Correction: It is quite realistic. It depends on the technology level and methods of travel. Alot of nations on Earth are ethnically homogenous in the majority. Japan, Northern and Eastern Europe, etc.
Correction: It does work that way. Nations are not melting pots, that very phrase is disingenuous. America which is called that frequently, is still majority European with Anglo-European’s making up the majority of European individuals. People tend to find things similar to themselves attractive. There’s been no legislature on it as far as I can tell, but personal selection as well as the Hardy-Weinburg principle keeps alleles and genes from disappearing.
The problem with the Forsaken is that their existence as they were under Sylvanas warrants heavy military action from the rest of the world, because they’re practically identical to the Scourge. Reform, force the setting to contort around them again, or back to the dirt.
Faction wars in this game are boring bro. They’re trapped into doing tit for tat storylines. You know damn well the horde was never going to burn down stormwind and exterminate all the humans, despite how badly you wanted to. Time to get over it or quit I think (send me ur gold if you quit btw)
Well, both factions have water and air ships. They were able to reach Pandaria. They frequently travel between continents without any immersion-breaking “ten months later” messages. I’d say they have plenty of technology for racial isolation to no longer make sense.
A nation doesn’t have to be exact portions of every constituent race in order to be a melting pot, and anymore white Europeans is only like 60% of the US population.
I guess I am just looking at this encouragement of black and white xenophobic stereotyping as regressive and overly simplistic, to the point of being insulting to the whole lore concept behind the races. Like how the entire ancestry of the Night Elves/Nightborne can just be completely abandoned and retconned as a Horde race simply because one night elf didn’t jump on demand.
I feel the assignment of races to factions has become totally arbitrary and lorebreaking, and they are doing it for the sake of a war campaign PVP focus that has also become immersion breaking, at least if you try and make rational sense out of any of it which people who care at all about lore or RP tend to do (weirdos :p).
Even Everquest 1 had the ability to betray factions and align with any you wanted on any race. Why? Because dividing up extremist warring factions by race is just a terrible concept on every level, imo at least.
Statement: I don’t think you quite understand the lore if you think it’s just because of Tyrande.
Correction: You would be wrong. The factions and races are aligned as such because different people have aided them in the past and feel a strong connection together. It’s several governments against eachother while agreeing to work together. No different from any other war really.
I’ll do so, when I activate my account ever again. Been unsubbed for 4 months now.
As for the faction wars. Bro I’m even talkingveven disagreements between the races in each factions. And the agreements between some of the races in the opposite factions. Not talking full out war. I’m talking about their racial identities.
And by no means I was rooting for stormwind to be burnt ( That would have been a good reason to make a proper city though ). I’m fine with anything that makes the story interesting. Cause right now any racial leader says something, all the other racial leaders agree. (excluding tyrande and Genn)
There’s going to be a whole (discredited) school of literary theory in the future called Horde Narrative wherein the writers attempt to make the protagonist both good and badass at once.
The movement will fail when it’s concluded that the antagonist can only reasonably be a bungling, screw-up lacking vérité and ends each saga with dialogue akin “Anduin!” with your hands on your hips and I “you can’t make this stuff up” head shake.
I think history will attest that it is you who would be wrong, or at least, you are oversimplifying the reality of war for the sake of pro-race-based factions argument.
However the debate is moot unless Blizzard decides to give us the ability to betray factions and go any race any faction like pandas already can, which based on the little Horde/Alliance icon they put next to your characters (currently greyed out) and the direction of the lore currently, might be something they intend to do.
Demons invade? Nothing happens, we go kill Illidan.
Scourge invade? Nothing happens, we go and kill arthas.
Deathwing invades? Okay we get a new world. Thats cool.
MoP happens? Okay nothing happened, we go and kill Garrosh.
WoD happens? Nothing. We go to a new world, Azeroth is unaffected.
Legion happens? Okay we got some legion invasions on some small island. Nothing happens.
Why do you have a problem with Faction wars doing nothing, when nothing ever happens besides new raids are unlocked with each patch?
Until we went back to handholding literally right after the Alliance murdered the Zandalari King, we were actually getting MORE impact on the world from the Faction war than we’ve ever seen in an expansion aside from Cata.
Two capital cities were burned to the ground. How is that not world progression?
I disagree on this, but not the rest of your post.
They totally ruined Jaina again, all because horde players complained she hated them, when it was logical.
It’s honestly tiring to see every character become a Hippy or a lunatic. Seems Genn is the only reasonable character in all of the game. The others either forgive any sin and change minds like teenagers or are downright insane to cartoonish degrees.
And totally ignoring that Blood Elves played a part in stealing the focusing iris which was used to develop the mana bomb that lead to the destruction of her home. You know, those events that lead up to the “Dalaran” situation you mention. I mean let’s not just cherry pick points here…
Not a surprise, the game has been making these two out to be a “power couple” for years now.
We clearly took that interaction differently. I saw it as Calia being brought there so she could help the newly raised NEs adjust to and come to terms with not only what they are but what they did. I didn’t see it as any sign that Voss was stepping aside from leadership.