It would feel good if we were doing it out of altruism, to help those in need. But your description of these quests explicitly frames it as “making amends” and “cleaning up the mess [we] made.” Which means the Horde PC would basically be admitting “Yes, I was bad, but now I want to be better.” I’m sure that feels good in a certain way if you truly believe that you are guilty of wrongdoing, but that’s the big problem for Horde players: we, the humans behind our keyboards, have done nothing wrong except to choose the red team at character creation. And the only wrong our characters (whom we identify with to a certain extent) have done was forced upon us without our consent. So then being asked to “admit” that we/our characters did wrong and then perform a task to make up for that wrong would not feel good.
This is not true. Horde PCs have quite frequently been told that the Horde is bad and we should feel bad. I made a whole thread keeping track of it (which probably needs to be updated):
And a leveling zone close to our capital city (eastern Ashenvale). What are you willing to give us to make up for that? Will you withdraw from the Barrens?
I actually do totally get that, which I perhaps don’t say often enough. Blizzard went out of their way to make you feel that way, and that really, really sucks.
The players or the NPCs?
The players or the NPCs?
Yet you are insinuating that we (as people) should be happy to have our characters perform acts of penance toward your characters because our characters have been bad and we (as people) need to acknowledge that??