What do you mean? The Horde can keep spawning grunts as much as it likes as long as it has 200g to spend.
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Ah but you need the pig farms to feed those you train, the peons to âzug zugâ the gold to you regularly (so long as you donât have to keep Booteranging them back to work)âŚ
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Ok that is fair but lumber doesnât just grow on trees.
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This honestly hits a lot of issues Iâve noticed, as well. Warcraft has never been edgy âgrim-darkâ stuff, but it has had a world that felt fairly well-realized largely because it was a bit savage and brutal at times. Not in a graphic sense, but that much like the RTS series it spawned from, itâs not always about right and wrong, but who has the most resources or the biggest army.
I think thatâs a prime example of why Garithos is probably one of the most effective âvillainsâ in Warcraft. He wasnât crazy powerful, he didnât threaten to usher in the end of the world. He was just a jerk in a position of authority.
I think thatâs also why BFA didnât work. Blizzard would tell us one moment that the Horde are winning the war, and then the Alliance, and the the combined might of the Alliance and the Saurfang-aligned Horde stood no chance against Sylvanas and her Horde.
There was no consistency, no sense of understanding the power of resources or what those resources even were. It was implied that Azerite would be powerful, but other than being a mechanical game system, it wasnât really showcased as being of particular importance.
It seems a bit ironic that this expansion ends with the Aspects being full empowered âbut with Good-source powersâ, because having it end with them being unable to reclaim their Aspect powers wouldâve better set the stage for the Titansâ eventual return, and grounded the dragonflightsâ relative powers to be more in-line with the mortal races of the world.
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I agree with a lot of this sentiment but for me, the problem with BfA was that they tried to involve morality in a narrative that did NOT need it.
One thing that drives me absolutely bonkers is how people keep saying someone needs to be the âbad guyâ for a faction war to happen. But thatâs not true at all! Azeroth is covered in geopolitical landmines just waiting to go off and create a conflict where neither side is right or wrong. In fact, Iâd argue the peace the Alliance and Horde are currently enjoying shouldnât exist. There are too many critical issues the writers are completely ignoring for the sake of this forced peace between the factions.
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I need a recap because this post is literally like someone got bored in a hospital bed and just started to write.
I put in a tl;dr for you illiterate folks. Why arenât you seeing it?
im not illiterate i read at a perfect preschool leveelelolelel
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I think itâs more a case of attention span. I blame the internet age for those who grew up with it always there.
Iâm old and read the whole post. The part about not being hyperbolic, and then doing just that wasnât something that I expected.
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its not that just no one wants to read a novel about you basically wanting to kill ppl lol
Sorry I came to a game called âWarcraftâ with the base expectation of getting to kill people.
My guy, Worgen have existed since 2010. Races like them arenât new to the game.
Because they never truly allied before, it was a temporary truce to defeat a big bad, now they are realizing that âhey, maybe it doesnât need to just be a temporary truceâ
Thatâs what they tried after the Third War. Then Daelin shattered all the goodwill that had been built up. Then Varian picked up the pieces and ground them to dust.
Honestly imo any notion of lasting peace between the factions should have died at the Battle for Undercity. Varianâs declaration of war proved the âpeaceâ between the Alliance and Horde was a failed experiment because the were those were the best conditions for peace we ever had and it STILL fell through.
California.
Thatâs a lot of words to type that could be more summarized as âI sure wish people didnât have feelings and just enjoyed endless slaughter for slaughterâs sake.â
Part of how you âfixâ the âmoral dilemmaâ of WoW is to redirect where the killing happens. Rather than destroying entire tribes or civilizations of people due to simple disagreements, they need to be enclaves of cultists hellbent on the destruction of your cause. This allows the âshoot-loot-scootâ gameplay loop to remain intact while not compromising a characterâs moral standing in doing what theyâre doing. Expansion of activities could also include collection versus slaying, and also could be combat that doesnât end in fatalities.
âJust kill itâ is a symptom of a lack of imagination.
If I wanted to play DnD, Iâd play DnD. The people who enjoyed the more brutal side of WoW were here first.
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Too bad they didnât stick around and the new blood wanted a new outlook in the world.
Half of your wish-list would result in the factions completely dissolving because their desires were literally incompatible with each other. Example: Forsaken and Tauren. Iâll let you guess which ones the Orcs and Trolls would side with when push comes to shove.
You do realize that the Tauren are the ones who petitioned for the Forsaken to join the Horde in the first place right?