Did Blizzard miss the boat with SL? It would have been perfect, both factions going down into SL together to fight a united front against a common enemy? Or would it still be possible for this to happen later at some stage?
My main, on Horde, has a great guild, a great server and has many options to play with either raiding, M+, PVP or whatever there is to do just in my guild. Along with the additional horde players I can never fail to find a group if I need.
And as time goes on you see more and more evidence players are moving to horde. The reported server numbers on external sites, the raid rankings, IO M+ ranks and the posts people make here. But why are they moving? Some people still say racials are a reason, this may have been back in the day, but not so much now given how little a racial actually does.
Void elves probably have the best PVP racials and over on my server the number 1 IO ranked DK (ranked 47 in the world as blood DK) is a vulpera, who many say has one of the worst racials.
My guild recently moved, we did not move to horde but instead moved servers, and it would be the same reason many people move servers and at times factions. My old server was dying, the top handful of guilds (all horde) started moving and we found it very difficult to recruit new players and keep raiding and when the 3 of the top guilds (including the only guild who was regularly clearing all mythic bosses) were the only ones left, we moved, and than the last 2 guilds moved.
After checking the last progress on mythic any guild has made on that server I see that some progress has been made by 2 guilds in the last week, both horde with no alliance guilds having any mythic progress. Looking at heroic there was one guild with some progress within the last 2 weeks with 8/12 kills (no alliance), and on normal the only progress within the last month has been 3/12 over 2 weeks ago, still no alliance progress.
Itâs no wonder all the guilds have been leaving, when there is that little happening we want to go where the players are, and it would be the same for alliance, if you look at the top X number of anything it is mostly horde. But do you think that is fair? For Blizzard not to be taking action to stop one faction from almost being non existent?
Itâs not like there are not alliance guilds and strong servers, over on Frostmourne which is one number 1 for alliance on OCE has one horde guild on 3/12 mythic, but than 148 alliance guilds with mythic progress, 25 of which have cleared the entire place.
The issue though for most players is there are X number of servers with such a thin spread across them all, but in OCE there are 2 main servers and a couple of connected lower population servers no one really plays on, so finding the right server for your faction is very easy to do. Over on US and EU, not so easy with many more servers.
Instead of simply letting players take the lottery in what faction and server they play on, why donât we finally do away with factions? Or at the least allow cross faction with guilds and the AH? It would certainly help players who are not sure if they want to move, more so if they want to pay to move, and if moving is even the right option because they could be leaving friends behind and if they donât find the right fit it could be worse and end up with more players leaving.