I get why representation is important, but I think it’s also important that it not be incredibly clumsy.

World of Warcraft does quite a bit of representation and I didn’t even notice it until I really thought about it. It’s a fairly violent setting with lots of people having terrible things done to them, so people with disabilities, people in wheelchairs, blind people, etc all just seem like they fit the setting.

There’s an issue with sexual orientation, though: WoW has basically zero romance, relationships or sexual content. Even the in-game Valentines Day event is about alchemists controlling people with drugged perfume.

So the three or four gay couples in the Dragonflight expansion were the only characters in any sort of relationship in that expansion, and made up probably half of the characters that have ever been mentioned being in a relationship in WoW’s entire 22 year run.

Warcraft is one of those settings where the creators could declare half of the characters are gay and it wouldn’t change anything. But a character has to be seen to count for representation, and sexuality in WoW isn’t seen.