Kek this is why the horde has no characters, when the playerbase is so resistance to change and new characters, is it a wonder that so many dead hasnt been replaced?
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No it isn’t. There are more Blood elf players than any other race on the Horde and IIRC any race on the Alliance, too.
Story forums are just a glorified GD. The same combative, bitter types of people exist on the story forums as they do on the general forums. You’re an example of that.
In your opinion but in my opinion it’s incoherent and should’ve stayed on the Alliance. And the only reason Blizzard did it was to artificially boost the population of the Horde. Nothing to do with good story or lore.
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What do the blood elves have to do with new characters?
The thing that makes the Horde interesting is the fact it inverts typical fantasy stuff not only by giving a new spin to the typical “bad guy” kinds of races, but allowing you to play as them. The Blood Elves are, like it or not, fully within a typical fantasy role aesthetically… and even more now, LORE and STORY wise that we have the Blood Knights screaming about the Light again, golden glowy eyes and all.
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You posited that old horde player resistance is why new characters are hard to get. Blood Elves outnumber errybody, so if Blizzard was appealing to fan numbers, old horde types would be a small squeak in a vast ocean of blood elves.
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I’m afraid you’re very much at odds with him then.
When have I ever had this view? I’ve literally gone on record to defend the inclusion of Blood Elves on numerous occasions. Admittedly I do have some reservations about the Forsaken, but honestly why shouldn’t I? They’ve been consistently depicted as conniving and untrustworthy literally since day 1? And I’ve yet to be proven incorrect.
Hell, I’ll go on record right now to say that I outright refuse to use BfA’s depiction of Forsaken in attempt to vindicate my own disdain for them because like you, I did have high hopes that they’d be capable of much more than cartoon villainy. And I’m not going to rub their blatant misrepresentation in your face like some self-righteous jerk, cuz even as someone who isn’t particularly fond of them, I understand why people lime them to begin with and respect that fact.
You’re right, about that one. I’ll give you that.
Because there was no option to flip em’ both off, the game doesn’t let me. Otherwise I would’ve.
Hell, I still headcannon this guy as being blissfully ignorant of the entire expansions premise, because that’s how incoherent and stupid it is. And then when his daughter tells him about, he doesn’t believe it cuz that’s how stupid BfA is.
And unfortunately, this is also true. We all fell for Blizzards trap, and worst part about it is that we literally saw it from miles away and yet were still unable to avoid it.
Y’know, you do make good points and my apologies if I was being harsh earlier, I just don’t take too kindly to being straw manned as the rest of the shill who don’t understand the difference between quality writing and garbage such as this and being told that I had any responsibility for this trash.
But understand that none of us could’ve foreseen where we’d end up from the day the Horde was literally forced into complicity for mass murder. I was forced to make a choice in order to progress through the game, the choice I made was less than ideal and now here we are. I’m not going to sit here and claim my choice was the correct one to make, nor shall I sit here and take responsibility for being handed two bad choices with no alternatives.
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I never said old horde player, I mean horde players in general, I mean the 2nd post in this thread is a belf saying they should do it on rokhan, now I like rokhan but theres a reason, the alliance has a nice set of A,B,C tiers of characters and the horde just has A tier and thats about it.
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Trivel…just…no.
Like it or not Belves and Forsaken are part of the Horde, and that will never change for so long as WoW remains a two-faction game.
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Then why does baldy orc’s opinion matter? You posited that it was why
baldy orc’s opinion is inconsequential. He is massively outnumbered by blood elves.
TIL playing standard ebul dungeon fodder is “new and interesting” despite the giant mess it makes of the story.
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I dont understand with your argument, belves are also resistance to change look how alot of them cling on sylvanas.
I would too but I rarely read books if at all.
The only thing is lore from the book wont be told in Game lore. If it is, it be very little. Which is bad. 
It’s the fact they aren’t evil dungeon fodder that makes it new and interesting, yes.
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I don’t know the numbers for that. You don’t either.
You’re wasting your time, man.
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Nope never said I did, I am just going off personal experiance on the forums
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The forums largely pick sylvanas because they believe – even when having been told in books to the contrary – that sylvanas ever cared about the forsaken, and thus feel she is being written counter to character.
It’s personal bias, not faction support.
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I don’t expect it to change and I don’t intend it to change soon. Doesn’t mean I have to like it though. But again, never say never.
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I still dont get what that has to do with the horde player base being resistance to new characters, specially this playerbase here, I am sure the general playerbase is happy with more zekhan