…for this fandom to cry for WoW to go back to its warring roots and and want Alliance and Horde back to fighting each other, seeing as people are already fed up with the theme of unity and bringing everyone together. And after that, cry about how stupid and pointless that is and go back to Peacecraft again and so on and so forth…
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All the arguments boil down to one simple point.
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The root cause is bad writers.
Bad writers ruin every narrative their efforts pollute.
A good writer can make a faction war they can’t entirely conclude remain compelling, just as a good writer can make tales of unity and coming together emotionally stirring.
A bad writer cannot. A bad writer sucks. And our writers suck.
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Some people are fed up with the unity. But some people are also tired of the meaningless background war that makes no sense and is ignored everytime a new threat emerges. I personally am fine with the way they are going. It makes sense after 20+ years of constant “war.”
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And yet people cry for it.
I’d like to see you try your hand at it then. And knowing this fandom, everything they don’t like is “bad writing.”
They may even think their own fanfics are better.
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Pointing out bad writing doesn’t mean one is themselves a particularly good writer, nor implies they’re claiming to be. That’s just being defensive over criticism.
If you want I can articulate, probably for, like, the fifth time today, my own grievances with the narrative. Unless you’re really intent upon reading something that I’ve written.
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Your opinion is bad.
It’s a perceived perpetual outrage. Content people rarely make a fuss: the people who were sick and tired of an endless war that could have no winner went quiet. The people who liked the war, formerly content and quiet, filled the space.
Then, I admit, are some who don’t know how to react to anything without anger and scorn - but they’re not a majority.
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Stale and pointless. At this point MMOs aren’t a growing genre. Splitting the playerbase between factions is stupid.
You have these statistics? Show your work.
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I’m trying man.
I set down a fire in the new tree it wasn’t enough.
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Quality argument, my friend.
You don’t need to get so defensive to my criticism.
The fandom is not a collective consciousness.
There have been plenty that want to cosplay war criminals 24/7 and are really upset about the current narrative.
Just as there’s plenty that aren’t.
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World of WARcraft. It is literally in the title.
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Kind of fair? But individuals make complaints, those individuals then get lumped into a collective and that’s not really fair.
Either way, you aren’t wrong.
Blizzard got burned after BfA, and now they’re desperately trying to make world of Hug Craft, after that fails they’ll go back to an edgier product, but the factions will already be ruined at that point.
Blizzard needs to commit one way or another.
With the factions staying intact, personal identity and faction pride stays alive, but issues with a shrinking playerbase and cross faction play remain unsolved.
With the factions going away, personal identity and faction pride become substantially eroded, but issues with the shrinking playerbase and cross faction play are eased but not even remotely solved.
I don’t know, that’s my uneducated opinion. But I feel like trading the identity of the game and the players, for an attempt at solving issues which could probably be solved in other ways… is not the best way to go.
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I believe conflict can exist again only if there are new characters and forces. The former characters have peaked through resolving peace. 
…fortunately, we do have allied races back on the table to play with that concept. 
Criticism coming from those who know their craft and have experience is generally more useful than some nameless, faceless internet profiles.
How about instead, give me your rewrite of BfA, Shadowlands, and Dragonflight. If you can do that, consider me impressed.
Here. Plenty of responses that approve of the
I keep hearing this excuse again and again being used to shift blame from the fandom.
Recall the story of The Emperor Wears No Clothes.
It was the small child with no experience that saw through the charade. It doesn’t need to be an expert to point out an obvious flaw.
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I fear lima beans.
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Eh…the faction war is pretty boring. The people who are keeping it somewhat alive are playing in warmode anyway where the war is very much alive.
How many crazed warchiefs and bigoted humans leaders do we need before it gets stale?
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