I feel like people have a very proud “Horde vs Alliance” view, some people are very like “YESS FOR THE ALLIANCE!” and others are like “FOOORRR TTTHHHEEE HOOORRRDEEEEE” but for me as silly is it sounds like this is damn politics I like both the Alliance and the Horde so I find it kind of hard to “pick” my favorite side.
The reason why its hard is because a lot of my friends just go all out with factions some of my friends only play horde toons and never really level and alliance the others are alliance who never touch horde but ME I play both.
Honestly I like how the Horde runs things better in the sense of the individualism I think that’s a lot better way to run things instead of it just being one leader that rules above all like Anduin unless maybe the Alliance has a council sort of like the Horde does.
How do you guys view this? are you more alliance sided or horde sided whats your view on this?
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I am bifactional, but primarily play Horde. I enjoy the story the same on both sides (or dislike it, depending), but my bias comes from familiarity; I know where to find everything in Orgrimmar, but get lost in Stormwind, purely from years if play.
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The Alliance is more like a mutual council. The last members in conflict of interest that existed were Onyxia, Fandral, Moira, and Daelin. 
Often the Alliance will correct most or all situations quickly.
edit: The Night elves have distanced themselves from the alliance during Shadows Rising.
I am an old school player. I thought that having a faction to root for, and to root against was kinda fun back in the day. Story wise, I feel those days are long over as the Alliance and Horde have worked together so many times by this point, that the idea that they would war with eachother is getting kinda silly.
Gameplay wise, it is much easier to be bifaction then it was back in the day. Before it would usually take someone months to get a toon to max level, and now it can be done in a few weeks. Having atleast one max level Alliance, or Horde toon shouldn’t be a huge challenge these days.
Finally, we know that cross faction play is coming, and I honestly would not be surprised if they expand the idea so that Horde and Alliance can quest together out in the world, visit eachothers towns, ect.
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I’m definitely more Horde sided. The Forsaken are my favorite fantasy race of all time so I kinda have to be.
Contrary to what some might think I don’t have anything personally against the Alliance. They’re just for the most part not as interesting to me.
I do really like the Worgen and the Kul Tirans were really neat. The Nelves aren’t really my scene but I’m not going to pretend their enchanted fae forests aren’t breathtakingly beautiful.
The Dwarves and Gnomes don’t really break new ground as their tropes go but there’s nothing wrong with playing the hits. The Draenei are probably the most different feeling playable fantasy race I’ve ever encountered and who doesn’t like space tiefling gals with Slavic accents?
It’s really just Stormwind that I find actively boring. It’s very Disney to me. Which is fine. If that’s your cup of tea more power to ya. But as SW is constantly center stage it really draws me outve the experience. Especially now with the portal rooms there’s no avoiding it.
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There are certainly some hardcore alliance and horde fans. I definitely lean more horde. I always thought they were cool and they seemed like the more mature faction.
People often ask me how I could play a worgen and loathe the alliance. The answer is suprisingly not that complicated. In the end, the alliance is boring and very uninspired. It’s the Humans and the occasional night elf. We MIGHT remember the other allied members exist faction.
Blizzard simply doesn’t know what a alliance of NATIONS means. Because if they did, the story wouldn’t constantly bend itself around human potential 
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I think Mists managed to make me care about faction conflict for about 2 minutes of the whole time I’ve played this game and it’s mostly because I wanted a cosmetic item tied to a faction war storyilne
ESO does a better job of making you care somewhat for faction (except Ebonheart which, fair, it’s not that much of a faction and being an orc on DC is more of a hostage situation), most MMOs with good PVP don’t really have to rely on factions in the first place.
You do not.
I do occasionally trash talk the Horde if there’s a lot of RED TEAM posters… but I’ll also trash talk the Alliance if there’s a Blue flood.
Mostly I’m just old and contrary.
I really like trolls, dwarves, night elves and orcs (the latter pair more out of potential and spite these days), but there’s not a single solitary race that I don’t have a beloved level 50 of. And for a variety of reasons, most of my gameplay is leveling alts and getting shiny stuff for them, so I dabble in all the things.
