The factions don’t really drive the story in vanilla because there’s no story (and EK actually had the lion’s share of design focus, so Humans, Dwarves, Forsaken)
The factions don’t drive the story in BC, the factions that drive the story in BC are joinable by all and in fact I’ve never heard of anyone other than draenei and MHP joining the Aldorks.
Wrath not only isn’t particularly led by the horde but the key horde races for the expansion are completely gone from MSQ by the time ICC kicks off, with blood elves assigned to (admittedly cool) dragon stuff and forsaken replaced entirely by a neutral faction.
It’s really just Mists and BFA and both expansions war content tends to be equally hated by both sides’ players. The iron horde is no more “the horde” than the sargerei are “the alliance” outside the delusions of the hardcore faction brained.
That’s more than the alleged Alliance favoritism in the 20th anniversary
Point being in what I initially quoted from you, the complaints about Horde favoritism were never about orcs existing, like the complaints about Alliance favoritism today being about humans existing
Thrall is a cool character, note that he only really was the big neutral hero for Cata patches and that mostly came about because Metzen didn’t want him involved in the faction war nonsense the WC2 fanboys wanted to peddle.
Race is irrelevant when discussing factions. It’s not Alliance or Horde favoritism because the character is a human or an orc, it’s Alliance or Horde favoritism because the character belongs to the Alliance or the Horde
Well this has been as fun as talking to a rock, but I think the rock could at least figure out what alliance race means instead of going caps lock cuz theyre angry all the NPCs are alliance races
