I love the Alliance too - but not what Blizzard has done with it - and that at this point is a marketing problem.
If I didn’t feel like the developers were telling me that no matter what, I’m going to lose - you can bet that I’d have a level capped character working against the current PVP imbalance for the Alliance - because that’s what I used to do.
But so long as the lore is what it is? I really don’t see the point. Why would I do that when I have World of Warships right over here that doesn’t pull that crap with me? See, in that game, my wins feel great and I realize I have to work harder when I lose. Awesome. Wargaming doesn’t slide in and constantly tell me that I suck because I picked a certain nation or something. Cool, that sounds fun - I’ll go play that.
But Blizzard DOES do that - and it wrecks my experience. That’s not fun, so I won’t play that.
What again disappoints me about you is that you seem like you’re so close to understanding the problem - a problem that you acknowledge is widespread across the Alliance playerbase, based on your previous comments - but before you get to the root cause of it, you fall back on defective stock arguments like these.
Go back to 676 - why do you think you’ve got all these people asking to merge factions? Why do you think that this is a community-wide issue?
boy am i glad i spent the day doing something productive like playing a 16 year old game, instead of arguing on an online forum and being unproductive.
An onscreen reconquest of Ashenvale. Not a tweet or a developer statement - I want it depicted in-game. The Night Elves’ offensive ends up being stopped by the Horde at the border to Azshara, and at the border to the Barrens. The Horde can take Stonetalon.
That’s it. Bonus points if you advertise it with a sizzle reel set to this:
It seems funny when you put it that way - especially given that so many of your colleagues like to block any positive moment for the Night Elves, and given that Blizzard has held back on providing such a moment for the Night Elves for years on end (but seems to always go to them when it’s time to portray a tragedy), but yes - this relatively small change would fix quite a bit of the issues that Night Elf fans routinely complain about.
Not that I agree with how you otherwise characterized it, but yes, this solution is limited and would be spectacularly simple to implement. Which makes me wonder why the opposition is so frequent and so fierce to something like it.
Although I will point this bit out:
If it doesn’t turn up onscreen, it doesn’t count. Only a very small population even reads the books, and even if you do, that doesn’t have a fraction of the impact that audiovisual information has. Again, it has to be onscreen.
Like two posts ago you were commenting on how small the request is - now it’s the height of greed? I’m used to seeing people contradict themselves, but not this quickly.
But I noticed that you also didn’t really comment on the last post. Did your expected line of attack fall through, and so now you’ve pivoted to something else?