Question about the Alliance story/motive/development totally lacking from the pre-patch....gives an answer that is 66% about the Horde.I guess that says it all about what Blizzard cares for right now (and arguably has for the last decade). Really looking forward to Classic for playing a WoW again that is not invested into the factions at all. The expansion has just begun and i am just as burned out on this faction stuff as Teldrassil. The whole motive makes me feel miserable and the expansion far less enjoyable than it could have been without it.
Surely they are not stupid enough to actually remove factions altogether. That's the entire foundation of the game, even the game series (RTS etc.). That would go down in history as the greatest error ever made by a gaming company.
“The Alliance is going to have to realign itself. Especially the Night Elves who lose their home. How are they going to react to this? There’s going to be a real self-examination of what the Alliance is about, and how they want to behave. Do they want to get revenge on the Horde, or do they want to build a better world? That’s a question they need to answer.”Except the Night Elves didn't simply 'lose their home' they were depopulated to an extreme by a major genocidal event. Why the hell would they not want their revenge. What better world could there ever be for Night Elves who were just genocided to near extinction as the dialogue in Elegy suggests 'too few in the rest of the world and all that remain'. Why the hell should the Night Elves see themselves wiped out just to 'keep the ideals of the Alliance' alive? There doesn't need to be self-examination when your race was nearly wiped out by the other faction on a bloody whim. There needs to be blood for blood. For a night elf there can never be a better world so long as horde races exist within it and that needs to be put forth. Not this moronic crap of Shandris saying even more of her already genocided people dying is worth the same as the life of a human.
They couldn't even make the alliance sound semi-interesting, that answer was so generic and predictable you can tell they literally have NOTHING in store for the alliance besides running around being the pure golden boys they are.
"Rebuild their world or take revenge". Let's rebuild our homeland and make peace with Horde so later the Horde attack it once again and destroy it. These writers are incompetent. They don't understand a thing about anything both inside and outside of the game. Honestly if any Alliance leader is going to make peace with Horde and support this, is an idiot, doesn't matter what those braindeads in blizz say, they are idiots.Another note to all the night elf fans who are still playing this game: They are going to show them as incompetent fools once again. This interview sounds exactly like "a little patience".stop...playing...this...game
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"Factions are so tied into player identity"Yeah... ... ... Nah.I kill dragons (and demons, ogres, titan constructs, void-touched creatures, mogu, titans, et al). The faction conflict is nothing but a nuisance.On a practical level, it artificially limits the pool of people I can group with & on an RPish in-game level it's a waste of resources.If they made factions purely cosmetic for battleground purposes then I'd break open the champagne.
1 Plotline is easier (and more importantly much much cheaper) to developthat is what it is all going to boil down to.
I think this is setting up a Warcraft 4 tbh. They are aligning towards 4 factions like Warcraft 3. I think that Forsaken and Night Elves will stay within the Horde and Alliance loosely, but we'll see a big separation of identity. Night Elves are going to want vengeance hardcore. Remember, Night Elves were very wild in WC3, unlike how they have been in WoW. Hopefully they will return to that. Forsaken have always wanted to see everything dead. That isn't going to change. The 4 sides rift keeps widening until we get Warcraft 4.
The hyperbole in these comments is astounding. I appreciate how everyone is adding their views/thoughts/feelings to the story. Regardless of whether or not I agree with someone's perspective, I enjoy the uncertainty/ambiguity as the storyline evolves.