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Suramar is my first allegiance. The Horde offers the Nightborne freedom so I appreciate that.
Hey everyone thanks for all the replies, when it comes to me I feel like alliance will always have a place in my heart mostly because when I was a teenager it was my first faction and when I was a teenager I was a very die hard alliance player I’d actually get upset and kind of annoyed when one of my other friends would pick horde over alliance.
But as time goes on I find myself liking BOTH factions and because of OCD I have some dumb need to feel like I need to pick a favorite and ONLY play on that faction, thing is when it comes to alliance I love the zones, I think moonguard is amazing (the community is great if you look away from p0rnshire) but when it comes to the horde I love the races and the story behind them.
Idk its kind of weird, i just kind of want to feel connected to the characters I level? that’s why I love moonguard so much because the RPers bring the entire stormwind city to life! and it makes it feel so much more immersive, I know there is WRA for Horde but its just not as active as moonguard… I wish moonguard had a higher horde population.
I’ve always played both sides, and only slightly favor the Horde narratively mainly because it has a more unique story compared to the standard D&D group that makes up the Alliance… at least, that was the case early on in WoW. I’ve always loathed the actual open Faction Conflicts, and preferred the ‘Cold War’ style back then too. In recent years any nuance of the conflict between the factions as dissolved into ‘Horde Stupid Evil and Alliance Stupid Good’.
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I honestly find it dumb that alliance is seen as the good guys and horde as seen as the bad guys, both factions have done not so tasteful things I honestly think if they avoided using blue and red no one would think this. Like IDK Purple and Green? Yellow and Brown? lmao
Story wise the Horde is the underdog since Blizzard just constantly belts them with the villain bat.
Plus Vulpera. It’s hard to pass up fighting alongside Fox people.
The Alliance have some moments of evil but even those are on the “somewhat understandable/ultimately because of the Horde”. Daelin launching an unprovoked war was ultimately just him doing so while the rest of the Alliance actually condoned/chastized him for starting a war(even if it meant Kul Tiras left). Heck, the Alliance’s mercy is the only reason the orcs are still alive.
I play both factions. And I am very faction proud… on both.
It’s all about immersion. When I am Silas Savagemaw the worgen warrior, I am a Horde hating SoB, but when I am Nathaniel Mawthorne, it’s death to the living all the way.
It also helps that I have never played cross faction on the same server. My horde characters are all on Lightninghoof.
Blue and Red are primary colors, and despite red inspiring aggressive feelings, we tend to feel positively about characters depicted in primary colors (superman, spiderman batman, wonderwoman, ironman) whereas secondary colors like green, purple, despite inspiring tranquil, peaceful feelings, tend to communicate villainy when applied to characters (the joker, green goblin, riddler, doctor octopus, loki, kryptonite+anything)
I’m a Sunreaver for the Kirin Tor.
Screw all of that nonsense 
Yeah I feel like having proudness of both factions, they both are proud in their own ways and both of them are pretty fun, IDK its just for some reason I’m weird and I feel like I NEED to pick a favorite and ONLY play that faction.
Horde seems like the kids faction. The mwah mature faction goes on a rampage burning down trees after a elf triggered another elf
Well the thing with the Horde for me is even the races that just aren’t for me are still fun to hang out with.
Like Tauren and Goblins just aren’t for me. Likewise of the new races I can only rolled a Zandalari because I wanted to open the door and walk the dinosaur.
The others though? Yeah they’re still fun to hang out with. My reaction to the vulpera remains
“Huh. A late 90s third party platformer mascot. The fan artists are going to have some steady income. Welcome aboard. I’d tell ya to avoid Silvermoon City Inn after about 10pm because boy do the Elves get frisky after their fourth bottle of Suntouched Special Reserve but you strike me as being up for that”.
There isn’t really a faction I’m bored to go quest for or just hang around. It really captures the vibe of a found family. Just a bunch of disparate weirdos who somehow found themselves in a trench together.