Vanaelia,
Let me start out by saying that you seem (so far, at least) to be a reasonable person, and I apologize for how frayed everyone’s nerves are in this forum. The Horde posters who are still around after this long are all a bit snappish and defensive after a year and a half of threads telling us how we haven’t suffered yet and deserve to suffer more.
As the person who compiled that list, I’d like to speak a bit about its intent. It was intended to show how Blizzard were going out of their way to scold and shame the Horde PC for things they were requiring, or at the very least heavily encouraging, the character to do. This seems like a perverse way to treat half your customer base. It was also intended to put the list all in one place so that people could refer to it and see that it wasn’t our imagination–there actually was a pattern happening.
A few thoughts. First, as I mentioned above, that wasn’t really the point of the thread. Second, Blizzard seemed to be promising a faction war where we actually wouldn’t feel bad about stabbing Alliance–because it would all be in the context of a fair fight, not the slaughter of sad civilians. (I mean, Alliance players don’t feel bad for stabbing Horde characters, right? We foolishly thought we might get the same treatment.)
I agree with a lot of what you say, but I just have to point out that the Alliance doesn’t choose their leaders either. Anduin the perfect is even more a product of nepotism than any of the Horde’s warchiefs have been. The warchief system isn’t the problem here. Heck, it’s basically the same system China’s emperors used for milennia–the outgoing head of state hand-picks his/her successor. It worked no worse, and arguably better, than hereditary monarchy, where the previous king’s eldest son automatically became king.