This topic has actually come up many times throughout the years, especially during BfA.
Before BfA it was generally more an indirect topic, with posts being made in the guise of “As a Horde player I find the Alliance boring. Here’s how to make the Alliance more interesting.”
During BfA the discussion was more out in the open that frankly the Horde had no real reason to want to fight the Alliance because Blizzard really never gave the Horde any significant reason to dislike the Alliance, which drained a lot of Horde player’s motivation to play BfA at all since they were being forced to fight the Alliance while the Alliance had all the reasons in the world to resent the Horde - yet Anduin turning even Genn and Jaina to siding with the Horde to end the Fourth War instead.
But this is the most directly stated I’ve seen these sentiments made yet:
And frankly, I do not believe I will ever understand this mentality.
If you are the type who does not like reading about people’s personal lives it might be best to turn your squeamish eyes away now and read a different thread instead.
I was born in Mexico, and my parents brought me up to most affluent part of the Bay Area of California when they were accepted in through a work visa program when I was two-and-a-half years old, which lead to the three of us getting green cards. It wasn’t until I was in middle school that a big boom of Latinos moved into the area, and during elementary school I was one of two Hispanic children in my grade. And I got a lot of weird looks because of the color of my skin. Walking through a rich suburban area to get to school I even had the great pleasure of some well-to-do adult yelling at me from their doorway “You don’t belong here!”
Being the young age that I was, this completely tainted my view of this country, and despite that I could have become a citizen when I turned eighteen, I stubbornly held onto my green card instead, under the philosophy of: If this country doesn’t want me here then I’ll just live here but decidedly not ever join it.
This lasted until three years ago, by which point I was thirty-one years old, when my views changed from “This country doesn’t want me here” to “Oh shit, this country doesn’t want me here.” Sure, I was a legal immigrant, not a reviled illegal immigrant, but I already didn’t trust this country, so I wasn’t going to take any bets against it taking turns for even worse, so I got my U.S. citizenship as quick as I could. But hell, even now my U.S. passport card - which I carry around at all times out of paranoia - still prominently states “Place of Birth MEXICO” on it (seriously, in that capitalization), so that’s still unnerving.
This is all, of course, only my personal experience, and I have only ever lived in the Bay Area of California and gone to college over in New York, and I don’t know what it’s been like in other parts of the country, or even other parts of the world, or different times.
But because of what I have experienced, I do not believe I will ever understand this desire to be hated. Being a person who as a young person did build their identity on the views of racists towards me, I do not believe I will ever be able to empathize with the desire to establish a video game identity revolved around being antagonized by racists.
Of course, I also think that the faction rivalry in WoW should be done away with, so if your enjoyment comes from the Alliance and Horde faction “War in Warcraft” then we already don’t see eye-to-eye even on a story based level, given my indulgence in that Warcraft III was all about the factions coming together, let alone everything else above.
