The only time I’ll believe the faction war is over is when I can play an alliance vulpera. Or they add a third faction for both any race.
We need to stop fighting each other and focus on the real enemy….
The Gnomes!
They’re fooling us all. They pretend to be these nice little cute creatures, but when our back is turned, they’re going to stab us in the shins!
We need to go 100% into full punting mode. No mercy.
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One, two, three, four, I declare thumb World of Warcraft.
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Game has been hamfisted since MOP.
Probably before then too.
I’m sure WOTLK has its issues once you pry the rose-tinted goggles people have glued to their faces about it.
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Not imo. MoP is when the game turned into somewhat of a clown show.
We had big rodents throwing carrots at us and we were fighting beer monsters in the dungeons.
Game went to hell then.
Peace is a lie, there is only passion
Through passion, I gain strength
Through strength, I gain power
Through power, I gain victory
Through victory, my chains are broken
The force shall free me.
The factions can go to war with other entities in the Warcraft Universe. We’ve done that in most expansions.
Hopefully “not a focus” does not simply mean “no longer exists”.
As soon as they completely remove the conflict between the factions they may as well remove the faction barrier completely, have everyone able to communicate with everyone, any race can use any npc or racial capital etc.
If they completely remove the faction war and then still keep restrictions in place it will be highly superfluous and dumb, might as well give people freedom at that point.
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This 100%. The BfA cinematic was the most hyped I’ve seen the WoW community since the Wrath cinematic. Bad writers sabotaged it with their horrible re-write. BfA was supposed to be the beginning of a new war, not the end of war forever. Playable factions being in conflict with each other is always going to be an important aspect of Warcraft, whether the horrible writers and game director want it to be or not.
Removing the factions from the narrative is removing a very important aspect of Warcraft that has always been present in this games narrative since its foundation.
SWTOR tried unifying their 2 factions once, and everyone hated it. Eventually they caved and reversed course. Hopefully, the same will happen with WoW; preferably with an entirely fresh narrative department.
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I’d like that actually.
Let’s do that.
It’s more that Faction War as it was done has only one logical conclusion that cannot resolve in any way that’s satisfying.
One side will have to tbe the one to cause the incident (typcially always Horde) and the other will have to take it on the chin and somehow not get to punch back in a way that matters (Alliance) and then this goes on and on untill something has to stop the two factions from destrying each other because on a mechanical level you can’t delete half your playerbase or the content they use.
It was cool once in Mists when the conceit was to show how destructvive and All-consuming it was, but that it kept happening afterward was embarassing, and that it happened after a global catastrophy was even more ludicrous.
It also typically decresees the IQ of all the cahracters who are all preoccupied with things outside of Faction conflict primairly to somehow be down for the Red and Blue.
It’s all well and good when Saber Rattler is in o the action, but when Peacenick Cave-trotter has to give a stay-awhile and listen on why he’s suddenly down for asudden carrer change, it’s just…bad.
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“Azeroth”
I could totally picture the next expac after DF being a Cata type of event.
As usual, this is just moving the goalposts.
The interview (WHICH IS FROM 9 MONTHS AGO) said that there would never bee another expansion where the focus of that expansion was the faction war.
That doesn’t mean that they will never again make content that focuses on the faction war, just that they won’t make an entire expansion about it.
It doesn’t mean the faction war is permanently ended, either.
“During an interview, World of Warcraft Game Director Ion Hazzikostas states there will never be another expansion with a focus on the Faction War.”
That… is a frustrating comment, because it implies there once was an expansion that focused on the faction war. We’ve never had an expansion like that.
BFA was SUPPOSED to be the expansion that elevated, focused and centralized the war between Horde and Alliance, but it was such an anti-climactic nothing burger that it rivals the freakin’ Jailer for the most unimpressive, underwhelming, utter joke of an expansion feature.
Every expansion has us all having a big slumber party together where we’re sporting our best pajamas and showing off our underoos for the opposite faction while painting each other’s toenails and performing our best collaborative rendition of ‘We are the World.’
Every. Single. Expansion.
Suffice to say, saying the faction war is over when it was never adequately realized in the first place is dumb.
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I guess we’re all just supposed to sit in a circle around the campfire and sing Kumbayah?
By the way, here’s the best choral version I’ve found. Very well done.
Alliances change. There was a time when England and France were always at war. Then along came the 20th century and it all changed. There was a time when the Western Alliance fought against Germany and Japan. Then we joined with Germany and Japan to face off against the East.
Similar things have happened all over the world. Just because someone was your enemy yesterday that doesn’t mean you can’t be allies today and who knows what tomorrow.
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Haven’t horde and alliance pretty much teamed up in every single expansion over the last 18 years. Not to mention that was the whole point of WC3?
Good riddance. It should be a “cold war” at best.
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Good riddance to bad rubbish. The faction war has been this game’s biggest mistake.
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lmao…warcraft dont mean the two factions have to be at war.
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