With 9.5.2 coming out with cross-faction gameplay which in lore make sense. Why not allow players to also just betray everyone like Servant of N’zoth in 8.3? Alliance players can become an agent to the Defias Brotherhood and Horde players can join (Just spitballing here) the Bloodsail Buccaneers both for a limited time like servants to N’zoth. I always thought it was a neat RP-PVP option to have, and went really well with the story. It spice things up and made the zones feel ‘alive’ with the extra threat of who’s friendly or foe.
Cross faction makes no sense lore wise just like Sylvanas being retconned into the big bad/ duped into the big bad’s lacky to make their crappy story fit makes no sense what so ever.
But fear not, the fact that the “lore” makes no sense actually helps your case for alternate PvP factions.
True Horde and True Alliance players would definitely be leaving factions.
No true Horde player would ever follow a counsel of hippie Alliance loving losers.
No true Alliance player would ever break bread with the enemy, especially after Teldrassil.
This is how war works, even if there are some hippie losers in charge, even if hippie losers are the majority thanks to propaganda and the strain of war, there will always be people on both sides that refuse to forgive and forget.
Throughout history every time there is a major war there are splinter groups fighting and killing the enemy and even their own people who they feel are traitors. In some cases even the vast majority of the population rise up to slaughter their leaders and remake their country due to a refusal to ever break bread with the enemy.
(Whispers) its a game. Youre not really horde or alliance. Youre a human behind a screen.
/boops nose
… Cross Faction Instancing makes perfect sense lore wise.
The end of Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos.
The World Tree would have burned if the races hadn’t worked together!
Just about every single endgame of every single expansion at least somehow involves the two factions working together throughout WoW.
Might as well finally release a 100 player BG last man standing…no teams. We all parachute in from 1,000 feet.
And if you camp or afk, unavoidable rockets launch at you.
