So, the Horde have another step on the quest to allow the freedom of choice. What began as people angrily demanding an option to not betray Sylvanas has become a full-fledged quest experience.
…for only one faction.
It’s nice that Jaina can forgive Baine. But other Alliance members might not be keen to. And yet Blizzard refuses to allow the Alliance equal treatment and give us a quest option not to help Baine.
It’s great that the Horde got their choice.
It’s not great that the Alliance are being ignored again.
Do better, Blizzard.
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I think it’s because the Horde’s story is better suited for choice like that atm than the Alliance’s. Shoehorning in choices for the sake of it just makes it pointless.
The Alliance will most likely get choices when the story allows for it, currently it does not.
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The choices boil down to “Do you want this toy or not?” It impacts nothing. You aren’t missing much.
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This, Blizz is going to tell the story they want regardless of how you feel or what decision you make.
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The choice was a hastily thrown together illusion to distract from the fact that there was a character assassination of each and every Horde character participating in BfA.
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I would like the choice to go hang out with Dadghar and try to find out why both the Horde and Alliance leaders are acting like idiots. Hanging out in Kara would have been cool.
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You have a choice as an Alliance player. You have the choice to come play the faction that most everyone else who takes the game even slightly serious plays, not to mention it’s the same faction the dev’s play too.
We may still get a choice later on, but it has to make sense for the story. The Alliance has to help Baine otherwise the Horde’s side can’t continue.
The Alliance just doesn’t have the problems that the Horde does. There’s no evil leaders, no major rifts or divisions. That’s why the Horde gets more focus at the moment. Which in my opinion is just fine. The factions don’t have to be perfectly balanced by Thanos himself in all things at all times.
And there is a choice. You can accept the gift of the lord and master N’Zoth or be a traitor and deny it!
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What decisions could we possibly make that matter for either side? The story is still going to play out the way it will play out.
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But I thought the Alliance were the good guys?
The good guys always help!
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The questions is: “Will Alliance ever get a story that “allows for it”?”
The only thing I can see atm is if the NEs decide to split because of what they see as lack of support from the Alliance. Personally, I’d like a scenario where all the leaders would to be able to vote for the High King position because Anduin isn’t fit for it and Blizz just shoehorned him into the role as an excuse to explain the Alliance’s seeming incompetence/ineptitude/stupidity - conveniently forgetting all his “advisers” have tons of experience.
Me too!
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This is very true, actually. Alliance are just the little helpers that help the real players, the might Horde players, to achieve success in the game. Without the little elves, Santa would never wrap and deliver all those gifts around the world!
Thanks Alliance, the little helpers!
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Any single race splitting off on their own would easily be wiped out by the opposing faction. Any race, even the humans who are like roaches across the planet. No race could survive on its own unless it’s written off to NPC only and given enough plot armor to survive.
It doesn’t have much impact on anything but it was a nice touch. I’d love to see more dynamicism like that in the game.
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Would seem kind of silly if both factions had the same stuff going on?
I’m all for helping Baine. I will play along with this.
While we are walking, I am behind Saurfang. I shiv Saurfang in the back repeatedly until he dies.
He has no honor and deserves an honorless death. Thus endeth the life of the Butcher of Darkshore.
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And then we can just raise him — Deathbringer Saurfang, Sr.
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Which brings me to another point:
Since she can raise all of her fallen troops and all of our fallen troops, why hasn’t she won the war already?
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No, I don’t see them leaving either but that is the only source of tension I’ve seen in the Alliance this expansion. I just don’t see the Alliance getting any of these “choice” branching quest lines unless they pull something out of their nether regions again like they did with void elves ![:slight_smile:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=6" ":slight_smile:")