RIP "Breaking the cycle", absolutely nothing is changing with factions

I tried to read your post but it was written in some kind of typo-riddled mongrelized English that I didn’t make it past the first sentence. Please translate to proper English.

If they ended the silly factions, I’d be fine with this outcome.

Since they’re not doing this, I’ll be fine with blue-eyed blood elves on the Horde.

The irony here is that Blizzard is responsible for the faction player base disparity, by refusing to address the racial situation for a decade. And now won’t do anything about counter balancing the natural cycle. Or, at best, won’t do enough. In spite of Ion’s declaration that the faction divide is at the center of Warcraft, the game hasn’t been about that since Vanilla. And even then it felt almost like an after thought.

BFA was an attempt to bring back the feeling, yet the complaints from the players who don’t like the faction strife, and the bad execution of warfronts, it was as quickly discarded as possible.

The truth – the elephant in the room – is being ignored and the player base will continue to suffer the consequences.

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They don’t want to gut the Horde. Which what would likely happen. Anybody interested in high end endgame leans Horde. More guilds, players, and therefore opportunity to get into the content.

If people could freely pick the race/class they wanted to play, without concern for endgame opportunities the faction balance pendulum would very likely swing back to favoring Alliance as most played faction.

Seriously,. Orgrimmar is ugly man. The faction war lost its relevance with the introduction of third party big bads (Legion, Scourge, Old Gods). No longer was the opposing faction the biggest threat to your teams survival.

Bold words, considering the playarbase has been mostly balance and it’s been only 2 xpacs since the Alliance is the one a little under 50%.

You guys have almost 2m players at max level (as per realmpop). You have plenty of people on your side alone to get content done and your racials are fine (extra ironic as you’re posting on a max level did, btw) but you think that people would simply go to alliance when you guys can’t get content done while having that many people?

Maybe focus on trying to get groups going instead of begging for blizzard helping hand?

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Perhaps you misunderstand what the disparity is here? I mean, it’s only been discussed a million times over the past, I don’t know…, 10-12 years? The situation with racials attracted players, and entire guilds to the Horde side. A situation, which then created a feedback loop. Please don’t act like the issue, which Blizzard has openly acknowledged yet hasn’t committed to addressing, isn’t a real one.

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the next expansion they will bring War back to Warcraft…

You guys act like everyone want to merge factions, and blizzard isn’t letting you. This is far from a universal opinion.

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That’s why the night elf racials it’s one of the best racials when it comes to actual competitive mythic dungeon running as shown by the Mythic Championship?

And you’re trying to tell me the DiD racial it’s not good?

No, the racials are fine, it’s not blizzard’s fault that people on your side simply can’t be bothered to get groups going.

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If you choose to be a troll, or just plain obtuse here, that’s cool. Have a great day.

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Sure, it’s easier to label someone a troll and dismiss them than actually checking the teams competing for actual money that are playing as Alliance… it might ruin that confirmation bias of yours.

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Apparently some people don’t understand what feedback loops are, and how they start. Apparently.

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The cycle should have been broken at the end of MoP. As long as the faction divide remains, we’re at risk of them banging the faction war drum again and again and again.

If this “feedback loop” was still happening though, you wouldn’t have a team by Method playing Alliance while competing for money.

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The willful ignorance is strong with this one.

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Sorry i can’t make it simplier than what was written in a reply to you so you can understand.
If “1000x0=0” is too hard there is nothing i can do, it is definately a basic education issue in both language and math and i dont teach kindergarden stuff.
Hopefully you will be able to educate yourself in the future, get some manners in the process too and maybe start acting like a regular human beign. Only time will tell.

He is just telling the truth though.

Sure dude, I’m sure those videos of the official tournament have been modified to add in the Alliance races and the teams never originally played them…

You’re right, shadowmeld is a problem. IF you want to do M+ competitively you must be Alliance.

If you want to do Mythic Raiding or PvP competitively you must be Horde.

That’s why the system sucks. You may think there’s 2 million Alliance players, but really there are 2 million max level alliance characters, and a lot of those main horde because it’s stupid not to at this point.

I look forward to warmode being unplayable for Alliance for the first few months of Shadowlands. But you know it’s probably just cause Alliance suck for losing when outnumbered 3 to 1.

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Alliance and horde kept skirmishing throughout the entire expansion

Alliance and horde kept killing themselves on the march to icecrown and in icecrown itself.

We are @ the old god stuff
Guess what both factions are doing lol.

Truth be told even as horde your better chance of getting endgame opportunities isn’t by pugging but joining a guild on illidian/tichondrius.
Same as alliance, stormrage/sargeras.
Just because those are overpopuplated realms for their respective factions. Obviously there are many more high pop realms but those are the highest if im not mistaken.

Look at wargraphs. Alliance guilds clearing high end content a very few. As to my character, I’m not a raider, nor ever have been. My endgame was professions. But since those are worthless and Shadowlands doesn’t appear to be an improvement I’m wasting the rest of my sub waiting for my Stadia early access this month. When I will switch to playing ESO.