Aren't Mission Impossible and Civil War both popular, accepted franchises? With fairly simple, clear-cut storylines? Warcraft is not really in the same bucket.

Aren't Mission Impossible and Civil War both popular, accepted franchises? With fairly simple, clear-cut storylines? Warcraft is not really in the same bucket. It's closer to something like John Carter, where some people are in the know, the rest don't know what it is, and it's trying to squeeze a truckload of information into not enough time. And in the case of Warcraft in particular, a lot of people perceive it as embarrassing.