If the other half is horses.
Can anyone point out where Blizzard actively mocked a horde player at Blizzcon?
They laughed away that poor guy who dared ask what the Alliance battlecry should be, then gave a mock answer and laughed at him again.
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I note that you didn’t answer my question.
Should be easy if you’re right…
Except this isn’t politics.
It is a video game, and the interest of the devs is to make money.
WHy would they willingly screw half the player base?
Your conspiracy theories make no sense. You’re just rationalizing your displeasure while contributing to the issue.
“NO ONE RAIDS!”
You don’t raid.
“NO ONE DOES M+”
You don’t do M+
“NO ONE RECRUITSOR IS HARDCORE”
You don’t try to recruit or get people competitive.
Youbred your problem
Yeah…let’s ignore the fact the Alliance can still buy their bike
and have a hippo, lion, and bee as unique mounts the Horde cannot get.
I did not answer your question because it is a question with no answer.
If I point out a dev who plays alliance and raids alliance, you’ll state
“Well they don’t main it, they are always saying for the Horde”.
For example, wasn’t it shown that Chris Metzen played an alliance paladin?
That Ghostcrawler played a priest and not a mage like everyone thought?
Wasn it it stated by Blizzard, that half their team mains and plays alliance?
Like…bruh…
Even then, it has nothing to do with their job as a developer.
They want to make money. So they cater to both sides.
now contiue screaming how life is unfair while having the most amount of unique mounts in the game and having more access to mounts than the Horde.
Scream how life is unfair while always being the good guy and always saving the day.
Scream how mean it is for the Alliance to play clean up crew for the Horde, while demanding you remain the “good” guy faction.
Scream how the participation for alliance is too low, but ignore the fact you have the best races for M+.
Scream how raid participation for alliance is unfair, even though the racials are equal.
Scream how racials are unfair, even though humans alone are top 4 for nearly every single spec in thegame.
Now scream that I am a typical hordeplayer, while ignoring the fact I’ve mained alliance for 15 years.
I am down for it.
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But wait! I thought there was Horde bias. Oh, I’m so confused.
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Its Horde bias when I don’t get what I want.
You know…making the other half of theplayerbase lose half of everything on EK so they have lessplaces to questand when they do anything that makes me feel bad.
<_<
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oh no you don’t. the imbalance kicked in severely during legion. was ghostcrawler and chris metzen even at wow at that point? thats when the 35% we did have went horde and all their copy cats followed. people started leaving simply because there werent enough raiders left to recruit.
and when bfa launched, the alliance mounts were all horses and copy of a griffon we already had. i love horses, so it didnt bug me, but some people were a bit peeved as to them it seemed like not much thought went into it. i thought the artists did a great job but it did seem redundant to just give us more horses. that’s really not a sore point for me though.
i just dont get it. like the commercial for classic. its a great advertisement for the game. a bard sings a funny song as he wanders about a tavern of roudy drinkers as he sings. in one of the stanzas he says, so if you’re for the alliance or if you’re… FOR THE HORDE! and everyone in the bar does the for the horde chant as the camera pans by one of the devs seated at the table. just as it gets to the for the horde part he shouts it out along with everyone. it was a fun video except that part. because it basically underlines the stark contrast for how the devs view the alliance. we’re like background furniture that decorates the place and has to be attended to when absolutely necessary so it doesnt just fall apart entirely
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i’m more like "the night elves move into stormwind, and half-elves start appearing…
All this says to me is the you can’t take a joke.
So am I to understand this is meant to be a joke?
this is not a critique of you unless you’re a developer. so why does this topic always resolve down to people claiming i’m various bad things, because i’m sounding the alarm. if they don’t remember how the game got as big as it did, they’re gonna lose it.
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When people keep saying there is bias, when clearly there is not and no evidence of it, it’s basically false news and needs to be pointed out.
The bad gossip keeps getting fed with just more bad gossip about the devs and what factions they play and that they’re all biased against the alliance.
