Am I misremembering? I thought it was going to be the other way around? Definitely not a majority of the city. I’m not a huge lore person to the point this breaks game immersion and ruins the game for me, but it does feel strange on a surface level.
Basing this on the map from here wowhead link .
Also here’s a panel of Maria Hamilton saying it would be a small sanctuary area. I guess small = over 2/3 of the map? lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neo3ggXVlI0&t=93s
Times change and bribes open doors.
So alliance bribed Lor’themar in a questline? I’ve only done a few quests in town so far only half paying attention so I don’t spoil myself too much. Just trying to get to 90 for gameplay rotation feel
The Leaders don’t need to know everything their subordinates do or don’t.
Player outrage made Blizzard change the boundaries.
Unsurprising given the Alliance bias already present in the story.
Things like this really do make it seem like the alliance bias jokes aren’t just jokes tbh. Even for a game it just doesn’t feel like a “real” decision to let them run around this much of the city
But that’s sort of where the danger lies to be honest.
Where they think:
Yet if the letter of such is pushed too far, or the ‘exception’ is too heavily implicated — Overtime it does start to break the game’s immersion … or at least in particular areas.
Personally, it’s part of the reason as to why I may be “More classes for more specs” – I’m vehemently against: “All classes = All races”
She later clarified due to controversy and corrected that in a later seminar, where it’s now the other way around.
Personally, while yeah sure it irks me, especially as it’s barely comparable to Bel’ameth or Gilneas in the slightest — I’d be much more welcoming to it if they DID apply a small degree of the Bel’ameth treatment, where the Alliance get a DEBUFF whilst in Quel’Thalas & Silvermoon.
At least unlike Bel’ameth, the Alliance are humbled by the Horde and can actually use goods & services @ Silvermoon, as opposed to what the Horde can @ Bel’ameth …
What you’re remembering, as far as I can tell, was the result of a confused expansion reveal and poor communication.
Bias in either direction is a dumb, pointless, and ultimately self-defeating argument because whatever the direction their biases favor still gets GPT slop tier writing.
I still find it wild and silly how people can see the first expac hub in the game’s history only giving Horde full access as an example of bias for the Alliance.
I understand your point but I think for a lot of horde players it actually does feel like they’re giving up more because of the city it is. Although the content has never driven people to congregate in silvermoon consistently, it’s still the blood elf city and the alliance has been whining about how they should have blood elves ever since they were put in the game as horde. To me this isn’t a huge deal, but for many people the horde/alliance rivalry really is part of the fun. Letting the alliance in silvermoon at all feels like a huge loss to these players. For them I don’t think there’s even a way to balance that loss. Theres not an alliance race/city/territory that has ever been a sticking point in the rivalry likE the blood elves have been.
Alliance players seem to act like they own the blood/high elves … wait does that mean Sylvanas is an Alliance character? She is a high elf, a dead one, but a high elf nonetheless. They claim all high elves as theirs right?
Which makes sense until you consider it’s happened to no less than three Alliance territories prior to this. And then you consider the amount of attention Silvermoon gets compared to the likes of Bel’ameth, Gilneas and Telogrus Rift, it just gets more laughable.
Even so, it’s a dumb argument that serves nobody but blizzard because it abets their lazy writing so long as it favors one side or the other.
If it makes you feel better OP, just think of the Blood Elves like the Pandaren - the NPCs of the race are neutral while players are split across 2 factions (in the form of Void Elves for the Alliance).
Coming soon … World of Warcraft: Midnight - Mist of Quel’Thalas
Screw that rivalry. It should have died in BfA. With cross faction near everything any faction war storyline would likely end up being negatively recieved.
Asuming Blizzard continues this trajectory EVERY CITY, Alliance or Horde, will get this treatment. Sounds as fair to me as anything else.
And if Blizzard only adds one new mega city every expansion(and considering we have at least 10 core races and 2 years between expansions), well a good chunk of people will be dead before we see a revamp of all the cities.
But like I pointed out, there’s no alliance territory that that the horde has pined over and whined about as part of the rivalry between factions. To faction rivalry people there is no bigger alliance win / horde loss than the alliance getting into silvermoon. Nothing even comes close.
Yeah, Alliance Posters have been pining over Horde locales like Silvermoon and Lordaeron, but it doesn’t really work the other way. Not alot of Horde Players give Alliance locales much thought - other than to destroy them. But not to like, hang out there.
Yeah they made it bigger for Alliance players.
I’ll have a Horde character anyway to see what it’s like.
They have been literally attacking Ashenvale, Gilneas and Stromgarde and look, now they now legit get a portion of the Arathi Highlands and Ashenvale.
You’re misremembering. They started killing the Horde story in BfA.
But I wanted 100% and converting all Blood elves to Void elves. Embrace the tentacle my wayward brothers and sisters!
This is a joke by the way.
It’s Alliance bias if Horde have full access to an Alliance city because the hub is based around the Alliance*. It’s Alliance bias if Alliance can even ENTER the Horde city we’re using as the hub because it’s a Horde city.
Duh.
*Authors Note: Any race or faction not explicitly Horde is considered Alliance.