Blizzard may remove upcoming WoW quest where players fix the timeline by ensuring a character is sexually assaulted
An upcoming quest in World of Warcraft: Dragonflight's patch 10.1.5, which was playable on the MMO's PTR server, has been heavily criticized by fans for its glib attitude toward a controversial part of the MMO's story.
Blizzard wrote in a thread about the quest that it acknowledges players' concerns and that it's «in the process of adjusting and removing quests» for the next PTR build. It didn't, however, mention the quest specifically, nor did it say how it would address the feedback.
The quest (explained in a forum post), titled «A Missing Soul», is part of the Fractures of Time patch coming next month that focuses on WoW's time-traveling dragons. The quest functions like a lot of time travel stories: something goes wrong in the past and you have to fix it to prevent problems in the present. Specifically, you have to find and return a missing artifact that was used by Dragonmaw Orcs to torture and sexually assault Alexstrasza, a major character in WoW's history and the Dragonflight expansion, so that its use would be ensured.
Fans took issue with having the player be complicit in a harrowing part of the lore for a simple daily quest, and others were particularly disturbed by its goofy tone. Chromie, the NPC who gives you the quest, seems conflicted about what she's asking, but tells you to keep it «on the down low.» When you finish it, she loudly congratulates you, but suspects Alexstrasza knows what you did. She does, and when you talk to her, she grinds her teeth and tells you that keeping the timeline intact is important even if she doesn't like it.
«I really don't like having the player do these things, especially such explicitly horrible things,» Twitter user Portergauge wrote in a thread about the quest.
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