Horde's coolest themes, best credit and appeals will go to the Alliance

[Zuleika-hyjal (Zuleika)]

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The Forsaken joining the Horde was very clearly Blizzard wanting a playable Scourge faction, but one not fitting into either of the two main factions. Rather than making a third faction, they slapped the Forsaken onto the Horde.

That’s not the story told by one of the developers who was there at the time:

On Blizzard's Creation of the Forsaken

I find myself referencing this quote (see below) from Bo Bell a lot lately, and I always have to search for it in the story forum and then C&P. I’m going to put it here as its own thread so that I can just link to it in future. Of course, feel free to discuss it as well if you have thoughts. Bo Bell worked on the original creation of WoW. The question is in a Reddit AMA, from a user named Qayindo, who had two questions, so I’ve snipped the quote below to just the relevant parts. ~https://ww…

Honestly, I think the biggest “problem” with the Forsaken is that the devs took the opportunity to throw in a lot of what they saw as dark humor, that players ended up taking seriously.