And Legion proved it.
As a matter of the fact, the core plot point of Legion was that the two factions were at each other’s throats, to distracted by their petty mortal squabbles to deal with the threat at hand. As a result, the great threat of the Burning Legion was not defeated by the two factions, but by a coalition of NEUTRAL, HERO orders that swore allegiance to neither faction.
Have we not learned anything from Legion?? The Alliance and Horde are actually the definition of “useless”. You look up the word “useless” on a dictionary, you’ll see pictures of the Alliance and Horde soon enough.
Same thing in Shadowlands. The Alliance and Horde literally did nothing. The Jailer, who was Sargeras’ boss, was defeated by a coalition of NEUTRAL, HERO forces, aka the Covenants.
And the same thing will happen in Midnight. The Void Lord, Dimensius, who is the Jailer’s boss, he will be defeated by a coalition of NEUTRAL, HERO forces, based in the Neutral city of Silvermoon.
As Alleria said in the anime episode, there are no soldiers of the Alliance or Horde. There are only soldiers of AZEROTH. And with Silvermoon as their capital (for ALL soldiers of Azeroth), Dimensius the Void Lord, who is Sargeras and the Jailer’s boss, will finally be banished. 
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Learning things is not our strong suit. See for instance Grom, and then Garrosh, and then Sylvanas all having the same basic character arc.
Seems fine to me. We don’t need to abolish our identities in order to not be at war with each other
All Hordies, notice the common denominator. 
Anyway, Sylvanas is a good girl now. She’ll probably be the Neutral leader of the Silvermoon squad in Midnight.
A single faction doesn’t make sense. You can’t have different cultures and different ideas without conflict and we are not even talking about resources and how some regions are lucky and more resource heavy. I get it fate of the world yada yada, but when push comes to shove people have needs and when imminent doom isn’t at our doors those needs realistically would always come into focus and thus conflict arises as where there is free will, there will never be agreement and without united agreement there will never be peace. Peace is a Lie.
I’ve never hoped more strongly for someone on General Discussion to be wrong.
And yet it’s what will happen. After the Alleria anime episode, it’s become clear.
Alleria and Sylvanas will reunite in Midnight and fight the Void-corrupted Amani side by side, mirrorring the Second War days when they fought warlocks and normal Amani.
And this time, they will part ways in good terms instead of in discord. Alleria also will have the chance to finalize Sylvanas’ redemption arc by fetching her from the Maw to fight for Quel’Thalas. This was set-up in the anime episode when Alleria blames herself for leaving Sylvanas and wonders if she could have prevented the dark path that befell her (though it wasn’t Alleria’s fault that Sylvanas rockstar slided right into Frostmourne).
As far as Sylvanas is concerned, she only sees herself as a Windrunner now, and her last thoughts are turned to her sisters that she hopes to be reunited with one day.
If they bring Sylvanas back for another expansion, I’m leaving.
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conflict feels distant now that we have cross faction guildmates and do all kinds of activities together. it’d feel weird if a true conflict happened today and then youre chilling with the opposite faction in m+/guild chat.
OP is the guy who said Anduin isn’t an Alliance character, just so everyone is aware of where he’s at
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Still, I think a world without conflict is weirder. I’m not sure if being in a guild someone from a faction your in conflict with would make it weird anyways. I’m friends and communicate with people all around the world, some of them are from areas my nation is in conflict with. It’s not that hard, we just don’t bring up the topics where we disagree on and let our nations sort it out.
I see the Alliance as just a pact between the Dwarves, Humans, Gnomes, and Night Elves.
So… you can’t have all those cultures on one faction without conflict, but you can have them all on two factions without conflict? And the tauren and blood elves will just do everything the orcs say, and the night elves and draenei will just follow the humans, and nobody will have any disagreements except the one faction conflict?
As if.
Factions aren’t outdated because they drive conflict, they’re outdated because they suppress it. Because of the factions, we can’t have the tauren tell the goblins what they really think of their polluting ways, or have religious conflicts between the humans and the draenei about whether glowing wind chimes are the true form of the Light or not.
Are you so narrow-minded that you can only think in these strict binaries terms?
The world isn’t so simple. Nowhere I said that all 25 races will join the same faction, I said that they will unite their forces and that the Alliance and Horde are useless… which is the plain truth in front of us for 8 years by this point, BfA not-withstanding (and even then they still joined forces at the end anyway).
Okay but no one wants to play through that conflict. The big faction conflicts are what people want. That’s literally what the franchise was built on.
And yet, here we are and have been with a single faction and the conflict has been stifled and both factions are starting to blur to look like they share the same ideals and culture. It’s all hog wash really. It’s the most illogical writing i’ve seen even while holding a certain degree of suspension of disbelief it’s still remarkably difficult to immerse one self in this hippy drippy stuff.
Franchises can evolve.
The faction war was on borrowed time after Mount Hyjal, terribly-written after Legion, and it would undoubtedly be nonsensical after SL, DF, and TWW.
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Coming from the guy who says Anduin isn’t an Alliance character…your opinions don’t hold much water with me
I enjoyed what I played of Legion. There was just something about it…
How is he Alliance when he intentionally hasn’t interacted with any Alliance character for the past 5 years??? 