No thank you. More Horde should roll Alliance, though. After all the population problem on Alliance is the reason we’re even getting cross-faction to begin with, that’s how bad it is.
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This server has more ally though.
We’re like the one server who has everything skewed the other way.
People begging for more Alliance on high Horde pop servers… But dont want MG/Oceanic servers to work on their skewed server population. Lol.
I think a lot of the “Horde is dead on MG talk” has been based on the poor metric of no one being in Silvermoon anymore; on the whole, I really think it’s that simple.
Despite the exodus that came after the failure of the current and previous expansions, and the exposure of Blizzard’s horrid activities behind the scenes, the simple fact of the matter appears to be that the landscape–and the role-play philosophy–has shifted on Moon Guard-US for the Horde.
I have been around since the start of the server. I’ve been active across both Horde and Alliance on Moon Guard as a GM, guild officer, RP group leader, etc…; so I have lived through and observed a few things. When the server started, blood elves were what was “it”–they were the “hot” item on the “market”, so to speak. Silvermoon was bustling because of that–you could log-on at ANY time and find the streets of SMC with people about.
Times have changed.
As the game has grown older, blood elf content has largely remained stagnant–Silvermoon, for example, has stayed in 2006. People grew tired of no strong blood elf content updates. MANY more races have come to the game since BC, too, which brings much more RP opportunity, but also dillutes the once-large pool of people who found blood elves the best option for them.
With the decrease of population in the blood elf RP community, you’ve naturally seen Silvermoon–once THE place that people sighted as the hub of Horde RP on MG–become largely barren. This, in my opinion (and what I have heard and read time and time again), is why people say MG Horde is dead.
It’s a false metric to use.
It may indeed be true the MG Horde isn’t as populace as it once was, but there is still a VAST amount of people and guilds about. Things have shifted to guild RP over walk-up now; that’s the biggest change.
If you want to support MG Horde, creating an alt on MG Horde is a start, but ensuring that you’re also engaged in the community via the support of great guild and Discord community initatives is the way to go. Engaging in postive dialogue with people who spread the “MG Horde is dead” mantra is the way to go, too.
The community isn’t dead… but one runs the risk of creating a self-fulfilling prophecy the more that false narrative is allowed to spread unchallenged.
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I made an undead rogue named Spork. With him I shall conquer the world in my tier 2 set and /dance animation.
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I think the Horde population has been growing a bit lately, actually.
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From my own experience, Horde on MG is actually very busy. We do lack much of the walkup culture of WRA Horde, yes, and yet, I rather like it more. Our communities tend to be more organized, more inclusive, and less insular. Giant group projects like Conquest and Coalition events can keep you on your toes for a whole week, most guilds will have an event once a week just to chill with friends, and I’ve only seen things growing.
While making an alt to hang out with us is nice and all, we actually tend to find that alts just create needless clutter. What we really like are active members adding to our community, which you can actually do on Alliance side by RPing in cross faction events with your Horde friends.
We’d rather you play what you like most and have fun, than do something just to spike numbers, even if we think that it’s kind that you care about our community health.
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Very well said to the post above. Probably more helpful to just play an active character wherever you like best.
hot take I’d like to see WRA and MG merge into one mega-RP realm. Ends the weird competition over servers - we can enjoy Horde and Ally RP together as one superserver!
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It might be a capacity issue, where the population would be too high combined, leading to queues.
I wouldn’t. The cultures of both RP realms are vastly different, with their own server lore, etc.
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No! WRA is the answer to most, but…it’s not any better.
I think they merged some of the smaller RP realms together, but MG and WrA are both large enough to not need it.
The smaller RP realms also no longer RP.
Oh really? Didn’t know that.
I can’t bring myself to rp on horde 
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Making Horde alts is somewhat the problem with the staggering numbers within the Horde community. Too many people from Alliance trying to stay as Alliance figures while also spending time among the Horde. Sure the idea of Alliance players rolling characters is fine and welcome but it won’t fix the issues.
There have been plenty of us over the years and months, who have made horde alts. Or even guilds. In my personal experience with it, I more or less got told to pick a faction and stick to it. I haven’t really been back sadly. Most members of the horde community are welcoming! Many aren’t.
From my understanding, the community is growing on its own.
I have a few Horde alts. I’ll probably play them more when the cross faction stuff comes out in 9.2.5, since I think they’re letting you group with opposite faction friends.
My favorite thing about MG Alliance, while it can be controversial, is trade chat. It’s not just spams of guild recruitments or selling items, but it’s full of conversations and debates. I don’t always partake, but sometimes while just sitting in a major city waiting for a que or even if I’m just idling on the game while doing other things, I find enjoyment in just reading trade chat.
This being said, I tend to judge which factions/realms I play on due to this. I’ve tried WA, MG Horde, and others, and sat in a major city for an hour or so, and there would barely be any whispers of a conversation; sometimes there wasn’t even anything, not even advertisements. I could have just happened to be on at a slow, downtime, but it still left me disappointed for there to be such emptiness there.
I feel like this is the one main thing holding me back from playing MG Horde. I love the races more than alliance ones and I’m sure the rp communities are just as great, but is there any more activity or conversations in a general/trade chat than when I tried a few months ago? Like I said, maybe I just had bad timing with when I got on and tried it.
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