The Horde killed all the innocent people in Teldrassil and the game constantly had us feel like utter garbage with the characters talking down to us so that we could see Saurfang be sad, Thrall be sad and they can be sad together with Jaina.
Meanwhile the Night Elves screaming bloody vengeance are swept under the rug by Blizzard and the narrative team because that doesn’t fit the co-existence theme they’re pushing for, which makes no sense with how the narrative has been developing.
Can these pretentious writers stop? Find out in 8.2.5!
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“There will be justice, one day, but eyes other than ours will behold it.”
hello? where is that blizz? can you imagine nelf wanting to get revenge instead of burning mulgore they will have to defend it.
oh please no.
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and now orcs and humans unite.
Simple, because Blizz wrote themselves in a corner with this conflict. The NEs deserve justice, and in order to get it the Horde would need to be punished. However, there is only so far you can go with that as there is only so much you can punish the Horde PLAYERBASE; alongside the Horde FACTION (more so than this rehash of MoP already has, since we’ll never justifiably be portrayed as Heroes of this World ever again … the Villain Bat is thematically here to stay).
NEs players do deserve some resolution for this monstrosity of a situation, but they should also temper their expectations to reasonable levels as well.
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Kind of hard to temper our expectations when the expansion started with our genocide.
“Sure, almost everyone you know and love was killed, but y’know, don’t hurt people too much.”
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This. The Horde like to say victory or death and on the last part I’m happy to oblige them. The Horde can suck it.
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I mean to be fair I think the path of glory is a monument to orcish sin but teld is more a monument to how stupid it is to expect a race of undead corpses not to go all murderpoloza just because they promised they’ll behave
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And yet NEs lost no real characters of importance from the encounter; just two C-Rank characters in Sira (a default Warden WC giver who is more distinct as a character now than she ever was) and Summermoon (a character developed to exist and die in a single book, to ensure those sweet, sweet Sylvie/Arthas parallels).
Yes, on a storytelling level the NEs lost a TON; on a Meta level they’ve lost very little (so far). Also, not sure Blizz could really get away with effectively telling every Horde player that they chose to play the wrong faction for the last 15 years because of a Story Blizz FORCED upon them; just to satisfy the NE playerbase that seems to … take their RP just a little too seriously at time.
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That might be true but the problem with having your race genocided is it doesn’t leave much room for new characters or a plot beyond “we’re a dying breed now.”
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Maybe throwing an entire race under the bus and then denying them revenge because that isn’t where the plot is going isn’t the wisest course of action.
Don’t introduce a plot if a logical payoff can’t come from it.
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It’s almost as if they learned nothing from MoP.
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“Don’t hurt real people sitting at their keyboards who pay just as much as you to play the game and who don’t control its story” … that’s unreasonable? Especially when “everyone you know and love” who were “killed” are pixels, not real human beings?
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What would be considered vengeance for you
Then what are alliance players supposed to feel about Teldrassil?
The trolls aren’t real people, or Sylvanas, but horde players get bummed out.
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what is worse, getting characters killed or having the characters but not being used at all?
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Having your characters used as villiains to further the story of alliance characters and then having them killed.
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To not be shoved into a forgiveness plot and have Night Elves constantly push the war and slaughtering Horde?
Night Elves got $#$%%@ by Orcs since Grom killed Cenarius.
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I’m pretty sure Blizzard thinks Lordaeron was an even exchange for burning the tree. I disagree with that, but I’m sure that’s what they think.
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