What is the point of the Faction War?

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This conflict stretches all the way back to Orcs vs. Humans, and every aspect of the WarCraft franchise is built around the ongoing fight between the factions. It was always fueled by the disparity in the player base. Roughly equal numbers of people played Horde and Alliance.

But it has been 17 years and the Alliance is dead. Alliance players have given up because their cities are empty and no one is doing activities on their faction.

What is the point of even having a Faction War if the Horde can’t declare victory at this point?

A war with no possible end isn’t a true conflict; it’s just a bad marriage between cultures. No matter how nasty it gets, neither of us can destroy the other, and neither of us can leave the house.

We get too close to each other and we fight, then some stupid big bad scares us, and we team up - it’s a truly schizophrenic relationship.

I don’t like it. The Alliance is crippled. The faction imbalance speaks for itself. The Horde should invade their shores, raze their cities, execute their civilians, and route the survivors into the wilderness.

If nothing like that ever happens, how are we ever supposed to take this conflict seriously? Is it just going to stretch on forever for absolutely no reason? Why? What kind of resolution does Blizzard envision? Because this particular theme has run out of gas, and unless someone can inject interest back into the Alliance, Blizzard’s writers are going to be penning plot points for an empty room.

I want to see more aggressive measures employed by both factions, and I want to see the gloves come off. We’re not friends, and we should all go down fighting, even if it means the end of Azeroth. Working together was fine when Thrall was in his heyday, but he abandoned us - resulting in the rise of a fascist regime. I don’t trust him anymore, and where he leads, I will no longer follow.

The Horde should banish Thrall and start a human-eradication campaign. There should be an entire expansion based around wiping out remnants of the enemy faction in villages and outposts. A blood-thirsty BfA, if you will. With an emphasis on bringing a long-overdue bloody end to this conflict once and for all so that we can finally reset the narrative and move on to a new evolution for all of our characters.

I think crushing the Alliance would ironically breathe new life into the faction, because playing a survivor/refugee hero whose cities were invaded and destroyed is really interesting. I think it will get people logging in again.

Thoughts?

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Hold on… I have something for this…

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Yeah! Let us put Stormwind to the torch again. More souls for the Maw! Mwhahah.

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That’d be cool and all but the only leader capable of rallying the Horde to launch such a war was Garrosh and he was betrayed and killed.

The Alliance sadly killed off all of its own leaders that wanted war with the Horde except for Turalyon and Genn, so long as Anduin has any influence in the Alliance they’ll always be a weak faction.

Sorry but you’ll have to best friends forever and like it.

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The next faction war is going to start because Jaina Proudmoore wants her brother over for a kul’tiran fish fry.

But her brother promised Calia a night out in Orgrimmar.

Jaina will invade Orgrimmar.

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The Horde, without a leader, should be blood-thirsty savages. All a leader has ever done for the Horde is keep them restrained and under control. We should essentially be a roving mob of death.

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I think too many Horde that don’t actually do content well enough inside of the game use the faction war as the only way they can feel successful, accomplished and fulfilled.

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The faction war has nothing to do with the player population. And Alliance is not dead. It’s a story one where each side gets trapped in an endless cycle of retaliation against each other over past grievances.

But the faction war is now finished as of BfA. The reformation of the Horde and signing of an armistice means we’ll never see another conflict again. There may still be political conflicts and other drama later, they’re not BFFs, but actual wars and battles are off the table. Blizz has even said themselves there’s no faction fighting planned in the foreseeable future. So it’s actually done, and in such a way that both sides could survive.

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The only logical thing to do would be to end the Faction war.

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Congratulations, you have identified the purpose of fiction.

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What? The Tauren and trolls are exiles and would have been extinct without the horde. Sure the orcs, like the first ones, but not the current horde.

Current horde are banded together for survival not to go bring death.

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Eh, despite some of my previous comments, it’s probably time we end factions. Just let everyone play together, everywhere.

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Also, the Horde already committed genocide on the Night Elves. You want them to get another fascist regime and do it again?

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No, I want a grass-roots, leaderless uprising. The Horde deciding on their own to butcher their enemies.

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Storyline =/= gameplay mechanics/player population.

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The purpose of fiction is to feel proud about things you don’t control?

Sorry, but there are elements of WoW people do control. The systems that show the player achievement through effort/drive should be given far resources and development by Blizzard staff than sportsball-esque fantasy.

Atleast in sportsball, the decision to who will win certain battles wasn’t decided in a board room.

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Didn’t they do this at the end of BFA? I still don’t get why faction wars are still a thing.

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Apparently, it’s just an armistice, like what the Koreas have.

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Blizzard has known about this conundrum since at least mists of pandaria, the first actual faction war xpac, from the point of view of the Shado-Pan who see the Alliance and Horde conflict as childish, petty race war with no end because every action deserves reaction endlessly since the very beginning for both. And neither seems willing to really make an effort to stop(because players wanted it but didn’t know they didn’t really want it to lose half of the player base). So we got this story the first time with an outright admission from the writers that it will never resolve itself. Why they decided to make another one anyway? I dunno. Different people in charge now.

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I tried to convince Anduin to finish the job the Scourge started in Silvermoon but he looked at me and said “What’s a Silvermoon?”

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