Apparently Anet didn’t learn from Blizzard’s mistakes because Taimi right now is the exact reason people started to hate Thrall when he was previously a beloved character.
Don’t remind me. Writers’ pet NPCs dominating the story at the expense of everything and everyone else, and even if other characters somehow get thrown a bone once in a very blue moon under a perfect celestial alignment, it’s just turned into another writer’s pet showcase instead — this is one of the main reasons why I quit WoW during Cataclysm after having been fed up with their writers for a while already. Though at least GW2 doesn’t treat its female characters as horribly as WoW did (mind you, that is low bar to clear if there ever was one), and also doesn’t have the forced PvP aspect screwing up all attempts at storytelling.
It is also the reason why I probably won’t buy another Bioware game despite having played their games since BG1. Way too much fawning over favoured NPCs even if they want to destroy the world.
There’ll always be characters who are more important to a story than others, of course, but when you actively sideline or kill or off crap all over other characters, or ignore their strengths just so your favourite can look like the only smart, competent person in the world, you’ve cannonballed off the deep end into bad storytelling and shouldn’t be surprised by the splash it might cause.
