Wrath? Yeah. Vanilla and BC the amount of story content was pretty thin, not really anyone can claim to have had “bias” then. Cata was pretty much the start of the devs going full horde. And not just in the story telling. Everything they did up until at least BFA when I stopped playing was pro Horde from top to bottom.
No Alliance players have ever wanted or asked for anything like that. That is projection from Horde players and what they want. The Horde get to nuke and burn down entire Alliance cities and they claim that is Alliance bias because they weren’t allowed to wipe them out entirely.
Horde players are the clearest illustration i know of exemplifying the " to people with privilege they see equality as oppression" expression.
At least Alliance still retain our identity it’s hard to take Horde seriously as the savage tribal faction with Belves and Vulpera running around everywhere. I’d actually say Alliance has the cooler races now as Dranei, Worgen and Dark Irons kick the crap out of any added Horde race also Gnomes > Goblins.
Alliance take down the one that ordered/did the nuking and burning and claim Horde bias because they can’t extract their pound of flesh from the horde that went against the fool as well. Also, no REASONABLE Horde player has asked for wiping out the alliance compleatly, that is projection from Alliance players based on faulty perceptions on what the Horde is.
Oh, please, Alliance players are the clearest illustration of people wanting parity/equality in story but inequality in other areas. In essence, what you are asking for is eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, but the second that would be losing the eye or tooth only has 1 of either/each.
Horde hasn’t aged very well its such a cringey teenage edgelord idea of what badass and cool is, its probably why the devs all identified with them and jerked the faction off for so long now that everyone has grown up they prefer writing for Alliance.
Alliance took down Garrosh, who nuked Theramore, yet that was not enough for some alliance players who likely saw that they did not get their fist pump moment because Varian recognized the horde members that stood against Garrosh. In addition to instead of executing Garrosh then and there, putting him on trial which enabled him to escape which lead to Thrall killing Garrosh, so it might be fair to say Alliance dethroned Garrosh, Horde (Thrall) removed his threat to both factions.
The Orc statue? if anything, that is ORC bias not HORDE bias, I have a mag’har and orc character just to get the transmog set/s, most of my toons are Tauren, you know, the race that seems to be Blizzards punching bag when it comes to having the alliance do bad to a horde races, and the leader of which quite a few Horde players, even other Tauren, call out as being an alliance lacky.
So tell me again how Blizzard has HORDE bias when the races they seem to write about most are orcs and forsaken unless they need to have Horde team up with alliance to overthrow a warchief.
Only because instead of letting Both Varian and Thrall deliver a potentially killing blow, Blizzard let him be captured and put on trial, where he was able to escape.
Alliance had the Horde on the ropes after SoO, thye could have ended the Horde once and for all there, they could have made the Horde irrelevant for years, etc. Maybe what Blizzard thought would have been a fist pump moment was Alliance removing Garrosh from power/the position of Warchief and defeating the Horde without becoming the Horde in methods and attitude.
And the faction content was more limited to Sylvie continuing her plans in Stormheim and Allaince providing the ship to reach Argus for both factions, and having more presence on Argus as well,
These “Xfaction Bias” threads are so funny to me, as if we aren’t all simply people enjoying a video game together. Y’all take this fictional faction allegiance way too seriously.
There are reasons why most of my toons have a PRP (personal RP) backstory that makes them an x faction merc band focused more on keeping the fighters of Azeroth in top shape to counter the neutral threats, cosmic and otherwise.
All of my RP characters are also faction neutral, so I get it. For me it’s more so because my backstory doesn’t align with Horde or Alliance ideology.
That’s not personal beef with the faction though, it’s just my own storytelling. These threads with people getting legitimately angry over faction “bias” is just so silly. Unless they’re RPing of course, but unfortunately I think they’re very serious…
