Would it have been worse if they had actually given the Worgen a city as well. That is one of the factors bringing about the bias factor all the time. You example is an actual imbalance intentionally done by the devs, just like the smaller number of leveling zones the Horde had been at launch.
Players are correct to point that out as bias. They would not have been correct in pointing out adding zones to balance the initial imbalance done at launch. (The childish would still have but wouldn’t have a rational leg to stand on)
By not correcting this, it lingers, festers, and never goes away. Then each additional time this happens it feeds into the outrage and resentment.
Look at the outrage threads, vast majority of the time they lead straight to Cata and go forward from there.
We don’t see eye to eye on a lot of subjects, that’s for sure. And I feel like my empathy has been rubbed away over the course of BfA by, well, too many threads like this one. I had a lot more of it a year ago.
That said … I know we’re both human beings behind the screen, and if we were to actually meet and go out for coffee or something, we’d probably have quite a nice chat.
And for what it’s worth, I also wish they’d gone the tidal wave route with Southshore. I just don’t believe it would have made a very big difference to faction relations in the long run, because the alternative would also be seen as bias. They should have released a balanced world from the start and then gradually added things for both sides, patch by patch.
See above about my ideal solution to the whole mess.
With a retcon. BfA was nothing but a massive fever dream that all champions suffered for several months. While they were comatosed the Old Gods slowly started taking over Azeroth in earnest. The two factions kept their bond formed from fighting the Legion strong as they continue to work together to fight the bug armies of the Void.
I won’t lie and say I wouldn’t feel an immense sense of relief to have Darnassus back. Despite some posters’ prattle about losing “nameless NPCs”, they weren’t nameless to me. Tolon has been handling my financial ventures for close to, if not over a decade. Feyden and Firodren put me on the path of seeking out those financial ventures (especially Firoden, who started out my Herbalism, and therefore Alchemy, alts). Saelienne’s been where my hearthstone’s been set for nearly as long. And Denatharion was a face I learned well, back when Class Trainers were useful. In short, it was my home, for around a decade, across two accounts, at least three servers, and I couldn’t tell you how many guilds.
But there’s a small part of me that would feel… cheapened, I suppose, by a “it was all a dream”, or time travel reset. Like… they’ve kept me angry and embittered for over a year, for… nothing? (Not that I wouldn’t take it in a heartbeat, as nothing is what I’m likely to get out of this mess anyway.)
I am a very easy to please NE fan so I’d be perfectly happy with my territory back with Sylvanas’ head on a spike showing our outter borders so the Horde can remember where not to set foot ever again =)
Same here pellex, the maximum that i would wish is that the dumb writters that put us into this position lose their job but that is where my hate ends.
Ehhhhhhh. Let’s not give Blizz any ideas. They’ll do it.
And afterward Baine will die tragically and a grief-stricken Ji Firepaw will declare war on the Alliance and turn Nomi loose on the NElves because they stole his last dumpling. Then we do this dance again.
Get ready for WoW: Factions of Vengeance! We’re super serious this time edition!
The Alliance defeats the Horde to end BfA. They work together for an expac or 2. Then the Alliance is mean and the Horde has to reconstitute and fight back.
Maybe Thrall and Saurfang go find a brooding exiled Sylvanas and beg her to help.
At some point, we will get sick of it. I feel I have near infinite patience… but it is wearing thin. As much as I like the game, the story is stuck in a partially clogged toilet. Slowly churning and redundant .
Blood Elves have to act SUPER edgy, like extremely edgy, in behavior because they look like sparkle fairies. It’s just compensation for how they’re not as edgy and grimdark BA looking like the other Horde races are. That’s why it’s not worth responding to them, just nod at them and pat their head like the cute little sparkle fairies they are and move on with your day.
Also they really love Worgen men for… some reason. I can’t understand why, well I think maybe I can but I can’t explain further because it would break the terms of service here. x)
Man … if this is the case, I’d rather the Mostly Red Kalimdor and Mostly Blue EK be a thing.
Get us out of eachother’s hair for a while, letting us focus on internal issues; Allowing Silvermoon and Exodar to take center stage as the last bastions of their factions on the opposing continents; It would definitely be a means for potential consolidation of the Horde … and internal tensions within the Alliance. All while we get away from this vicious cycle … for a while.
Its not a route without serious costs … but to deny that there isn’t story potential either…
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