As others probably already know, I miss the faction conflicts. BfA was doing good with it until they went another direction with the story.
I think OP is one of those that think anything Warcraft shouldn’t of evolved past the ideas of WC 1and WC2 .
I think in their world the only playable races should be orcs and humans and the only content should be open world pvp and raids should be the factions attacking eachothers cap cities.
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What would be kinda cool is if we ended up having to fight Anduin, Alleria, and Thrall at some point.
The faction conflict is the game, it is the IP. Everything else exists to facilitate that. The current so-called peace that exists completely undermines the motivations, history, values, and cultural differences of the peoples that make up the factions. Guess what?Undead and Trolls eat people, how does the Alliance make peace with that?
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We should be able to fight the big bad and other side at the same time. We’ve done it before, but now we’re all chummy and shiz. We had Anduin sending love letters to Baine, yuck!
@Primarch if you read some of the lore and artwork when WoW started. Humans and Trolls used to absolutely loathe each other. I’d almost argue humans used to hate trolls more than orcs. Dark Spear and Forest Trolls were so brutal, it was awesome!
So we weren’t crafting war against the Legion in TBC and Legion ?
We weren’t crafting war against Arthas and the scourge in Wrath ?
We weren’t crafting war against the Zandalari, Iron King and Garrosh in MoP?
We weren’t crafting war against the Iron Horde and Legion in Warlords?
We weren’t crafting war against the forces of the Jailer in SL ?
WHo says the war in warcraft only has to be the ALLiance and Horde at war ?
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He’s talking about faction war. The big bad gets old sometimes. The start of BfA was on the right path.
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I wonder why it’s only the faction war that gets old.
It’s like the “fifth” old god / void thing we’re facing now.
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The idea of a big bad got old after Sargeras got locked up. He was supposed to be an unimaginable big bad and we beat him. It is impossible to escalate from there. They tried and failed with the Jailer.
I’d argue that the conflict with the Jailer was a bigger failure of the “teaming up against a baddie” than BFA was with its faction conflict.
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Yeah but have you seen how they do the faction conflict?
They’re better off staying with the big bad and players canget their pvp rocks off in Warmode and Battlegrounds . It would probably be a better experience for them compared to what Blizz could do considering their past track record
We rarely have some good ol faction war anymore. It doesn’t get old, only the Care Bears don’t like it.
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Yeah, they should’ve stuck with the war to the end, not drop it halfway for naga and old gods. That should’ve been saved for a separate xpac altogether.
8.2 should’ve been “Reign of Fury”, where the Alliance takes full of advantage of its naval superiority and do some serious damage to the Horde. Ion preeched “Morally Grey”, but that would involve both sides doing bad things, and Alliance hasn’t done much of it. They didn’t torch Dazar’alor, nor did they take Undercity and destroy it.
Such a bad take.
It’s a big part of their identity. Imagine if they took out the Jedi and Sith in Star Wars? How would it be any different than any other space drama?
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The war against the Lich King was a war.
Here’s the hint I’ll give to people confused - if you don’t see Horde or Alliance soldiers prepping for battle, it’s not a war. Warthin is not a war. Legion was a war. Wrath was a war.
Shadowlands was, in a sense, not warlike either. Even as much as I personally liked it.
The lack of Horde or Alliance presence outside Jade Forest made much of Pandaria not feel “warful” aside from SoO (note: I didn’t really play the Thunder isle stuff).
Unity? Yes.
Peace? I think the planet is about to become the primary focus of the Void so I doubt it.
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They could make it happen if they really wanted to put effort into it, it’s really not hard. BfA was going good with the faction war until the story went a different direction near the end of the expansion .
War mode and pvp have no story, it’s que and enter. So idk what you mean by that.
krasarang wilds had some good faction conflict.
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lol I was wondering what you were trying to say before you edited your post.
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Lol yeah for some reason it auto corrected to that, For typing Krasarang.
If they put some of the faction conflict stories from the books in game, it would of made a lot more sense and much cooler imo.
Yeah, but that’s up to the writers, isn’t it? The potential for a GoT-like dynamic would definitely be there. Poor writing is also unsatisfying for those who enjoy the faction conflict. Of course I don’t mind the big bad either. A good blend creates the best flavour.
Except for the last quarter of the Pandaren starting zone, the Purge of Dalaran, the Thunder Bell and recruiting of Pandarens to the war in Kun-Lai Summit, the very long Dominance Offensive/Operation Shieldwall line in Krasarang, the direct conflict on the Isle of Thunder, the Barrens conflict event prior to Siege, SI:7’s role in Vol’Jin’s rebellion, the Battle on the High Seas, and of course the Siege of Orgrimmar itself, what have the Romans ever done for us?
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I wish they wrote where Sylvanas let loose Jaina’s brother on the Alliance. That would of been badass! Or at the start, Saurfang kill Anduin, then Saurfang gets killed and dies with honor by the soldiers that were near Anduin. I would of totally went GoT style lol. Back in BfA