Quote Originally Posted by Hyena View Post
Warcraft is a difficult case. Blizzard doesn't care about canon at all, because they don't actually care about the story. All they care about is awesome-looking bosses, awesome-looking faction leaders and generally flashy stuff. It's incredibly obvious from numerous things, but the most glaring example is the latest expansion, Warlords of Draenor, can be essentially describes as this

"Hey, I have a midlife crysis. You remember Warcraft 2 with orcs and humans with oily muscles, who killed each other?"
"Yeah."
"Let's bring it back! People will think it's so cool to meet all the orcs they've read about."
"But... Aren't they dead?"
"Uh, well, we'll make something up. Maybe they used time travel or something."
Is a "midlife Crysis" where you're suddenly really into flashy PC FPS games as you get older?