Talk:Player character

Adandonment of the concept in later games
I suggest changing "Blizzard is currently in process of retconning the concept" to "Blizzard is currently in process of getting rid of the concept in future games" (or something similiar). None of the player characters was retconned (Magistrate was just not prominently featured in Liberty's Crusade, since the novel focuses on its titular character; Cerebrate appears in Queen of Blades; Tassadar's successor was just revealed to be Artanis; Executor, Captain and Cerebrate were also obviously not retconned) and neither Chambers nor Metzen said anything about retconning these characters.

In fact, they didn't (except for Cerebrates and Captain) even clarified their current status: if you listen to Chamber's tone and look at his face when he says "dead, gone", it's obvious that he was saying it rather jokingly and THEN he and Metzen proceed to elaborate that they are not going to use player characters in the storyline anymore.

All in all, my point is that the player characters (as the elements of SC story) weren't retconned out, but Blizzard abandonded the concept of POV player (when the player doesn't just control, but actually "is" a character) and won't use it in future games (including SC, where there is no player character and the player controls Raynor). XEL 09:49, December 28, 2010 (UTC)