It’s time to end the factions - if for no other reason, so we don’t have to suffer through another one of these terrible written faction-based expansions again.
I’m so done with the faction conflict. Because there is no conflict. Horde has won - both in-game and out-of game.
If I want to raid past H EP, I’m 4x more likely to get a raid spot if I switch factions, because something like 24% of the guilds with Mythic clears are Alliance. Let’s talk about how 72% of level 120 characters on PvP servers are Horde and how top-loaded the end-game PvP scene is with Horde. On Alliance, you’re lucky if a handful of Arena groups are even running at any given time.
Let’s talk about how War Mode is not-so jokingly called Horde Mode, where Horde get greater EXP benefits for free… whereas Alliance just get swarmed and die. It got so bad, they needed to give Alliance quests to try and get more of them to activate War Mode… so what happens? Alliance players form bands of flying, geared premades, and farms Horde for 5-10 minutes a week - leaving as soon as they’re done and doing nothing to add to the overall health of PvP.
From a story view, we always unite to fight the greater evil then go back to this dumb, arbitrary faction conflict that apparently is so important to WoW… according to Blizzard. Going back to MoP, we’ve had quest-lines that involve us controlling a Robot Cat to see all the cool things Horde’s doing - we’ve had to politely remind Blizzard that being forced to help major Horde NPCs while they belittle us is just stupid writing. And even now, how many versions of the Night Warrior story did Blizzard have to make before they even got something resembling a satisfying Alliance win - if you consider annoying Nathanos satisfying. And then apparently, that’s good enough for the Genocide of the Night Elf race. We’re now even steven, revenge is over. Yeah okay Whatever.
Every Blizzcon, they go out of their way to mock Alliance players, talk about them as if they’re as incompetent as the characters they’re writing in-game. I just don’t get it. What’s the point of faction conflict, if you’re just going to make one side awesome and the other side suck? Heck, it feels like less like conflict and more like bullying at this point.
It’s time to bring this nonsense to an end and just merge the factions. It’s clear Blizzard doesn’t like the Alliance - they are not interested in making them fun to play, they are not interested in creating a parity between the two factions. So what’s even the point of the farce? Just create a neutral faction under Thrall and Jaina that all players now belong to… make the Horde an NPC faction, make the Alliance an NPC faction… when they do, they can write the Alliance to be as boring, incompetent and reactionary as they want. No one will care anymore.
I really don’t want to suffer through another year of this horrible faction conflict writing and watching a bunch of bad jokes about Alliance players while watching Blizzcon this year.
I’m just basically done caring at all. What about you folks?
