Like those are just simple things that Blizzard should be getting right after so many years. At the very least, restrict the Horde’s access to Bel’ameth and Gilneas and pretend that you want to treat both factions similarly. If you’re going to make an expansion hub only accessible to the Horde, then why can’t you make the Alliance cities only accessible to the Alliance?
Translation: “I am a glorious alliance player and you are restricting my ability to stroll into a Horde city so I can act like I own it by planting stormwind banners everywhere! This is unfair!”
And did it feel good? I mean, instead of flaming it all down if you never want to see it again in the future, shouldn’t you welcome it and then demand the same for the future? That’s far more constructive for your own gameplay experience in the long run.
I’m just saying—from a pure gameplay perspective, it’s a bad decision to make that the hub. But we already talked about that.
Literally I posted 2 years ago when Amirdrassil was said to be neutral that in combination with Gilneas, the intent was to preemptively justify Silvermoon being neutral
So many of us clocked what was coming, and we said it was stupid
I’m not a fan of it, only because gameplay wise A revamped Silvermoon will look miles better than Gilneas, which was just plop down a few npcs and call it a day.
But otherwise? Eh. I would actually have to see what it all looks like to really be grumpy about it. Is it a big space? How small is small, etc.
Alliance players have historically had a difficult time accepting that Silvermoon is a city of the Horde, and the capital of the blood elves, rather than a void/high elf playground in which the Alliance banner flies. I’d have thought the city’s new inundation of Horde iconography would break them of this misconception, but if the initial gloating as to “omg neutral silvermoon haha suck it horde!!!” was anything to go by, it seems this reminder was necessary.
Well, maybe over time every city will get a revamp, whenever it thematically fits. Starting with the TBC zones makes sense.
I mean, even today most of the Nightborne territory still isn’t accessible to players—aside from one small area. That’s just the downside of old content. A lot of it really should be updated, but Blizzard tends to see that as wasted resources. I do agree, though, that it would add far more immersion to a living world if they actually did it.
I think you don’t fully understand the impact your argument would have once you’re actually on the other side of it.
Story or not, 90% of the time we spend in this game is driven by gameplay. If your own experience suffers because you chose the “wrong” faction, that will absolutely hurt your motivation.
From a story point of view, I agree—it makes sense and is the right call. But from a gameplay point of view, it’s a poor design decision. They should have created an Alliance hub outside of Silvermoon.
That way, the Horde would have had their own thing, and there wouldn’t be any gameplay restrictions.
What should also be mandatory is making Bel’Ameth and Gilneas Alliance-only, but that won’t happen—I can already say that now. The same goes for stromgarde
I cannot think of a single horde player who wanted to be in gilneas and bel’ameth and yet you’re acting as if we asked for this and are being hypocrites about like nah
I also think it’s a very Blood Elf (haughty) thing to do sequestering the ragamuffin Alliance players in a space separate from the rest of the populace.
There were plenty of people here who argued that it was justified simply because they “helped”… Of course, most of it came purely out of spite, but the argument still existed nonetheless.
