re:Changing content based on customer feedback?

[__aaclcg7560]

Of course, the South Park people will have to come out with an episode called, "Make War, Not Lovecraft".

Re:Changing content based on customer feedback?

[Dexx]

I kept thinking that sentence had to end with ".. and see them devoured by unspeakable horrors from beyond."

Re:Changing content based on customer feedback?

[BetterThanCaesar]

You've better look out for my slutty undead mage, she'll get you with her burning ring of fire. And it burns burns burns...

Dear Blizzard,

[chowdy]

I feel that the female blood elves wear far too much clothing. This expresses an extreme imbalance in the WoW gameplay. It is completely unfair that male night elves may go topless, while female night elves cannot. This imbalance in gameplay must be addressed, or else i will cancel my subscription.

Sincerely,
Whiny Blizzard Customer

Re:One body size does not fit all

[Lord_Slepnir]

Not to mention the human females all look like contestants for Miss Azeroth. I get a little worried when I see a "Heavy Mithril Breastplate" jiggling when my character runs. What do they make these thing out of? Mithril foil?

*rips off yellow tank top*

[BeeBeard]

"Let me tell ya something...brother...the Hulkster doesn't appreciate his likeness being used without permission. Blizzard, I'm calling you out right now. You hear me? You and me, in the ring, Smackdown..."

Re:*rips off yellow tank top*

[geekoid]

OK Hulk, don't forget your cane...

It's fun to stay at the...

[QuantaStarFire]

Wow. I can totally see these new Blood Elves spending all their time in the woods, lifting trees, spotting each other, getting into the shower together after a long workout and having hot, sweaty se--um, yeah.

You gotta feel sorry for the Blood Elf women though; they can look, they can dream, but they know in their hearts that it can never be. To make things worse, they don't have the nice human gentlemen callers to fall back on; that ship sailed more than 4 years ago.

Nah, go for the HP fans, it'll be a hoot!

[Weaselmancer]

Hmmm, "Lovecraft" a new MMORPG where you build a custom avatar (male, female, andro, or herma), dress it from our selection of fashionable apparel...

...and then blow your first d100 roll and have your new character run screaming into the night to be devoured in a pit of Dark Young.

Thanks for playing!

In Other News...

[dthx1138]

Valve announced today that the wood texture on the AK-47 in Counterstrike will be made slightly darker.

Perhaps it's been done for a reason?

[pandrijeczko]

To match the "pumped-up" right arms of all the teenage male Kotaku reading WoW players?

Re:One body size does not fit all

[geekoid]

Heavy Mithril Breastplate is made out of Flex-Mithril, brought to you by Dupont.

"Not to mention the human females all look like contestants for Miss Azeroth."

to which I reply Thanks, and God bless Blizzard.