Whatever helps you sleep at night, friendo.
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Oh joy⌠personal drama⌠takes out Yorikâs skull and practices his Hamlet
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Isnât there a toy in game that lets us do this? Atleast for DHs?
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Yeah, I was kinda disappointed itâs just DHs⌠Iâd absolutely use it. I do however have an insta port to Black Temple.
I mean, theyâre here. Understandably, theyâre not the easiest to find (given I had to go find some even older posts) but all of these events have taken place, are going to be taking place, or Im sure will be put back on. So theyâre around relatively available.
On a different but similar note about Org, I know the Tail isnât the most inviting place but its the assumed/expected place for walk up Horde RP. I know itâs boring as sin to stand there all day by yourself with no one else around, but existing there is the only way to bring folks there. Its a perfect time to queue up for Mythics, solo shuffles, do your homework, watch a movie, etc.
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Everytime people ask in horde trade chat if moon guard is a good server for horde everyone tells them to goto Wyrmrest Accord. Itâs hard for horde to be good or grow when we are actively sending people to other places. instead of telling them to stay and actually building a community on horde side.
Then we get people asking what happened to horde on moonguard.
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Drama asideâŚ
A lot of thoughts that Iâll try to put together coherently.
People keep posting regularly on these forums about how Moon Guard-Horde has âdiedâ. I understand whyâthatâs been the common perception for years now, but itâs far from accurate.
Nuance needs to be considered.
The truth is that Moon Guard-Hordeâs focus shifted over the years from predominantly walk-up/guild leaning RP to basically just guild/community RP; the random walk-up RP part of the equation evaporated and, because thatâs the most visual type of RP, the myth thrives. So, a distinction here is important: a certain partâa very visual partâlargely died; but not the whole.
Now, thatâs not to say that the population hasnât decreased significantlyâit obviously has in favour for WRA-Horde and several other factors Iâll expand on laterâbut itâs not dead. I see events posted often and I have been in great guilds on that side that haveâand still areâactively worked on fostering the community as a whole; such as Undercity Nexus, for example (props to them for their consistent work over the years).
Most of my time in WoW from â08 through to about â16 was spent role-playing between MG-Alliance and MG-Horde; and I was on almost every day, leading RP guilds, being an officer in RP guilds, organising RP events and groups, posting in RP and lore forums, walking about for RP, blah, blah, blah. Iâm going to dare to say that I generally know a thing or two about that side of the serverâs âpeakâ, so to speak. During that period of time, Silvermoon was the undisputed king of the hotspots Horde-side; it often rivalled the MG-Stormwind of today. You could jump online at anytime and find many people walking through the streets of Silvermoon and role-playing. The role-play guilds? Overwhelmingly blood elf and typically RP-PVP-focused. Dominion of the Sun, The Sunguard, The Dawnfury, Will of Dathâremar, etc⌠It was all MAINLY blood elf. Now, Silvermoon and the blood elves have barely grown lore-wise and setting-wise, so boredom and disillusion naturally set in, and with that comes MG-Hordeâs bulk leaving over time. Most of the people playing back then were also going through their teen years or early 20âsâthey were growing up online, in other words. These people naturally left the gameâor just the role-play-side of WoWâover time; be it for other games like FF 14, a career, family, etc⌠All of these factorsâplus the failings of certain expansions, Blizzardâs changes as a company, stagnation and unpopularity in the lore the bulk was interest in, etcâŚâand more led to the significant population decrease we see today.
What was is gone now; and you canât really re-capture that.
People keep comparing MG-Horde to what it once was, seemingly without knowing what it once was, and then selling the death narrative. Most ofânot all, but most ofâthe people who made it what it once was either changed or left; and many are of a generation that wonât be coming back.
I think we all need to stop comparing MG-Horde to what it was and appreciate what it is now AS WELL AS being solutions-focused and jumping onto the opportunities future expansions like Midnight and The Last Titanâand expansion features like Housing and revamped capitalsâpresent.
Sending people to WRA-Horde each time they talk about MG-Horde isnât a solution; itâs admitting defeat.
The foundation MG-Horde has now is small, sure, but greatâit isnât dead.
Build on it.
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With guilds now being cross faction neutral, I do maintain a Horde alt for recruiting folks in Horde on MG/Wra if anyone wants to schedule an interview.
This right here makes the most sense. Though you did forget a key part. Some of those who perpetuate the " Only Horde is on WrA" are doing it out of spite, since they would rather not see a growth on Horde side.
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I want to give you a hug sir.
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Necromar thank you. I just had heard, being a once long-time RPâer on Horde MG specifically through those more pristine years line yourself, that someone, some big thing went down, that made people not want to associate themselves on MG with horde anymore or trust Horde MG guilds or such.
Silly assumptions or suspicions I know, but I didnât have much to go on.
Kudos to you sir for your explanation, as the thorough answer gave way to me understanding and having insight.
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