It’s not true and it gets tiring seeing it keep getting posted here.
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its not false news. all the way up till legion, the alliance managed to hold on, even though the devs made fun of them at blizzcons, even though alliance defensive racials had little benefit in raiding or pvp, even though the game was going more and more horde heavy in the endgame. but then they decided to make stuff that only benefitted horde racials. talk about totally throwing half the game out the window. people were rolling belfs and goblins, top end guilds transferred to horde, one right after another.
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To be fair Hyper, Alliance does have really strong and competitives racials, and not just within the Allied Races, but also within its core races too. I’d say yeah, Horde racials were OP in MoP, but they were nerfed in the prepatch of WoD where the Humans had the most OP and broken racial in WoD.
There is actually certain aspects where there is Bias, but the vast majority isn’t bias.
For example, the mounts and story this expansion has mainly been learning more towards the Horde. Now, I am not saying the Horde has been recieving unique mounts, because it is really all just reskins of either the 2 BOE mounts that can be used by both factions and the Glory of the Thunderking Raider achievement, but the Horde has recieved some different options to the type of mounts where the Alliance has recieved nothing but horses until 8.2 when they decided to make the mounts that flying stinger and give the Alliance the bee mount.
As for the story, there has been more of a focused story on the Horde side all leading up to the gates of Orgrimmar when Saurfang challenges Sylvanas, and the only main focus point of the story for the Alliance has just been around Jaina Proudmoore, but I rather dismiss the story as Bias at this stage as BfA story just makes no sense what so ever.
which lasted a whole month before the horde complaints on the forum, got it nerfed back to its prior state.
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Yeah, that is a point.
But at the moment with the racials, I do not see any Bias there with the racials, and this is coming from someone who plays both Horde and Alliance.
like i said, they are trying to keep the alliance from completely dissolving. but they’re missing what makes the alliance work in the first place. i’ll reiterate because it leads back into the thread topic:
this is a fantasy rpg. fantasy rpg fans, like dungeons and dragons fans, for example, expect certain races to be in a fantasy rpg and that’s what they look for. they look for elves, dwarves, gnomes, halflings, humans, half elves, dark elves/drow, ogres, etc. the biggest draw are elves. the alliance snagged fantasy rpg players with our night elves. but that was 14 years ago, when our night elf models were some of the best looking 3d models in the online gaming world.
2 years later, they were completely upstaged by belfs, but fantasy rpg players tend to want to be on the faction with elves and dwarves and humans, etc, at least initially. so alliance still snagged many new players though we began losing some to the beautiful/handsome blood elves.
all the devs have to do is give the alliance a beautiful/handsome traditional elven race and make it a core race new players can select from the starting screen, and the game is back in business.
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(Statement): Bias is subjective. While an Alliance player may feel there is Horde bias in, say, the matter of Allied Races, and they could provide, ‘Proof,’ of this by looking at numbers from reliable sites before they went down, a Horde player may feel there is bias in, say, the matter of the Story, where the Horde has been forced to play not just the mustache-twirling villain, AGAIN, but also losing another Warchief, and a major figure.
(Commentary): In my opinion, the developers are most definitely biased in favor of one faction or another. They’re human beings; they’re going to have a bias. That having been said, its also my opinion that this bias NEVER breaches the professional level in any intentional or outright malevolent degree. The idea that the developers, ‘have it out,’ for one side or the other in some way is laughable. What I do think the true issue is, would be a lack of communication and understanding of their playerbase, and on both sides of the faction at that. I don’t know any Horde players who were clamoring for another crack upside the skull with the villain bat, and no Alliance players ever asked for Fat Humans and Cyborg Gnomes as playable races.
well you look splendid and do a fine job roleplaying your mecha
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(Statement): Thank you. As a genius once said, when life give you lemons, you demand to see life’s manager. You make a combustible lemon. You burn life’s house down with the combustible lemons.
(Commentary): I am the Lemon.
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