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Warsong Gulch: It's actually kind of incredible how, in Vanilla at least, every PvP battleground had the Horde be totally in the wrong. Here it's that the orcs want to chop down sacred Night Elf forests that were left alone for thousands of years. I mean, these are the "peaceful" orcs who have quests to genocide the quillboar because Thrall wants their land. I'm just saying, the Forsaken are the most evil, but it's not like the orcs are innocent, either. Anyway, this was the simplest BG, just capture the flag, there's not a lot to it. It was super annoying to play as Alliance until they added the ability to queue from cities, since it's so far away from every Alliance capital. And it was annoying to have to actually guard the flag, because no one wanted to do it, because capturing the enemy flag is much more exciting. Remember when they started adding experience gain to BGs to make sure you couldn't twink your character and fight regular people, and could only fight other twinks in special twink lobbies? I'm sorry, Blizzard, but the appeal of twinking out a low level character is 100% pwning some noobs.
Heroes of the Storm
Javelin Amazon
Nazeebo
Bob, do Something!
Overwatch and TF2 Comparisons: They were more valid when TF2 and Overwatch were the only games in town, but the comparisons are still valid. I think it's uncontroversial to say that TF2 was better-designed, every detail polished to a mirror shine, while Overwatch just had way more ideas that weren't really balanced, or even attempted to be balanced, correctly... but both games eventually went to shit. I don't want to say that TF2 got abandoned, but to some extent, your PvP multiplayer game just needs more content at regular intervals to keep people invested, and TF2 stopped getting more. Overwatch, on the other hand, just sort of disappointed everyone and Blizzard gave up on it. Like, TF2 is infamously just pure bots now, to the point where it's unplayable. You at least have to give Overwatch credit that it's not just bots.
Jade Golems
Dr. Boom (Card)

Fifty DKP Minus
Sombra
Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness: I said this before, and I'll say it again: StarCraft is the first good RTS. The genre was garbage until then. And real talk, there are fewer than five good RTSes total. There were just too many minor improvements that had to be made in order to create a good game, Warcraft and Warcraft 2 had to walk so that StarCraft could run. It's not their fault, they were in uncharted territory, but it is what it is. Same reason why MGS >>>>>>>> MG1 and MG2, the technology had to catch up with the idea and the bad ideas had to get ironed out with developer experience. WC2 is where we start to have the humans and orcs have more unique units, and StarCraft is what finally gives us completely unique factions. WC2 gives us a SLIGHTLY more complex storyline, where not all of the humans are good (even though all of the orcs are still bad), and Starcraft takes it to the next level. It's actually kind of incredible, imagine if a game like this came out today, where the plot really is just this simple. I don't think you COULD make this kind of simplistic plot anymore in a real video game. It's also funny how the art for the box is Daelin Proudmoore, who's like the least important human leader and goes out in WC3 as the villain of the second orc campaign. I have thoughts on Daelin Proudmoore and Garithos, man, but they can wait. Anyway, this is the last gasp of the pure, untainted high fantasy. I know that we have steam engines and bombs and whatever, but WC3 is where things get a little more original, although the irony is that WoW was SO influential to the genre that it's now the default high fantasy setting instead of Lord of the Rings (yeah, I said it). Can someone explain to me why high fantasy ripoff settings always have humans, elves, dwarves, and orcs, but halflings are extremely rare? Anyway, this is a step up from WC1, but you still shouldn't actually play it.
Ana
Lost Vikings II: Norse by Norsewest
Jeff Kaplan Videos
Sarah Kerrigan
Lost Vikings
Warcraft: Orcs and Humans
Murky
Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans: I didn't know about this, I'm actually shocked that Blizzard had the idea of sympathetic orcs back in 1996. An adventure game, lol. Adventure games SUCK, yeah I said it. Don't tell me about Secret of Monkey Island or whatever, one good game doesn't redeem an entire genre of unplayable trash. The idea of playing as Thrall visiting downtrodden drunken orcs living in shitty reservations is kind of interesting, but it's probably a little too real? I don't know, I'm not sad that this game was cancelled, the specifics of how Thrall became the new leader of the Horde don't really matter, we just need to know that he reunited his people after they were reduced to living in squalor.
Hero Shooter (Genre)
Warcraft (Film)
Blackthorne (Game)

An Ancient Evil Returns
Diablo III: Reaper of Souls: Jesus Christ, this is already ten years old? Well, anyway, the idea of an angel turning evil and you having to fight him isn't terrible, but that's about all this game has: one idea that "isn't terrible." D3 is such a disappointment. I've heard D4 is better, but I don't know firsthand.
Microsoft Acquisition
Auction House (Diablo 3)
Ready Player One: You nominated this thinking I would have to look it up, but I embarrassingly did see that movie in theaters, and I remember the one second Tracer cameo. Nice try. I had to listen to the audiobook version because my friend wanted to while we were on a road trip, and in a story all about 80s nostalgia, it's like... I'm okay with the movie also including 90s nostalgia, so be it, but Tracer? From 2016? She stands out so much compared to even like the Iron Giant. And like, at least the Iron Giant had been out for well over a decade, including someone like Tracer in your "future where everyone is nostalgic for the past" scenario, please. Tracer will be well and truly forgotten by then. It's like including Rey from Star Wars. Oh, do you want a ranking of the book itself? It suckssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss.
Do You Guys Not Have Phones?
World of Warcraft: Shadowlands
Bobby Kotick
Always Online
Nova
Activision

Not Even Death Can Save You
Sylvanas Windrunner
Warcraft III: Reforged
BlitzChung Incident
Overwatch 2's PvE Cancellation: It's actually incredible how much this disappointed people. I'm around college kids a lot, and I've heard many 18 year olds complaining about this. I think Blizzard didn't realize how much people wanted this, which is confusing, because this was also 95% of their justification for "updating" Overwatch with a sequel. And without the PvE, what do we even have? Just Overwatch 1, but with one fewer player per team? Like, when Overwatch came out, it put a big emphasis on "a world worth fighting for" and all its implied backstory and lore. Then Blizzard says, explicitly says, "we're updating the game so you can focus on the lore," and then that just doesn't happen. So the only actual effect the sequel has is to replace lootboxes with battle passes, and boy oh boy, I hated lootboxes, but I'll take them 10000% over battle passes. Complete flub by Blizzard, effectively killed the game. And for what? What else is Blizzard even making that takes resources? More WoW expansions?
Blizzard (Weather)
Cosby Suite

Veto
BlitzChung Controversy: I already ranked this!