You’re being disingenuous, of course. Back in the day the original dev team admitted to mainly playing horde. I’m sure many of them did play alliance and in the ensuing years many others did too.
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Nothing, I was curious as to the technical reasons for why it happened. On a second re-read and with @Kaivax’s comment, I think it makes sense what happened.
Despite my/our crankiness in the moment in the closing hour(s) of the war, this did turn out to be an unforgettable event for me/us, and I think things turned out okay. Nice to see some context from behind-the-scenes as well.
That guy probably isn’t even level 60. Blizzard doesn’t play their own game anymore.
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“50 undead mage”
Sorry just made me laugh
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Glad to hear it! 
I also had a great time.
I’m somewhat fortunate that my own realm was late to open our gates, so that I actually had a chance to participate. (I was working during the initial gate openings in each region, as you might expect).
My own realm was crowded enough to trigger the teleport code, and I got bit by a bug that caused the teleports to port out random players instead of the last people to enter, so even though I was online and at the gong hours ahead of time, I was ported out just before the gong was actually rung.
We found the source of that bug, and it will be fixed soon, but we can’t go back in time and prevent it, of course. Still, my guild made the best of it, and somebody who was still in Silithus streamed the gate opening to the rest of us so we could watch while we got ready to farm the crystals at other locations in Kalimdor. We had a pretty good time with the mind-control mechanic allowing us to attack people trying to steal our spawn. Of course, we also occasionally killed each other by mistake.
We were able to return to Silithus after about an hour once the population calmed down, and overall I had a really good time participating in this once-in-a-realm’s-lifetime event. I hope you all did too.
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You did a bad job.
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SERIOUSLY!?!?!?!
You guys have no reason to pat yourselves on back.
My experience on PAGLE was lag to the point where I couldn’t play, followed by being kicked out of the zone, followed by a server crash that lasted more than an hour, followed by a war effort that failed to end on time!
So, I have no idea what you are congratulating.
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So basically, they do really all play Horde, except when it comes to how the game existed 15 years ago prior to the significant and obvious Horde bias.
im trying to think of how nostalrius was able to handle having a ton of players in one place so much better than blizzard was
all i can think of is that they had a completely different approach to their server telling players what other players are doing, which for all I know was less secure than what blizzard is doing, and by less secure i mean easier to hack and cheat and whatnot
being a non-programmer, I could only imagine the most bare basics of what that approach may have been; it sounds like a difficult design problem
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It was really poorly done. I’ve seen better events generated on the fly from the Neverwinter Nights toolset almost 20 years ago. And with less lag.
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People wonder why blizzard isnt more active on the boards
This is why. We get it, you are upset. The guy you are griping at probably had nothing to do with the issues but you are hell bent on letting him hear it
I dont blame them at all for not coming on these boards more
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One of the biggest things they did was massively decrease draw distance–the server simply wouldn’t tell you about other people who were more than <some small number> meters away. Blizzard presumably considered that option and decided against it.
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oooh yeah I forgot that they did that
its been a while
you think they have a bias now, wait til TBC comes out and you realize they buffed orc racial to last longer, gave horde paladins that do more dmg then alliance ones, and an aoe silence/mana drain. Also when they give druids cyclone guess which faction has a stun that allows you to free cast it?
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This was embarrassing to read. Blizzard has generated massive revenues and invested into the community nearly nothing.
Also - This post is getting heavily moderated. Why censor constructive comments?
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Wow what a nasty comment.
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They had to force Devs to play paladin back in Vanilla just to see what the paladins were complaining about. Anyone who doesn’t believe the Horde bias didn’t play Vanilla or is being obtuse when looking at stuff like AV, pvp/priest racials, armor design and the fact horde got paladins in TBC after they buffed the hell out of them and ignored Ally players in Vanilla.
It’s why I went horde.
Nah they play alliance too.
That my friend is the unfortunate side of a big corporation.
Quarterly earnings > Budget > Quality > employee morale.
Oh, I didn’t say there was no bias. Just that I’m sure they played alliance a bit too. However, I feel their decisions reflect an unconscious bias toward horde in many areas.
It’s tough to make a game with multiple factions, giving each their own flavor, without balance issues.